The Detention Center
St. Martin Parish Correctional Center
- Operated bySt. Martin Parish Sheriff's Office
- Name as publishedThe sheriff's corrections page is titled "Corrections (Parish Jail – St. Martinville)" and calls the facility the Saint Martin Parish Correctional Center
- WardenMajor Kenneth Sonnier, Correctional Division Commander, described as Warden of the St. Martin Parish Correctional Center (sheriff's senior command staff page)
- RosterThe sheriff's home page links an inmate locator hosted on an outside vendor's domain (tbs-web.com); opened on the research date, it identified itself as the St. Martin Parish Sheriff's roster and showed 223 results
- Inmate moneyTrust fund deposits by cash, money order or card through Forecomm Solutions; the sheriff says it assesses no deposit fee, though third-party processors charge convenience fees. Inmate fund line (337) 394-2535; SMSO Inmate Fund, P.O. Box 247, St. Martinville, LA 70582
- Medical chargesSet fees for prescriptions, doctor and dental appointments and over-the-counter items are deducted from inmate accounts; amounts not published
- VisitationHeld weekly; visits may be limited depending on inmate behavior
- Other facilitiesNone named on the pages opened
- What was triedSheriff's home, corrections, jail-and-corrections hub, biography, senior command staff and inmate money pages were opened, as was the vendor roster. The parish government site (stmartinparish-la.org, not returned by search) and the publiclogs.com arrest log were refused with PROVENANCE_REQUIRED and not retried.
Source: St Martin Parish Sheriff - Corrections (Parish Jail – St. Martinville) · 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 builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Becket T. Breaux
- Runs the jailYes - the sheriff's Correctional Division runs the St. Martin Parish Correctional Center in St. Martinville
- 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
- Tenure publishedThe sheriff's biography page says he was elected on October 12, 2019, with 60.34% of the vote
- Office address400 Saint Martin Street, Saint Martinville, LA 70582; (337) 394-3071
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: St. Martin Parish Sheriff - Sheriff Biography · 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. No page opened names the judicial district, so none is recorded.
- 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.
- The sheriff runs his own domain, stmartinsheriff.org; it was the only first-party source that could be opened. The parish government's site was not examined.
- The roster check is recorded as no on a strict reading: the sheriff links a current roster, but it is hosted on an outside vendor's domain (tbs-web.com).
- The fees check is no: the sheriff says it charges no deposit fee but publishes no phone, video-visit or commissary prices and no medical fee amounts.
- No beds, population, budget, PREA material, housing agreement, bond guidance, in-custody death or inspection report was found on the sheriff's pages.
- The seat is recorded as St. Martinville from the sheriff's home page, which gives the main office address in Saint Martinville; the page does not use the words 'parish seat'.
- Every page opened identifies St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. Search results were dominated by commercial inmate-lookup sites (saintmartinparishjail.org, saintmartinparishjailla.org, stmartinparisharrests.org, and a St. Martin page on sthelenaso.org); none were used.
- Not found. The parish government's own site could not be opened (refused with PROVENANCE_REQUIRED), so its form of government and members are not recorded here.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in St. Martin 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