The Detention Center
Lafayette Parish Correctional Center (LPCC)
- Operated byLafayette Parish Sheriff's Office
- Jail address316 West Main Street, Lafayette, LA 70501
- Corrections commander / wardenMajor Kenny Benoit, Corrections Commander/Warden (answers to the sheriff; named on the sheriff's Corrections Division page)
- Visitation and bonding office916 Lafayette Street, Lafayette, LA 70501; corrections line 337-236-5400
- AccreditationThe sheriff's LPCC page states the center has held American Correctional Association accreditation since 1988; the 2021 annual report states it was re-accredited
- VolumeThe LPCC page states the center processes approximately 12,000 arrestees each year; the sheriff's 2021 annual report gives 4,515 LPCC bookings and 3,841 releases in 2021
- Other programsThe Corrections Division also covers Community Corrections, Medical and Treatment Programs, and a Direct Supervision Unit
- RosterThe sheriff's Offender Information page links a searchable list of currently housed and recently booked inmates hosted on a vendor domain (community.365labs.com), not the sheriff's own
- Phone vendorThe commissary/phone page names Ally Telecom Group as the telephone provider; no rates are 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, Corrections Division, LPCC, Offender Information, commissary/phone, bail, and annual-reports pages; the PREA brochure PDF; the 2021 annual report and 2015 corrections annual report PDFs (the 2015 PDF returned only a title page). No Lafayette Consolidated Government page was returned by search, so none was opened.
Source: Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office — Corrections Division · 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
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Mark Garber
- Runs the jailYes — the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office Corrections Division operates the Lafayette Parish Correctional 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; 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 Mark Garber
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Lafayette 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.
- Seat recorded as Lafayette; the sheriff's pages place the jail and offices in Lafayette, but no page opened states the parish seat, so seat_source is left blank.
- Roster is recorded as no on a strict reading: the current-inmate list sits on a vendor domain (365labs), not lafayettesheriff.com.
- PREA is recorded as no: the sheriff publishes a PREA rights brochure, not audit results.
- Bond guidance is published on the sheriff's Pay Bail page: commercial bond (typical fee stated as 12%), personal surety approved by a judge, or full cash bond by cash or money order at 916 Lafayette St.
- The sheriff publishes annual reports (2016–2021 and a 2015 corrections report); the 2021 report gives bookings and releases but no bed count, budget or deaths.
- Lafayette is one of Louisiana's three consolidated city-parish governments (Lafayette Consolidated Government), per the Police Jury Association of Louisiana's classification. No Lafayette Consolidated Government page was opened, so no council members, president or minutes are recorded.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Lafayette 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