The Detention Center
Jefferson Parish Correctional Center (JPCC)
- Operated byJefferson Parish Sheriff's Office (building owned by Jefferson Parish Government)
- Jail address100 Dolhonde St., Gretna, LA 70053; 504-736-6840
- OwnershipOwned by the Jefferson Parish Government and administered by the JPSO — the ordinary R.S. 15:702 pattern, not a parish-operated jail
- CapacityThe sheriff's Jail & Corrections page states the center holds approximately 1,200 inmates, including intake booking sections
- TypePrimarily a pre-trial detainee facility
- RosterThe sheriff's online inmate search at apps.jpso.com lists people in custody with booking numbers, charges, arrest dates and bond amounts ("Last Updated: 8/27/2026" when opened)
- Bonding"The JPCC accepts property bonds, surety bonds, cash bonds, or signature bonds (if allowed by a judge)"; inmates "may be bonded out if allowed by the courts"; the page does not say who sets bail at first appearance
- VisitationOff-site Visitation Center, 2211 Barataria Blvd. Suite 110, Marrero, LA 70072, with one free video visit weekly; remote video visits via Ally Telecom Group with NCIC
- Published ratesRemote video visits "$0.12 per Minute"; messages "$0.25 per Message"; picture/video messages "$0.35 each"; phone calls per-minute with no connection fee (per-minute call rate not stated)
- CommissaryDeposits via Forecomm Solutions (online), a cash-only lobby kiosk, or money order by mail; no deposit fees or commissary prices published
- 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, Jail & Corrections, Bail Bonds, Inmate Money/Commissary, Inmate Visitation Rules and sheriff biography pages, and the apps.jpso.com inmate search. No Jefferson Parish Government page was returned by search. Court-named roster sites (jeffersonparishcourts.org, jeffersonparishcourt.org) and commercial lookup sites in the results were not used.
Source: Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office — Jail & Corrections · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓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
- ✗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
- BedsApproximately 1,200 inmates (stated on the sheriff's Jail & Corrections page)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Joseph P. Lopinto III
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's Jail & Corrections page states the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center "is owned by the Jefferson Parish Government and is administered by the JPSO"
- 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 home page and biography page: "Joseph P. Lopinto, III is the Sheriff of Jefferson Parish"; the biography does not give the year he took office
- BackgroundPer his JPSO biography: joined the office in 1997; served as deputy, detective, in-house attorney, Commander of Field Operations and Chief Criminal Deputy; elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 2007 and served nine years
- Public recordsThe sheriff's home page links a Public Records Center (jpso.govqa.us)
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office — Sheriff Joseph P. Lopinto III biography · 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.
Still needed
- 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.
- Jefferson Parish (22051, JPSO) is not Jefferson Davis Parish (22053); every page opened was on jpso.com and identified Jefferson Parish (Gretna, Marrero).
- roster is yes: the sheriff's own inmate search lists people currently in custody with charges and bond amounts.
- capacity is no: the sheriff states an approximate 1,200-inmate capacity but no daily population.
- fees is no on a strict reading: the visitation page publishes video-visit ($0.12 per minute) and messaging rates, but no per-minute phone rate or commissary prices.
- bond_info is yes: the Bail Bonds page lists the accepted bond types and states bail is allowed by the courts. No page opened said whether a justice of the peace, magistrate or district judge sets bail at first appearance, so none is named.
- No budget, PREA audit, housing contract, in-custody death or inspection report was found on the sheriff's pages opened.
- Parish seat from CCCarto's Louisiana parish-seat list (https://www.cccarto.com/countyseats/louisiana/), checked 18 September 2026.
- No Jefferson Parish Government page was opened, so the form of government and its members are not recorded here. The sheriff's Jail & Corrections page states that the Jefferson Parish Government owns the Correctional Center building.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Jefferson 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