The Detention Center
Terrebonne Parish Jail
- Operated byTerrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office
- Jail address3211 Grand Caillou Road, Houma, LA 70363 (the address the inmate services page gives for money orders, property pickup and letters of incarceration, under the abbreviations "JJLCJC" and "TPCJC", which the page does not spell out); jail line 985-857-0361
- Inmate mailAddressed to Terrebonne Parish Jail, 4506 Marlena St, Unit 22, Bossier City, LA 71111
- WardenMaj. Rhonda Ledet, Warden; Capt. Chris Cobb, Assistant Warden of Operations; Capt. Beth Bailey, Administrative Assistant Warden (sheriff's corrections page)
- Work releaseMaj. Troy Boquet, Work Release Warden; the corrections page names a Terrebonne Parish Transitional Work program
- Commissary depositsTouchPay Direct, facility #270360, 1-866-232-1899; no fees published
- Phones and video visitsCity Tele Coin provides video visitation, messaging and telephone calls; no rates published
- Letter of incarceration$15 per incarceration
- RosterThe sheriff's inmate services page links a warrants/incarcerations portal on a vendor domain (centralsquarecloud.com), which was not opened
- BudgetThe sheriff's annual report page shows the office's 2026-2027 fiscal budget as an image, with earlier years (2018-2020) also as images; no figure could be read
- What was triedSheriff's home, inmate services, corrections, about-the-sheriff, annual report and electronic monitoring pages were opened. The parish government site (tpcg.org, not returned by search) was refused with PROVENANCE_REQUIRED and not retried.
Source: Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office - Inmate Services · 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 Timothy Soignet
- Runs the jailYes - the sheriff's Corrections Division runs the Terrebonne Parish Jail; Lt. Col. Stephen Bergeron is Corrections Division Commander
- 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 took office July 1, 2020
- Office address3441 West Park Ave, Houma, LA 70359; 985-876-2500
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office - About the Sheriff · 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, tpso.net, which was read. The consolidated government's own site was not examined.
- The roster check is no: the only custody listing linked is a warrants/incarcerations portal on a vendor domain, which was not opened.
- The budget check is no only because the budget could not be read: the sheriff's annual report page publishes the office's 2026-2027 budget as an image, so no detention line could be confirmed.
- The fees check is no: vendors for deposits, calls and video visits are named, and a $15 letter-of-incarceration fee is published, but no phone, video-visit or commissary rates.
- The sheriff's home page links bond and fine payments through an outside payment vendor (ncourt.com); no guidance on how to post bail was found, so bond_info is no. No beds, population, PREA material, housing agreement, in-custody death or inspection report was found.
- The seat is recorded as Houma from the sheriff's pages, which place the sheriff's office, the courthouse annex (7856 Main St) and the jail in Houma; no page opened uses the words 'parish seat'.
- Every page opened identifies Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. Commercial lookup sites in the search results (terrebonneparishjailla.org, terrebonneparishjail.org, louisianaprisonroster.org, stjamesparishclerkofcourt.com, sabinesheriff.com, sthelenaso.org) were not used; several of them call it a 'county' jail, which it is not.
- Terrebonne is one of Louisiana's three consolidated city-parish governments under a home rule charter (Police Jury Association of Louisiana classification, per the state research brief). The parish government's own site could not be opened (refused with PROVENANCE_REQUIRED), so its officials and council members are not recorded here.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Terrebonne 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