Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Tangipahoa Parish Jail

Operated byTangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office
Jail address15475 Club Deluxe Road, Hammond, LA 70403; (985) 748-8147 (sheriff's Jail Guide)
Address discrepancyThe Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory gives 15475 Club Deluxe Road as the sheriff's office and lists a separate prison address, P. O. Box 250, 101 Campo Lane, Amite, LA 70422 (985.748.3236). The sheriff's own pages opened do not mention an Amite facility, so it is recorded only as the LSA's listing
VisitationIn person on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month, for people on the inmate's authorized visitor list; arrive 20 minutes early; dress code enforced
Money depositsTouchPay online (gtlfsonlinepay.com), lobby kiosk or 1-866-232-1899; no fees published
Phones, video visits, mailThe Jail Guide sends readers to pages on jailexchange.com, a commercial third-party site, for phone, remote video visit and mail instructions; those pages were not opened or used
RosterThe Jail Guide links an inmate search hosted on an outside vendor's domain (tbs-web.com), which was refused with PROVENANCE_REQUIRED and not read
Beds, warden, year builtNot published in the Jail Guide
What was triedThe sheriff's Jail Guide and the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory entry were opened. The sheriff's home page (tpso.org) and the vendor roster were refused with PROVENANCE_REQUIRED and not retried. No parish government page was returned by search.

Source: Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office - Jail Guide · 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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Tangipahoa Parish publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-18. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the parish posts the document.

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 Gerald D. Sticker

Runs the jailThe sheriff's own Jail Guide describes the Tangipahoa Parish Jail
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
Where the name comes fromThe Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory lists "Sheriff Gerald D. Sticker"; the sheriff's own home page could not be opened and the Jail Guide does not name the sheriff. No date of election or taking office was found
Office address15475 Club Deluxe Road, Hammond, LA 70403 (LSA directory); the LSA directory gives the sheriff's website as www.tpso.org

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Louisiana Sheriffs' Association - Tangipahoa Parish · 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.
Only one first-party page could be opened: the sheriff's Jail Guide on tpso.org. The sheriff's home page and any parish government site were not examined, so the parish seat is recorded as Not found. The sheriff's name is taken from the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory, not from a first-party page; the LSA listing does not count toward any check.
The roster check is no: the Jail Guide links a roster hosted on an outside vendor's domain (tbs-web.com), and it could not be opened.
The fees check is no: deposit channels are named, but phone, video-visit and commissary information is pushed to a commercial third-party site and no rates are published by the sheriff.
No beds, population, budget, PREA material, housing agreement, bond guidance, in-custody death or inspection report was found in the Jail Guide.
The Jail Guide identifies the Tangipahoa Parish Jail in Hammond, Louisiana. Commercial lookup sites in the search results (tangipahoaparishjailla.org, tangipahoaparishjailroster.org, tangipahoaparisharrests.org, jailexchange.com, tangipahoaparishrecords.us, tangipahoajailarrests.org) were not used.
Parish seat from CCCarto's Louisiana parish-seat list (https://www.cccarto.com/countyseats/louisiana/), checked 18 September 2026.
Not found. No parish government page was returned by search or could be opened, so the form of government and members are not recorded here.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Tangipahoa 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