Grant Parish uses one jail, the Grant Parish Detention Facility at 485 Richardson Drive, Colfax, LA 71417, 318-627-3724. The sheriff's office and non-emergency line, 318-627-3261, is the backup number, and state corrections lists it for the facility as well.

Call Colfax at 318-627-3724 with the full legal name and birthday. Ask about booking, the Grant charges, the bond figure and any holds. Get the inmate number too, since mail and deposits require it.

Call the sheriff's office at 318-627-3261 to request one. Act 281 of 2024 took effect August 1, 2024, and permits release of booking photos before trial. Paid takedown sites must remove a booking picture free within 7 days if charges are dropped or end in acquittal, pardon or expungement. Grant Parish families ask ICE for Grant arrest photos through FOIA, and the U.S. Marshals hold federal ones. Central Louisiana media occasionally publish Colfax arrest photos, and the Grant sheriff decides which are released.

Someone not on the Colfax roster may have bonded out or been moved. Grant's neighbors are the next places to call: Rapides Parish at 318-473-6750, or Natchitoches Parish at 318-357-9300. An arrest near either line could have been booked there.

Personal mail is scanned off-site at a Monroe address, 2252 Tower Drive, Suite 108-251, Monroe, LA 71201; use the addressee format the sheriff's office gives by phone and add the prisoner's name and number. The jail refuses bulk mail. Attorney mail, checks and ID papers go to ATTN: Business Office, name and number, 485 Richardson Drive, Colfax, LA 71417. Our mail guide explains the general rules.

Every visit at the Colfax facility is by video. Book a day or more ahead at 318-627-3724. Parish prisoners: Wednesday and Thursday; state prisoners: Saturday and Sunday; 9 to 4 with an 11 a.m. lunch break. Up to two visitors may share a screen. No phones, smart watches, sunglasses, men's hats, tobacco or vapes; a dress code applies, and visits may be recorded. Our visiting guide explains the general rules.

The sheriff's website has an offender funds page for deposits, but call 318-627-3724 to confirm the current method before you send anything. Our guides cover deposits, calls and messages. Colfax commissary basics are in our commissary guide.

Pollock and Colfax may cite small offenses into their mayor's courts instead of booking the person. If so, there's no jail record, but the court date on the citation must be kept or a warrant can be issued.

Under Article 230.1 (law), a Colfax detainee must see a judge within 72 hours, leaving out weekends and holidays. The Colfax judge sets bail at that hearing and names a lawyer when the person needs one. Missing that deadline means Grant Parish must release the person on recognizance.

Judges of the 35th Judicial District set bail. The Grant Parish sheriff takes cash or a deed to property as security. A judge sometimes lets a person sign for release, and a Grant bondsman may charge at most 12 percent. Our Grant bail guide explains each option, and the Colfax clerk of court is at 318-627-3246, P.O. Box 263, Colfax, LA 71417.

Grant cases are heard in the 35th Judicial District Court, which sits in Colfax and covers only this parish. When a defendant can't pay, a Colfax judge names a public defender when the case is first called. For more, see our court guide for the courthouse and clerk details.

Tell Richardson Drive staff each prescription, dose and pharmacy at booking. Grant Parish names a jail doctor yearly or hires a licensed medical contractor (R.S. 15:703), and that clinician decides what is given.

Most people leave a few hours after bond is posted. Bonds, including cash bonds, are handled at the Grant Parish Detention Facility on Richardson Drive, so that is also where the person walks out. Call ahead at 318-627-3724 to confirm it.

Grant houses state prisoners, so a person sentenced to hard labor may stay in Colfax rather than moving on. The state's DOC locator line, 225-383-4580, can confirm where they are. See our Louisiana state prisons list.

Call the sheriff at 318-627-3261. Find out which court issued the warrant and whether bail is already set. Bonds can be posted at Grant Parish Detention Facility on Richardson Drive, so a turn-in arranged by an attorney may end with your relative home that evening. Nothing with names is online in Colfax, and Louisiana keeps no family-facing warrant site. If it's a missed court date, ask the Clerk of Court at 200 Main Street, 318-627-3246, about a new one.

Children under 17 go to juvenile court rather than the Colfax jail, and a judge decides whether they are detained. Since April 19, 2024, Louisiana has charged 17-year-olds as adults, and Grant books them into the Colfax detention facility.

Colfax falls under the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Alexandria Division. The clerk is at 515 Murray Street, Suite 105, Alexandria, LA 71301, 318-473-7415. After a pretrial services interview, an Alexandria magistrate decides custody under 18 U.S.C. 3142, the Bail Reform Act. The U.S. Marshals are in Room 201 at 318-473-7411, and the BOP inmate locator lists sentenced federal prisoners.

Booking prints from Colfax reach ICE databases, and a detainer may follow. Posting parish bail leaves it active. The facility can hold someone up to 48 more hours for ICE, and if ICE doesn't come for them, the hold ends. Act 314 of 2024 requires Louisiana jails to cooperate. Search the ICE detainee locator, or call ICE's detention line at 888-351-4024.

Yes. LA VINE, Louisiana's free notification service, sends release notices for people held in Colfax. Register with the person's name and your phone number or email address to get them.

Call the detention facility at 318-627-3724 before paying anyone. Grant bonds are completed at the detention facility or through a licensed bail agent, never with gift cards or an app transfer.

Visits at the detention facility are by video monitor, and each monitor is limited to two visitors. Visits may be monitored and recorded. No phones, smartwatches or other electronics, no food or drinks, and no sunglasses are allowed in the visiting room, and a dress code applies. Personal letters do not go to Colfax: they are sent to a central processing center, opened, scanned and delivered electronically. Legal and business documents must be mailed straight to the jail. Booking information on any Grant arrest is public and can be requested from the facility.

Colfax prosecutors in the 35th district face fixed limits for anyone they keep locked up: 30 days to bring a misdemeanor bill, 60 for felonies, 120 when the penalty could be life (C.Cr.P. art. 701). A late filing without just cause means release.

Colfax-sentenced state inmates are more often in for drugs than for violence, and admissions fell from 202 in 2019 to 148 in 2025. State figures for Colfax-area cases, from the DOC data files: - In DOC custody on Aug. 31, 2026: 210, about 947 per 100,000 residents. - Housed in local jails: 162 (77 percent). - Leading offense types: drug 27 percent, violent 21 percent. - Serving life: 5. - On probation or parole: 437 (285 on probation). - New admissions: 148 in 2025, 202 in 2019.

• Grant Parish Sheriff's Office: 318-627-3261.
• Colfax: town hall 318-627-3711.
• Pollock: town hall 318-765-3796.
• Montgomery: town hall 318-646-3110.
• Dry Prong: village hall 318-899-5341.
• Georgetown: village hall 318-827-5527.
• Creola: no hall phone was found, so call the sheriff.

Emergencies in Colfax go to 911.