The LaSalle Parish Jail is at 1050 Courthouse Street, Jena, LA 71342, with mail going to P.O. Box 70, and its phone is 318-992-7358. The sheriff's office at 318-992-2151 is the backup line, and the Records and Bonds desk at 318-992-6976 answers bond questions.

Type a last name into the sheriff's LPSO inmate search. If nothing comes up, call the jail at 318-992-7358; the person may be at the Olla center or recently released.

Ask the sheriff's office at 318-992-2151. Since August 1, 2024, Act 281 has allowed sheriffs to hand out booking photos before trial, and that includes LaSalle. A website that charges to remove mugshots has 7 days to take one down for free once it sees proof that the case was thrown out, closed with an acquittal, or the record was cleared. Jena residents seeking ICE arrest photos come through ICE's FOIA office, and federal booking photos come from the U.S. Marshals. News coverage of a Jena arrest may include a booking photo if the LaSalle sheriff chooses to release it.

It's a privately run center at 15976 Highway 165, Olla, LA 71465, that holds some parish and federal prisoners alongside the Jena jail. If the person isn't in Jena, call it at 318-495-6200.

Check the Olla center first, since LaSalle uses both jails. If neither has the person, try the Caldwell Parish Correctional Center or the Catahoula Parish Jail, because an arrest near either line may be booked there.

Yes. Jena police often send small offenses to the mayor's court. The person then gets a Jena court date rather than a jail cell. Jena police at 318-992-5111 can tell you.

Article 230.1 (text) sets a 72-hour limit, and weekends and holidays don't count toward it. At that hearing a 28th district judge decides bail and appoints counsel. When Jena misses that limit, the law says the person must be let out without having to post money.

Judges of the 28th Judicial District, which covers only LaSalle, set the bond figure. Families may pay cash, pledge land or get a signature bond, and a bondsman can charge no more than 12 percent. The Records and Bonds desk is at 318-992-6976, and the clerk of court at 318-992-2158, P.O. Box 1316, Jena, LA 71342. Our LaSalle bail guide has more.

Cases are heard at the LaSalle courthouse in Jena. - District attorney: P.O. Box 1940, Jena, LA 71342-1940, 318-992-8282. - Public defender: 3150 N. First Street, Jena, LA 71342, 318-992-0881, Monday to Thursday 8 to 3.

For the basics, read our court guide.

Call the jail at 318-992-7358 for visiting hours and deposit options, which the jail sets itself. Our guides cover visiting, calls, messages, deposits and mail. See our commissary page before funding Jena store orders.

Tell Courthouse Street staff each prescription, dose and pharmacy. LaSalle Parish's duty under R.S. 15:703 is to supply a doctor for sick prisoners, appointed or contracted, and jail staff follow that doctor's orders.

A hard-labor sentence puts the person in state custody, but many LaSalle state inmates never go to a prison; they serve the time in a local jail under an R.S. 15:824 contract. The Department of Corrections locator line, 225-383-4580, can tell you where someone was transferred, and our Louisiana state prisons list covers the prisons.

Call the sheriff at 318-992-2151 or Jena police at 318-992-5111. The Records and Bonds desk at 318-992-6976 can say whether a bond is preset and payable at booking. LaSalle has no public list of wanted people, and Louisiana has no statewide warrant lookup. Walking into LaSalle Parish Jail with an attorney is the calmest way to resolve it. A warrant over a missed hearing can sometimes be sorted out through the clerk at 1050 Courthouse Street, 318-992-2158, who can tell you about a new date.

Anyone under 17 is handled in juvenile court. Since April 19, 2024, Louisiana has treated 17-year-olds as adults, so a 17-year-old arrested in LaSalle is booked at the Jena jail.

LaSalle's federal cases go to Alexandria, where the U.S. District Court clerk is at 515 Murray Street, Suite 105, Alexandria, LA 71301, 318-473-7415, and a magistrate there decides custody under 18 U.S.C. 3142 after a pretrial services report. The U.S. Marshals are in Room 201, 318-473-7411; the BOP inmate locator lists federal prisoners.

Fingerprints taken at a Jena booking are run through federal databases. If ICE wants the person, it can file a detainer that asks the jail to keep them, and paying the local bond won't cancel that request. The jail may keep the person no more than 48 extra hours, and the detainer expires if ICE never arrives. Louisiana's Act 314 of 2024 obliges local jails to honor them. Search the ICE detainee locator, or contact the New Orleans field office at 181 James Drive W, St. Rose, LA 70087, detention line 888-351-4024.

Yes. Register on LA VINE, the state's free service, with the person's name. Then choose a phone or email alert for when they leave the LaSalle jail or are transferred.

Call the jail at 318-992-7358 or the Records and Bonds desk at 318-992-6976 to confirm the amount. LaSalle never collects bond by gift card or app transfer.

The Louisiana Sheriffs' Association lists LaSalle's office with 55 regular and 5 part-time deputies and gives 318-495-6200, the Olla center, as its prison line. At the DOC's Basic Jail Guidelines inspection on December 28, 2023, the Courthouse Street jail had an operational capacity of 29 and held 10 people (DOC report).

If Jena deputies made the arrest with no warrant, the probable-cause ruling is due within 48 hours; without it the person is released on recognizance (art. 230.2). Anyone still held on Courthouse Street then falls under the 28th district attorney's filing limits: 30 days for a misdemeanor, 60 for a felony (art. 701).

Drug offenses are the largest category for Jena-sentenced state inmates, and local jails hold 106 of the 138. State figures for Jena-area cases, from the DOC data files: - In DOC custody on Aug. 31, 2026: 138, about 933 per 100,000 residents. - Housed in local jails: 106 (77 percent). - Leading offense types: drug 38 percent, violent 22 percent. - Serving life: 10. - On probation or parole: 151 (41 on probation). - New admissions: 93 in 2025, 106 in 2019.

Ask the sheriff's Records and Bonds desk at 318-992-6976. Louisiana's Public Records Law (R.S. 44:1 and following) lets any adult inspect or copy public records; if a Jena file is in active use, the custodian must answer within three working days with a date it will be ready. The initial account of an arrest is open to the public, while investigative files stay closed during prosecution (R.S. 44:3).

• LaSalle Parish Sheriff's Office: 318-992-2151.
• Jena Police: 318-992-5111.
• Olla: town hall 318-495-5151.
• Urania: town hall 318-495-3452.
• Tullos: town hall 318-534-6499.

The sheriff covers rural LaSalle. Emergencies in Jena go to 911.