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 byCalcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office
- Parish historyThe police jury's parish history says: "A new state-of-the-art correctional center was completed in 1990 to replace the old jail which was constructed in 1956." It does not name the facility
- Unopened sheriff pagesSearch listed sheriff's pages titled "Calcasieu Correctional Center", "Corrections" and "Inmate Roster" on cpso.com; all three were disallowed by robots.txt, so the facility name is not recorded from them
- Juvenile detentionThe police jury's minutes page lists an Office of Juvenile Justice Services (Anthony Celestine, Director) with a Juvenile Detention Center among its divisions; this is a parish juvenile facility, not the adult jail
- What was triedSheriff's home page read; sheriff's Calcasieu Correctional Center, Corrections and Inmate Roster pages disallowed by robots.txt. Police jury home, minutes-and-agendas, annual budget documents and parish history pages read; the police jury facility directory and the 2026 annual budget PDF returned HTTP 403.
Source: Calcasieu Parish Police Jury - History of Calcasieu Parish · checked 2026-09-18
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built1990, per the police jury's parish history ("A new state-of-the-art correctional center was completed in 1990 to replace the old jail which was constructed in 1956")
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Gary "Stitch" Guillory
- Runs the jailPresumed under La. R.S. 15:704; the sheriff's corrections pages could not be opened (robots.txt), so no page read describes the jail's operation
- 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)
- Named onThe sheriff's own home page, cpso.com, which names Sheriff Gary "Stitch" Guillory; no date of election or term found
- Office contactinfo@cpso.com; 337-491-3605
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office, LA - Home · 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 bodyParish governing body page →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Not scored. The sheriff's jail pages (Calcasieu Correctional Center, Corrections, Inmate Roster) on cpso.com are closed to automated reading by robots.txt, and the police jury's 2026 budget PDF returned HTTP 403, so the parish's jail publishing was never examined. This is a gap in the research, not a finding about the parish.
- 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, cpso.com. Its home page was read, but its jail pages (Calcasieu Correctional Center, Corrections, Inmate Roster) are disallowed by robots.txt, so the sheriff's jail publishing could not be examined and every check sourced there is recorded as no.
- The police jury's site, calcasieu.gov, was read. Its parish history mentions a correctional center completed in 1990 without naming it, so named is no.
- The budget check is no only because the police jury's 2026 annual budget PDF returned HTTP 403; the police jury publishes annual budgets 2009-2026, so a jail or criminal-justice line may exist in them.
- Lake Charles is recorded as the seat from the police jury's home page and parish history.
- Search results included commercial inmate-lookup sites; none were used.
- Police jury. The Calcasieu Parish Police Jury's home page lists 15 districts: Darby Quinn (1), Mike Smith (2), Eddie Lewis, Jr. (3), Tony Guillory (4), Brian Abshire (5), Ron Hayes (6), Rob Stanford (7), Mary Kaye Eason (8), Anthony Bartie (9), Tony Stelly (10), Roger Marcantel (11), Judd Bares (12), Joe Andrepont (13), Randy Burleigh (14) and Mitch Bowers (15). Parish Administrator Dane R. Bolin, 1015 Pithon St., Lake Charles. Minutes back to 1841 are kept on an outside searchable portal; agendas are posted on Granicus. Annual budgets 2009-2026 are listed on the finance page.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Calcasieu 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