• Detention center: 4834 Feliciana Street, St. Francisville, LA 70775, 225-784-3158.
• Warden's office / state listing: 225-784-3148.
• Sheriff: 4785 Prosperity Street, 225-635-3241, with non-emergency calls at 225-784-3136.
• Transitional work program: 9943 West Feliciana Parkway, 225-635-3807.

Open the sheriff's jail bookings list to see recent arrests. Then call the jail at 225-784-3158 to confirm charges, bond and current St. Francisville custody.

Send a records request to the sheriff, 225-635-3241; public and media may both ask. Under Act 281 of 2024, effective August 1, 2024, booking photos may be released pretrial, and a paid-removal site must take a mugshot down free within 7 days once papers prove the charge was dismissed, or ended in a not-guilty verdict, pardon or expungement. West Feliciana Parish families ask ICE for West Feliciana arrest photos through FOIA. The U.S. Marshals hold federal booking photos.

No. The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is run by the state, not the sheriff. To find someone there, use the DOC locator line at 225-383-4580.

Try East Feliciana at 225-683-3313 or Pointe Coupee at 225-638-5407. For arrests closer to Baton Rouge, call East Baton Rouge at 225-355-3311.

Ask jail staff at 225-784-3158 about current visiting and deposit rules. Our guides cover visiting, mail, phone, money and messages. St. Francisville inmates order snacks and soap through the jail store, described on our commissary page.

Under Article 230.1, the first appearance must come within 72 hours, not counting weekends and holidays. The St. Francisville judge decides bail and appointed counsel, and a late hearing means release on recognizance.

20th district judges set it. Post money, property, a signature bond, or work with an agent whose fee is capped at 12 percent. Clerk: 4785 Prosperity Street, St. Francisville, LA 70775, 225-635-3794. Our West Feliciana bail guide.

West Feliciana cases are heard by the 20th Judicial District Court at the St. Francisville courthouse. The public defender's office is on Prosperity Street at 225-304-4175. Our court guide explains each stage of the case.

Tell booking each prescription, its dose and the pharmacy that fills it. West Feliciana's governing authority must have a jail doctor, appointed yearly or under contract (R.S. 15:703), and that doctor decides what is dispensed on Feliciana Street.

Release follows once bail posts and the $30 bond fee is paid; plan on a few hours. The sheriff advises families not to rush to the detention center after an arrest: wait for the person's booking phone call, which is also how charges and court dates are passed on, since the jail does not release them publicly.

Hard labor brings DOC custody. Some finish their terms in the sheriff's Transitional Work Program at 9942 West Feliciana Parkway, whose classes include Parenting, Thinking for a Change, Living in Balance, Cage Your Rage and substance abuse. Others go to state prisons; reach the DOC locator at 225-383-4580, and our Louisiana state prisons list has each facility.

Call the sheriff at 225-635-3241. The office's arrest log shows many bookings on fugitive warrants from Mississippi and on bench warrants for failure to appear, so ask which court or state issued it and whether bond is preset. St. Francisville has no posted list, and Louisiana keeps no statewide public search. Surrender at West Feliciana Parish Detention Center goes best with a lawyer present. If a missed court date is the problem, the clerk on Prosperity Street, 225-635-3794, can tell you how St. Francisville judges reset a skipped date.

Children under 17 go to juvenile court in the 20th district. Since April 19, 2024, a 17-year-old arrested in St. Francisville is charged and booked as an adult.

Baton Rouge's U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana, handles federal cases, and its clerk is at 777 Florida Street, Suite 139, Baton Rouge, LA 70801, 225-389-3500. A magistrate decides detention under 18 U.S.C. 3142. The U.S. Marshals are in Room G-48 at 225-389-0364. Sentenced federal prisoners appear in the BOP inmate locator.

ICE reviews booking prints from Feliciana Street and can lodge a detainer. Posting bond leaves it in place. The jail can hold the person 48 extra hours at most, and the detainer is void if ICE doesn't pick them up. Act 314 of 2024 requires Louisiana jails to cooperate.

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

St. Francisville custody appears on LA VINE at no cost. Register the name, and once St. Francisville logs a release or transfer, VINE texts, emails or phones you.

Verify any request with the jail at 225-784-3158. Bonds are posted in cash or certified funds, through a state-approved bondsman, or as a property bond at the sheriff's admin office, and nobody legitimate takes gift cards.

20th district judges set every bond, some on a preset schedule and others case by case, considering the offense and the person's record. Three kinds are accepted: cash or certified funds for the full amount, which is refunded once the case is over; a surety bond from a state-approved bondsman registered in the parish; or a property bond, filed at the sheriff's admin office in the courthouse, Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 4 PM, using the assessor's value. Every bond carries a $30 fee, paid in cash at the detention center or by cash or card at the admin office.

Visits are by live video at kiosks inside the detention center, set up through the jail's phone provider, and inmates place all calls; staff do not take calls for them except in a verified emergency. After adding money to a phone account, call 225-784-3158 so staff can tell the inmate. Only letters can be mailed; packages and items must go through commissary.

Only 47 people sentenced in St. Francisville are in state custody, about 307 per 100,000 residents, yet nine of those 47 have life terms. State figures for St. Francisville-area cases, from the DOC data files: - In DOC custody on Aug. 31, 2026: 47, about 307 per 100,000 residents. - Housed in local jails: 22 (47 percent). - Leading offense types: violent 55 percent, property 13 percent. - Serving life: 9. - On probation or parole: 151 (113 on probation). - New admissions: 21 in 2025, 39 in 2019.

• West Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office: 225-635-3241, with non-emergency calls at 225-784-3136.
• St. Francisville: town hall 225-635-3688.

St. Francisville is the only town; the sheriff covers the rest. For an emergency near St. Francisville, call 911.