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

The Detention Center

Vermilion Parish Correctional Center

Operated byVermilion Parish Sheriff's Office (Corrections Division)
Jail address14202 Allen Bares Jr. Dr., Abbeville, LA 70510
WardenCaptain Sammy LaPorte, Warden (sheriff's staff, listed on the Corrections Division page)
PhonesBooking (337) 898-4430; Jail administration (337) 898-4424
RosterThe sheriff's prisoners page offers a name search and a last-24-hours list on the sheriff's own domain; a second sheriff-run page at files.vpso.net also searches the Vermilion Parish Jail by name or booking number
VisitationOn-site Tuesdays 1:00-3:00 p.m.; online seven days a week 6:00 a.m.-10:30 p.m.; no rates published
Bookings published1,588 total inmates booked into the Correctional Center, July 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025 (sheriff's Community Report)
ProgramsSubstance abuse and anger management classes; religious services (Community Report)
Public recordsSheriff's Records Division: records@vermilionsheriff.gov, (337) 898-4405, 101 South State St., Abbeville
BedsNot published on the pages opened
What was triedOpened: vermilionsheriff.gov home, /prisoners, /divisions/corrections, /records, the Community Report PDF; files.vpso.net/prisoners.aspx. Refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED): www.vermilionparishpolicejury.com. No parish-government page was opened.

Source: Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office - Corrections Division · checked 2026-09-18

Transparency rating

2/10Closed

✓The jail is named
✓Who is in custody
✗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 Vermilion 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 Eddie Langlinais

Runs the jailYes - the sheriff's Corrections Division operates the Vermilion Parish Correctional Center
How the office is filledElected parish sheriff; keeper of the public jail of the parish (La. R.S. 15:704)
Also named inThe sheriff's Community Report covering July 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025
Main office101 S. State St., Abbeville, LA 70510; (337) 893-0871

Still needed

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

Source: Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office - home page · 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.

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.
Checks were judged on the sheriff's own domains (vermilionsheriff.gov and the sheriff's files.vpso.net). The parish government's own site was not reached, so parish-published items such as a jail maintenance budget could not be examined.
The sheriff's pages mention commissary purchases and a third-party deposit service but publish no phone, video-visit or commissary rates, and no bond-posting guidance.
Parish seat from CCCarto's Louisiana parish-seat list (https://www.cccarto.com/countyseats/louisiana/), checked 18 September 2026.
Not found. No Vermilion Parish government page could be opened (a guessed police jury address was refused), so the form of government and the members' names are not recorded here.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Vermilion 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