Madison Parish

The Detention Center

Madison Parish Jail

• Operated byMadison Parish Sheriff's Office
• Population statedThe sheriff's duties page says the jail "houses approximately 36 pre-trial inmates" (no date given; no bed count)
• Other facilitiesThe Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory says the office operates a parish jail and detention centers, with separate phone numbers: parish jail 318-574-1833; detention centers 318-574-5740 or 318-574-0225. No page opened names the detention centers.
• Jail addressNot published on the pages opened
• 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, duties, links and payments pages on madisonso.com; Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory. The sheriff's site has no roster, bond, commissary, PREA or budget page. No Madison Parish government page was returned by search.

Source: Madison Parish Sheriff Office — Sheriff's Office Duties · 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 Madison 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 Chad Ezell

• Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's own duties page states the office "is responsible for the operation of the Madison Parish Jail"
• 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 Chad Ezell; the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory lists him in office since 2024
• Office100 North Cedar Street, Tallulah, LA 71282; 318-574-1831

Source: Madison Parish Sheriff 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.

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