The Detention Center
APSO Corrections Facility
- Operated byAcadia Parish Sheriff's Office
- Jail address1037 Capitol Avenue, Crowley, LA 70526
- Beds190 (published capacity)
- Jail phone337.788.8737
- RosterThe corrections page links "today's Acadia Parish Jail population" at jades.apso.org:8888, a sheriff's subdomain; the link timed out when tried and was not read
- Other pages linkedInmate visitation and inmate banking pages on apso.org (not opened; no rates seen)
- What was triedapso.org corrections page (read); apso.org home page (refused, PROVENANCE_REQUIRED); jades.apso.org:8888 roster (connection timeout); acadia.lavns.org roster (redirect loop, not read, and not the sheriff's own domain). No parish police jury page was returned by search or opened.
Source: Acadia Parish Sheriff's Office — Corrections · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✗PREA audits — not published
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✗How to post bond — not published
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds190 (sheriff's corrections page: "APSO Corrections Facility has a capacity of 190 beds.")
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff K.P. Gibson
- Runs the jailYes — the Acadia Parish Sheriff's Office operates the APSO Corrections Facility
- How the office is filledElected parish sheriff
- Statutory basisLa. R.S. 15:704 makes each sheriff the keeper of the public jail of his parish; under R.S. 15:702 and 15:703 the parish governing authority maintains the jail building and provides the jail physician
- Name as publishedThe sheriff's own corrections page header reads "SHERIFF K.P. GIBSON"; the page footer reads "© Copyright 2021, Acadia Parish Sheriff", so the page's last revision date is not shown
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Acadia Parish Sheriff's Office — Corrections · checked 2026-09-18
The Judges
Louisiana district judges are elected in partisan elections to six-year terms. They are state judicial officers, not parish officials. Who sets bail at first appearance varies by parish — a district judge on rotation, a magistrate or commissioner, or in some parishes a justice of the peace — and Louisiana's bail statutes do not require that first appearance to happen in open court.
- The parish's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-18
The Parish Governing Authority
They maintain the jail building. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe physical maintenance of the parish jail and the jail physician (La. R.S. 15:702, 15:703).
- What they don'tCustody of the jail. Under La. R.S. 15:704 the elected sheriff is “the keeper of the public jail of his parish.”
- The governing bodyNo governing-body page was found on the parish's own site
Notes on the record
- Louisiana has no general parish-jail inspection law. The Department of Public Safety and Corrections monitors compliance with its Basic Jail Guidelines at least annually, but only for jails that house state inmates for the state per diem; no public repository of those compliance reports was located.
- Capacity is recorded no: the sheriff publishes 190 beds but no daily population on a page that was read.
- Roster is recorded no on a strict reading: the sheriff links a population list on its own subdomain, but that page could not be opened to confirm it.
- Commercial inmate-lookup sites returned by search were ignored.
- Parish seat from CCCarto's Louisiana parish-seat list (https://www.cccarto.com/countyseats/louisiana/), checked 18 September 2026.
- Not found — no page of the Acadia Parish governing authority was opened, so its form and members are not recorded.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Acadia Parish and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So is the parish governing body that pays for it.
Names verified 2026-09-18 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered