Catahoula runs two separate buildings in Harrisonburg. People awaiting trial are usually at the parish jail, 301 Bushley Street, Harrisonburg, LA 71340, 318-744-5411. People serving longer sentences are often at the Catahoula Correctional Center, 499 Old Columbia Road, Harrisonburg, LA 71340, 318-744-2121. If you aren't sure, start with the sheriff at the parish jail number.

Call the parish jail in Harrisonburg at 318-744-5411 Give Harrisonburg staff the legal name and birthday, then ask what they are charged with, what the bond is, whether any holds are on file, and for the booking or ID number, which you'll need for mail and deposits.

Yes, you can request one from the sheriff at 318-744-5411. Since August 1, 2024, Act 281 has allowed the Harrisonburg sheriff to release booking photos before trial. Pay-to-delete websites must remove a photo for free within 7 days of being shown an acquittal, a dropped case, a pardon or an expungement. For ICE photos, use ICE FOIA; federal booking photos stay with the U.S. Marshals. Reporters covering Catahoula arrests ask the same Harrisonburg office, which chooses what it shares.

They may have bonded out or been moved. Nearby: - Caldwell Correctional Center, 318-649-5600 - LaSalle Parish Jail, 318-992-7358 - Concordia Parish Correctional Facility - Franklin Parish Detention Center - Tensas Parish Detention Center

Yes. Minor offenses in Jonesville or the villages often end with a summons, and no one goes to the Harrisonburg jail. Missing the court date on that paper leads to a warrant.

Within 72 hours of arrest for anyone kept in custody, weekends and holidays not counted (Article 230.1). The 7th Judicial District judge reviews bail and counsel. No timely hearing means release on recognizance.

A 7th district judge sets bail. The Catahoula Parish sheriff takes cash or a lien on real estate. Some people are freed on their own signature, and a Catahoula bondsman's fee is capped at 12 percent. Ask the jail for the amount, and see our Catahoula bail guide for each option. The Clerk of Court keeps bond records at 301 Bushley Street, Room 101, Harrisonburg, LA 71340, 318-744-5497, weekdays 8 to 4:30; mail goes to P.O. Box 654.

The 7th Judicial District Court, in the Harrisonburg courthouse, shared with Concordia. The district's public defender is in Vidalia at 318-336-7548; a judge appoints it at the first hearing. See our court guide for the DA and the process.

Write the inmate's name and ID number, then Catahoula Correctional Center, 499 Old Columbia Road, Harrisonburg, Louisiana 71340. The center asks families to get its list of allowed items before sending anything, so call 318-744-2121 first. Our mail guide covers the general rules.

The Harrisonburg jail's medical office takes these calls. Share the medicines, doses and pharmacy, and let them know about any recent hospital stay. Medical staff decide what is given. If there is any risk of suicide, report it on that call.

Call the parish jail at 318-744-5411 for visiting times and the current ways to send money, or 318-744-2121 if the person is at the correctional center. Our guides cover visiting, phone calls, messages and deposits. For Harrisonburg store orders, see our commissary guide.

Usually a few hours after bond posts. People held pretrial leave from the Bushley Street jail; anyone who was moved to the correctional center on Old Columbia Road is released from there, so ask which building before you drive.

People with DOC sentences may serve their time at the Catahoula Correctional Center in Harrisonburg or be moved to a state prison. The state's phone locator at 225-383-4580 can tell you where; have a DOC number, or the person's name and birth date. See Louisiana state prisons for the list.

Ask the Catahoula sheriff's office at 318-744-5411, which handles district court warrants. If the warrant is from Jonesville or one of the villages, the town hall that issued it is the place to ask, and it knows whether a bond was set. No public list exists, and Louisiana keeps no statewide search for families. Surrendering at Catahoula Parish Correctional Center with a lawyer present is the usual way to settle it. For a missed hearing, call the Clerk of Court, 301 Bushley Street in Harrisonburg, at 318-744-5497 about a new date.

Anyone under 17 goes to Catahoula juvenile court. That judge decides between detention and sending the child home. A 17-year-old charged on or after April 19, 2024, goes to adult court and is booked like an adult in Harrisonburg.

Cases go to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Alexandria Division; clerk at 515 Murray Street, Suite 105, Alexandria, LA 71301, 318-473-7415. A magistrate judge decides on release under the Bail Reform Act (18 U.S.C. 3142), with a pretrial services report instead of a bail chart. U.S. Marshals, 515 Murray Street, Room 201, Alexandria, LA 71301, 318-473-7411. For sentenced people use the BOP inmate locator.

Booking prints from Harrisonburg are checked federally, and ICE may lodge a detainer. Paying parish bail leaves it in force. Catahoula deputies may keep the person up to 48 more hours for ICE, and the detainer expires if nobody comes. Act 314 of 2024 tells Louisiana agencies to cooperate. Search the ICE detainee locator, or call the ICE detention line at 888-351-4024; the field office is in St. Rose, LA.

Yes. Harrisonburg custody shows on LA VINE, the free state system. Add a phone number or email, and a Catahoula release or move will be sent to you.

Hang up on any caller who wants bond paid in gift cards or by payment app; in Catahoula, bail is handled at the Harrisonburg jail or by a licensed bail agent. Confirm the amount with the sheriff at 318-744-5411 or the 7th district clerk.

A 7th district judge in Harrisonburg works through art. 316: how serious the offense is, how strong the proof, past convictions, what the person can afford and whether anyone is at risk. In domestic abuse battery cases, Gwen's Law (art. 313) allows a contradictory bail hearing first, which can add days at the Bushley Street jail.

Ten of the parish's 70 state inmates, one in seven, are serving life, and yearly admissions fell from 58 to 38 between 2019 and 2025. State figures for Harrisonburg-area cases, from the DOC data files: - In DOC custody on Aug. 31, 2026: 70, about 786 per 100,000 residents. - Housed in local jails: 46 (66 percent). - Leading offense types: violent 36 percent, property 21 percent. - Serving life: 10. - On probation or parole: 89 (53 on probation). - New admissions: 38 in 2025, 58 in 2019.

• Catahoula Parish Sheriff's Office: whole parish, 318-744-5411.
• Jonesville: town hall 318-339-8596.
• Harrisonburg: village hall 318-744-5601.
• Sicily Island: village hall 318-389-4472.

Each hall can put you through to its police chief. For an emergency near Harrisonburg, call 911.