Search Plaquemines Parish Jail Roster

The Plaquemines Parish jail roster shows who is held at the Plaquemines Parish Detention Center in Braithwaite. The Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office keeps this roster and updates it as new bookings come in and inmates get released. You can search the Plaquemines Parish jail roster online through the LAVNS portal at no cost. The roster lists names, charges, and custody status for all current inmates. If you need to find someone who was picked up in Plaquemines Parish, checking the jail roster is the first step you should take.

Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office

The Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office (PPSO) runs the jail and keeps the inmate roster up to date. Sheriff Gerald A. Turlich, Jr. leads the department. "Protecting and Serving Plaquemines Parish" is the motto this office stands by. The PPSO handles all law enforcement across the parish, from patrol to jail operations. Staff at the jail manage bookings, releases, and daily inmate needs.

"PPSO utilizes the Criminal Patrol Division, Marine Division and Aviation Unit to effectively provide assistance and enforce Louisiana law." This is not a small operation. Plaquemines Parish stretches roughly 80 miles from the New Orleans metro area down to the mouth of the Mississippi River. That long stretch of land and water means the sheriff's office covers a lot of ground. All arrests in Plaquemines Parish lead to the same jail in Braithwaite, and every booking shows up on the Plaquemines Parish jail roster.

Search the Plaquemines Parish Jail Roster Online

The fastest way to check the Plaquemines Parish jail roster is through the LAVNS portal. Visit plaquemines.lavns.org to see a list of inmates currently held at the detention center. The site lets you search by name. Each listing shows the person's charges and custody status. You can also sign up for alerts if you want to know when someone's status changes.

The LAVNS system is the Louisiana Automated Victim Notification System. It pulls data from all 64 parish jails across the state. "LAVNS will automatically collect offender transaction data from the state's sixty-four (64) parish jail systems, the state Department of Corrections (DOC) and the Louisiana District Attorneys' Association (LDAA) at regular intervals on a seven days per week, twenty-four hours a day, three hundred sixty-five days a year basis (7/24/365 basis)." So the Plaquemines Parish jail roster stays current around the clock. New bookings appear once the data syncs.

The following screenshot shows the Plaquemines Parish inmate roster as displayed on the LAVNS portal.

Each entry on the roster includes the inmate's name, booking date, and current charges. Click on any name to see more details about that person's case.

You can also use VINELink to look up Plaquemines Parish inmates. VINELink is the national version of the system. "Presently, LAVNS offers everyone access to a state imprisoned person's location by Internet [www.vinelink.com] and a 24-hour, toll-free telephone number: (866) 528-6748." Either tool works for searching the Plaquemines Parish jail roster from home.

Note: The roster may not show inmates who were booked or released in the last few hours due to sync times.

Plaquemines Parish Booking Process

When someone gets arrested in Plaquemines Parish, they go to the detention center in Braithwaite. "Plaquemines Parish Detention Center, 110 Prison Rd, Braithwaite, LA 70040." Deputies bring the person in and start the booking process. Staff take a photo, fingerprints, and personal details. Charges get entered into the system along with any bond amounts set by the court.

Booking takes time. It can be a few hours before an inmate shows up on the Plaquemines Parish jail roster. If you are looking for someone who was just picked up, give it some time and check back. You can also call the jail at 504-934-7602 to ask if someone has been booked in. Phone staff can tell you if a person is there, though they may not give out all details over the phone.

"Located in southeastern Louisiana, Plaquemines Parish is south of the New Orleans metropolitan area and stretches approximately 80 miles to the mouth of the mighty Mississippi River." Because of the parish's size and shape, it can take a while for deputies to transport someone from the far end of the parish to the jail. This may add to the delay before a name appears on the roster.

Plaquemines Parish Inmate Records

The jail roster for Plaquemines Parish is a live snapshot. It shows who is in custody right now. Once someone bonds out or gets released, their name comes off the active roster. The roster is not a permanent record of every arrest. For historical arrest data, you would need to contact the sheriff's office or check court records.

Each listing on the Plaquemines Parish jail roster usually shows the inmate's full name, age, charges, and booking date. Bond amounts and court dates may also appear. Under Louisiana's public records law, LSA-R.S. 44:1, jail rosters are public records. Anyone can view them. You do not need to give a reason or file a formal request to search the roster online.

If you need copies of booking documents or arrest reports from Plaquemines Parish, you may have to file a records request with the sheriff's office. There might be a small fee for copies. The jail roster itself is free to view online at any time.

State Inmate Search for Plaquemines Parish

"Family and friends of people assigned to the custody of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections can locate the person by searching on the Louisiana Automated Victim Notification System (LAVNS). This site is updated every 24 hours and makes it easy to search by location, name, and ID/case number." If someone from Plaquemines Parish gets sent to a state prison, they will no longer show on the parish jail roster. You would use the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections website or LAVNS to find them.

"You can also call 225-383-4580 to be connected to the Imprisoned Person Locator. Callers must have the person in prison's DPS&C number or the person in prison's name and date of birth to access housing assignment, address of the facility where the person is located, a contact phone number and a projected release date." This phone line works around the clock. It covers state prisons, not the Plaquemines Parish jail directly, but it helps if someone has been transferred out of the parish system.

Jail Roster and Louisiana Public Records

Louisiana law makes jail rosters public. Under LSA-R.S. 44:1, arrest records and jail rosters are open for anyone to see. The Plaquemines Parish jail roster falls under this rule. You can search it without giving a reason. No ID is needed to use the online portal.

LSA-R.S. 15:574.12 covers how certain offender records are handled. Some prison records are kept private, but basic facts like charges, conviction dates, and sentence lengths are public. LSA-R.S. 15:1229 is the statute that created the LAVNS system. It requires the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement to run a notification system so crime victims and the public can track offender status. These laws work together to make the Plaquemines Parish jail roster available online.

There are limits. Juvenile records do not appear on the Plaquemines Parish jail roster. Under LSA-R.S. 14:405 and other state privacy rules, information about minors stays sealed. If you need juvenile case data, you would have to go through the courts.

Note: Requesting official copies of arrest records from Plaquemines Parish may involve a processing fee.

Nearby Parishes

These parishes border Plaquemines Parish. If you are not sure which parish handled an arrest, check the location where it happened. Each parish keeps its own jail roster.