West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

West Feliciana Parish Detention Center

Operated byWest Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office
Jail address4834 Feliciana Street, St. Francisville, LA 70775 (Information page); the Detention page also gives 4785 Prosperity, St. Francisville, LA 70775
Capacity"The Detention Center has the capacity to house 39 male offenders."
WardenName not published; warden's office 225-784-3148
Other facilityWest Feliciana Parish Transitional Work Program, 9942 West Feliciana Parkway, St. Francisville, LA 70775
Bookings listThe sheriff posts a jail-bookings list on its own domain (January 1 to August 14, 2026 when read), with names, ages, addresses and charges; the current roster itself is linked on an external system
BondCash, commercial surety, and property bonds explained; every bond carries a $30 bond fee paid to the WFPSO; property bond filing fee $160-$200
VisitationBy live video at the offender kiosk at the Detention Center
Phone and video vendorCity Tele Coin; rates not published
CommissaryCorrectPay deposits, maximum balance $300 and $300 per day; ordering through CorrectCommissary.com; item prices not published
PREAThe Information page states a zero-tolerance policy; a PREA statement PDF is linked but was blocked by robots.txt
What was triedOpened: wfpso.org /Detention, /Detention/Information, /Detention/Jail-Bookings, /Detention/Transitional-Work-Program. Blocked (robots.txt): the PREA Website Statement PDF. No parish-government page was reached.

Source: West Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office - Detention Information · 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 — 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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what West Feliciana 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
Beds39 male offenders (sheriff's Detention page)

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Brian L. Spillman

Runs the jailYes - the sheriff's Detention division operates the West Feliciana Parish Detention Center and a Transitional Work Program
How the office is filledElected parish sheriff; keeper of the public jail of the parish (La. R.S. 15:704)
Confirmed LouisianaWest Feliciana, not East Feliciana; sheriff's domain wfpso.org, facilities in St. Francisville, LA
Office line225-635-3241; info@wfpso.org

Still needed

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

Source: West Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office - Detention · 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.
Roster is recorded as no: the sheriff's own domain carries a bookings list, not a list of who is in custody now; the current roster is on an external system that was not opened.
Capacity is recorded as no: beds are published but no daily population. Fees is recorded as no: vendors and deposit limits are published but not phone, video or commissary rates.
PREA is recorded as no: the PREA statement could not be read and no audit result was found on the pages opened.
The Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola), a state prison, is in West Feliciana Parish; it is not the parish jail.
Parish seat from CCCarto's Louisiana parish-seat list (https://www.cccarto.com/countyseats/louisiana/), checked 18 September 2026.
Not found. No West Feliciana Parish government page was opened, so the form of government and the members' names are not recorded here.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in West Feliciana 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