The Detention Center
Caddo Correctional Center
- Operated byCaddo Parish Sheriff's Office
- Jail address1101 Forum Drive, Shreveport, LA (the sheriff's pages give ZIP 71107 on one page and 71137 on others)
- Beds"1500 beds" (sheriff's Caddo Correctional Center page)
- Described as"the largest jail in the Ark-La-Tex and the only 'direct supervision' facility in the State of Louisiana" (sheriff's own words)
- Detention leadershipAssistant Chief Disha Darby, Assistant Chief of Detention (answers to the sheriff); detention directory also lists security, support, jail records, health services, mental health and food services heads
- Other facilitiesThe sheriff's locations page lists Caddo Correctional Center as its only detention facility
- RosterCurrently housed inmates list on the sheriff's own domain, searchable by name and sortable by booking date
- BondThe Fines and Bonds Division maintains all bonds posted at Caddo Correctional Center and collects fees imposed by the 1st Judicial District Courts; 501 Texas Street, Room 101; (318) 681-0622. No step-by-step bond-posting guidance published
- PhonesICSolutions, (888) 506-8407; all calls recorded; no rates published
- CommissaryCorrectpay (app, 1-855-836-3364, lobby kiosks); $300 per day maximum; no prices or fees published
- Inmate mailPO Box 16120, Jonesboro, AR 72401
- Public recordsThe sheriff publishes a public records request form
- What was triedSheriff's home, Caddo Correctional Center, currently housed inmates, inmate list, detention directory, locations, Meet the Sheriff, Fines and Bonds, phone, commissary, PREA pages; the FY 2024-25 budget PDF and the 2022 PREA audit PDF. The /inmates/ URL with trailing slash returned a server error. The parish commission's site (caddo.org) was refused with PROVENANCE_REQUIRED and not retried.
Source: Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office - Caddo Correctional Center · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗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 bySheriff's budget: the Caddo Correctional fund shows FY ending June 30, 2025 revenues of $36,048,000 from taxes, intergovernmental, fees/charges/commissions, interest and other; no per diem figure is broken out
- Beds1500 (sheriff's Caddo Correctional Center page)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Henry L. Whitehorn, Sr.
- Runs the jailYes - the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office operates Caddo Correctional Center
- 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)
- Tenure publishedThe sheriff's own Meet the Sheriff page names Sheriff Henry L. Whitehorn, Sr.; it gives no date of election or term
- Main office501 Texas Street, Room 101, Shreveport, LA 71101
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office - Meet the Sheriff · 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 sheriff's Fines and Bonds page refers to the 1st Judicial District Courts; no judge is named on the pages opened.
- 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 runs his own domain, caddosheriff.org; every jail fact comes from it.
- Budget is yes: the sheriff's FY ending June 30, 2025 budget shows Caddo Correctional expenditures of $38,453,000 (personnel $31,557,000; contractual $1,973,000; materials $1,320,000; other and statutory $3,543,000; capital $60,000).
- PREA is yes: the sheriff publishes a PREA Facility Audit Report: Final for Caddo Correctional Center, submitted 08/19/2022 after an onsite audit 03/09-03/11/2022 by auditor William Peck, finding all 45 applicable standards met.
- Capacity is no: beds (1500) are published but no daily population figure was found.
- Bond_info is no on a strict reading: the Fines and Bonds Division is named with a phone and address but no instructions on how to post bail were found. Fees is no: phone and commissary providers are named without rates.
- No in-custody death, housing contract or inspection report was found on the sheriff's pages.
- Shreveport is recorded as the seat from the sheriff's locations page, which places the main office and Caddo Correctional Center in Shreveport; the page does not use the words 'parish seat'.
- Search results for this parish included commercial inmate-lookup sites; none were used.
- Home rule charter with the commission form (the only Caddo-style commission in Louisiana). The parish commission's own site could not be opened (refused), so no commissioners' names are recorded.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Caddo 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