The Pointe Coupee Parish Detention Center is at 10933 Cajun II Road, New Roads, LA 70760, and its desk answers at 225-638-5407. If that line is busy or nobody picks up, the sheriff's main office at 225-638-5400 can also check whether someone was booked.

Jail staff search their records by legal name and birth date, so keep both handy. With those, staff can usually confirm whether the person is in custody, read the charges and tell you if a bond has been set. They will not discuss the evidence or the facts of the case.

Pointe Coupee does not post mugshots online, so a copy has to be requested from the sheriff's office at 225-638-5400. Since August 1, 2024, Act 281 has let New Roads release booking photos before trial. If a commercial website charges to remove a photo, it must take it down free within 7 days once the charges are dropped or a verdict, pardon or expungement clears the record. Photos taken by ICE are requested through its FOIA office, and those from a federal arrest come from the U.S. Marshals. New Roads news coverage sometimes includes a booking photo, but releasing it is the Pointe Coupee sheriff's choice.

An arrest near the parish line is sometimes booked next door instead. West Baton Rouge's detention center answers at 225-346-6400 and the Iberville Parish Jail at 225-687-3553, or the St. Landry Parish Jail at 337-948-5804. See also the West Baton Rouge page.

Write the person's full name, then P.O. Box 248, New Roads, LA 70760, which is the jail mailing address listed by state corrections. Call the detention center before sending photos, books or anything unusual, because the jail decides what it will accept. Our mail guide explains the usual rules.

The detention center sets its own visiting days and deposit options, so call 225-638-5407 for the current schedule before driving out to Cajun II Road. Our guides cover visiting, phone calls, messages and putting money on an account. For how New Roads inmates order snacks and hygiene items, see our commissary page.

Yes. New Roads can send small offenses to its mayor's court, so some people are handed a summons to appear and are never brought to the jail. If you can't find the person at the detention center, ask the New Roads police at 225-638-3271 whether a summons was written instead.

Under Article 230.1, a person held in Pointe Coupee must be brought before a judge within 72 hours, though weekends and holidays are left out of the count. At that hearing an 18th Judicial District judge fixes bail and, for those who need one, names a lawyer. Missing that deadline means the jail must let the person out on their own recognizance.

Bail in Pointe Coupee is set by an 18th Judicial District judge. The Pointe Coupee Parish sheriff accepts cash and real estate as bail. Some defendants are released on a signature, and a licensed bondsman can post it too. By law the bondsman's premium can't go above 12 percent of the bond. Our Pointe Coupee bail guide walks through each option.

State charges go to the Pointe Coupee courthouse in New Roads, one of three parishes in the 18th Judicial District. The district attorney prosecutes, and the public defender's office takes cases for people who cannot afford their own attorney. Our court guide lists the offices and phone numbers.

Call the detention center and list every medication, how much the person takes and which pharmacy fills it, so the jail's medical staff can check it. Louisiana law (R.S. 15:703) requires every parish to have an appointed physician or contracted provider to treat sick prisoners.

Once the bond is accepted, most people walk out a few hours later. Before letting anyone go, the Cajun II Road staff check for holds from other parishes, from probation and parole, or from ICE, and a hold from any of them delays release.

A sentence at hard labor hands the person over to state corrections, but that doesn't always mean a state prison: half of Pointe Coupee's state inmates are housed in local jails under R.S. 15:824 contracts. DOC can tell you the current facility at 225-383-4580, and our Louisiana state prisons list covers each prison.

Call the sheriff's office at 225-638-5400 or, for a warrant from inside town, the New Roads police at 225-638-3271. Ask whether it came from the 18th district court or the New Roads mayor's court, and whether bond is preset. You won't find a list online, and Louisiana has no statewide warrant lookup. A lawyer can arrange the turn-in at Pointe Coupee Parish Detention Center, 10933 Cajun II Road. After a skipped New Roads hearing, the clerk at 201 East Main Street, 225-638-9596, explains rescheduling with the New Roads judges.

Anyone under 17 is handled in juvenile court. Since April 19, 2024, Louisiana has charged 17-year-olds as adults, so a 17-year-old arrested in Pointe Coupee goes through the same jail and court process as an adult.

Federal cases go to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana in Baton Rouge. Its clerk is at 777 Florida Street, Suite 139, Baton Rouge, LA 70801, 225-389-3500. A Baton Rouge magistrate decides whether to hold the person under 18 U.S.C. 3142, with a report from pretrial services. The U.S. Marshals are in Room G-48 at 225-389-0364, and the BOP inmate locator lists people in federal prison.

Fingerprints taken at the New Roads jail are shared with federal databases, so ICE can learn of an arrest and send a detainer asking the New Roads jail to keep the person. Posting local bail doesn't cancel that request. The jail can hold the person for no more than 48 extra hours, and if agents don't come in that time the hold lapses. Act 314 of 2024 requires Louisiana jails to cooperate with these requests. You can search the ICE detainee locator; the regional field office is at 181 James Drive W, St. Rose, LA 70087, and its detention line is 888-351-4024.

Yes. Louisiana's free LA VINE service lets you register a phone number or email address for someone held in Pointe Coupee. You'll hear from it as soon as the jail records a release or a transfer.

Before you send any money, call the detention center at 225-638-5407 to confirm the bond amount. Real bail for a Pointe Coupee case is paid at the Cajun II Road jail or through a licensed bondsman, never by gift card or to a caller who contacted you first.

Pointe Coupee's sheriff has 108 regular and 35 part-time deputies, according to the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory. The detention center sits on Cajun II Road outside town, apart from the sheriff's main office.

C.Cr.P. art. 701 gives the 18th district attorney a deadline when a defendant stays in the Cajun II Road jail: 30 days to file a misdemeanor bill, 60 days for a felony, and 120 days when a life sentence is possible. If the deadline passes without charges, the court must order release unless the state shows just cause.

Nearly one in five of New Roads' 120 state inmates is serving life, a high share for a rural parish, and local jails hold 60 of them. State figures for New Roads-area cases, from the DOC data files: - In DOC custody on Aug. 31, 2026: 120, about 578 per 100,000 residents. - Housed in local jails: 60 (50 percent). - Leading offense types: violent 48 percent, property 16 percent. - Serving life: 23. - On probation or parole: 280 (206 on probation). - New admissions: 47 in 2025, 52 in 2019.

• Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's Office: 225-638-5400.
• New Roads Police: 211 W. Main Street, New Roads, LA 70760, 225-638-3271.
• Livonia: town hall 225-637-2981.
• Fordoche: town hall 225-637-3112.
• Morganza: village hall 225-694-3655.

The sheriff covers unincorporated areas. Dial 911 for any New Roads emergency.