The Detention Center
Iberville Parish Jail
- Operated byIberville Parish Sheriff's Office
- Jail locationBayou Road in south Plaquemine (street number not given on the sheriff's Corrections/Parish Jail page)
- WardenWarden Joseph "Pete" Edwards, 225-687-3553 (answers to the sheriff; named on the sheriff's Corrections/Parish Jail page)
- CapacityThe sheriff's page states the jail "houses up to 120 male and female inmates"
- FunctionThe page states the jail "processes those who are arrested and handles bonding requirements"; no bonding guidance is published
- RosterThe sheriff's home page links an inmate list hosted on a vendor domain (iberville-911-la.zuercherportal.com), not the sheriff's own; it was not opened
- 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, Departments, Corrections/Parish Jail and Reports pages. The Reports page lists only incident and accident report requests (Criminal Records Division, 225-687-5100). No parish government page was returned by search. A Louisiana victim-notification site (iberville.lavns.org) and commercial inmate-lookup sites were returned and not used.
Source: Iberville Parish Sheriff's Office — Corrections/Parish Jail · 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
- BedsUp to 120 male and female inmates (stated on the sheriff's Corrections/Parish Jail page)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Brett Stassi
- Runs the jailYes — the Iberville Parish Sheriff's Office lists Corrections/Parish Jail among its departments
- 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 page names Sheriff Brett Stassi
- Headquarters58050 Meriam Street, P.O. Box 231, Plaquemine, LA 70764; 225-687-5100 or 1-800-577-4873; substations in Maringouin and St. Gabriel
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Iberville 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, ibervillesheriff.com; every page opened identified Iberville Parish, Louisiana (Plaquemine).
- roster is no on a strict reading: the sheriff links an inmate list, but it is hosted on a vendor domain (zuercherportal.com) and was not opened.
- capacity is no: the sheriff states the jail holds up to 120 inmates but publishes no daily population.
- No bond guidance, budget, PREA audit, housing contract, in-custody death, fee schedule or inspection report was found on the sheriff's pages.
- 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 Iberville Parish government page was returned by search or opened, so the form of government and its members are not recorded here.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Iberville 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