The Union Parish Detention Center is at 707 Rodeo Circle, Farmerville, LA 71241, and answers at 318-368-9827. Union's sheriff works from a different building at 710 Holder Road, reachable at 318-368-3124 or 318-368-3164.

Call the Union detention center at 318-368-9827 and give the inmate's name and birth date. The staff can usually confirm that he or she is there, read you the charges and tell you the bond. Write the bond down, because any bondsman will ask for it.

Union Parish doesn't post mugshots online, so ask the sheriff's office at 318-368-3124. Act 281 of 2024, in effect since August 1, 2024, permits the release of booking photos before trial. If a photo appears on a site that charges for removal, the site has to take it down at no charge within 7 days once it gets proof of a case that was dismissed, ended in acquittal, or was pardoned or expunged. Request ICE photos from ICE's FOIA office and federal arrest photos from the U.S. Marshals.

Union borders three parishes with their own jails, and an arrest near a line may be booked there. Try the Lincoln Parish Detention Center at 318-255-4440, the Ouachita Correctional Center at 318-324-2700, or the Morehouse Parish Jail at 318-281-9336.

Visiting and deposit rules at Rodeo Circle change from time to time, so call 318-368-9827 for the current ones. Our guides cover visiting, mail, phone accounts, money and messages. Our jail store guide explains how Farmerville inmates buy snacks.

Under Article 230.1, the first appearance must happen within 72 hours of arrest, with Farmerville skipping weekends and holidays when counting. A 3rd district judge in Farmerville handles bail and names a Union Parish lawyer when the person cannot pay for one. If that deadline passes with no hearing, Louisiana law requires release on the person's own signature.

Bail is set by judges of the 3rd Judicial District. A family can pay it in cash or pledge property. The judge can also release the person on a signature bond, or the family can hire a bondsman, who can charge no more than 12 percent. The clerk of court is at 100 E. Bayou Street, Suite 105, Farmerville, LA 71241, 318-368-3055. Our Union bail guide goes through the steps.

State charges are heard at the Union Parish courthouse in Farmerville, part of the 3rd Judicial District it shares with Lincoln. The public defender for the district is in Ruston, 318-254-0070. Our court guide has the details.

Give the Rodeo Circle staff the name, dose and pharmacy of each medicine. Under R.S. 15:703, the Union Parish Police Jury, which also runs this jail, must provide a physician or contracted provider for people held there.

Bond for 3rd district charges is handled at the sheriff's office, not the jail. The person is driven from Rodeo Circle to the sheriff's office on Holder Road to finish the paperwork and walks out from its front lobby, so meet them there. Expect the process to take a few hours.

A hard-labor sentence transfers the person to the Louisiana Department of Corrections, which decides whether they serve it in a state prison or a local jail. DOC can tell you the current location at 225-383-4580, and our Louisiana state prisons list describes each prison.

Call the sheriff's office at 318-368-3124. Farmerville and Bernice also have town courts for minor cases, so find out which court wrote it. If it carries a preset bond, the sheriff's office can accept it. Union deputies keep names private, and no state lookup exists. Turning in at Union Parish Detention Center with counsel is the calmer path. For a skipped hearing, the East Bayou Street clerk, 318-368-3055, explains the next step.

Anyone under 17 goes to juvenile court. Since April 19, 2024, 17-year-olds in Louisiana are charged in adult court, so a 17-year-old arrested in Union Parish is booked into the adult detention center.

Federal cases from Union Parish are heard in Monroe by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. Its clerk is at 201 Jackson Street, Suite 215, Monroe, LA 71201, 318-322-6740. A judge decides on custody before trial under 18 U.S.C. 3142. The U.S. Marshals are in Room 213, 318-322-8370, and the BOP inmate locator lists people in federal prison.

Fingerprints from Rodeo Circle bookings reach ICE, and a detainer can keep the person in the Farmerville jail. A state bond doesn't remove the detainer, but the jail can hold the person only 48 hours past release, and if ICE doesn't come the hold drops. Act 314 of 2024 requires Louisiana jails to cooperate. The ICE detainee locator shows people in ICE custody; the field office is at 181 James Drive W, St. Rose, LA 70087, detention line 888-351-4024.

Register on LA VINE, the free statewide notification service, with your phone number or email. It alerts you when someone held in Union Parish is released or transferred.

Call the detention center at 318-368-9827 yourself to confirm the amount. Bonds are paid at the sheriff's office in cash, by money order or through a bondsman; checks and debit cards aren't accepted, and nobody legitimate asks for gift cards.

First call the detention center at 318-368-9827 for the charges and bond. Then meet a bail bondsman at the sheriff's office, or pay the bond yourself in cash or by money order. Every bond carries a $30 fee per charge. A list of bondsmen is posted in the sheriff's front lobby.

The sheriff doesn't run it. The Union Parish Detention Center, at 707 Rodeo Circle next to the National Guard Armory, is operated by the Union Parish Police Jury and overseen by a jail commission. The sheriff's office says it is not involved in running the jail, though it handles bonding and posts booking photos on its mobile app.

Union's DOC admissions dropped from 154 in 2019 to 40 in 2025, a far steeper fall than the state's, and 16 of its 92 state inmates are serving life. State figures for Farmerville-area cases, from the DOC data files: - In DOC custody on Aug. 31, 2026: 92, about 436 per 100,000 residents. - Housed in local jails: 57 (62 percent). - Leading offense types: violent 49 percent, "all other" 13 percent. - Serving life: 16. - On probation or parole: 344 (273 on probation). - New admissions: 40 in 2025, 154 in 2019.

Because the jail is run by the police jury, ask the detention center at 318-368-9827 for jail records and the sheriff at 318-368-3124 for arrest reports. State law (R.S. 44:1 et seq.) opens both to any adult, with an answer required within three working days when a record isn't immediately available; open investigations are exempt (R.S. 44:3).

Yes, when it was made without a warrant. Within 48 hours a judge must confirm probable cause from the officer's account (art. 230.2). Otherwise the Rodeo Circle detention center has to release the person on recognizance, though charges can still be filed later.

• Union Parish Sheriff's Office: 318-368-3124.
• Farmerville Police: 318-368-2226.
• Bernice: town hall 318-285-9071.
• Marion: town hall 318-292-4715.
• Downsville: village hall 318-548-8299.
• Junction City: village hall 318-986-4459.
• Lillie: village hall 318-608-8089.
• Spearsville: village hall 318-478-0790.

The sheriff covers unincorporated areas and can say if town police made the arrest. Dial 911 for any Farmerville emergency.