• Parish jail: 12306 Haynes Street, Clinton, LA 70722, 225-683-3313.
• Alternative: 225-683-5459 (listed by the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association as the prison phone; corrections also uses it for work release).
• Sheriff: 225-683-8572.

Bring the legal name and birth date when you call the jail at 225-683-3313. Clinton staff can then confirm custody, the charges and the bond.

Request one from the sheriff at 225-683-8572. Louisiana's Act 281 of 2024 (in force August 1, 2024) allows release of booking photos before conviction, and any pay-to-remove site must delete one free within 7 days after dismissal, acquittal, pardon or expungement. East Feliciana Parish families ask ICE for East Feliciana arrest photos through FOIA. U.S. Marshals keep photos from federal arrests. Newspapers covering Clinton sometimes publish arrest photos, but the East Feliciana sheriff decides whether one goes out.

Someone missing from the Clinton jail may have bonded out or been arrested by a nearby agency. Check the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison at 225-355-3311 or West Feliciana at 225-784-3158. The St. Helena Parish Jail is at 225-222-6896.

Town police in Jackson or Clinton may write a summons for mayor's court instead of booking someone. If so, the person has a court date rather than a jail record, and a Clinton warrant can follow if that date is missed.

Under Article 230.1, a judge must see the person within 72 hours, and the court skips weekends and holidays in that count. A 20th district judge handles bail and appoints a lawyer, and missing the deadline means release on recognizance.

Set by the 20th Judicial District bench. Cash, property, signature and bondsman bonds (no more than 12 percent fee) apply. See our East Feliciana bail guide. Clerk of court: 225-683-5145, P.O. Drawer 599, Clinton, LA 70722.

East Feliciana cases are heard by the 20th Judicial District Court at the Clinton courthouse. At the first appearance in Clinton, anyone unable to hire counsel may ask for the public defender. Our court guide lists the district attorney and defender offices.

Call the Haynes Street jail at 225-683-3313 to learn visiting times and which payment types it accepts. Our guides cover visiting, calls, messages, deposits and mail. For Clinton store orders, see our commissary guide.

Tell the Haynes Street staff each prescription, dose and pharmacy when calling 225-683-3313. East Feliciana's governing authority names a jail doctor each year or signs a contract with a licensed provider, as R.S. 15:703 requires, and that clinician decides what is given.

Usually a few hours after the bond is accepted. Someone held for another parish, on a probation and parole detainer or for work release may stay longer, so ask the jail what holds are listed.

People sentenced to state time may wait in the Clinton jail until the state moves them to a prison. The DOC locator at 225-383-4580 tracks people sent from Clinton, and our Louisiana state prisons list helps you learn about each prison.

Call the sheriff's office at 225-683-8572. Clinton, Jackson and Slaughter warrants for mayor's court cases go through those town halls. Ask whether bond is preset; if it is, the person can often post it after booking at East Feliciana Parish Jail, 12306 Haynes Street, and leave the same day. Clinton posts no warrant names, and families have no statewide search to try. Going in with a lawyer is safest. For a missed hearing, call the clerk at 12305 St. Helena Street, 225-683-5145, about a new date.

Children under 17 go to juvenile court, which decides whether any detention is needed. For offenses on or after April 19, 2024, 17-year-olds are charged in adult court and booked in Clinton like adults.

Federal cases go to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana; the clerk is at 777 Florida Street, Suite 139, Baton Rouge, LA 70801, 225-389-3500. Pretrial services prepares a report first, and then a Baton Rouge magistrate judge applies the Bail Reform Act (18 U.S.C. 3142). The U.S. Marshals are in Room G-48 at 225-389-0364, and the BOP inmate locator lists sentenced federal prisoners.

Fingerprints from Clinton bookings are checked federally, and ICE can file a detainer. Paying parish bail doesn't clear it. Clinton deputies may hold the person up to 48 extra hours while ICE arranges pickup, and the hold ends if no one comes. Act 314 of 2024 directs Louisiana jails to cooperate. Search the ICE detainee locator, or call ICE's detention line at 888-351-4024.

Use LA VINE, Louisiana's free notification service, to register a phone number or email. You'll then hear by alert when someone held in Clinton is released or transferred. Signing up is free and takes a few minutes.

No real deputy demands gift cards or a payment-app transfer for bond. Call the Haynes Street jail at 225-683-3313, or the 20th district clerk in Clinton, to check the amount before you send money to anyone.

The Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory credits the Clinton sheriff with 52 regular and 24 part-time deputies. The Haynes Street jail also runs a work release line, 225-683-5459, used for inmates assigned to outside jobs near the end of a sentence.

Clinton's deadlines under C.Cr.P. art. 701 depend on the charge. A jailed misdemeanor defendant must see a bill filed inside 30 days; felonies get 60, and offenses with a possible life term get 120. If the 20th district office lets that pass, a judge frees the person unless just cause is shown.

One in six of Clinton's 91 state inmates, 15 people, has a life sentence, and admissions climbed from 38 in 2019 to 46 in 2025 even as Louisiana's total fell. State figures for Clinton-area cases, from the DOC data files: - In DOC custody on Aug. 31, 2026: 91, about 466 per 100,000 residents. - Housed in local jails: 45 (49 percent). - Leading offense types: violent 52 percent, property 14 percent. - Serving life: 15. - On probation or parole: 260 (198 on probation). - New admissions: 46 in 2025, 38 in 2019.

• East Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office: 225-683-8572.
• Clinton: town hall 225-683-5531.
• Jackson: town hall 225-634-7777.
• Slaughter: town hall 225-654-4278.
• Norwood: village hall 225-629-5347.
• Wilson: village hall 225-629-5415.

Where no town officer is on duty, the sheriff answers. Emergencies in Clinton go to 911.