Madison has two jail buildings in Tallulah. The parish jail at 404 East Green Street, 318-574-1833, takes most new arrests, and the correctional center at 158 Treatment Plant Road, 318-574-0584, holds mainly sentenced inmates. The sheriff's office at 318-574-1831 can also check a name.

Green Street staff look people up by name and date of birth. Once they find the record, they can usually tell you the charges and whether any bond is on file.

Madison doesn't post mugshots online, so ask the sheriff at 318-574-1831. Act 281 of 2024, in effect since August 1, 2024, lets agencies release booking photos before trial. Removal-for-pay sites must erase a photo for free within 7 days of being shown a dismissal, not-guilty verdict, pardon or expungement. Photos from immigration arrests come from ICE's FOIA office, and federal ones from the U.S. Marshals. A Tallulah news story might show a booking photo only when the Madison sheriff decides to release one.

Check the Riverbend Detention Center in East Carroll at 318-559-5980 or the Tensas Parish Detention Center at 318-749-5810. Someone arrested across the river in Vicksburg will be in a Mississippi jail, not a Louisiana one.

Yes. Tallulah police can cite small offenses into Tallulah city court, which means the person gets a court date instead of being booked. The police department at 318-574-3230 can tell you whether a citation was written.

Article 230.1 requires a first appearance within 72 hours, leaving out weekends and holidays. A 6th district judge decides bail and counsel; when the deadline is missed, the parish must release the person on recognizance.

Judges of the 6th Judicial District set the amount. Cash, property and signature bonds are all possible, and a bondsman may charge at most 12 percent. The clerk of court is at 318-574-0655, P.O. Box 1710, Tallulah, LA 71282. Our Madison bail guide has more.

The 6th district court sits at the courthouse in Tallulah, where the district attorney prosecutes. Anyone who can't pay for a lawyer can be assigned one by the public defender at 1602A Felicia Drive, Tallulah, LA 71282, 318-434-4010. Our court guide covers the rest.

Deposit options and visiting times vary, and Green Street staff at 318-574-1833 can explain the current ones. Our guides cover visiting, calls, messages, deposits and mail. Families who want to stock a Tallulah inmate's account with snacks or soap can start with our commissary page.

Phone Green Street with the person's medicines, doses and pharmacy. Under R.S. 15:703, Madison Parish must keep a physician or contract clinic for its jails.

It usually takes a few hours once bond is paid. Because most pretrial arrests are held at Green Street and sentenced inmates at Treatment Plant Road, confirm which building has the person before you drive over.

The Madison Parish Correctional Center on Treatment Plant Road holds state prisoners under contract, so someone sentenced here may stay in Tallulah rather than go to a prison. The Department of Corrections at 225-383-4580 can confirm the location, and our Louisiana state prisons list covers the prisons.

Call the sheriff at 318-574-1831 or the Tallulah police at 318-574-3230. Ask whether the warrant came from the 6th district court or Tallulah City Court, and whether a bond amount is preset. Neither keeps a public list, and there's no statewide Louisiana lookup. An attorney can accompany your relative to Madison Parish Correctional Center on Treatment Plant Road. If it's over a missed court date, the clerk at 100 North Cedar Street, 318-574-0655, can explain the way back onto the calendar.

A child under 17 goes to juvenile court. Since April 19, 2024, 17-year-olds in Louisiana are tried as adults, so they go through the Madison Parish jail and adult court.

Madison's federal cases are heard in Monroe; Monroe's U.S. District Court clerk has offices at 201 Jackson Street, Suite 215, Monroe, LA 71201, 318-322-6740, and a Monroe magistrate decides pretrial custody under 18 U.S.C. 3142 after reading a pretrial services report. The U.S. Marshals are in Room 213, 318-322-8370; the BOP inmate locator lists federal prisoners.

Tallulah booking prints are compared with federal databases, which can lead ICE to place a detainer asking the Tallulah jail to keep the person. A parish bond leaves the detainer active. Still, the jail may keep someone no longer than 48 hours after they would otherwise go free, and the detainer lapses if ICE hasn't collected them by then. Act 314 of 2024 requires Louisiana jails to cooperate. Search the ICE detainee locator, or contact the field office at 181 James Drive W, St. Rose, LA 70087, detention line 888-351-4024.

Use LA VINE, the state's free notification system. Look the person up, then add your phone or email to learn when they leave either Tallulah jail or are moved.

Call the Green Street jail yourself at 318-574-1833 before paying. Bail in Tallulah is paid at the Tallulah jail or through a licensed bondsman, and a request for gift cards is a sign of fraud.

The Louisiana Sheriffs' Association lists 43 regular deputies and 5 reserves for Madison. The correctional center on Treatment Plant Road holds state prisoners, while the Green Street jail handles pretrial arrests. At the DOC inspection on December 7, 2023, the correctional center and its southern facility together had an operational capacity of 898 and held 829 men, 780 of them state inmates and 49 local; the report noted inmate concerns about recreation and programming (DOC report).

Tallulah's 6th district attorney has to file promptly against anyone held on Green Street: misdemeanors in 30 days, felonies in 60, life-eligible crimes in 120 (C.Cr.P. art. 701). Past those marks the court frees the person unless the state proves a good reason.

Fifteen of Madison's 50 state inmates are serving life, and admissions dropped from 59 in 2019 to 24 in 2025. State figures for Tallulah-area cases, from the DOC data files: - In DOC custody on Aug. 31, 2026: 50, about 499 per 100,000 residents. - Housed in local jails: 20 (40 percent). - Leading offense types: violent 76 percent, property 10 percent. - Serving life: 15. - On probation or parole: 75 (50 on probation). - New admissions: 24 in 2025, 59 in 2019.

Records requests go to the sheriff's office in Tallulah, 318-574-1831. Any adult may examine Madison's public records under R.S. 44:1 et seq. A record that is in use must be made available, with notice of when, within three days, excluding weekends and holidays. Arrest reports are public, but files on an open investigation are not (R.S. 44:3).

Within 48 hours, a judge has to read the officer's sworn statement and decide whether there was probable cause for the arrest (C.Cr.P. art. 230.2). If no review happens in time, the Green Street jail must release the person on recognizance. This check is separate from the 72-hour first appearance.

• Madison Parish Sheriff's Office: 318-574-1831.
• Tallulah Police: 318-574-3230.
• Delta: village hall 318-633-9566.
• Mound: village hall 318-574-1821.
• Richmond: village hall 318-574-2913.

Madison deputies take calls outside town limits. Emergencies in Tallulah go to 911.