The Detention Center
St. Tammany Parish Correctional Center
- Operated bySt. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office
- Jail address1200 Champagne St, Covington, LA 70434; main line 985-276-1000
- OwnershipThe sheriff's corrections page lists the facility as owned by St. Tammany Parish Government and operated by the Sheriff's Office
- Beds1,180 (sheriff's corrections page)
- WardenWilliam Frosch; Assistant Warden Capt. Scotty Payne; Security Captain Denny Moore; Support Captain Dale Galloway (sheriff's corrections page)
- PREA contactLt. Todd Carson; the corrections page links a PREA document for volunteers and contractors (2023), not an audit report
- BondThe bond office at the correctional facility takes cash (exact change), Discover cards (2.5% added fee), property and personal surety bonds; $30 processing fee per bond; a $268 court-cost attachment must be paid in full; bondsman fee 2% of bond; the office is closed daily 5-6 a.m.
- VisitationOn-site and remote video visits through JailATM; two on-site video visits a week at no cost to the visitor; remote visit price not published
- Mail and moneyNon-legal mail through JailATM (Monroe, La. address); money orders to P.O. Box 3135, Covington; online deposits through a GTL payment portal; no rates published
- RosterThe corrections page links a roster on a vendor-hosted subdomain (inmates.stpso.revize.com), which returned HTTP 403 and was not read
- Budget documentsThe sheriff's Financial Reporting page lists Jail Fund budgets (FY2024 adopted through FY2027 revised 2026), Inmate Commissary Fund budgets, operating budgets and Annual Comprehensive Financial Reports through FY2025
- What was triedSheriff's home, corrections, bond office, mail-and-money, visitation, about, executive staff and financial reporting pages were opened. The 2027 Jail Fund PDF and the PREA PDF redirect to cms3.revize.com, which was refused with PROVENANCE_REQUIRED and not retried. The roster subdomain returned HTTP 403. The parish government site (stpgov.org, not returned by search) was refused with PROVENANCE_REQUIRED.
Source: St. Tammany 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 — 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
- ✗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
- Beds1,180 (sheriff's corrections page)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Bret Ibert
- Runs the jailYes - the sheriff's corrections division operates the St. Tammany Parish Correctional Center; Deputy Chief Daniel Fleischman supervises Corrections
- 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 executive staff page names Sheriff Bret Ibert but gives no date of election or taking office
- OfficesSlidell Administrative Building, 300 Brownswitch Rd., Slidell, (985) 726-7800; Covington Office, 701 N. Columbia St., (985) 809-8200
- Public recordsThe sheriff's home page links an online public-records request portal (foia-stpso.govqa.us)
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office - Executive 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. No page opened names the judicial district, so none is recorded.
Still needed
- 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, stpso.com, which was read in depth. The parish government's own site was not examined.
- The budget check is yes: the sheriff's Financial Reporting page publishes a separate Jail Fund budget for each year (FY2024 adopted through FY2027 revised 2026). The PDFs redirect to a vendor host that refused the fetch, so no figure is recorded.
- The bond_info check is yes on the bond office page, which sets out payment methods, the $30 processing fee, the $268 court-cost attachment and the bondsman fee.
- The capacity check is no: the corrections page gives 1,180 beds, but no daily population was found and the roster could not be opened (HTTP 403).
- The roster check is no: the roster sits on a vendor-hosted subdomain that returned HTTP 403, so it could not be confirmed.
- The prea check is no: the only PREA document linked is a 2023 notice for volunteers and contractors, not an audit report, and it could not be opened. The fees check is no: on-site video visits are free, but no phone, remote-video or commissary rate is published.
- No housing agreement, in-custody death or inspection report was found.
- The seat is recorded as Covington, where the jail and the sheriff's Covington office stand; no page opened uses the words 'parish seat'.
- Every page opened identifies St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. Commercial lookup sites in the search results (sainttammanyparishjailla.org, sainttammanyparishjail.org, sttammanyparishrecords.us, louisianaprisonroster.org, sabinesheriff.com, fayettesheriffwv.net, jailrosters.org) were not 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. The sheriff's corrections page states that St. Tammany Parish Government owns the correctional center.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in St. Tammany 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