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

The Detention Center

Bayou Dorcheat Correctional Center

Operated byWebster Parish Sheriff's Office (Corrections Division)
Jail address1455 Bravo Blvd., Minden, LA 71055
WardenWarden Scott Tucker (sheriff's Corrections Division page)
Phone(318) 371-9199
Other facilitiesThe DPS&C location listing also names a Webster Parish Jail at 410 Martin St., Minden, and a Webster Parish TWP (NC) work-release program at 1455 Bravo Boulevard directed by Marvin Jones; the sheriff's Corrections page names only Bayou Dorcheat
RosterThe sheriff links a current-inmate search hosted by a vendor (jailroster.kologik.com), not on the sheriff's own domain
Phones, video visits, commissaryLinks to City Tele Coin (phones and video visitation) and commissarydeposit.com; no rates published
PREAThe Corrections page posts a "2019 PREA AUDIT REPORT" (file named as the final report dated 2-5-2020); the PDF was blocked by a robots.txt error and its findings were not read
What was triedParish search returned only commercial lookup sites, the DPS&C location page and the LSA directory (both opened). www.webstersheriff.org was first refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED); the spare search scoped to webstersheriff.org then returned it. Opened: webstersheriff.org home and /corrections-division/. Blocked: the http:// corrections page and the PREA audit PDF (robots.txt fetch failed). No parish-government page was reached.

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

Transparency rating

2/10Closed

✓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
✗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 Webster 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 Jason Parker

Runs the jailYes - the sheriff's Corrections Division operates the Bayou Dorcheat Correctional Center
How the office is filledElected parish sheriff
Source caveatName taken from the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory entry for Webster Parish, Louisiana; the sheriff's own home and corrections pages, when opened, did not name the sheriff
Office410 Main Street, Minden, LA 71058

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 - Webster Parish directory · 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 site (webstersheriff.org). The parish government's site was not reached.
PREA is recorded as yes because the sheriff's Corrections page publishes a PREA audit report; the report itself could not be opened, so its auditor, date and findings are not recorded.
Roster is recorded as no on a strict reading: the roster the sheriff links is on a vendor's domain.
The sheriff's name rests on the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory, not a first-party page. The DPS&C listing of a second facility at 410 Martin St. is not confirmed by the sheriff's own pages.
Not found. No Webster Parish government page could be opened, so the form of government and the members' names are not recorded here.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Webster 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