The Detention Center
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- Operated byPointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's Office
- Detention center staffWarden Darrel K. Roan; Assistant Warden Luke Vavasseur; Chief of Security Floyd Sam (sheriff's staff page, under "Detention Center")
- Prison line225.638.5407 (Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory)
- BudgetThe sheriff's 2026-2027 General Fund budget lists Detention Center (Dept. 30) $1,821,800; Kitchen Detention Center (Dept. 31) $332,850; Minimum Security (Dept. 32) $28,550; Medical (Dept. 29) $152,625
- Facility nameThe sheriff's pages say "Detention Center" but do not give a formal facility name or address
- What was triedpcpso.org home, Staff and Budget PDF; Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory. The search returned no parish government page; pointecoupee.lavns.org and commercial inmate-lookup sites were not used.
Source: Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's Office — Staff · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗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 René Thibodeaux
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's office runs the detention center
- How the office is filledElected parish sheriff
- Statutory basisLa. R.S. 15:704 makes the sheriff the keeper of the public jail of the parish; the parish governing authority maintains the building and provides the jail physician (R.S. 15:702, 15:703)
- Tenure publishedThe sheriff's staff page states Sheriff Rene' Thibodeaux "took office July 1, 2020"
- Office215 East Main Street, New Roads, LA 70760; 225.638.5400 (Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's Office — Staff · 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.
- Named is no: the sheriff's site refers to a "Detention Center" with a warden but gives no formal jail name. The seat, New Roads, is from the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory, not a parish page.
- Budget is yes: the sheriff publishes its FY 2026-2027 General Fund budget on its own site with detention, kitchen, minimum-security and medical departments.
- State prisoners held in parish jails are paid for by the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections at a per diem of $26.39 per day (R.S. 15:824(B)(1)(a), as stated in HB 143 of the 2026 Regular Session, whose proposed increase was not confirmed as enacted). That is state money; the sheriff's office is also funded by its own millages, sales-tax shares and tax-collector commissions.
- Deaths: R.S. 13:5713(A)(12) makes deaths in prison a category the parish coroner must investigate; no death in custody was found on the sheriff's pages read.
- Not found. No page of the parish governing authority was opened in this session (the one search per parish returned only sheriff and third-party pages), so the form of parish government and its members are not recorded here.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Pointe Coupee 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