The Detention Center
St. Charles Parish Nelson Coleman Correctional Center
- Operated bySt. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office, Corrections Division
- Jail address5061 Highway 3127, Killona, LA 70057
- OpenedJune 15, 2001
- CapacityThe sheriff states capacity to house 600 inmates and an average of 550
- Corrections leadershipAlvin Robinson, Major; Maureen Gelston, Captain (sheriff's staff)
- Staffing150 deputies, clerical and medical personnel in the Corrections Division
- VideoVideo arraignment and video visitation are in use
- RosterThe sheriff's Jail Roster page links a current roster hosted on the vendor portal stcharles-so-la.zuercherportal.com
- PREA auditFinal PREA audit report posted by the sheriff: onsite audit August 1–3, 2022, report dated February 12, 2023; 45 standards met, 0 not met
- Corrections line(985) 783-1164
- What was triedSheriff's home page (http and https) returned 403. Opened: Corrections, Jail Roster, Arrest Reports, Religious & Medical Services, staff directory, and the PREA report. No bond, fee, commissary, budget, contract or death-in-custody page was found.
Source: St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office — Corrections · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗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 built2001 (opened June 15, 2001)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsCapacity 600 per the sheriff's Corrections page
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Greg Champagne
- How the office is filledElected parish sheriff
- Statutory basisLa. R.S. 15:704 makes the sheriff keeper of the public jail of the parish; under R.S. 15:702 and 15:703 the parish governing authority maintains the jail building and provides the jail physician
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's Corrections Division operates the Nelson Coleman Correctional Center
- Listed asSheriff, on the sheriff's own staff directory
- Arrest reports line(985) 783-6237
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office — Staff 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 bodyParish governing body page →
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.
- Confirmed Louisiana on every page: the sheriff's site is stcharlessheriff.org (Killona and Hahnville, LA), not the Missouri or Arkansas St. Charles.
- Roster is recorded as no on a strict reading: the sheriff's page links the list, but the list is hosted on a vendor domain (zuercherportal.com), which was not opened.
- Capacity passes on the sheriff's published capacity (600) and average population (550). The PREA report itself cites a different designed capacity; the sheriff's page figure is used.
- No bond guidance, fee schedule, budget, housing agreement or death-in-custody report was found on the pages opened.
- Home Rule Charter government with the Parish Council as governing authority: nine members, seven elected by district and two at large (one from each side of the Mississippi River). It meets the first and third Monday of each month at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers, 2nd floor of the St. Charles Parish Courthouse, 15045 River Road, Hahnville. The page opened did not name the parish president or the council members.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in St. Charles 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