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Cameron Parish Jail Overview

Cameron Parish Jail is a local parish jail, not a Louisiana state prison. It is operated by the Cameron Parish Sheriff's Office and serves as the main custody point for people arrested in Cameron Parish. The jail holds adults of both sexes. Public roster examples showed local sheriff arrests, bench warrants, fugitive warrants, traffic offenses, misdemeanors, felonies, holding-for-court entries, and an immigration-hold example. The roster also showed some $0.00 bail records, which can mean a hold that is not resolved by payment alone.

Official address sources differ. The sheriff's footer, location map, Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory, and law-enforcement complex context point to 124 Recreation Center Lane, Cameron, LA 70631. The Louisiana DPS&C Cameron Parish directory lists Cameron Parish Jail at 119 Smith Circle, Cameron, LA 70631. Use Recreation Center Lane for visitor directions and call the jail before mailing legal or personal items if the address format matters.

Cameron Parish Jail is part of a coastal parish where long drives, ferry conditions, storm recovery, and rural routes can affect access. The sheriff location map also lists substations in Hackberry, Johnson Bayou, and Sweet Lake or Bell City areas, but those substations are not separate detention facilities.

Cameron Parish Jail Capacity

The best capacity source is the Louisiana DPS&C Basic Jail Guidelines monitoring report for the September 20, 2023 inspection. It listed 65 operational capacity and 21 people in custody that day. The December 2021 legislative corrections report listed 75 capacity and 59 people in custody. A 2021 jail memo gave an 88-inmate capacity context figure, but the DPS&C inspection and legislative report should be used first for current facility writing.

Cameron Parish Jail Custody Types

Cameron Parish Jail holds local pretrial detainees, people serving short local sentences, warrant arrests, court holds, some Louisiana DOC or state offenders housed locally, and occasional holds such as immigration holds when shown on the roster. The local jail roster is the right source for those local records. It is not the right source for a person already in a state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center outside the parish.

Pretrial detainee

A person held before the court case has reached final judgment.

DOC offender

A person committed to Louisiana DPS&C who may be housed locally under state-local rules.

Bench warrant

A court-issued warrant, often tied to failure to appear or contempt.

Immigration hold

A custody flag linked to immigration enforcement, which may later require ICE ODLS.

Lookup Cameron Parish Jail Inmates

Use the Cameron Parish Sheriff's Office Inmate Search for current local jail custody. The roster is an OCV feed with a search box, newest-first order, and roster cards that can include a booking photo, inmate ID, booking date, age, gender, race, status, address or city, bail, arresting agency, and charge rows. If the arrest is too new or the person may have just been released, call Cameron Parish Jail at 337-775-2125.

1. Open the sheriff Inmate Search route and use the roster search field for the person's name.
2. Compare the result card to the person's age, booking date, city, status, and arresting agency.
3. Read the charge rows and total bail amount, then note any $0 hold, warrant, or court-hold language.
4. Use VINELink or the DPS&C phone locator for sentenced state custody, BOP for federal custody, and ICE ODLS for immigration detention.

The official OCV inmate feed is useful for confirming roster fields, but the sheriff's public page is the normal route for visitors.

Cameron Parish Jail Contact

The jail information line is the practical contact point for custody, release, visitation, and money questions. The sheriff's main non-emergency line can route broader agency calls. Formal records requests use the custodian channel rather than the general contact form when the request seeks a booking record, incident report, booking photo, or other public record.

Visit Cameron Parish Jail

Current jail communications material centers on video visits, calls, and messages through Ally Telecom Group and NCIC. A 2021 jail memo listed in-person visitation on Tuesday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., up to three visits on each visitation day, with cell phones, purses, and handbags barred from the visitation area. Because the current OCV jail page emphasizes communications service details, call 337-775-2125 before driving to confirm in-person visiting, visitor entry, identification, and any current limits.

Cameron Parish Jail Mail and Money

The official jail communications page says inmates receive phone access after booking and that phones are available in each housing area. Calls are prepaid collect or inmate debit, billed per minute, with no connection fee. Three-way calls are prohibited. Incoming calls are not received except voicemail messages to approved inmates. NCIC account setup is available at account.ncic.com or by calling 1-800-943-2189.

Older memo material described money orders, jail drop-off, online deposit, and mailed deposits listing the inmate name and ID number. Current official material is thinner and points commissary users toward Forecomm, so verify deposit methods before sending money orders or packages.

Cameron Parish Jail Bonding

The official sheriff bonding page separates surety and cash bonds. Surety bond users are directed to contact a local bondsman or bonding agency for paperwork and payment. Cash bond users are directed to use the payment link, complete paperwork, then call 337-775-2125 so the jail can verify that the release process is complete. Bond amounts shown on the roster can change after first appearance, prosecutor review, or court action.

Cameron Parish Jail Intake

Booking at Cameron Parish Jail follows the Louisiana arrest-to-booking process in Code of Criminal Procedure art. 228. A peace officer must bring an arrested person to the nearest jail or police station and cause the person to be booked. The public Cameron roster reflects that by showing name, booking date, address or city, charges, bail, status, and arresting agency. Booking is also the point after which the jail communications page says telephone access is provided.

The local intake path includes custody acceptance, identification, property handling, booking entry, booking photo, charge and hold entry, bail entry, and phone access. The roster may not show every internal step. It does not publish medical screening, housing pod, classification score, court date, judge, or projected release date. Those details, if public and available, require a phone call, court lookup, or records request.

Cameron Parish Jail Records Requests

For records not available on the roster or weekly arrest report, use the Cameron Parish Sheriff's Office records custodian. The official contact page names Chief Operations Officer Kayla Conner as custodian of records and lists publicrequest@cameronso.org. The mailing address is P.O. Box 1250, Cameron, LA 70631. Include the person's full name, arrest or booking date, date of birth if known, booking ID if known, and the exact record requested.

Louisiana R.S. 44:31 and 44:32 allow adults to inspect and copy public records unless an exception applies. A custodian may charge lawful copy fees and may redact protected material. Booking books and booking summaries are public under Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure art. 228, while booking photographs are addressed separately by art. 234.

Cameron Parish Jail Oversight

The 2023 DPS&C Basic Jail Guidelines monitoring report gives the clearest recent oversight detail. DPS&C conducted a semi-annual inspection on September 20, 2023 after a previous inspection on May 5, 2023. The report noted prior concerns with chemical-room inventories and organization, DOC dorm ceiling repairs, and cleanliness of living areas, common areas, and bathrooms. It encouraged continued compliance and improvements and said semi-annual monitoring would continue.

Sheriff Chris Savoie took office in 2024 after long service in Cameron Parish law enforcement. The official biography emphasizes training, technology, traffic trailers, ATVs, watercraft, courtroom security, school resource officers, and post-disaster continuity. Those agency-wide details are local context, not inmate program promises. For medical, grievance, religious service, or reentry questions, call Cameron Parish Jail because current official web material does not publish a detailed process.