Lincoln Parish

The Detention Center

Lincoln Parish Detention Center (LPDC)

• Operated byLincoln Parish Sheriff's Office
• Jail addressNot stated separately; the sheriff's home and contact pages give the Lincoln Parish Public Safety Complex, 161 Road Camp Road, Ruston, LA 71270
• RosterThe sheriff's "Inmate Roster" page shows a heading but no list; the LPDC weekly-arrest-report page says "Coming soon"
• Phone vendorCity Tele Coin (funds by 1-800-682-0707 or citytelecoin.com); no rates 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 triedhttps://lincolnparishsheriff.com/ redirects to lpsheriff.org; a direct fetch of https://lpsheriff.org/ was first refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED), then opened after a domain-scoped search returned it. Opened: home, sheriff, inmate roster, LPDC weekly arrest report, inmate phone system, financial/tax collector office and contact pages. http://lincoln.lavns.org/ (state victim-notification system) looped on redirect. No Lincoln Parish government page was returned by search.

Source: Lincoln Parish Sheriff's Office — LPDC Weekly Arrest Report · checked 2026-09-18

• ✓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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Lincoln Parish publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-18. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the parish posts the document.

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

The Sheriff

Sheriff Stephen Williams

• Runs the jailYes — the Lincoln Parish Sheriff's Office operates the Lincoln Parish Detention Center (LPDC)
• 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 administration page, "Sheriff Stephen Williams"; it states he began as a patrol deputy in 1993 and became Chief Deputy in 2018, but gives no date he took office as sheriff
• OfficeLincoln Parish Public Safety Complex, 161 Road Camp Road, Ruston, LA 71270; P.O. Box 2070, Ruston, LA 71273; 318-251-5111

Source: Lincoln Parish Sheriff's Office — Sheriff Stephen Williams · 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.

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