Parish Prison Release Paths
East Feliciana Parish Prison is the main local custody site operated by the East Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office. A person leaving it may go home after bond, recognizance, a court order, time served, or sentence completion. Another person may move to a Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections placement, another parish jail, a hospital, federal custody, immigration custody, or community supervision. Each event ends this prison's custody, but only some mean release to the community.
The sheriff's custody-event record is the best local proof of when East Feliciana Parish Prison custody ended. It should identify the date, time, reason, authority, and destination or receiving agency. The 20th Judicial District court record can explain why a judge authorized bond, dismissal, time served, probation, or another result. Court authority and physical release are separate facts. Processing and other holds can delay departure after an order.
Confirm Parish Prison Release
The official sheriff page links to a current LA VINE roster. Louisiana's roster directory describes these feeds as live jail-management-system data refreshed every 30 minutes. It is not a release archive. No verified recent-release filter or past-custody search exists for East Feliciana Parish Prison, and the live endpoint was unavailable during the research check. An outage or missing name must not be reported as release.
Use a short chain that tests each kind of proof. Start with the person’s exact name and any known booking details. Keep the date and spelling used in the current-roster check. Then:
- Call East Feliciana Parish Prison at (225) 683-3313 and ask whether the person is still held, was released, or was transferred.
- Ask for the date of the event and the office that keeps the related custody record. If the answer is transfer, request the receiving authority.
- Check the East Feliciana Clerk's criminal files and daily minutes for the bond, order, sentence, or disposition tied to the event.
- For a state offender or supervision case, use the Louisiana LAVNS person search and verify the named agency and status.
- Obtain the sheriff's written custody-event record when an exact timestamp, release reason, or destination matters.
A LAVNS alert is a useful lead, not a certified record. A court minute is also incomplete by itself. The broader East Feliciana Parish release search and record path is set out on the released inmates home page when the last custodian is uncertain.
Note: Save the source agency and event wording because a transfer alert is not the same as community release.
Parish Prison Release Records
East Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office directs all public-record requests through certified mail. Address the letter to Public Records Request, P.O. Box 207, Clinton, LA 70722. That route differs from ordinary prison mail and from the facility's physical address. No records-unit email, set release-desk hours, specific release-record fee, or promised response time was published in the research. Ask for electronic delivery and an advance cost estimate when available.
Identify one booking as closely as possible. Give the full name, aliases, date of birth if known, and an approximate booking range. Ask for existing records, rather than asking the office to create an explanation. A focused East Feliciana Parish Prison release request can seek:
- booking sheet or book entry and booking number;
- booking and release or transfer timestamps;
- custody-event log and release authority;
- release type or reason and active hold information;
- destination and receiving agency for any transfer;
- property inventory and disposition; and
- the identified booking photograph, if lawfully disclosable.
Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure Article 228 makes the booking book and booking-information summaries open for public inspection. Its listed fields include name and address, property taken, booking date and time, charges, arresting person, a brief account, and co-arrestees from the event. It does not promise a release date, remote portal, or photograph. Those additional release fields need to be named in the request.
- Release authority
- The court order, bond, sentence event, or agency action that permits custody to end.
- Custody event
- The facility's recorded change, such as physical release, transfer, admission, or return.
- Detainer
- A hold or request from another authority that can lead to continued custody or a direct transfer.
- Discharge
- The end of the relevant sentence or supervision authority, which is different from leaving one building.
Parish Prison Release Custody Mix
The facility's mixed population is the key local detail. The official East Feliciana Parish Prison page describes a roughly 242-person facility holding parish pretrial detainees, probation or parole holds, and state DOC offenders. That combination creates more possible outcomes than a simple local-jail label suggests.
The captured sheriff prison page below shows the official source used for the capacity, operator, mixed population, current-roster link, and co-located program details.
This local mix explains why one roster disappearance can signal bond, court release, sentence completion, supervision, a DOC move, or another hold.
A pretrial detainee may leave on bond or a court order. A locally sentenced person may leave after sentence completion or applicable time credit. Someone held for probation or parole can remain confined on another basis even after one hold ends. A state offender may move to a DOC institution, the co-located transitional work program, another local site, supervision, or final discharge. The recorded custodian and destination decide which path applies.
Note: The reported capacity describes the facility, not the number of people released during any period.
Court Proof for Prison Release
East Feliciana Parish falls within the 20th Judicial District. The Clerk keeps criminal filings and daily minutes. A minute is a short official account of what happened in court, and it can show bond, dismissal, a plea, sentence, credit for time served, probation, revocation, or an amended commitment. These records can preserve the legal reason after a current jail entry disappears.
Public civil, criminal, traffic, and other records may be inspected without advance contact during the Clerk's published weekday hours. Online access uses the linked eClerksLA subscription system. When a certified copy is needed, the Clerk lists regular copies at $1 per page, certified copies at $5, criminal record checks at $10 per name, and extracts of court minutes at $15. Confirm how charges apply to one order before payment.
Match the court paper to the prison event. A signed order may authorize release while the East Feliciana Parish Prison log shows when release processing ended. A bond record does not mean the case was dismissed. A transfer record does not resolve a charge. If the dates differ, keep both dates and describe what each one proves.
| Source | What it can establish | What still needs confirmation |
|---|---|---|
| Prison custody log | Time local custody ended and recorded destination | The legal basis in the case file |
| 20th JDC minute | Bond, order, sentence, or disposition | Actual physical departure and other holds |
| LAVNS event | Agency-fed status or custody-change lead | Certified time, reason, and destination |
| Receiving agency | Custody after transfer | Whether and when community release later occurred |
Transfers from Parish Prison
A transfer is one of the easiest East Feliciana Parish Prison events to misread. The person has left the local facility, yet another agency may hold them at once. For a state sentence, continue with LAVNS and DPS&C records. A direct move into the East Feliciana Parish Transitional Work Program needs the state and program path, even though both share an address. The TWP release page explains that distinct route.
If immigration custody is possible, ask whether the local disposition was an ICE detainer transfer. ICE describes a detainer as a request for notice and continued custody for up to 48 hours beyond the time a person would otherwise be released so ICE can assume custody. A local “release” can therefore be a handoff. No ICE contract facility was verified inside East Feliciana Parish, so ICE is a conditional receiving system rather than a mapped local facility.
Federal custody also requires its own source. A federal pretrial defendant may be held under a U.S. Marshals arrangement without appearing in the Bureau of Prisons locator. State moves can reach facilities elsewhere in Louisiana. Dixon Correctional Institute and Louisiana State Penitentiary are in neighboring West Feliciana Parish, not East Feliciana Parish. Always search by the receiving system and named custodian.
Note: Ask for the receiving agency, transfer date, and any new identifier before ending the search at a missing roster name.
Parish Prison Contact Details
Use the facility line for an immediate current or last-known custody question. Staff may be able to say whether a release or transfer occurred and which office holds the record, though person-specific details can be limited. Use certified mail for a durable public-record response. Calling before travel is wise because no official source established a routine release time, exit door, weekend schedule, family waiting area, transportation plan, property-return process, or release-desk hours.
East Feliciana Parish Prison
12306 Haynes Street
Clinton, LA 70722
Mail: P.O. Box 8025, Clinton, LA 70722
Prison, patrol, and investigations: (225) 683-3313
Public-record letters go elsewhere: Public Records Request, P.O. Box 207, Clinton, LA 70722. The sheriff's administrative and civil office is at 11315 Bank Street, Clinton, LA 70722, and its published phone is (225) 683-8572. Keep a copy of the request and certified-mail receipt. If the office asks for clarification, narrow the request by identity, booking date, and specific record fields.