Search the St. John the Baptist Parish Inmate Population

The St. John the Baptist Parish Inmate Population

The local detention map is centered on the Lt. Sherman Walker Correctional Facility, a sheriff-operated parish jail in LaPlace. The sheriff's page says the facility holds parish and state inmates and handles transport, feeding, medical care, adult education, and daily custody. Louisiana DPS&C also lists a St. John Parish Prison contact at the sheriff's West Airline Highway office, which is why the facility list for St. John the Baptist Parish includes both the correctional facility and the parish prison or intake-records contact.

The St. John the Baptist Parish inmate population is not one simple number. A live jail roster count reflects people listed in current local custody at that moment. A prison-origin count reflects people from the parish who are in state prison, even if they are housed outside the parish. A state or local corrections report may count local-level inmates, state inmates held in parish jails, and capacity lines in a different way. That is why roster totals, prison-origin data, and state report figures should be treated as separate measures, not as duplicates.

Sheriff Mike Tregre leads the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office, which operates the jail system and routes public records requests. The office website at stjohnsheriff.org links to the parish prison page, the current roster, arrest reports, public records, commissary deposits, and the St John Parish Sheriff Office app. Those county-specific sources are the best starting points before using statewide or federal locators.

St. John the Baptist Parish Inmate Population Statistics

The most concrete current figure in the research is the live roster count from the official Zuercher portal. The roster API returned 219 current records on June 16, 2026. That count is useful for current listed custody, but it is not the same thing as average daily population, annual admissions, or full demographic reporting. Official local sources reviewed for this build did not publish an average daily population, annual booking count, full race or sex breakdown, or average length of stay.

The official inmate roster is the best source for a current name search. The sheriff's parish-prison page is the best local source for facility capacity and jail operations. State and nonprofit datasets add context, but they should not be substituted for a custody check when a family member needs to know whether someone is in the parish jail today.

St. John the Baptist Parish Inmate Population Trends

The trend record is uneven because the public sources use different measures. The sheriff page gives the facility opening and bed count. A 2021 state/local corrections report includes a St. John local-level line. A December 2021 legislative report lists the correctional center and parish prison together with a 312-capacity line, while a 2022 prison-origin table counts people from St. John the Baptist Parish who were in state prison. The June 2026 roster count is a live local roster observation.

The December 2021 legislative line should be read carefully because the table columns are complex. The safer public wording is that the report listed St. John Correctional Center and Parish Prison together with 312 capacity and state/local columns. It should not be rewritten as a verified average daily population unless the report column heading is used in full.

Who Makes Up the St. John the Baptist Parish Inmate Population

Public demographic data for the full St. John the Baptist Parish inmate population was limited in the sources reviewed. The live roster sample did show how the public record is structured. Sample records included race labels such as Black or African American and White, sex labels such as Male, age rather than date of birth, cell blocks such as Dorm A-100, Dorm A-200, and Dorm A-400, and held-for agencies including the local sheriff, Louisiana Dept of Corrections, another parish sheriff, New Orleans Police Department, and Louisiana Probation and Parole.

• Local custody: The parish roster covers people in St. John jail custody, including pretrial detainees and local holds.
• State custody in a local jail: The roster can show LA Dept of Corrections as the held-for agency when a state prisoner is housed locally.
• Other agency holds: Sample records showed fugitive warrants, probation holds, and outside-agency labels.
• Public age display: The portal is configured to show age, not public date of birth, in roster rows.

This mix is especially important in Louisiana, where state prisoners may be assigned to local-level parish jails. A person can appear in the St. John the Baptist Parish inmate population while the responsible agency is a state office or another parish. A name search should therefore consider the held-for agency field and not just the jail where the person is housed.

St. John the Baptist Parish Jail Capacity

The sheriff lists Lt. Sherman Walker Correctional Facility as a 300-bed jail. The 219 current roster records observed on June 16, 2026 equal 73.0% of that sheriff-listed bed count. Compared with the 312 combined correctional center and parish prison capacity line from the December 2021 legislative report, the same live roster count equals 70.2%.

No recent federal consent decree, DOJ investigation, closure order, new jail construction project, or local overcrowding litigation was identified in the official sources inspected. That absence should not be read as a guarantee about day-to-day housing conditions. It only means those specific items were not located in the source set. The sheriff page does provide operational detail, including transport, feeding, medical care, adult education, and custody duties at the facility.

Laws Governing St. John the Baptist Parish Inmate Records

Louisiana law treats booking and public records as public-access subjects with important limits. The St. John roster notice cites Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure Article 228, public-record law, and a warning that roster data can change quickly and does not prove guilt. The sheriff's public-records page also states that criminal offense records are generally privileged until adjudicated and that certain categories may remain restricted.

For older booking records, missing booking photos, first reports, or file-number requests, the sheriff's public records page directs written requests to Sheriff Mike Tregre by mail or email, with the sheriff's LaPlace office serving as the in-person contact point for records routing. Juvenile information, sexual-offense victim identifying information, investigative statements, undercover details, confidential-source information, and security procedures can be withheld or require court authority.

St. John the Baptist Parish State Prison Search

No Louisiana DPS&C state prison is physically located in St. John the Baptist Parish according to the state facility directory. Still, state custody is a major part of local lookup work because the parish jail holds state inmates and sample roster records showed LA Dept of Corrections as a held-for agency. Once a person is sentenced to state adult correctional custody, La. R.S. 15:824 gives DPS&C assignment authority.

The correct statewide search channel is Louisiana VINE/LAVNS. DPS&C says the locator updates every 24 hours and can provide housing assignment, facility address, facility phone, and projected release date when available. The DOC phone locator is 225-383-4580 and requires the DPS&C number or the person's name and date of birth. LCLE also explains that LAVINE monitors adult inmates in parish jails and state prisons and can provide release, transfer, escape, parole, and hearing notifications.

How to Search the St. John the Baptist Parish Inmate Population

The official county-level search begins with the sheriff's Zuercher inmate roster. The sheriff links this portal from the parish-prison page as "Parish Prison Inmates" and "Click to Check Inmate Custody." It is free to use, no public login was observed, and it is designed for current or recent St. John jail custody rather than old criminal history.

The direct path is simple, but it helps to know the limits before starting. The portal sorts by name, displays up to 50 visible records at a time, and returned a total record count through the API. The "In Custody On" date filter is limited to dates within the last 30 days. If the person does not appear, use phone verification, public records, arrest reports, VINE, DOC, BOP, ICE, and the sheriff app rather than assuming there is no custody event.

1. Open the sheriff parish-prison page or go directly to the official Zuercher roster.
2. Search by name first when the person is likely in St. John the Baptist Parish custody.
3. Add race, sex, arrest date, or an in-custody date when common names return too many records.
4. Read the row fields for mugshot, identity, age, cell block, arrest date, held-for agency, release date, and hold reasons.
5. If the person was sentenced or transferred, search Louisiana VINE/LAVNS and call the DOC locator when needed.
6. If the case is federal or immigration-related, use the BOP inmate locator or ICE ODLS instead of the parish roster.

Current St. John the Baptist Parish Inmate Lookup

The current roster result is a table rather than a separate profile page. The public row can show a mugshot, name, race, sex, age, cell block, arrest date, held-for agency, release date, and hold reasons. Hold reasons can contain charge codes, warrant language, probation holds, judge names, bond labels, counts, and agency notes. A roster charge is an arrest or custody entry, not a conviction.

The official roster interface is subject-matched for current jail lookup.

The roster screenshot shows why a St. John the Baptist Parish inmate search should use filters only when needed: name is often enough, while arrest date and in-custody date help when a recent arrest report or court document gives a date.

Past St. John the Baptist Parish Inmate Records

Released and older jail records require a different path. The current roster is built for people in custody now or within a short recent window. The sheriff's arrest-report feed can confirm a recent arrest, name, age, address, and charge or warrant language, but it does not prove the person is still in jail. The daily arrest reports are a record channel, not a custody locator.

For a booking record no longer visible on the roster, send a public-records request to Sheriff Mike Tregre through the sheriff's written-request process. The public-records page lists P.O. Box 1600, LaPlace, LA 70069, and records.request@stjohnsheriff.org, while the West Airline Highway sheriff office is the practical in-person records contact. Include the full name, arrest date, charge, case number, or report number if known. The Criminal Records Division keeps a release ledger with requester identity and release details, so expect to provide identifying information when records are released.

Note: A person in a St. John arrest report may already be released, transferred, or held under another agency label.

What a St. John the Baptist Parish Inmate Record Shows

Roster rows combine identity, custody, housing, agency, and charge information in one table. The public display uses age instead of date of birth. The hold-reasons area is the most detailed field and can include multiple warrants, a probation hold, a fugitive warrant, bond type and amount, counts, arrest date, and the judge who set the bond. Some arrest dates may be blank on holds, and release dates can be null for current custody.

St. John the Baptist Parish Jail vs State Prison

The parish roster and the state locator answer different questions. The St. John roster is best for local jail custody, recent booking, and people physically held at the sheriff's facility. Louisiana VINE/LAVNS is better after sentencing, transfer, probation or parole supervision, or state custody that no longer appears in the parish jail table.

State Federal and ICE Inmate Search

Federal and immigration custody do not use the St. John the Baptist Parish jail roster as the main lookup source. The Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator covers sentenced federal prisoners and searches by register number or name. ICE uses the Online Detainee Locator System, commonly searched by A-number and country of birth or by biographical data. No BOP prison or ICE detention center was identified in St. John the Baptist Parish, but local roster entries can still mention fugitive warrants or outside holds.

The U.S. Marshals Service Eastern District of Louisiana may handle federal pretrial routing, often through contract housing rather than a dedicated St. John federal jail. For case-specific federal placement, court records and defense counsel are usually more reliable than a parish roster search. ICE ODLS locates detainees, but it does not function as a public mugshot gallery or parish-style booking table.

St. John the Baptist Parish Detention Facilities

The Facility Map has two entries, with the primary correctional facility first. Both are sheriff-linked local jail or records addresses rather than separate state, federal, or ICE prisons. The West Airline Highway entry is treated as the sheriff/prison/intake-records contact because the official custody links route to the same parish roster and Lt. Sherman Walker custody information.

• Lt. Sherman Walker Correctional Facility - primary parish jail at 100 Deputy Barton Granier Drive, listed by the sheriff as a 300-bed facility for parish and state inmates.
• St. John Parish Prison / Sheriff's Office Intake and Records - DPS&C-listed parish prison and sheriff contact location at 1801 West Airline Highway for intake, records, and general jail routing.

St. John the Baptist Parish App and Record Channels

The St John Parish Sheriff Office app is a parallel access channel. The sheriff page says the app includes inmates, warrants, crime mapping, tips, push notifications, alerts, messages, services, and support. The app accepts tips through written, audio, photo, and video media. It is not for emergencies; the sheriff page says to dial 911 for emergency help.

The sheriff app is useful when a mobile user wants roster or warrant access with local alerts. It does not replace the official public-records process for copies of booking records, incident reports, or restricted materials. For records, use the sheriff public-records page. For custody notifications, use LAVNS/VINE. For state or federal custody, use the proper state, BOP, or ICE locator.

St. John the Baptist Parish Inmate Population FAQ

How many people are in the St. John the Baptist Parish inmate population? The official roster API returned 219 current records on June 16, 2026. That is a live roster count, not an average daily population figure. The sheriff lists 300 beds at Lt. Sherman Walker Correctional Facility, and the 2021 legislative report listed a 312 combined capacity line for the correctional center and parish prison.

How do I search the St. John the Baptist Parish inmate population? Start with the official sheriff roster for current local custody. Search by name, then narrow by race, sex, arrest date, or the in-custody date filter when needed. If the person has moved to state custody, use Louisiana VINE/LAVNS or the DOC phone locator.

Can I look up a released or past inmate? The roster is strongest for current or recent custody. For older booking records, use the sheriff's arrest-report feed for context and submit a written public-records request to Sheriff Mike Tregre when a copy of a booking record or related public file is needed.

Does the parish roster show mugshots? Yes. The current roster includes a Mugshot column and sample records returned booking-photo data. If a photo is not shown or the person is no longer listed, the fallback is a written request to the sheriff's office, subject to public-records exceptions.

Where do state prisoners from St. John the Baptist Parish appear? Use Louisiana VINE/LAVNS for state custody, probation, parole, and prison placement. The parish roster may show LA Dept of Corrections as the held-for agency while the person is physically housed locally.

What if the person is in federal or immigration custody? Use the BOP inmate locator for sentenced federal prisoners and ICE ODLS for immigration detention. Those systems are separate from the parish jail roster and do not publish St. John booking photos.