The Detention Center
Not scored. The parish's and sheriff's own websites could not be reached or read in the session that produced this record, so their disclosures were never examined. This is a gap in the research, not a finding about the parish.
- Operated byBossier Parish Sheriff's Office (presumed under La. R.S. 15:704; not confirmed on a page opened)
- What was triedOne search returned a single first-party URL, the sheriff's Inmate Lookup page (bossiersheriff.com/inmateLookup), disallowed by robots.txt. The sheriff's home page (bossiersheriff.com) and the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory page for Bossier Parish were refused with PROVENANCE_REQUIRED and not retried. No parish police jury page appeared in the search results. All other results were commercial inmate-lookup sites and were not used.
Source: · checked 2026-09-18
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 Julian C. Whittington
- 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; the parish governing authority maintains the building and provides the jail physician (R.S. 15:702, 15:703)
- Why not namedThe sheriff's only first-party page returned by search (bossiersheriff.com/inmateLookup) was disallowed by robots.txt; the sheriff's home page and the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory page were refused with PROVENANCE_REQUIRED
- Source of the nameName from the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory, not a parish or sheriff's-office page; checked 18 September 2026
- Office phone (directory)Office 318.965.3409
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Louisiana Sheriffs' Association — Sheriffs Directory (statewide directory, checked 18 September 2026) · 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.
- Unexamined: the sheriff's own site refused every attempt (robots.txt on the one returned page, PROVENANCE_REQUIRED on the home page) and no parish government page was returned, so audit.checks is left empty rather than recorded as ten no's.
- Search results named sheriff-run facilities (a minimum security facility and a work release program) only on commercial inmate-lookup sites; they are not recorded as facts.
- Parish seat from CCCarto's Louisiana parish-seat list (https://www.cccarto.com/countyseats/louisiana/), checked 18 September 2026.
- Parish governing authority not found: no parish government page appeared in the search results, so the form of government and members are not recorded.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Bossier 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