The Detention Center
Grant Parish Detention Facility
- Operated byGrant Parish Sheriff's Office
- Jail addressThe sheriff's Contact an Offender page gives 485 Richardson Drive, Colfax, LA 71417 (318-627-3724); the Corrections page lists the office address 205 Cypress Street, Colfax
- WardenChance Durand, Warden; MiChelle Pittman, Assistant Warden (answer to the sheriff; named on the sheriff's Contact an Offender page)
- CapacityThe sheriff's Corrections page states the facility "has the capacity to house 106 inmates"
- StaffThe Corrections page states the division "is staffed with 41 deputies, clerical, and medical personnel"
- Who it holdsServes as the parish jail for Grant Parish and the municipalities of Colfax, Montgomery, Dry Prong, Creola, Georgetown and Pollock; also houses offenders arrested by Louisiana State Police, Probation & Parole, Wildlife and Fisheries, and federal agencies (no housing rates published)
- VisitationVideo visitation; parish offenders Wednesday and Thursday, DOC offenders Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m.–4 p.m., scheduled 24 hours ahead
- VendorsPhone time via NCIC, commissary deposits via commissarydeposit.com, visitation scheduling via jailfunds.com; no rates published on the sheriff's pages
- Public recordsWritten requests by U.S. Mail to Custodian of Records, Grant Parish Sheriff's Office, P.O. Box 187, Colfax, LA 71417; Records Division at 220 Cedar Street, Colfax
- State prisonersState prisoners held in parish jails are paid for by the Department of Public Safety and Corrections through a per diem to the sheriff under La. R.S. 15:824(B)(1)(a), stated as $26.39 per day in HB 143 of the 2026 Regular Session, which proposed raising it; whether HB 143 was enacted was not confirmed. That is state money, not federal.
- What was triedSheriff's home, Corrections, Contact an Offender, Bonding, Offender Funds, Visitation, Annual Reports and Public Records pages; the 2022 annual report PDF (no readable text). No roster page was found on the sheriff's domain. The parish government site was not returned by search; grantparish.com was refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED).
Source: Grant Parish Sheriff's Office — Corrections · 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
- Beds106 (capacity stated on the sheriff's Corrections page)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Steven McCain
- Runs the jailYes — the Grant Parish Sheriff's Office Corrections Division operates the Grant Parish Detention Facility
- 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; under R.S. 15:702 and 15:703 the parish governing authority maintains the jail building and provides the jail physician
- Named onThe sheriff's own home and corrections pages name "Steven McCain, Sheriff & Ex-Officio Tax Collector"
- Office205 Cypress Street, P.O. Box 187, Colfax, LA 71417; 318-627-3261
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Grant Parish Sheriff's Office — home page · 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, grantso.org; every page opened identified Grant Parish, Louisiana (Colfax, LA 71417).
- capacity is no: the sheriff publishes a 106-inmate capacity but no daily population.
- bond_info is yes: the sheriff's Bonding Information page explains cash, surety, property and R.O.R. bonds, including that property bonds use assessed value multiplied by 10 and that only a judge can authorise R.O.R.
- contracts is no: the sheriff states the facility holds arrestees of state and federal agencies but publishes no agreement or rate.
- fees is no: the phone, commissary and visitation vendors are named but no rates are published.
- The 2022 annual report PDF on the sheriff's Annual Reports page returned no readable text, so no budget figure was taken from it.
- Search results were dominated by commercial inmate-lookup sites; none were used.
- Parish seat from CCCarto's Louisiana parish-seat list (https://www.cccarto.com/countyseats/louisiana/), checked 18 September 2026.
- No parish government page was opened (the search returned none and grantparish.com was refused), so the form of government and its members are not recorded here.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Grant 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