The Detention Center
Livingston Parish Detention Center
- Operated byLivingston Parish Sheriff's Office
- Jail address28445 Charlie Watts Road, Livingston, Louisiana 70754
- Detention leadershipLt. Col. Lance Landry, Major Travis Harris and Captain Reece Holden are listed on the sheriff's Detention Center page (sheriff's staff)
- Detention line225-435-1541
- RosterThe sheriff's pages link an inmate list hosted on a vendor domain (tbs-web.com), not lpso.org
- VendorsTablets/deposits through JailATM; commissary through Forecomm Solutions; phones through Correct Solutions Group — vendors are linked, no rates published on the sheriff's page
- MailInmate mail goes to a central processing address (JailATM.com, 2252 Tower Dr Suite 108-251, Monroe, LA 71201); legal mail to P.O. Box 1000, Livingston, LA 70754
- Budget noticeThe sheriff posts an "FY 2027 Budget" notice (dated August 8, 2025) linking a PDF; the PDF was opened but contained no machine-readable text, so no figures are recorded
- 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 page, Detention Center page, budget notice page and FY-2027-Budget.pdf (no readable text); Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory. No Livingston Parish government page was returned by search, so none was opened.
Source: Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office — Detention Center · 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
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Jason G. Ard
- Runs the jailYes — the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office operates the Livingston Parish Detention 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 Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory lists Sheriff Jason G. Ard, serving since 2012; the sheriff's own home page carries "Jason Ard Sheriff" branding
- Office20300 Government Blvd, P.O. Box 850, Livingston, LA 70754; 225-435-1324 (LSA directory)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Louisiana Sheriffs' Association — Livingston Parish directory · 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 (Livingston) is taken from the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory, not a parish government page.
- Roster recorded as no on a strict reading: the inmate list sits on a vendor domain (tbs-web.com).
- Budget recorded as no: the sheriff's budget notice links a PDF that returned no readable text, so no detention figure could be confirmed.
- Fees recorded as no: phone, commissary and deposit vendors are named, but no rates are published on the sheriff's page.
- No Livingston Parish government page was returned by search or opened, so the form of parish government and its members are not recorded here.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Livingston 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