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Catahoula Correctional Center Overview

Catahoula Correctional Center is listed by the sheriff's office as a correctional center at 499 Old Columbia Road in Harrisonburg. The official Catahoula Correctional Center page names Warden Gary Allen, gives the facility phone, and publishes the public mail format. The Louisiana DPS&C facility directory also lists Catahoula Correctional Center as a local facility with code LMG, so it should not be treated as only a small parish booking jail.

The correctional center is separate from Catahoula Parish Jail. The parish jail is the small local facility tied most directly to recent arrests and pre-trial custody. Catahoula Correctional Center is much larger and appears in the Louisiana state/local facility network. DPS&C explains that Louisiana relies on parish and private facilities to house some people serving state felony sentences because state facilities cannot house every sentenced person. For Catahoula Correctional Center custody, use both local facility channels and state locator channels when the person's status is unclear.

The official sheriff page for Catahoula Correctional Center shows the facility's address, phone, warden, capacity, and mail guidance.

View the sheriff's Catahoula Correctional Center source page for the facility source used for this custody summary.

The screenshot supports the facility facts and mail instructions that distinguish Catahoula Correctional Center from the parish jail.

Catahoula Correctional Center Capacity

The sheriff's official correctional center page lists Catahoula Correctional Center with 900 beds. The research file did not locate an official daily head count, demographic report, housing-unit roster, or current population dashboard for the facility. DPS&C lists the center in its statewide facility locations, and that state listing supports the facility's role in Louisiana's local-facility network. The capacity figure is firm from the sheriff page. Current occupancy and classification details should be confirmed with the facility or through LA VINE/DPS&C channels.

Search Catahoula Correctional Center Custody

A Catahoula Correctional Center search should start with the facility phone when the question is housing, mail, visits, or money. For custody status, use Louisiana VINELink and the local LA VINE channels. If the person is serving a state sentence, use the DPS&C locator path through VINELink or the DPS&C phone locator at 225-383-4580. DPS&C says callers can use a DPS&C number or the person's name and date of birth to get housing assignment, facility address, facility phone, and projected release information.

1. Call Catahoula Correctional Center at 318-744-2121 when the issue is housing, mail, visitation, or money instructions.
2. Search Louisiana VINELink for custody status and register for notifications if release or transfer alerts are needed.
3. Use the DPS&C phone locator for state-sentenced custody, especially when a person is not shown as a simple parish-jail booking.
4. For a local booking record tied to an arrest, contact the sheriff's office and ask how to request public records.

Catahoula Correctional Center Contact

Use the correctional center's own phone number for facility-specific questions. The center's public address differs from the courthouse and jail address on Bushley Street, so confirm the location before travel, mailing, or arranging visits. The DPS&C parish location page and statewide directory also list Catahoula correctional facilities, but facility operations such as mail acceptance, visits, property, and commissary should be checked directly with the center.

The research file also notes Catahoula Parish Jail at 301 Bushley Street and the sheriff's office at the courthouse/government area. Do not assume the two sites share visitor entry, mail routing, records access, or public lobby rules. A person with a Catahoula arrest may be at the jail, the correctional center, another Louisiana DPS&C placement, or a federal custody channel.

Catahoula Correctional Center Visits

Official sources did not publish a Catahoula Correctional Center visitation schedule, approved visitor form, dress code, child-visitor rule, video visit provider, or visit cancellation policy. Call the center before travel. Ask whether the person is eligible for visits, whether the visit is in person or video, which ID is required, whether minors are allowed, and whether the person has a classification or disciplinary status that limits visits. State-sentenced custody can add rules that differ from a short local jail hold.

Catahoula Correctional Center Mail

The sheriff's correctional center page gives a specific public mail format. It also says senders should get a list of acceptable mail from the facility before sending anything. That warning is important because correctional-center mail rules may limit photos, cards, books, magazines, stamps, envelopes, packages, money orders, and third-party items. Use the inmate's full name and ID number if known, and call first when the ID number is not known.

The research did not locate a published fee table for deposits, phone accounts, refunds, or commissary limits. Check the vendor or facility before paying. If the person has moved to another DPS&C facility, the money and mail rules may change with the new housing assignment.

Catahoula Correctional Center Custody

Catahoula Correctional Center belongs in both local and state custody conversations. A person may be connected to Catahoula Parish through a local arrest, but a state sentence can place the person into a local facility under Louisiana's broader correctional structure. Louisiana R.S. 15:824 addresses confinement of state prisoners in parish and local facilities and directs DPS&C to work with sheriffs on basic jail guidelines. That is why a Catahoula Correctional Center search often needs both facility contact and DPS&C locator checks.

Local facility

A jail or correctional center operated locally but used in broader custody placement.

DPS&C number

A state corrections identifier that helps locate someone in the Louisiana imprisoned-person system.

Projected release date

A state locator detail that may change due sentence credits, recalculation, or transfer status.

Transfer

Movement from one facility to another, which can make a local roster result lag behind current custody.

Catahoula Correctional Center Records

For records tied to a local arrest or booking, contact the sheriff's office under Louisiana Public Records Law and describe the requested record with enough detail to identify the person and event. For state-sentenced custody, the DPS&C locator and VINELink path are often the better first channels because they are built to confirm housing assignment, facility address, facility phone, custody notifications, and projected release information. For court filings after an arrest, use the clerk and court-record channels rather than the facility.

The Catahoula Parish inmate population overview explains why the correctional center's scale matters in a small rural parish. The facility has far more beds than the small parish jail, and official state sources list it in the local-facility network. That does not make every person there a parish-jail pre-trial detainee. It means the lookup question must first identify the custody type.