Adults arrested on felony and misdemeanor charges in Claiborne Parish are booked at the parish jail located at:
1415 Highway 520
Homer, LA 71040
In Louisiana, parish jails are run by the elected sheriff.
Sheriff’s deputies book their own arrests here, and police departments from towns and cities in the parish without a lockup bring theirs as well. Each arrestee is photographed and fingerprinted, belongings are recorded, warrant checks are run and a medical screening is done before a housing assignment.
The Louisiana State Police and other state agencies book people at this jail too, and federal agencies such as the U.S. Marshals and ICE may hold detainees here.
Louisiana expects local agencies to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. Act 399 of 2025 makes it a crime for officials to refuse ICE detainer requests or knowingly interfere with federal immigration enforcement, and a number of Louisiana sheriffs and police departments have signed 287(g) agreements with ICE. The Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office has long followed a narrower detainer policy tied to a 2011 federal court settlement, which the state has challenged in court. To find someone moved into immigration custody, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator.
The arrest list comes directly from the sheriff’s official booking list (opens in a new tab) or an official statewide jail list. Since 2024, Louisiana law again allows agencies to release booking photos, so the list may show a mugshot along with the charges and the arresting agency. For details that are missing, call the Claiborne Parish Detention Center at 318-927-4201.
Moving from arrival to a cell or to release may take two hours or stretch to a full day, mostly depending on how many arrestees are queued in booking ahead of the person.
Commercial bail bonds are common in Louisiana, and bail agents must be licensed by the Louisiana Department of Insurance. Judges may also release a defendant on their own recognizance. Under Louisiana’s Code of Criminal Procedure, a person arrested without a warrant must have a judge determine probable cause within 48 hours, and anyone held in custody must be brought before a judge within 72 hours of arrest (not counting weekends and legal holidays) to be told of their right to counsel. Our Bail page walks through posting bond.
A call to the Claiborne Parish Detention Center at 318-927-4201 is the most direct way to check on someone who may have been arrested.
Your call may go to an automated name search or to a booking deputy. Have the person’s date of birth handy, since staff often ask for it to confirm identity.
Records for a new arrest usually take a few hours to post.
The Claiborne Parish Detention Center Booking Roster lets you look up recent bookings online instead.
After being taken into custody and read Miranda rights, the arrested person is driven to the parish jail or a local police station in Claiborne Parish for booking.
Louisiana law gives an arrested person the right to contact and confer with a lawyer, including by telephone. Apart from that, attorneys generally advise saying nothing about the charge, since remarks to officers and recorded jail calls can be used in court.
Deputies photograph and fingerprint the person and ask about their background, health and emotional state. Louisiana law requires a DNA sample from anyone arrested for a felony and for certain other offenses, typically collected with a cheek swab. Warrant searches cover Claiborne Parish, the rest of Louisiana and national systems.
In a DWI case, a driver who refuses a chemical test loses driving privileges under Louisiana’s implied consent law, and officers can seek a warrant to have blood drawn by qualified medical staff.
Strip searches, which may involve squatting and coughing before an officer, can be part of intake, along with a metal detector or body scanner.
Booking deputies ask about gang affiliation, tattoos, health conditions, prescribed drugs, allergies, alcohol or drug use, suicidal thinking and any reason the person should be separated from others. The answers drive classification and medical follow-up.
The jail inventories and secures everything the person brings in until they are released. With the person’s consent, family or friends can often collect certain items.
Property held includes clothing, cash, wallets, purses, cell phones, jewelry, piercings and watches. Eyeglasses may be stored if considered a hazard, and laces come out of any shoes the person is allowed to wear.
The person gets a chance to use the phone to reach family or an attorney and start working on bond or bail.
Those held until their 72-hour hearing or later court date receive a uniform, slip-on shoes, bedding, a towel and personal hygiene items from the Claiborne Parish Detention Center.
Most must shower before housing, and some receive a treatment for lice or scabies.
Booking time ranges from about an hour to 24 hours or longer, depending on the volume of arrests, staffing and how cooperative the person is.
Anyone who is severely intoxicated or aggressive may be held in a separate cell for several hours before intake can be finished.