St. Bernard Parish Prison Overview
St. Bernard Parish Prison is operated by the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office. The official sheriff directory places the Parish Prison and Corrections function at 1900 Paris Road in Chalmette. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections parish listing also names St. Bernard Parish Prison at the same location and identifies the local sheriff, district attorney, and clerk contacts. The facility handles adult local custody rather than youth detention. It is the adult booking endpoint described in sheriff arrest posts when people are transported to St. Bernard Parish Prison to be booked.
The jail population can include adults arrested by the Sheriff's Office, municipal or regional law-enforcement agencies, and agencies using the parish jail for warrants or accepted holds. Some people are held before trial. Others may be serving short parish sentences or waiting for transfer after a court action. A detainer, also called a hold, can keep a person in custody for another parish, state, federal, probation, parole, or immigration authority even when a local bond issue appears resolved. Those distinctions matter because the St. Bernard Parish Prison roster is a current local custody tool, not a complete criminal-history file.
St. Bernard Parish Prison Roster Lookup
Current adult custody is searched through the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office Jail Roster / LAVNS roster. The roster is the official local path for current St. Bernard Parish Prison custody and custody-notification registration. Louisiana's LAVINE material explains that adult inmates in all parish jails and state prisons are monitored for custody status through the statewide notification system, and the sheriff site links users into that system for public safety and victim notification.
Static research could not capture a full live St. Bernard Parish Prison profile, so roster field names should be checked in a browser before relying on any one label. The confirmed point is narrower and more useful: the roster is free, public, parish-specific, and tied to anonymous custody-status notification. If a name is missing, that alone does not prove no arrest occurred. The person may be newly booked, released, listed under a different spelling, transferred, held as a juvenile, or in state, federal, or immigration custody instead.
- Open the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office Jail Roster at the parish LAVNS address.
- Search by the person's legal name, then try alternate spellings or first-name variants if no result appears.
- Open any matching entry and confirm the custody status, facility, booking or custody date, and notification option shown on the live result.
- If no current result appears, call Corrections or use Criminal Records & Reports for arrest-report routing.
- For sentenced state custody, use Louisiana VINELink or the DPS&C phone locator rather than the parish roster.
St. Bernard Parish Prison Contact
The jail and records offices are separate public contact points. Corrections is the practical contact for current adult custody, visit questions, and unpublished jail operating rules. Criminal Records & Reports is the documented route for incident, accident, and arrest report requests. The sheriff directory lists administrative office hours for the broader office, but the research did not locate a separate public booking-counter schedule or intake-desk hours for St. Bernard Parish Prison.
St. Bernard Parish Prison
1900 Paris Road
Chalmette, LA 70043
(504) 278-7645
DPS&C listing: (504) 278-7650; fax (504) 278-7785
Criminal Records & Reports
2 Courthouse Square
Chalmette, LA 70043
(504) 278-7726
Administrative hours listed by SBSO: Monday-Thursday 8:30 AM-4:30 PM; Friday 8:30 AM-4:00 PM, excluding holidays.
The SBSO directory is the source that places Corrections, Criminal Records & Reports, Communications, and other public divisions in context. The directory screenshot below shows why St. Bernard Parish Prison questions should be routed to Corrections while report-copy questions go to Criminal Records & Reports.
That division split is important when a roster entry has dropped off or a family needs an arrest report rather than live custody confirmation.
St. Bernard Parish Prison Capacity
No current sheriff-published rated capacity page was located for St. Bernard Parish Prison. The strongest current scale figure in the research is from Vera's Louisiana Locked Up St. Bernard Parish page, which lists two parish detention facilities and reports a combined capacity of 302 across St. Bernard Parish Prison and St. Bernard Parish Juvenile Detention Center. Because that figure combines adult and juvenile detention, it should not be read as the adult jail's current rated bed count.
An older correctional-population source from the Prison Gerrymandering Project listed St. Bernard Parish Prison as a local facility with 150 people in 2006-era data. That older number is useful historical context, not a current jail population. The 2023 Louisiana state corrections report also lists St. Bernard admissions and releases in a parish table, but the research notes that the table should be described carefully as a state corrections report parish admission and release table rather than a live St. Bernard Parish Prison booking count.
St. Bernard Parish Prison Visits
Official local pages for St. Bernard Parish Prison visitation rules were not found in the research. No published schedule, video-visit vendor, registration rule, dress code, visitor ID rule, parking instruction, or holiday exception was located in official St. Bernard sources. The safest route is to call Corrections before leaving for the facility, especially if the visit involves a minor child, a long drive, a holiday, a storm event, a court day, or a possible lockdown.
| Visit type | Published schedule | Registration and rules | Research status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adult in-person jail visit | Not published in located official sources | Call Corrections to confirm ID, dress code, property limits, and arrival rules | Gap |
| Adult video visit | Not published in located official sources | No vendor or registration page located | Gap |
| Attorney or professional visit | Not published online | Call the facility, court, or responsible agency for professional access rules | Gap |
| Holiday or emergency schedule | Not published online | Confirm directly before traveling | Gap |
Note: Confirm custody and visit approval with St. Bernard Parish Prison before travel; the public roster is not a visit schedule.
St. Bernard Parish Prison Mail and Money
The research did not locate official St. Bernard Parish Prison pages for inmate mail format, phone accounts, tablets, commissary deposits, online deposits, lobby kiosks, money-order rules, rejected-mail rules, or vendor fees. Those details should not be guessed. Many jails use third-party vendors, but no Securus, GTL, JPay, Access Corrections, or other provider was documented in the located St. Bernard Parish sources.
Use the facility phone number before mailing funds or documents. The address is documented, but the inmate-name and identification-number format was not published in the located official sources. Mail that lacks the required format can be delayed or returned. Money sent through the wrong vendor, wrong person, or wrong facility can be difficult to correct.
| Service | Published detail | Best confirmed action |
|---|---|---|
| Postal mail | Facility address is known; inmate-name and ID format not published | Call Corrections before sending mail |
| Commissary | Vendor and fee schedule not published in located official sources | Ask Corrections for current deposit options |
| Phone or video accounts | Vendor not located | Confirm by phone before opening an account |
| Money deposits | Kiosk, online, and walk-in rules not located | Confirm accepted methods and hours first |
St. Bernard Parish Prison Records
The adult jail roster is only one part of the record path. Louisiana public-records law defines public records broadly, and Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure article 228 requires booking books and booking information summaries to be open for public inspection. At the same time, investigative material, victim-sensitive information, sealed records, expunged records, and juvenile records may be restricted. A jail roster result should be treated as a custody record, not proof of guilt or the final court charge.
For report copies, the SBSO Criminal Records Division report request form asks for an incident number, report date and time, location, requester contact information, report type, party information, and business name if applicable. The form lists accident reports at $20 and incident or arrest reports at $20 for the first 10 pages plus $1 for each additional page. Payment instructions direct business checks or money orders to the Sheriff's Department Criminal Records Division. Current custody lookup belongs with the roster and Corrections phone line; historical report copies belong with Criminal Records & Reports.
St. Bernard Prison Custody Limits
St. Bernard Parish Prison does not cover every person connected to a St. Bernard Parish arrest. Once a person is sentenced to Louisiana state adult confinement, Louisiana R.S. 15:824 explains that the person is committed to DPS&C, not to one specific parish facility. The practical result is that a sentenced person may move from the parish jail to state custody and should then be searched through Louisiana VINELink or the DPS&C phone locator at 225-383-4580.
Federal and immigration custody are separate as well. A federal defendant from St. Bernard Parish falls under the Eastern District of Louisiana, but sentenced federal inmates are searched through the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator. Immigration detention is searched through ICE's Online Detainee Locator System. The adult parish roster may show a person only while that person is physically in local custody. It should not be used as the sole source for state prison, federal prison, immigration detention, or the St. Bernard Parish Juvenile Detention Center.