The Detention Center
Evangeline Parish Sheriff Detention Center
- Operated byEvangeline Parish Sheriff's Office
- Also called"Evangeline Parish Detention Center" in the roster disclaimer
- Jail addressNot stated separately; the sheriff's pages list 200 Court Street, Suite 100 and 415 W Cotton Street, Ville Platte, without saying which is the jail
- RosterCurrent-inmate roster on the sheriff's own domain, headed "Inmate Roster (166)" when opened in September 2026, with a bond amount listed for each person; a 48-hour release list is also published
- CommissaryThe sheriff's commissary page links an outside provider (Tiger Correctional); no prices published
- Public recordsThe sheriff publishes a public records request form and a policy section on public records requests
- What was triedSheriff's home, roster disclaimer, current roster, contact, forms, commissary, newsletter and press releases pages on evangelineparishsheriff.org. No parish government (police jury) page was returned by search. Commercial inmate-lookup results were not used.
Source: Evangeline Parish Sheriff - Inmate Roster Disclaimer · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗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 Charles Guillory
- Runs the jailYes - the sheriff's site publishes the roster of the Evangeline Parish Sheriff Detention 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 jail building and provides the jail physician (R.S. 15:702, 15:703)
- Name publishedThe sheriff's home page refers only to "Sheriff Guillory" (a newsletter from the sheriff); no first name appears on the pages opened, so no full name is recorded
- Office addresses200 Court Street, Suite 100, Ville Platte, LA 70586; 415 W Cotton Street, Ville Platte, LA 70586
- Office line337.363.2161 (24 hours)
- 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)337.363.2161
- Also checkedEvangeline Parish Sheriff's Office — https://www.evangelineparishsheriff.org/ (did not print the sheriff's name)
- 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 runs his own domain, evangelineparishsheriff.org, which identifies Evangeline Parish and Ville Platte.
- The roster check is yes: the sheriff publishes a current-inmate roster on his own domain (166 people listed when opened), with booking times and bond amounts, and a 48-hour release list.
- The sheriff's full name is recorded as Not found: the home page names only "Sheriff Guillory". The seat is recorded as Not found because no page opened states it.
- The bond_info check is no: the roster lists bond amounts but no page opened explains how to post bail. The fees check is no: commissary goes through an outside provider and no rates are published.
- The sheriff's site lists a policy section on sexual orientation and transgender offenders but no PREA audit report was found. No beds, population, budget, housing contracts, deaths or inspection report was found.
- Parish seat from CCCarto's Louisiana parish-seat list (https://www.cccarto.com/countyseats/louisiana/), checked 18 September 2026.
- Not found. No Evangeline Parish government page was returned by the 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 Evangeline 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