Jackson Parish holds people at its detention center, 1828 Gansville Road, Jonesboro, LA 71251, 318-395-6400. The sheriff's office sits apart from the jail, at 150 Old Winnfield Road, Jonesboro, LA 71251, and its number, 318-259-9021, works as a backup.

The sheriff's online inmate list shows the bond type and amount for many bookings. Totals can change after a hearing, so confirm the figure with the detention center at 318-395-6400 before you pay.

No Jackson Parish mugshots are posted online, so ask the sheriff at 318-259-9021. Act 281 of 2024, effective August 1, 2024, allows Louisiana agencies to give out booking photos before trial. Websites charging for removal must take a photo down free within 7 days once a judge dismisses the case, a jury acquits, or a pardon or expungement is granted. Jackson Parish families ask ICE for Jackson arrest photos through FOIA, and the U.S. Marshals keep photos from federal arrests. A Jonesboro newspaper or TV station might print a Jackson booking photo, but only if the sheriff releases it.

No. The center at 327 Industrial Drive is run by a private company on contract and houses immigration detainees under an agreement with ICE. Use the ICE detainee locator or call 318-259-8799.

A person not found in Jonesboro may have bonded out or been taken in by a neighboring agency. Check Lincoln Parish at 318-255-4440 or Ouachita Parish, especially if the arrest happened near Ruston or Monroe.

Jonesboro police can send minor cases to the mayor's court. The person then leaves with a Jonesboro court date and no jail booking. If that Jonesboro date is missed, a warrant can follow.

A judge must see the person within 72 hours of arrest, leaving out weekends and Jackson Parish holidays (Article 230.1). At that hearing a 2nd district judge deals with bail and appoints counsel if needed. Missing that deadline in Jonesboro means the person is released.

Judges of the 2nd Judicial District decide the amount. It can be paid with cash or property, on a signature bond, or through a bondsman charging at most 12 percent. Our Jackson bail guide walks through each option. The Clerk of Court is at 318-259-2424, P.O. Box 730, Jonesboro, LA 71251.

Jackson cases are heard by the 2nd Judicial District, whose offices sit in Arcadia. The district attorney is at 100 Courthouse Drive, Room 103, Arcadia, LA 71001, 318-259-4112. The public defender, at 100 Courthouse, Suite 2400, Arcadia, LA 71001, 318-263-7435, is open weekdays 8:30 to 4:30. Our court guide has more.

Phone the Gansville Road detention center at 318-395-6400 for Jonesboro visiting hours and deposit steps. Our guides cover visiting, calls, messages, deposits and mail. For Jonesboro store orders, see our commissary guide.

Tell the Gansville Road staff each drug the person takes, the dose and the pharmacy. Under R.S. 15:703, Jackson Parish must provide a doctor for sick prisoners, either by appointment or by contract. Mention any urgent condition when you call 318-395-6400.

Once sentenced to hard labor, the person is a DOC inmate. In August 2026, 52 of Jackson's 79 state inmates were in local jails. For a current location dial 225-383-4580; facilities are on our Louisiana state prisons list.

Call the sheriff at 318-259-9021 or the Jonesboro police at 318-259-2164, and write down the name of the court and whether a bond is preset. Once someone is booked, the jail's online list often shows the bond type and amount. Jackson Parish posts no list of open warrants, and the state has no public lookup. Surrender at Jackson Parish Correctional Center, 1828 Gansville Road, goes smoothest with an attorney along. For a missed Jonesboro hearing, the clerk on East Court Avenue, 318-259-2424, knows what the judge asks for before rescheduling.

Anyone under 17 goes to juvenile court, while 17-year-olds have been charged as adults since April 19, 2024. Detained children from Jonesboro may be sent to Green Oaks juvenile detention, but ask Jackson juvenile officials which center has the child.

Jonesboro is covered by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Monroe Division. The clerk is at 201 Jackson Street, Suite 215, Monroe, LA 71201, 318-322-6740. A Monroe magistrate decides custody under 18 U.S.C. 3142 after pretrial services weighs in. The U.S. Marshals are in Room 213 at 318-322-8370, and the BOP inmate locator tracks people after sentencing.

Prints from a Gansville Road booking go through federal checks, and ICE may file a detainer. Posting a Jackson Parish bond won't cancel it. Jonesboro deputies may keep the person 48 hours beyond release, and after that window, without an ICE pickup, the detainer lapses. 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. Register with LA VINE, the state's free victim notification service, using the person's name. It will tell you by call, text or email when they leave the Jonesboro detention center or are transferred.

Check before you pay by calling the detention center at 318-395-6400. Jonesboro bail is paid in person at the detention center or to a licensed bail agent, never by gift card, so any caller asking for one is a scammer.

The Louisiana Sheriffs' Association lists Jackson's office with 149 regular deputies and 10 part-time ones. The detention center on Gansville Road is separate from the sheriff's office on Old Winnfield Road, so call the right building.

Once a Jonesboro arrest leads to jail, C.Cr.P. art. 701 gives the 2nd district attorney a month to charge a misdemeanor and two to charge a felony, or four months if life is on the table. Bonding out extends the limits to 90 and 150 days. Without cause for a missed in-custody deadline, the court orders the person freed.

Admissions from Jackson fell by more than half between 2019 and 2025, from 79 to 34, while violent cases make up about half of the current state inmates. State figures for Jonesboro-area cases, from the DOC data files: - In DOC custody on Aug. 31, 2026: 79, about 525 per 100,000 residents. - Housed in local jails: 52 (66 percent). - Leading offense types: violent 51 percent, property 14 percent. - Serving life: 9. - On probation or parole: 96 (56 on probation). - New admissions: 34 in 2025, 79 in 2019.

Then a judge has to review the arrest. Under art. 230.2, a probable-cause finding must come within 48 hours, or the Gansville Road jail releases the person on recognizance. Charges can still be brought later by the 2nd district attorney.

• Jackson Parish Sheriff's Office: 318-259-9021.
• Jonesboro Police: 318-259-2164.
• Chatham: town hall 318-249-2541.
• Eros: town hall 318-372-3471.
• Hodge: village hall 318-259-4704.
• East Hodge: village hall 318-259-9127.
• North Hodge: village hall 318-259-4272.
• Quitman: village hall 318-259-8014.

Rural parts of Jackson Parish rely on the sheriff, and anyone facing an emergency should dial 911.