St. James Parish Detention Center Records

St. James Parish Detention Center Identity

St. James Parish Detention Center and St. James Parish Correctional Center are two official names for the same SJPSO operation. The Louisiana corrections directory uses “Detention Center.” The sheriff uses “Correctional Center.” They should not be counted as separate jails. Research found no separate municipal jail, state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center physically in St. James Parish.

The parish jail is operated by the St. James Parish Sheriff's Office at 5800 Louisiana Highway 44, Convent, LA 70723. Mail goes to P.O. Box 83, Convent, LA 70723. The main jail line is 225-562-2505, and the fax number is 225-562-2225. The Corrections Division handles custody, transportation, care, medical needs, and recordkeeping.

The official Louisiana facility directory confirms the local facility and parish justice contacts:

The directory identifies the facility, while SJPSO remains the source for its local custody and release transaction.

St. James Parish Detention Center Releases

A community release can follow bond, a judge's order, dismissal with no remaining hold, completion of a local custodial term, or another lawful event. A custody movement can send the person to LDPSC, another parish, the U.S. Marshals Service or BOP, or ICE. Both paths can remove the name from the current St. James roster. Only the first means the person left custody for the community.

Ask the sheriff for the event type, actual departure date and time, release reason if maintained, destination, and receiving agency. If the destination is another custodian, follow that system. A LAVNS status event can provide an early clue, and a court minute can explain the legal order, but the sheriff transaction is the local record that best distinguishes community release from transfer.

Louisiana makes the custody layer especially important. A person can be physically housed at this parish jail while legally committed to LDPSC. Moving that person to a state facility may be an administrative transfer rather than a new sentence or release. Determine legal custody through the judgment, commitment, LDPSC locator, and movement record.

Note: A name leaving the parish roster may reflect community release or transfer, so the destination field is essential.

Confirm St. James Parish Detention Center Release

1. Search the SJPSO inmate roster. A displayed status of IN supports listed local custody at the shown time.
2. If the name is absent, search Louisiana LAVNS by complete name and available identifier. Record the reporting agency and status date.
3. Call 225-562-2505 and ask whether the departure was a community release or custody transfer. Ask for the date, time, and receiving agency.
4. Submit a narrow written request for the booking-and-release or movement transaction when a historical record is needed.
5. Call the St. James Clerk criminal division for the minute, judgment, dismissal, bond order, or commitment that explains the legal authority.
6. If the person transferred, check LDPSC, BOP, ICE, another parish, or the relevant federal docket as the destination requires.

Absence is not a release record. The official roster reviewed during research contained only current entries marked IN, including bookings from more than one year. It had no release date, reason, bond disposition, destination, projected date, or sentence end. No verified 24-hour or 72-hour release feed was found.

For a named-person search and the full records chain, the St. James Parish released inmates page explains how the sheriff, LAVNS, court, state, and federal sources fit together.

St. James Parish Detention Center Release Records

SJPSO accepts written public-record requests by mail, email, or personal delivery. The custodian is Public Information Officer Amanda Pertuis at pio@stjamessheriff.com and P.O. Box 83, Convent, LA 70723. Inspection is free. Published charges include documents at $1 per page and photographs at $1 per page. Ask for an estimate before production and request electronic copies when an existing electronic record can answer the question.

Identify the person with the full legal name, date of birth if known, booking number or booking date, and the desired date range. Ask for the booking sheet and custody transaction history, actual departure date and time, release or movement type, reason if maintained, bond information, community-versus-transfer status, and destination or receiving agency. If a photo is needed, identify the booking tied to that image.

Request existing fields rather than asking the sheriff to create a narrative. If an investigative portion is withheld, ask for the legal basis and all reasonably segregable booking and movement fields. Restrictions can apply to unresolved investigations, juveniles, protected victims, confidential sources, security procedures, and other exempt information. A narrow release request reduces overlap with those materials.

The official sheriff request page documents the written channels, custodian, and published fees:

The page supports the request route. It does not guarantee that every requested field is maintained or public in every case.

Note: Ask for existing custody fields and segregable portions instead of asking the Sheriff's Office to create a new narrative.

St. James Parish Detention Center Contacts

Captain Conrad Lewis is identified as warden at conrad.lewis@stjamessheriff.com. Assistant wardens are Lt. Stefan Mitchell and Lt. Alton Washington; the published assistant-warden line is 225-562-2506. Captain Andrika Singleton handles Transportation/DOC/Records at 225-562-2806 and andrika.singleton@stjamessheriff.com. Corporal Tamara Guerin is listed for record management at 225-562-2506 and tamara.noel@stjamessheriff.com.

Deputy Wendy Bolding is the Court Minutes contact at 225-562-2221 and wendy.bolding@stjamessheriff.com. The warrants line is 225-562-2215. These roles help route a precise question, but a public-record request should still go through the published custodian. Do not assume that a staff listing authorizes release of protected details by telephone.

St. James Parish Detention Center Court Proof

The Twenty-Third Judicial District Court serves St. James, Ascension, and Assumption parishes. For St. James criminal matters, the Clerk's criminal division can be reached at 225-562-2389 or 225-562-2271. Ask for the docket chronology, minute entry, judgment and sentence, commitment, dismissal or nolle prosequi, bond order, credit for time served, or probation order as the case requires.

The Clerk's prominent online subscription portal is for conveyance and mortgage records. It expressly does not provide civil or criminal images. Call or visit the criminal division rather than treating “no online image” as proof that no case record exists. A certified copy may be needed for a formal legal process, and the office should quote the current cost.

Court and jail evidence answer different questions. A minute can show that bond, dismissal, time served, or commitment legally authorized the next step. The St. James Detention Center movement record shows when and how the person left the jail. Another hold can delay or redirect the departure even after a court order.

St. James Parish Detention Center Bond Releases

The Correctional Center uses Electronic Bail Bonds. An eBond can support processing, but it does not prove acquittal, dismissal, or completion of the case. Match the bond transaction to the judge's order and docket. The case-specific amount and conditions control, not a general public bond or fine table.

A bond release can also be delayed by paperwork or another hold. Conversely, a docket entry showing that bond was posted does not establish the minute the person walked out. LAVNS may send a custody-change notice, after which the sheriff transaction remains the best local record of departure.

St. James Parish Detention Center Release Logistics

No official source established fixed release hours, a public exit door, a family waiting location, weekend or holiday practice, property-return procedures, transport arranged by the jail, bed capacity, or opening date. The sheriff's West Bank suboffice is not documented as a release site. Call 225-562-2505 on the relevant day rather than relying on an assumed schedule or pickup point.

St. James Parish Transit serves weekday corridors along LA 44 and LA 18 and permits requested route deviations. The detention center is on LA 44, but no official source identifies it as a scheduled transit stop. Anyone exploring that option should call Parish Transit at 225-562-2304 or 225-562-2419 and confirm the pickup plan with the jail. Do not present public transit as transportation arranged by the facility.

Property, identification, medication, cash return, and pickup rules are also unverified. Ask the facility directly about the specific release and document the answer. Those details can change and should not be inferred from practices at another Louisiana jail.

Note: Release hours, exit location, property return, and pickup practices remain unverified; call the jail on the relevant day.