East Feliciana Projected Dates
A projected release date is a calculation, not a record that a person has left custody. Louisiana DPS&C starts with the controlling sentence and credit for time already spent in custody. The calculation can then reflect good-time rules, certified program credit, consecutive or concurrent terms, and later changes to the judgment. A projected date answers when release may occur if the current facts remain in place. The actual release record answers when the door-out or transfer event occurred, why custody ended, and which authority received the person next.
The distinction is vital in East Feliciana Parish. The parish prison houses pretrial detainees, local sentenced people, probation or parole holds, and state DOC offenders. A pretrial detainee generally has no sentence-based release date. Bond, a court order, the prosecutor's action, and any other hold control that person's departure. A sentenced DOC offender may have a projected date, yet that date can lead to community supervision, another custodian, or final discharge. Facility type and legal status must be identified first.
Find East Feliciana Release Dates
The right lookup depends on who controls the sentence. Louisiana uses LAVNS through VINELink as its public web locator, while DPS&C also maintains a telephone locator. The agency says callers can obtain a current placement, facility contact, and a “projected release date,” if applicable, by supplying a DPS&C number or a name and date of birth. The public web result may use different fields depending on the contributing agency. Do not promise a date that is not displayed for the matched record.
- Identify the court case, offense date, sentence, and whether East Feliciana Parish or Louisiana DPS&C has sentence authority.
- Search the Louisiana VINELink person search by exact name and any available ID. Compare the agency and identity details.
- For a state offender, call the DPS&C telephone locator at (225) 383-4580 and ask for the projected release date, if applicable.
- For a parish sentence, contact East Feliciana Parish Prison and obtain the judgment, jail-credit entry, and current calculation through the proper records route.
- After the projected day arrives, confirm the actual custody event and check whether the outcome was community release, supervision, or transfer.
A live roster is only a current-custody view. It does not supply a historical release record, and a name missing from it does not prove that the person returned to the community. The full named-person and records path is set out on the East Feliciana Parish released inmates search.
Post-2024 Louisiana Release Math
For an otherwise eligible felony offense committed on or after August 1, 2024, Louisiana R.S. 15:571.3.1 caps good-time diminution at 15 percent of the imposed sentence. Diminution is a lawful reduction in time to be served based on earned credit. The familiar phrase “serve 85 percent” is just the arithmetic left after the maximum reduction. It is not a promise, a universal sentence rule, or the statute's label for every person.
Eligibility must be checked against the full law. The cited subsection excludes sex-offense convictions defined in R.S. 15:541 and habitual-offender sentences under R.S. 15:529.1. A person also must earn the available credit. Sentence terms, other exclusions, misconduct, new judgments, and the exact offense date can change the result. No one should calculate an individual's East Feliciana Parish projected release date by subtracting 15 percent from a sentence and treating that estimate as official.
The post-2024 statute page shows the controlling offense-date boundary and exclusions.
The official text is the correct source for the rule, while the agency's dated sentence computation remains the source for one person's projection.
Earlier East Feliciana Release Math
Offenses committed before August 1, 2024 fall under materially different provisions. R.S. 15:571.3 includes separate frameworks for parish prisoners and state offenders. A qualifying parish prisoner sentenced without hard labor may earn 30 days for each 30 days in actual custody. A specified first crime-of-violence framework uses three days of credit for 17 days in custody, while a second crime of violence is excluded. The older qualifying DOC rule includes a 13-days-for-7-days rate and several exclusions.
Those rates cannot be mixed. The sheriff administers applicable parish good time under the statutory regime, while the DPS&C secretary determines state good time. A person housed at East Feliciana Parish Prison may be a local detainee, a parish-sentenced prisoner, or a state DOC offender. The building alone does not identify which computation applies. Obtain the judgment and commitment, determine the legal custodian, and use the offense date before reading any rate.
The earlier good-time statute lays out the separate rules and exclusions.
The screenshot helps locate the official provision; it does not replace a current agency calculation for the person being checked.
Note: Offense date, sentence type, and custodian must be verified before any Louisiana good-time rate is applied.
Why East Feliciana Dates Move
A projection can change without the earlier figure having been false. It reflects the sentence data, credits, holds, and legal decisions known at that point. Louisiana R.S. 15:571.4 permits forfeiture and limited restoration of good time. R.S. 15:828 authorizes certain certified program or education credits, subject to caps and exclusions. Courts can also amend a judgment or jail-credit award. The most recent dated agency calculation should control.
| Factor | Possible effect on the release date |
|---|---|
| Jail-credit correction | A corrected credit for time already served can move the projected date. |
| Good-time forfeiture or restoration | Disciplinary loss can extend the projection; lawful restoration can reduce it. |
| Program credit | Qualifying certified credit may reduce a projected date within statutory limits. |
| New or amended judgment | Added, consecutive, concurrent, or corrected terms alter the controlling calculation. |
| Parole decision | A grant may authorize a future supervised release, but conditions and processing still remain. |
| Detainer or hold | The sentence date may remain the same while the destination changes to another authority. |
A detainer deserves special care. It is a request or hold from another authority. East Feliciana custody can end on the projected day, yet the person may transfer to another jail, DOC placement, federal authority, or ICE rather than enter the community. Ask for the receiving agency and record both custody events.
Concurrent and consecutive terms also affect the base calculation. Concurrent terms overlap as directed by the judgment, while consecutive terms run in sequence. A projected date built from the wrong sentence structure can be far off even before credits are considered. Obtain the certified judgment, commitment, and any amended order from the 20th Judicial District record. If jail credit is disputed, request the court's credit ruling and the custodian's dated computation rather than attempting to reconcile a charge list.
East Feliciana Good-Time Release
For a Louisiana DOC prisoner, release by diminution is not the same as full discharge. R.S. 15:571.5 treats the person as if released on parole for the rest of the original full term. The person receives conditions and remains supervised. A violation may lead to recommitment. That is why a LAVNS result may show community supervision even though physical prison custody has ended.
Parole eligibility is also separate from a good-time calculation. The Louisiana Committee on Parole decides whether parole is granted when the law permits consideration. A docket result can show grant or denial, but a grant remains subject to conditions, an approved plan, detainers, an effective date, and facility processing. Feliciana Probation and Parole can help identify local supervision jurisdiction, subject to disclosure limits. Neither office substitutes for the facility's actual release record.
A participant in the East Feliciana Parish Transitional Work Program remains a DOC offender. Work participation or placement in the program does not establish a fixed release date, parole eligibility, or successful completion. A departure may be release to supervision, return to secure custody, or another transfer. Use the TWP for the actual departure, LAVNS and DPS&C for sentence status, the parole record when applicable, and the Feliciana office for active community supervision.
This sequence also separates three dates that can appear close together. The projected date is the agency's current calculation. The release event is the day physical custody changes. The supervision discharge is when the remaining state authority ends. Record each date with its source and label so a community release is not mistaken for completion of the full sentence.
- Projected release date
- The agency's current estimate based on sentence and credit data.
- Diminution
- A statutory reduction in confinement through earned good time.
- Parole
- Release from confinement to serve the rest of a sentence under supervision.
- Discharge
- The end of the relevant custody or supervision authority, subject to any separate case.
Confirm East Feliciana Release
Use the date as a prompt to verify, not as a pickup guarantee. Search the matched record again and note the source agency, status, and event wording. Register for a custody-change alert through the East Feliciana VINELink inmate search when the matched record offers notification. An alert is a timely lead. It is not a certified release certificate, and a transfer alert must not be restated as release to the community.
For a person at East Feliciana Parish Prison, call (225) 683-3313 before travel. Ask whether physical custody ended, the exact event date and time, the release reason, and whether another authority received the person. For a TWP participant, call the program at (225) 683-5459 and continue through LAVNS, DPS&C records, and Feliciana Probation and Parole as applicable. Court minutes can explain the legal authority, while the facility event records the actual departure.
If a durable record is needed, request the sentence computation, custody-event log, release method, receiving authority, and supervision or discharge record from the custodian. Preserve the projected result with its access date. Then keep it separate from the eventual actual release record. That evidence chain avoids the two most common errors: treating a projection as a promise and treating a transfer as freedom.
For a federal sentence connected to East Feliciana, use the Bureau of Prisons locator instead of the Louisiana system. A BOP result can show a released status and date, though another jurisdiction or supervised release may follow. A federal pretrial defendant may never appear as a BOP inmate, so the Middle District docket, USMS, and the detention facility become the correct chain. These conditional paths depend on the custodian, not the parish where the case began.
Note: Call the facility before arranging travel because East Feliciana sources publish no routine release time or pickup procedure.