The Detention Center
Lt. Sherman Walker Correctional Facility
- Operated bySt. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office
- Jail address100 Deputy Barton Granier Dr., LaPlace, LA 70068
- Beds300-bed facility, per the sheriff's Parish Prison page
- OpenedFebruary 1997
- WardenKaiana Knight — titled Captain on the Parish Prison page and Major on the division directory (sheriff's staff)
- RosterThe Parish Prison page links a roster hosted on the vendor portal stjohn-so-la.zuercherportal.com
- Inmate moneyCash-only lobby kiosk (24/7), online deposits through Forecomm Solutions, or money orders by mail; the commissary is run by a private vendor the page does not name; no fees or rates are stated
- Bookings2,141 bookings in 2025 and 1,027 in 2026 to date, per the sheriff's 2026 annual report
- PlannedThe 2026 annual report says the facility will share land with a new sheriff's office building as part of a public safety complex
- Booking desk(985) 359-8622 or 8623
- What was triedOpened: Parish Prison, Inmate Money & Commissary, division directory, public records, annual reports list and the 2026 annual report (sheriff's domain). The parish government site sjbparish.gov was refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED) and not retried.
Source: St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office — Parish Prison · 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 built1997 (opened February 1997)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds300, per the sheriff's Parish Prison page
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Mike Tregre
- 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 office operates the Lt. Sherman Walker Correctional Facility
- Assumed office2012, per the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory
- Named currentlyThe sheriff's division directory, public records page and 2026 annual report all name Sheriff Mike Tregre
- Office1801 West Airline Highway, LaPlace, LA 70068; (985) 652-9513
- Public recordsWritten requests to the sheriff at P.O. Box 1600, LaPlace, LA 70069 or records.request@stjohnsheriff.org; the sheriff's page asks for requester identification
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office — Division 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.
- 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 is no: the sheriff publishes beds (300) but no daily population on the pages opened.
- Fees is no: the sheriff explains how to deposit money but publishes no deposit, phone, video-visit or commissary rates.
- The sheriff publishes annual reports going back to 2003; the 2026 report opened has booking counts but no corrections budget, so budget is no.
- No bond guidance, PREA audit, housing agreement or death-in-custody report was found on the pages opened.
- Parish seat from CCCarto's Louisiana parish-seat list (https://www.cccarto.com/countyseats/louisiana/), checked 18 September 2026.
- Not found. The parish government's site (sjbparish.gov) was refused by the fetch tool, so the form of government and its members are not recorded.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in St. John the Baptist 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