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

The Detention Center

Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office Detention Center

Operated byAssumption Parish Sheriff's Office
Name usedThe sheriff's home page lists it as "Detention Center"
Jail address233 Hwy 1008, Napoleonville, LA 70390
Detention center phone985.369.7283
RosterThe sheriff's corrections-services page links "Current Inmates" on a vendor portal (assumption-so-la.zuercherportal.com), not the sheriff's own domain; it was not opened
What was triedSheriff's home page and corrections-services page (read). No beds, warden, bond, fee or PREA information found there. No parish government page was returned by search or opened.

Source: Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office — home page · 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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Assumption 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 Leland J. Falcon

Runs the jailYes — the Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office lists its Detention Center among its locations
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 home page reads "Sheriff Leland J. Falcon"; page copyright 2026
Main office112 Franklin Street, Napoleonville, LA 70390; 985.369.7281

Still needed

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

Source: Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office — home page · 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.
Roster is recorded no on a strict reading: the sheriff links a current-inmate list, but it sits on an outside vendor's domain (zuercherportal.com).
The corrections-services page also points to the Department of Corrections offender locator; that is a state tool, not the parish publishing.
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 Assumption Parish governing authority was opened, so its form and members are not recorded.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Assumption 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