Plaquemines Parish Inmate Population
Plaquemines Parish holds its local jail population at the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office Detention Center in the Davant and Braithwaite area. The facility is the parish jail for adults arrested by PPSO, other local agencies, state police, or other authorities using local custody. It can include people awaiting trial, people in trial, local sentenced inmates, trustees, and some people tied to DOC or transitional work placement. The same Highway 15 complex is also tied to the separate Plaquemines Parish Transitional Work Program, which Louisiana DPS&C lists as its own location.
The count changes for reasons that are not always visible on the public roster. A new arrest may still be in booking. A defendant may be in court for first appearance. A sentenced person may leave the parish roster and move into Louisiana DPS&C custody. A federal or immigration hold may also affect where a person appears. That is why the Plaquemines Parish inmate population should not be read from one web page alone.
The PPSO homepage links to the parish inmate roster, public-records portal, app page, and public office contacts. This screenshot of the PPSO homepage shows the sheriff's public entry point for custody and records links.
For a current custody check, that sheriff-linked path matters more than a private people-search result because it points back to the office that runs the local jail.
Plaquemines Parish Jail Statistics
The strongest official population fact is capacity, not current daily head count. PPSO describes the Correctional Center as an 800-bed facility that opened on February 11, 2015. Vera and other capacity references commonly list 871 adult beds. Research did not locate an official PPSO or DOC daily jail population, annual booking count, or average length of stay. The safest reading is that Plaquemines Parish has a very large rated jail capacity for a parish of roughly 22,000 to 23,500 residents, but no official current daily jail population was found in the inspected sources.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Date |
|---|---|---|
| PPSO jail capacity | 800 beds | PPSO Corrections page, inspected June 16, 2026 |
| Common adult-bed capacity | 871 adult beds | Vera Louisiana Locked Up, inspected June 2026 |
| State-prison origin count | 67 people | Prison Policy Initiative, 2022 |
| Current jail daily population | Not published in sources found | PPSO/DOC research gap |
Plaquemines Parish Population Trends
Plaquemines Parish does not publish a year-by-year jail average daily population table in the official sources reviewed. That limits any trend claim. What can be stated is narrower: the jail opened in 2015, outside references identify the complex as unusually large for the parish, and the 2022 prison-origin table counted 67 people in Louisiana state prison whose home parish was Plaquemines. Statewide context also matters because sentenced prisoners from Plaquemines may be assigned anywhere in Louisiana based on DOC classification, medical needs, program needs, and space.
| Year | Count or Event | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Jail opened | PPSO says the elevated correctional center opened February 11, 2015. |
| 2022 | 67 state-prison-origin people | Prison Policy Initiative counts prison origin, not jail ADP. |
| 2024 | 28,387 statewide adults in prison | Louisiana DOC reentry materials give statewide context. |
| 2026 | No official current jail ADP found | Do not infer overcrowding or underuse from capacity alone. |
Plaquemines Parish Custody Groups
The public LAVNS roster shows person-by-person rows. It does not publish an aggregate breakdown by charge level, race, sex, age, pretrial status, or sentence status. The roster fields do show race, sex, and date of birth for each row, but those fields should not be turned into percentages from a sample. Aggregate demographic claims would need an official jail or DOC report.
- Pretrial adults: people booked after arrest while charges and bond are being handled.
- Local sentenced inmates: people serving local jail sentences or short custody terms.
- Trustees: PPSO says trustees are housed at the Correctional Center and may work with nonprofit groups.
- DOC or work-release participants: eligible sentenced people may be tied to the transitional work program.
- Federal or immigration holds: those statuses require BOP, USMS, or ICE channels when local custody changes.
Plaquemines Parish Jail Capacity
PPSO's corrections page says Warden Denise Narcisse oversees the 800-bed Correctional Center in Davant. The same page says the jail was built more than 18 feet in the air and placed inside the federal hurricane-protection levee system. That detail is local, not decorative. Plaquemines Parish stretches down the Mississippi River toward the Gulf, and storm access can affect travel to the jail, court, and sheriff offices. Capacity, location, and weather planning belong in the same discussion for this parish.
The second capacity number, 871 adult beds, appears in Vera and related capacity references. The practical way to present both is to treat 800 as the operator-published PPSO figure and 871 as a commonly cited adult-bed capacity. No inspected official source gave a current daily population, so the page should not claim the jail is full, empty, crowded, or underused.
Plaquemines Parish Custody Laws
Louisiana law shapes what the public can see and when a person should reach court after booking. These laws do not make every jail detail appear online, but they explain why booking records, photographs, arrest reports, and court filings can often be requested from the office that keeps them.
Key Statutes:
Louisiana R.S. 44:1 defines public records broadly, including writings, photographs, recordings, and electronic records kept for public business unless another rule restricts access.
Louisiana C.Cr.P. art. 230.1 requires prompt first appearance and counsel appointment after arrest, generally within 72 hours excluding weekends and legal holidays.
Louisiana R.S. 15:1111 authorizes work-release programs and DOC arrangements involving parish jail facilities.
Louisiana R.S. 15:574.4.1 covers parole consideration and refers to prisoners held in parish prisons or correctional centers.
Search Plaquemines Parish Inmates
The official local custody starting point is the sheriff-linked Plaquemines Parish Jail Roster. The inspected roster loaded as a public LAVNS table over HTTP and showed current rows with a VINE notification icon. No login was visible for the table. The table did not show a modern search form in the extracted public content, so desktop users may need browser find to jump to a surname.
- Open the PPSO homepage or go directly to the LAVNS roster.
- Look for the person's surname in the alphabetical roster table.
- Use date of birth, race, and sex to avoid confusing people with similar names.
- Use the VINE/LAVNS icon beside a row to register for custody-status notification.
- Call booking or main control if a new arrest, transfer, or hold is not clear from the roster.
The LAVNS roster screenshot shows the Plaquemines Parish jail roster table and row-level VINE links.
The roster is useful for custody presence, but it is not the full arrest report, court docket, bond record, or booking-photo request system.
Plaquemines Parish Roster Fields
The visible roster fields are lean. This makes the Plaquemines Parish jail roster different from counties that publish charges, bonds, housing, and mugshots directly on a profile page. For Plaquemines Parish, the public row is best treated as a custody confirmation and a path into VINE notification. Written records requests fill many of the gaps.
| Field | What It Shows | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| VINE/LAVNS icon | Row-level notification link | Not a mugshot or full case file |
| Name | Uppercase, last-name-first format | Spelling must be checked carefully |
| Date of birth | MM/DD/YYYY date | Useful for similar names |
| Race and sex | Basic demographic fields | No aggregate dashboard found |
| Charges, bond, mugshot | Not visible in sampled table | Use jail phones or public-records request |
Plaquemines Parish Records Requests
When the roster does not show enough, PPSO directs public-records requests through its written request process and the Freshdesk portal. PPSO says requests are processed during regular business days, not weekends or legal public holidays. Requests should not be sent to individual PPSO employees. The office strives to update the requester within five days, invoices fees by email, and may require a new request if payment is not received within 10 working days after notice.
| Requested Item | PPSO Fee Listed | Where It Fits |
|---|---|---|
| Arrest report | $25 | Formal arrest record beyond the public roster row |
| Mugshot | $10 | Booking photo request when no roster photo is visible |
| Arrest warrant | $25 | Warrant copy through Criminal Records or records request |
| Photograph | $4 | Media-file photo item under PPSO fee schedule |
Plaquemines Parish Jail vs DOC
A person may be arrested in Plaquemines Parish and later disappear from the parish jail roster because the custody system changed. Sentenced Louisiana prisoners are searched through Louisiana DPS&C and VINELink channels. Federal sentenced prisoners are searched through BOP. Immigration custody is searched through ICE ODLS. Federal pretrial custody may involve the U.S. Marshals Service for the Eastern District of Louisiana, and public lookup can be limited.
| Custody Type | Search Channel | Best Use |
|---|---|---|
| Current parish jail custody | Plaquemines LAVNS roster | Local booking and custody presence |
| Louisiana sentenced custody | VINELink Louisiana | State custody and notifications |
| Sentenced federal custody | BOP inmate locator | Federal prisoners |
| Immigration detention | ICE detainee locator | ICE custody after transfer |
Plaquemines Parish Detention Facilities
The local facility map has two pages because DOC lists the transitional work program separately from the jail. They sit in the same Highway 15 custody corridor but serve different purposes.
- Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office Detention Center holds adult local jail detainees, local sentenced inmates, people in trial, trustees, and related local custody groups.
- Plaquemines Parish Transitional Work Program is a DOC-recognized work-release or reentry program tied to eligible sentenced people and program classification.
Plaquemines Parish Sheriff App
PPSO also promotes the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff LA mobile app through official Apple and Google links. The official app page did not confirm an app-only inmate roster, warrant search, or booking-photo tool, so the app should be described modestly. It may be useful for sheriff updates and app functions PPSO makes available, while the known inmate roster and public-records request channels remain the web links documented above.
The PPSO mobile app page shows the official download path for Apple and Google app stores.
Use the app as a PPSO communication channel, not as a substitute for the LAVNS roster or the written public-records request process unless PPSO confirms the needed feature inside the app.
Plaquemines Parish Inmate FAQ
How large is the Plaquemines Parish inmate population?
PPSO publishes an 800-bed jail capacity, and other capacity references list 871 adult beds. A current official daily jail population was not located in PPSO or DOC sources, so no current head count should be inferred.
Where do I search current Plaquemines Parish inmates?
Start with the LAVNS jail roster linked by PPSO. If the person is new, missing, sentenced, federally held, or in immigration custody, use the jail phone numbers, records request portal, VINELink, BOP, ICE, or USMS-related channels as appropriate.
Does the roster show mugshots and charges?
The sampled public roster table did not show mugshots, charges, bond, booking time, or housing. PPSO lists fees for mugshots, arrest reports, and arrest warrants through its public-records process.
Can a sentenced person stay in Plaquemines Parish?
Some sentenced or DOC-related custody can involve the local facility or the transitional work program, but state custody is searched through DOC/VINELink. DOC assignment depends on classification and space, not home parish alone.
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