• Maximum Security Facility: 2985 Old Plain Dealing Road, Plain Dealing, LA 71064, 318-326-4405, where most adult sheriff bookings go.
• Medium Security Facility: 2984 Old Plain Dealing Road, across the road, 318-326-5927.
• Bossier City Jail: 620 Benton Road, run by Bossier City police for early holds. See our Bossier City Jail page.
• Sheriff's headquarters: 204 Burt Boulevard, Benton, LA 71006, 318-965-2203.

Open the inmate catalog from the Inmate Lookup link on the sheriff's Jail Information page. Enter a last name, and a match shows custody status along with booking basics. Note the booking number, since deposits and calls to the jail go faster with it. The same Jail Information page links commissary payments, video visitation and E-Bonds.

Anyone can ask the sheriff for one at 318-965-2203. Since August 1, 2024, Act 281 has allowed Louisiana agencies to release booking photos before a conviction, and removal-for-a-fee websites have 7 days to delete it at no cost once the case is dismissed, the person acquitted or pardoned, or the record expunged. For immigration detainees, use ICE's FOIA page. The U.S. Marshals hold federal booking photos. Shreveport-Bossier news outlets sometimes run booking photos, but the Benton sheriff decides which ones are released.

They may still be at the Bossier City jail, in booking, or bonded out. Shreveport arrests go across the river. Try: - Caddo Correctional Center, 318-677-5254 - Shreveport City Jail - Bayou Dorcheat Correctional Facility (Webster) - Bienville Parish Jail, 318-263-2215 - Red River Parish Jail

Many misdemeanors end in a summons. Bossier City Court hears city cases; parish cases go to district court in Benton. State Police tickets written in the parish are handled by the 26th Judicial District Court, P.O. Box 850, Benton, LA 71006, 318-965-3425, weekdays 8 to 4:30. Missing the date brings a warrant.

Under Article 230.1, within 72 hours of arrest, skipping weekends and holidays, for anyone still held. The 26th Judicial District judge sets bail and appoints counsel. A missed hearing means release on recognizance.

A 26th district judge considers the charge, record and flight risk. Payment can be cash, a property pledge, a signature bond, or a licensed bondsman (12 percent cap). Get the amount from the jail, then see our Bossier bail guide. The Clerk of Court is on the 3rd floor of the courthouse, 204 Burt Boulevard, Benton, LA 71006, 318-965-2336; mail P.O. Box 430, Benton, LA 71006.

The sheriff's Jail Information page has an E-Bonds link for electronic bond payment. Before paying, confirm the amount and any holds with the maximum security desk at 318-326-4405; a hold from another agency keeps the person in Plain Dealing even after the Bossier bond posts. Our bail guide covers the other options.

Bossier felony and parish cases are heard by the 26th Judicial District Court in Benton, which the parish shares with Webster. Misdemeanors from inside the city go to Bossier City Court instead. Our court guide has the district attorney's contact details and walks through each step.

At the first Benton hearing, the person should request a public defender; the judge rules on eligibility then. The defender's office in Benton answers at 318-965-0630 and can explain what happens next.

The inmate catalog shows the booking details, including the charges listed at arrest. For the formal charges, the docket and upcoming court dates, call the clerk of court at 318-965-2336.

The sheriff's Jail Information page links a video visitation service for both Plain Dealing facilities. Visits are scheduled through that service, and the person in custody must be eligible. Call 318-326-4405 (maximum) or 318-326-5927 (medium) to confirm current rules or ask about in-person visits. Our visiting guide has general tips.

Use the "Pay Commissary" link on the sheriff's Jail Information page, which goes to an online deposit service, and a fee applies. You need the person's name and the facility. Call the jail before mailing anything. Our deposit guide explains the general process.

Deposited money pays for store items such as snacks, hygiene products, stamps and writing supplies sold inside the Plain Dealing facilities. Ask the jail at 318-326-4405 about order limits. Our commissary guide explains more.

Letters need the Bossier booking number beside the inmate's name, sent to the facility holding them on Old Plain Dealing Road, Plain Dealing, LA 71064, and put your name and return address on the envelope. Call 318-326-4405 for current rules on photos and books. See our mail guide, phone guide and messaging guide.

Reach the jail's medical staff through the Maximum Security Facility at 318-326-4405. Have the prescriptions, strengths and pharmacy name ready; staff will decide what the person receives. Report any self-harm concern at once.

Several hours after bond is common. Release happens from the building holding the person, so ask which one. The state's 2024 monitoring report on the maximum security facility found that people leave with their medications, their property, community resource information and two forms of identification, and sign a receipt for property and medicine.

Plain Dealing keeps them until the state sends a transport to intake. The DOC phone locator, 225-383-4580, takes a DOC number or full name plus birthday. Our Louisiana state prisons list describes each prison.

Call the Bossier sheriff at 318-965-2203 about parish warrants, and Bossier City police at 318-741-8611 about city ones. Bossier keeps names private, and no state website covers warrants for every parish. Find out whether a bond is already set, because the person can post it after turning in at Bossier Parish Maximum Security Facility, and a lawyer at their side makes that smoother. If the warrant comes from a missed hearing, the Clerk of Court on the 3rd floor of 204 Burt Boulevard in Benton, 318-965-2336, can tell you what the Benton judges expect before resetting a case.

Under-17 cases go to juvenile court, and youths are not held with adults. Bossier City runs a juvenile detention home; see our juvenile detention page. Since April 19, 2024, 17-year-olds are charged as adults.

Bossier federal cases go to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Shreveport Division; clerk at 300 Fannin Street, Suite 1167, Shreveport, LA 71101, 318-676-4273. Pretrial services interviews the defendant and a magistrate judge then rules under the Bail Reform Act (18 U.S.C. 3142). The U.S. Marshals, 300 Fannin Street, Suite 1202, Shreveport, LA 71101, 318-934-4300, may board defendants in parish jails. Sentenced inmates show in the BOP inmate locator.

Prints from a Plain Dealing booking go into federal record checks, and an ICE detainer may follow. Posting parish bond leaves it standing. Bossier deputies can hold the person up to 48 extra hours for ICE, and the detainer ends if ICE does not pick them up. Act 314 of 2024 tells Louisiana agencies to cooperate. Search the ICE detainee locator, or call ICE's detention line at 888-351-4024.

Yes. For anyone at the Plain Dealing jails, sign up on LA VINE. A Bossier release or transfer then brings an alert by phone, text or email.

Bossier deputies never collect bail over the phone or in gift cards. If a caller demands payment that way, hang up and confirm the bond with the Plain Dealing jail at 318-326-4405.

• Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office: rural areas and unincorporated communities, 204 Burt Boulevard, Benton, 318-965-2203.
• Bossier City Police: non-emergency 318-741-8611.
• BPCC Campus Police: Building F-104, 6220 East Texas Street, Bossier City, 318-678-6318.
• Louisiana State Police Troop G: 5300 Industrial Drive Extension, Bossier City, LA 71112, 318-741-7411, for I-20, I-220 and state highway arrests.
• Haughton Police: 318-949-6666.
• Benton: town hall 318-965-2781.
• Plain Dealing: town hall 318-326-4234.
• Shreveport Police (a small part of the city extends into the parish): 318-673-7300.

Dial 911 for any Plain Dealing emergency.