Most people are held at the Winn Parish Detention Center, 460 Thomas Mill Road, Winnfield, LA 71483, 318-209-4277. Winnfield also runs a city jail at 405 S. Jones Street, 318-628-3511, for recent city arrests. The sheriff's office is at 119 W. Main Street, Room 106 (P.O. Box 950), 318-628-4611.

Phone the jail at 318-209-4277 with the legal name and birthday handy. Jail staff can confirm whether booking is finished and give you the charges and the bond amount. They may not be able to say much more than that over the phone.

Request one from the sheriff's office at 318-628-4611, which handles requests from the public and the media. Act 281 of 2024, effective August 1, 2024, opened booking photos to release before trial. A site that charges for removal has to erase a photo free within 7 days after the person proves the case was dropped or ended with an acquittal, a pardon or an expungement. For ICE detainees, file a FOIA request; for federal prisoners, ask the U.S. Marshals Service.

Yes. The sheriff's inmate lookup searches current detention center inmates by name. If a name is missing, call 318-209-4277; recent city arrests may still be at the Winnfield city jail.

Try the Grant Parish Detention Facility at 318-627-3724, the Natchitoches Parish Detention Center at 318-357-9300, or the LaSalle Parish Jail at 318-992-7358. Winn Correctional Center, also in the parish, is a state prison and doesn't hold new arrests.

The Thomas Mill Road center sets its own visiting and deposit rules, so call 318-209-4277 for the current ones. Our guides cover visiting, mail, phone, money and messages. Winnfield commissary basics are in our commissary guide.

Lesser offenses inside Winnfield can go to city court instead of the 8th district court, which usually means smaller fines and a quicker date. To learn which court has a case, call the clerk at 318-628-3515.

Under Article 230.1, the first appearance must come within 72 hours, not counting weekends and holidays. An 8th district judge in Winnfield then rules on bail and counsel; past the deadline, the person must be released on recognizance.

Judges of the 8th Judicial District set the amounts. Families can pay cash, post a property bond, have the person released on a signature, or hire an agent who may charge no more than 12 percent. The clerk of court is at 119 W. Main Street, Room 103, Winnfield, LA 71483, 318-628-3515. Our Winn bail guide explains each step.

Cases are heard at the Winnfield courthouse, and the public defender's office on Main Street answers at 318-628-3592. Our court guide has more.

Bring up each medication, its dose and pharmacy at booking. Winn Parish covers its jail's doctor under R.S. 15:703, appointing one or paying a licensed contractor, who decides what is dispensed on Thomas Mill Road.

Usually a few hours after bond. Someone arrested by Winnfield police may first be held at the city jail on South Jones Street, so ask which building will release them.

A hard-labor sentence puts the person in Department of Corrections custody, though seven in ten Winn state inmates stay in local jails under contract. DOC at 225-383-4580 gives the current facility, and our Louisiana state prisons list covers the prisons.

Call the sheriff at 318-628-4611. Minor warrants usually come from Winnfield City Court and felony warrants from the 8th district court. Ask which one wrote it and whether a bond amount is already attached, because that lets the person post it at booking. You won't find Winn warrants online, and no public statewide lookup exists. With counsel, your relative can surrender at Winn Parish Detention Center by appointment. For a missed hearing, the clerk in Room 103 at 119 W. Main Street, 318-628-3515, can explain how Winnfield judges reset a hearing.

Children under 17 go to juvenile court. Since April 19, 2024, a 17-year-old arrested in Winnfield or Tullos is tried as an adult.

Federal cases from Winn go to Alexandria, where the clerk of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana is at 515 Murray Street, Suite 105, Alexandria, LA 71301, 318-473-7415. Pretrial custody is decided under 18 U.S.C. 3142. The U.S. Marshals are in Room 201, 318-473-7411, and the BOP inmate locator lists federal prisoners.

Prints from bookings on Thomas Mill Road reach ICE. ICE may then send a detainer asking the Winnfield jail to keep the person, and making bail won't lift it. Under the detainer the jail may keep the person a maximum of 48 additional hours, and it lapses if no one from ICE comes. Act 314 of 2024 requires Louisiana jails to cooperate. Use the ICE detainee locator, or contact the field office at 181 James Drive W, St. Rose, LA 70087, detention line 888-351-4024.

Yes, through LA VINE, the state's free notification service: register using a phone number or an email address and the system sends word once Winn Parish books the person out or moves them.

Check the figure first by calling the detention center at 318-209-4277. Winnfield bail is paid at the detention center or through a licensed agent. Gift cards and app payments are never part of a Winnfield bond.

Winnfield defendants who stay at the detention center must be charged by the 8th district attorney in 30 days on a misdemeanor, 60 on a felony and 120 on a life-eligible crime (C.Cr.P. art. 701). If not, the court lets them go unless prosecutors justify the delay.

Winnfield's district court sent 45 people to state prison in 2025, down from 79 in 2019. Violent offenses lead among its 113 state inmates, with drug charges next. State figures for Winnfield-area cases, from the DOC data files: - In DOC custody on Aug. 31, 2026: 113, about 822 per 100,000 residents. - Housed in local jails: 79 (70 percent). - Leading offense types: violent 32 percent, drug 23 percent. - Serving life: 8. - On probation or parole: 174 (82 on probation). - New admissions: 45 in 2025, 79 in 2019.

There are two very different ones. New arrests go to the sheriff's detention center on Thomas Mill Road, 318-209-4277. Winn Correctional Center, a state prison in the parish, had an operational capacity of 1,576 at its February 28, 2024 DOC inspection (DOC report); people there are DOC inmates, so find them through the DOC locator at 225-383-4580, not the parish jail.

Ask the sheriff's main office at 318-628-4611. R.S. 44:1 et seq. lets the public inspect the Winnfield office's records, and if one isn't ready, the custodian must reply within three working days, and initial arrest reports are released, though files tied to a pending 8th district prosecution are not (R.S. 44:3).

Arrests by Winn deputies or Winnfield police that happen without a warrant get a judicial probable-cause check within 48 hours (art. 230.2). Missing that window means release on recognizance, not dismissal of the case.

• Winn Parish Sheriff's Office: 318-628-4611.
• Winnfield Police: 405 S. Jones Street, 318-628-3511.
• Tullos: town hall 318-534-6499.
• Atlanta: village hall 318-628-6789.
• Calvin: village hall 318-727-9276.
• Dodson: village hall 318-628-3775.
• Sikes: village hall 318-628-2634.

Outside Winnfield, sheriff's deputies respond to calls. Emergencies in Winnfield go to 911.