Lafayette Parish Correctional Center Inmate Search

Lafayette Parish Correctional Center Overview

Lafayette Parish Correctional Center, often shortened to LPCC, is the county/parish adult jail operated by the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office. The facility is located at 916 Lafayette Street, Lafayette, LA 70501, and the listed phone number is 337-236-5400. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections also lists LPCC as the local jail for Lafayette Parish at doc.la.gov/location/lafayette-parish/. It is not a separate state prison, federal prison, juvenile detention home, or ICE detention facility.

LPCC holds adult men and women booked in Lafayette Parish and people housed for Lafayette city and other local municipalities. The roster can include pretrial detainees, parish-sentenced people, Louisiana DOC offenders housed locally for reentry or work programming, and people held on warrants or another agency's authority. LPSO says LPCC processes approximately 12,000 arrestees each year and provides booking, identification, and inmate housing services for the city and local municipalities.

The official LPCC page describes the jail as a small city with a full-service kitchen, laundry, GED services, job-seeking education, counseling, religious services, recreation, social visiting, commissary, library, and mail distribution. LPSO also identifies ACA accreditation as a long-running facility credential, with initial accreditation on August 1, 1988 and reaccreditation at every assessment since. The LPSO Medical Department is separately described as accredited by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care.

The official LPCC source page is the best matched image source for this facility page. The screenshot below comes from the LPSO page at https://lafayettesheriff.com/divisions/corrections/lpcc/.

Lafayette Parish Correctional Center Capacity and Population

Capacity and population numbers for LPCC need source labels because the research identifies multiple definitions. Vera's 2023 county dataset lists Lafayette Parish jail population at 674 and rated jail capacity at 770. That dataset also breaks the 2023 population into 582 pretrial and 92 sentenced people, with 588 male and 86 female people in custody. Those figures are county dataset numbers, not a live LPSO roster count.

Local reporting in 2024 described 739 physical beds but said usable capacity was closer to 650 because classification, separation, mental-health, and violence-risk requirements affect actual housing. The same reporting cited 571 detainees or inmates on February 27, 2024. Those figures should not be merged into one official capacity statement; they describe different ways of counting space and different moments in time.

Longer-term construction and planning context also affects how capacity is discussed. Vera's jail-construction dataset lists a 2021 Lafayette new-jail project as passed, with an $85 million project amount and capacity before 600 and after 1,000. Lafayette Consolidated Government's 2024 first-100-days report described the existing jail as more than 40 years old and raised efficiency, safety, capacity, mental-health complexity, and violence concerns.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Lafayette Parish Correctional Center

The official local lookup path for LPCC is the LPSO 365Labs Community Portal at community.365labs.com/689d71d5-1d4e-4726-9cfb-a3c94dfb231e/inmatelist, linked from the LPSO Offender Information page. LPSO says the portal replaced JADES and covers currently housed LPCC inmates as well as recent bookings. One LPSO source describes recent bookings within 72 hours, while another correctional overview uses a 48-hour window, so search both current or all inmates and recent bookings when timing is uncertain.

1. Open the LPSO 365Labs Community Portal from the LPSO Offender Information page and choose LPSO if the portal asks for an agency.
2. Register or sign in if prompted, then select Lookup Inmates. LPSO notes that the system may show no records until Search is clicked.
3. Search by First Name, Last Name, or Booking No.; to browse the current population, leave name fields blank and use the current or all view.
4. Check recent bookings, recent releases, spelling variants, and booking number if a person does not appear in the first search.
5. Confirm that the record is tied to LPCC and read the charge, booking, bond, arresting-agency, release, and hold fields before acting on the result.

The LPCC portal is not the correct system for every custody question. For a person moved into Louisiana DPS&C custody or under state supervision, use the DPS&C/LAVNS/VINELink path or the DPS&C phone locator at 225-383-4580 with the person's DPS&C number, or name and date of birth. Federal sentenced prisoners use the Bureau of Prisons locator. Immigration detention uses the ICE Online Detainee Locator. The Lafayette Sheriff mobile app also lists a Who's in Jail feature, but the official lookup source remains the LPSO portal and related LPSO guidance.

Lafayette Parish Correctional Center Address and Contact

Use the correctional center contact for custody confirmation, booking questions, and facility routing. LPSO lists separate public locations for the main sheriff's office, records, the visitation center, and civil, tax, warrants, bond, and commissary business, so the address needed depends on the task. A visitor going to visitation, records, or the bond office may not be going to the same public entrance as a person confirming jail custody.

Visiting Someone at Lafayette Parish Correctional Center

LPSO describes the Visitation Center as an onsite video visitation center for video visits with offenders. The contact page lists the center at 220 West Willow Street, Building D. The LPSO commissary, phone, and mail page says inmate telephone service changed to Ally Telecom Group and that friends and family can set up prepaid accounts and video visits through www.ALLYTG.com. A current official schedule, visit length, remote fee table, and onsite versus remote split were not located in the official research, so confirm through LPSO or Ally before traveling.

The February 28, 2025 LPSO Corrections Division dress-code PDF applies to correctional facilities and video visitation. Staff may refuse or cancel visits for inappropriate dress, and each facility may add standards as security requires. The listed restrictions include gang, drug, illegal-activity, sexually explicit, offensive, degrading, obscene, or profane clothing; exposed undergarments; see-through clothing; tank tops, halter tops, swim tops, tube tops, cutouts, low-riding pants, leggings or tights as outerwear, and footwear such as shower shoes, house slippers, flip-flops, and thongs.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Lafayette Parish Correctional Center

LPSO's mail rules changed effective March 1, 2025. Personal mail goes to a JailATM scanning address and is delivered electronically. Legal or privileged mail uses a separate LPCC post office box. LPSO says money order deposits must be mailed to the commissary address with the offender's name, arrest number, and cell number, while kiosk deposits are available in the 24-hour bonding lobby at LPCC and cash-only deposits are available at 1010 Lafayette Street, 4th Floor.

Booking, Intake, and Bond at Lafayette Parish Correctional Center

A typical Lafayette Parish arrest path starts with arrest by LPSO, Lafayette Police Department, Scott Police Department, Broussard Police Department, Youngsville Police Department, or another local agency, followed by transport or transfer to LPCC. Intake creates the jail management record, then classification, housing, bond, court, and release or hold decisions follow. LPSO's program-processing material describes AFIS fingerprinting, property check and bagging, and orientation for program participants, which confirms the local use of fingerprinting, property handling, and correctional orientation.

The daily arrest report can show name, age, arrest date and time, address or block, charges, arresting agency, cause for arrest, property, associates, and incident number. Research examples included active warrant arrests, bench warrants, fugitive warrants, Hold for DOC, and Hold for Other Agency. Those labels matter because a person may be physically at LPCC for a reason that is not just a new local criminal charge.

The official LPSO bail source lists commercial bond, personal surety or W-2 bond, and cash bond. LPSO says commercial bond is posted through a bonding company and that the typical fee is 12% of the original bond, though it may vary by bondsman. A personal surety bond must be approved and authorized by a judge, and picture ID is required when it is signed at the correctional center. Cash bond requires the full amount in money order or cash. Even when a local bond is posted, a DOC hold, another agency hold, fugitive warrant, immigration detainer, probation or parole issue, or another court's warrant can block release.

Programs, Accreditation, and Conditions

LPCC has more documented program material than many parish jails. LPSO says the correctional center's mission includes cost-effective offender management and building skills for successful reintegration. Able-bodied offenders may be required to work and/or participate in programming. Programs and services named in the research include GED or HiSET preparation, job-seeking education, counseling, religious services, recreation, library access, commissary, mail distribution, STOP screening, reentry programming, the 100 Hour Pre-Release program, anger management, Moral Reconation Therapy, substance-abuse education and treatment, parenting, ServSafe, welding, and outside work crews.

Medical and treatment programming are also specifically described. LPSO says the Medical Department has a medical doctor, dentist, physician assistant, health administrator, and nurses, with general medical requests assessed within 24 hours and a mid-level-or-higher provider physically on site five days weekly. Treatment Programs include mental-health services, substance-abuse treatment, KITE, Alcoholics Anonymous, and therapeutic or rehabilitative groups. The PREA brochure states that LPSO has a zero-tolerance policy for sexual abuse and harassment and lists reporting, advocacy, and medical or mental-health response channels.

Recent public discussion has centered on facility age, capacity, funding, and replacement planning. Lafayette Consolidated Government's 2024 first-100-days report described the jail as more than 40 years old and identified inefficiency, safety, capacity, mental-health complexity, and violence as concerns. Local reporting in 2024 discussed crowding pressure, usable-bed limits, mental-health separation needs, and lower-risk inmate bed reopening. In 2025, local reporting also described renewed litigation and budget disagreement over jail funding between the sheriff and Lafayette Consolidated Government.