Ascension Parish, Louisiana — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Ascension Parish Jail

Operated byAscension Parish Sheriff's Office
RosterLive inmate inquiry on the sheriff's subdomain (inmate-inquiry.ascensionsheriff.com), listing the Ascension Parish Jail and an "Off Site Housing" option, with an In Custody column
Other housingThe inquiry offers "Off Site Housing" as a facility choice; no partner facility is named
Jail addressNot found — the corrections page's body text loads by script and was not readable
Public recordsThe sheriff's site links a public records request page (not opened)
What was triedascensionsheriff.com corrections-division (only navigation read; body not rendered); inmate inquiry subdomain (read). Vendor and inmate-lookup sites (ascension.lavns.org, jailrosters.org and others) not used. No parish government page was returned by search or opened.

Source: Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office — Inmate Inquiry · checked 2026-09-18

Transparency rating

2/10Closed

✓The jail is named
✓Who is in custody
✗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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Ascension Parish publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-18. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the parish posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

Year builtNot found
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
BedsNot found

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Bobby Webre

Runs the jailYes — the Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office has a Corrections Division and runs the inmate inquiry for the Ascension Parish Jail
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 site navigation links "Sheriff Bobby Webre"
Office locations listed828 South Irma Blvd, Gonzales, LA 70737 (225.621.8300); 300 Houmas St., Donaldsonville, LA 70346 (225.473.8671)

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office — Corrections Division · 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.

Still needed

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.
The sheriff's corrections-division page renders its body by script; only its navigation could be read, so beds, address, bond and fee information may exist there unseen and are recorded no.
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 Ascension Parish governing authority was opened, so its form and members are not recorded.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Ascension 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