The West Carroll jail shares a building and a phone with the sheriff's office at 305 E. Main Street, Oak Grove, LA 71263, mailing address P.O. Box 744. Call 318-428-2331 for either one.

Ring 318-428-2331 with the legal name and birthday of the person you're looking for. Staff can usually confirm whether they are in custody, read the charges and say whether a bond has been set.

West Carroll doesn't post mugshots online, but you can ask the sheriff at 318-428-2331. Act 281 of 2024, effective August 1, 2024, lets the sheriff release a booking photo before trial. Paid mugshot-removal sites have 7 days to take the photo down at no cost once they see proof of dismissal, acquittal, pardon or expungement. If ICE made the arrest, ask ICE's FOIA office; if a federal agency did, ask the U.S. Marshals. An Oak Grove news report may carry a booking photo only if the West Carroll sheriff releases it.

People arrested in West Carroll are sometimes housed in nearby jails. Call the Riverbend Detention Center in East Carroll at 318-559-5980, the Richland Parish Detention Center at 318-248-3057, or the Morehouse Parish Jail at 318-281-9336.

Visits are arranged through the jail and the times are limited. In-person visits were suspended during COVID, so call 318-428-2331 to confirm they're running before you drive to Oak Grove. Our visiting guide explains what to bring.

The jail on East Main Street sets its own rules for mail, phone accounts and deposits, so ask staff at 318-428-2331. Our guides cover mail, phone, money and messages. Our jail store guide explains how Oak Grove inmates buy snacks.

Article 230.1 allows 72 hours from arrest, not counting weekends and holidays. At the hearing a 5th district judge in Oak Grove sets bail and decides whether to appoint a lawyer. When the hearing doesn't happen within that time, the person has to be set free on recognizance.

Judges of the 5th Judicial District set the amount. Families can pay in cash, pledge land, have the person sign for release, or go through a bondsman, who is held to a 12 percent fee. West Carroll's clerk of court shares the building, 305 E. Main Street, Room 101, 318-428-3281. Our West Carroll bail guide covers each option.

Oak Grove's courthouse hosts these cases, and the 5th district attorney prosecutes. When the person can't afford a lawyer, the 5th district public defender in Rayville, 318-728-1117, takes the case. Our court guide has more.

When the person is booked, tell staff which medicines they take, the doses and the pharmacy. Under R.S. 15:703, West Carroll's police jury must provide a doctor for the Oak Grove jail, either appointed or under contract.

Usually a few hours after bond. Because the Oak Grove jail is small, anyone moved to another parish's jail is released from there, so ask where the person is held.

Hard-labor time makes the person a DOC inmate, and they usually leave the 26-bed Oak Grove jail for a larger local or state facility. Ask 225-383-4580 where they went; our Louisiana state prisons list has each prison.

Call the sheriff at 318-428-2331. Ask which court signed it and whether bond was already set by the judge. If it was, the person can usually post that bond during booking at West Carroll Detention Center and go home the same day, especially with a lawyer handling the turn-in. The sheriff has nothing posted online, and there's no Louisiana warrant database open to the public. For a missed court date, Room 101 at 305 E. Main Street, the clerk's office (318-428-3281), can tell you how to ask the judge for another.

West Carroll's juvenile court takes everyone under 17. Since April 19, 2024, Louisiana has treated 17-year-olds as adults. Oak Grove books them into the parish jail, and they are tried in adult court.

West Carroll's federal cases go to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana in Monroe. The clerk is at 201 Jackson Street, Suite 215, Monroe, LA 71201, 318-322-6740. Pretrial custody is decided under 18 U.S.C. 3142. The U.S. Marshals are in Room 213, 318-322-8370, and the BOP inmate locator tracks federal prisoners.

Bookings at the East Main Street jail are shared with ICE. If ICE wants the person, it sends the Oak Grove jail a detainer asking staff to keep them, and posting bond doesn't clear it. The jail can keep someone just 48 more hours, and the hold ends if ICE doesn't arrive. Act 314 of 2024 requires Louisiana jails to cooperate. Search the ICE detainee locator; the field office is at 181 James Drive W, St. Rose, LA 70087, detention line 888-351-4024.

Yes, by signing up with LA VINE, the state's free notification service. Enter the person's name, choose the West Carroll jail, and add a phone number or email to be alerted on release or transfer.

No. Hang up and check the amount by calling the jail at 318-428-2331. In West Carroll, fines and bonds are paid at the sheriff's office, never by gift card.

The jail in Oak Grove is quite small. The sheriff describes it as a 26-bed minimum-security jail for men awaiting trial, run from the office at 305 East Main Street, and reports no inmate deaths from 2014 to 2022. Women and many sentenced inmates are held in other parishes' jails. Fines are paid with cash or a money order at the sheriff's office, and public records requests go to the chief civil deputy at 318-428-2331.

An Oak Grove arrestee who can't make bond must be charged by the 5th district attorney inside a month for a misdemeanor, two months for a felony, or 120 days if life is possible (C.Cr.P. art. 701). Beyond that the judge must free the person absent just cause.

Admissions from Oak Grove's court dropped from 71 in 2019 to 47 in 2025; local jails hold 57 of its 85 state inmates. State figures for Oak Grove-area cases, from the DOC data files: - In DOC custody on Aug. 31, 2026: 85, about 871 per 100,000 residents. - Housed in local jails: 57 (67 percent). - Leading offense types: violent 40 percent, property 22 percent. - Serving life: 4. - On probation or parole: 153 (92 on probation). - New admissions: 47 in 2025, 71 in 2019.

When Oak Grove deputies arrest someone with no warrant, a judge has 48 hours to decide whether there was probable cause (art. 230.2). If that doesn't happen, the West Carroll jail releases the person on recognizance.

• West Carroll Parish Sheriff's Office: 318-428-2331.
• Oak Grove: town hall 318-428-3275.
• Epps: village hall 318-926-5224.
• Forest: village hall 318-428-9058.
• Kilbourne: village hall 318-428-2774.
• Pioneer: village hall 318-428-8581.

The sheriff handles the countryside. Dial 911 for any Oak Grove emergency.