The Detention Center
Cameron Parish Jail
- Operated byCameron Parish Sheriff's Office
- LocationInside the Cameron Parish Law Enforcement Complex; mailing Post Office Box 1250, Cameron, LA 70631. A DPS&C location page gives 119 Smith Circle, Cameron, LA 70631 (not first-party)
- Beds"up to 88 inmates; up to 16 women; 26 men(max), 20 men(min) 8 Juveniles, 4 med, 2 Isolation blocks (holds 2 each), and 10 holding cells"
- WardenDavid French (answers to the sheriff); office 337-775-2127
- Jail line337-775-2125
- BondProperty bond (via Tax Assessor and Clerk of Court, then the jail), cash bond (full amount), or surety bond (bondsman, 12% of bond plus fees); "All bonds have a $30.00 fee to cover the paper work"
- VisitationTuesday and Friday, 10am to 3pm; up to 2 visits per inmate each visitation day
- CommissaryMoney orders only, no cash; orders go out each Wednesday at 9am; no prices published
- What was triedSheriff's jail page read. The sheriff's roster.php and inmateSearch pages were disallowed by robots.txt; the sheriff's home page was refused with PROVENANCE_REQUIRED. Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory and a DPS&C location page read for context only. No parish police jury site appeared in search results.
Source: Cameron Parish Sheriff's Office - Jail · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓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
- ✗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 byNot found
- BedsUp to 88 inmates (sheriff's jail page)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff “Chris” Savoie
- Runs the jailYes - the Cameron Parish Jail page sits on the sheriff's own domain, cameronso.org
- 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 own jail page names no sheriff, and the sheriff's home page was refused. Two non-parish pages disagree: the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory lists "Chris" Savoie, while a Louisiana DPS&C location page lists Ronald Johnson. Neither is first-party, so no name is recorded.
- Office line337-775-5111 or 800-440-5111 (sheriff's jail page)
- 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)337.775.5111
- Also checkedCameron Parish Sheriff's Office - Jail — https://www.cameronso.org/jail (did not print the sheriff's name)
- Name as publishedThe Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory gives only the name shown, with a nickname in quotes. The parish has no website of its own; checked on 18 September 2026.
- 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.
- The sheriff's jail page on cameronso.org gives a Cameron, LA 70631 mailing address; this is Cameron Parish, Louisiana.
- Bond_info is yes: the jail page explains property, cash and surety bonds and a $30.00 bond fee.
- Capacity is no: bed counts are published but no daily population. Roster is no: the sheriff has roster pages, but they were disallowed by robots.txt and could not be verified.
- Fees is no: the $30.00 bond fee is published, but no phone, video visit or commissary rates were found.
- The sheriff is recorded as Not found because two non-parish sources name different sheriffs and no first-party page opened names one.
- Cameron is recorded as the seat from the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory ("Parish Seat: Cameron, LA").
- Search results included commercial inmate-lookup sites; none were used.
- Parish governing authority not found: no parish government site appeared in search results, so the form of government and members are not recorded.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Cameron 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