The Detention Center
Not scored. The parish's and sheriff's own websites could not be reached or read in the session that produced this record, so their disclosures were never examined. This is a gap in the research, not a finding about the parish.
- Operated byNot found
- 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 triedOne search ("Lafourche Parish Louisiana sheriff jail detention center inmate roster official website") returned only commercial inmate-lookup and records sites, none cited. Guessed sheriff domains were tried once each: https://www.lafourchesheriff.com/ (domain did not resolve) and https://www.lpso.net/ (refused, PROVENANCE_REQUIRED). No parish-government domain was found.
Source: · checked 2026-09-18
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 Craig Webre
- Runs the jailPresumed by statute: the elected sheriff is keeper of the parish jail; no first-party page was opened to confirm the facility or officeholder
- 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
- 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)985.449.4420
- 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.
- audit.checks is left empty on purpose: neither a Lafourche Parish government page nor a sheriff's page could be reached, so no transparency check was examined. The facility name that commercial lookup sites use is not recorded because no first-party page confirmed it.
- Seat recorded as Thibodaux; no page opened states it, so seat_source is blank.
- No Lafourche Parish government page was returned by search or opened, so the governing body and its members are not recorded here.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Lafourche 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