St. Bernard arrests are held at the parish prison on Paris Road in Chalmette.

• Prison (corrections): 1900 Paris Road, Chalmette, LA 70043, 504-278-7645.
• Sheriff's office: 504-271-2504.
• Records: 504-278-7726, for bookings and reports.

Whether someone is booked, on what charges and for how much bond. Have the legal name and birth date; Paris Road staff will not discuss the facts of the case.

No booking photos are posted online. The public or press may write or call records at 504-278-7726. Act 281 of 2024, in effect from August 1, 2024, opens pretrial booking photos, and paid-removal sites must take down a photo at no charge within 7 days after the person shows a dismissal, acquittal, pardon or expungement. St. Bernard Parish families ask ICE for St. Bernard arrest photos through FOIA. The U.S. Marshals hold federal booking photos.

The person may be held in a nearby parish. Try Orleans Justice Center at 504-202-9339, or the detention center in Davant at 504-934-7600, with the full name and birth date.

St. Bernard corrections staff explain each visiting and deposit option when you call 504-278-7645. Our guides cover visits, mail, phone accounts, money and messages. Our jail store guide explains how Chalmette inmates buy snacks.

Within 72 hours, not counting weekends and holidays (Article 230.1); a Chalmette judge sets bail and counsel, or recognizance follows.

Judges of the 34th Judicial District set bail. The St. Bernard Parish sheriff accepts cash or a mortgage on property. Some people sign for release, and a St. Bernard bondsman may charge no more than 12 percent. The clerk is at 1101 West St. Bernard Highway, Chalmette, 504-271-3434. Our St. Bernard bail guide explains each option.

St. Bernard cases are heard by the 34th Judicial District Court at the Chalmette courthouse. The public defender's office is on Jackson Boulevard at 504-278-4438. Our court guide explains arraignment and later hearings.

Tell intake every prescription, the dose and the pharmacy. Paris Road medical staff decide what is dispensed; under R.S. 15:703, St. Bernard must have a jail physician, appointed or contracted, to treat sick prisoners. If a condition gets worse, call 504-278-7645 and ask for medical.

Usually a few hours after bond is accepted, after staff check for holds. Federal detainees, who made up about one in eight people inside at the last state inspection, are released only on a federal order, and a parish bond does nothing for them.

Hard labor makes the person a DOC inmate, but many stay local: in August 2026, 156 of the 246 St. Bernard-sentenced state inmates were in local jails under R.S. 15:824 contracts. The department's locator at 225-383-4580 gives a current assignment; see our Louisiana state prisons list.

Call the sheriff at 504-271-2504 or the records office at 504-278-7726. If bond was preset, it can be posted at booking at St. Bernard Parish Jail, 1900 Paris Road, and a lawyer can arrange the turn-in. The sheriff doesn't post names online, and Louisiana keeps no public statewide lookup. After a skipped hearing in Chalmette, the clerk on West St. Bernard Highway, 504-271-3434, can explain how to get a new court date.

Under-17s go to juvenile court. The sheriff runs a separate Juvenile Detention Center, so children are not held at the Paris Road adult facility. Since April 19, 2024, 17-year-olds are charged as adults.

New Orleans federal cases: U.S. District Court clerk's office, 500 Poydras Street, Room C151, New Orleans, LA 70130, 504-589-7600. Detention under 18 U.S.C. 3142. U.S. Marshals Suite 724, 504-589-6079. Sentenced federal prisoners appear in the BOP inmate locator.

Fingerprints taken in Chalmette are seen by ICE, and a detainer can result. Posting local bond doesn't lift it. The jail can hold the person 48 extra hours at most, and the hold drops if ICE doesn't claim them. Act 314 of 2024 requires Louisiana jails to cooperate.

Families in Chalmette can search the ICE detainee locator by name. From Chalmette, call the St. Rose field office at 888-351-4024.

Chalmette custody is tracked on LA VINE, a free state tool. Once you enroll the name, it reaches you by text, email or call when Paris Road shows a release or move.

Verify any request with the prison at 504-278-7645 before paying. Chalmette bail is posted at the prison or by a licensed agent, and nobody from the sheriff's office asks for gift cards or app transfers.

At its December 2023 inspection by the state Department of Corrections, the Paris Road facility had an operational capacity of 266 and held 188 people that day: 148 local inmates, 25 federal detainees and 15 state inmates. The sheriff's office runs both the parish prison and the Juvenile Detention Center, and it is St. Bernard's sole law enforcement agency.

When a Chalmette defendant stays at Paris Road, the 34th district attorney's deadline is 30 days for a misdemeanor, 60 for a felony and 120 for an offense that can carry life (C.Cr.P. art. 701). Missing it triggers a hearing: the person walks out unless the state shows just cause, and if it does, the judge revisits bail.

Admissions from the 34th district rose from 100 in 2019 to 118 in 2025, against Louisiana's 17 percent decline, and violent offenses account for about half of Chalmette-sentenced state inmates. State figures for Chalmette-area cases, from the DOC data files: - In DOC custody on Aug. 31, 2026: 246, about 562 per 100,000 residents. - Housed in local jails: 156 (63 percent). - Leading offense types: violent 48 percent, "all other" 13 percent. - Serving life: 18. - On probation or parole: 504 (348 on probation). - New admissions: 118 in 2025, 100 in 2019.

Yes, when deputies arrest without a warrant. A magistrate has 48 hours to find probable cause from the deputy's sworn account (art. 230.2), or the Paris Road facility must release the person on recognizance.

• St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office: 504-271-2504.

St. Bernard has no incorporated cities or villages and so no municipal police department. Deputies serve Chalmette, Arabi, Meraux, Violet, Poydras, St. Bernard and Delacroix. For an emergency near Chalmette, call 911.