The Detention Center
Concordia Parish Correctional Facility
- Operated byConcordia Parish Sheriff's Office
- Jail address26356 Hwy 15, Ferriday, LA 71334; (318) 757-1865
- WardenChristopher Groh (listed on the sheriff's corrections page)
- Second facilityConcordia Parish Correctional Facility II, 5223 Hwy 84, Vidalia, LA 71373; Warden Katina Washington; (318) 336-2865
- Third facilityConcordia Parish Sheriff's Department Jail, Concordia Parish Courthouse, 4001 Carter Street, Vidalia, LA 71373; (318) 336-5231
- Attorney visitsSchedule in-person or Zoom meetings at least 24 hours ahead, 8:00 AM-3:30 PM; (318) 414-0231
- What was triedSheriff's home page (concordiasheriff.org) and corrections page (/about-4); Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory. No parish government (police jury) page was returned by search, so none was opened. Search results were otherwise commercial inmate-lookup sites and were not used.
Source: Concordia Sheriff - Corrections · 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 builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff David Hedrick
- Runs the jailYes - the sheriff's corrections page lists three facilities under the Concordia Parish Sheriff's Office
- 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 jail building and provides the jail physician (R.S. 15:702, 15:703)
- Where the name comes fromThe Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory lists David Hedrick as Concordia Parish sheriff. The sheriff's own home page does not name the sheriff; an undated flood notice on it quotes "Chief Deputy David Hedrick"
- Office address4001 Carter Street, Room 7, Vidalia, LA 71373
- Office line(318) 336-5231
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Louisiana Sheriffs' Association - Concordia Parish · 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, concordiasheriff.org. Its corrections page names three facilities: Concordia Parish Correctional Facility (Ferriday), Concordia Parish Correctional Facility II (Vidalia) and the Sheriff's Department Jail at the courthouse in Vidalia. The first is recorded as the main jail only because it is listed first; the page does not rank them.
- The sheriff is named from the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory, not from a sheriff or parish page: the sheriff's home page opened carries only old flood notices (one dated 1/8/2015) and names no sheriff. The parish seat (Vidalia) also comes from that directory.
- Only named passes. The sheriff's pages publish no roster, beds, population, budget, PREA material, housing contracts, bond guidance, fees, deaths or inspection report.
- No police jury page, budget or minutes were opened for this parish.
- Not found. No Concordia Parish government page was returned by the one search spent on this parish, so the form of government and its members were not read from a parish page and are not recorded.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Concordia 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