The Detention Center
Catahoula Correctional Center
- Operated byCatahoula Parish Sheriff's Department
- Jail address499 Old Columbia Road, Harrisonburg, Louisiana 71340; 318-744-2121
- Capacity (Correctional Center page)"Capacity: 900"; Warden Trevor McDonald
- Catahoula Parish Jail (Corrections page)"established in 1991", "under the Administration of Warden Megan Wright", with "a capacity of 30 beds housing inmates, pre-trial, and a limited number of adjudicated offenders"
- How the two relateThe sheriff's pages do not say whether the 30-bed Catahoula Parish Jail and the 900-capacity Catahoula Correctional Center are separate buildings; both pages give the Correctional Center's address and phone. The two pages also name different wardens
- Warden per LSAThe Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory lists Prison Warden Gary Allen and Chief of Corrections Pam Patten, differing from the sheriff's own pages (not first-party; not relied on)
- Money and paymentsThe sheriff links CorrectPay, CSG Pay, Inmate Financial and nCourt for payments; no rates published
- What was triedSheriff's home, Sheriff Toney Edwards, Corrections, Catahoula Correctional Center and Arrests pages (the Arrests page is a contact directory, not a list). Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory for the seat. No parish police jury site appeared in search results.
Source: Catahoula Parish Sheriff's Department - Correctional Center · 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
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built1991 for the Catahoula Parish Jail, per the sheriff's Corrections page ("established in 1991")
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsThe sheriff's pages give two figures: "Capacity: 900" for the Catahoula Correctional Center and "30 beds" for the Catahoula Parish Jail
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Toney Edwards
- Runs the jailYes - the sheriff's Corrections Division pages describe the Catahoula Parish Jail and the Catahoula 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)
- Named onThe sheriff's own page titled Sheriff Toney Edwards; it gives no date of election or term. The Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory also lists Sheriff Toney Edwards
- Office address100 Pine Street, P.O. Box 655, Harrisonburg, LA 71340; 318-744-5411
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Catahoula Parish Sheriff's Department - Sheriff Toney Edwards · 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 runs his own domain, catahoulaso.com; all pages give Harrisonburg, Louisiana addresses.
- Capacity is no: bed figures are published but no daily population. The two bed figures and two warden names on the sheriff's own pages are recorded as published, without reconciling them.
- No roster, budget, PREA material, housing contract, bond guidance, fee schedule, in-custody death or inspection report was found on the sheriff's pages.
- Harrisonburg is recorded as the seat from the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory ("Parish Seat: Harrisonburg, 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 Catahoula 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