Morehouse Parish

The Detention Center

Morehouse Parish Jail

• Operated byMorehouse Parish Sheriff's Office
• Jail address250 East Walnut Street; 318-281-9336 (city not stated on the page)
• Other facilityMorehouse Parish Annex, 4729 Eugene Ware Road; 318-281-1625
• Other facilityMorehouse Parish Detention Center, 6444 Patey Road, Collinston; 318-874-7855
• Phone accountsCorrect Solutions provides prepaid collect-call and PIN debit accounts; the page states processing fees of $3.00 (web/app/automated) or $5.95 (phone representative). No per-call, video or commissary rates are published.
• RosterThe page points to the state LA VINE system's "Rosters" feature, updated every 30 minutes — a state system, not the sheriff's own domain
• PREAThe page links the Louisiana Department of Corrections' PREA policy document (doc.louisiana.gov), not a local audit
• 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 Corrections Division page (opened twice). Sheriff's home page https://www.mpso.net/ refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED). No Morehouse Parish government page was returned by search.

Source: Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office — Corrections Division · 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 Morehouse 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 Mike Tubbs

• Runs the jailYes — the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office Corrections Division lists the parish's jail facilities
• 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)318.281.4141
• Also checkedMorehouse Parish Sheriff's Office — Corrections Division — https://www.mpso.net/corrections-division (did not print the sheriff's name)

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.

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