Bienville Parish Jail Overview
Louisiana DPS&C lists Bienville Parish Jail as the local jail for the parish. The facility is operated by the Bienville Parish Sheriff's Office and is colocated with the courthouse and sheriff administrative address in Arcadia. The official parish sheriff page says the sheriff serves as parish jailor and keeps a jail docket. That local phrase is important because it ties jail custody records, booking status, and local inmate lookup to the sheriff's office.
Bienville Parish Jail holds the local jail population for Bienville Parish, including people arrested locally, people held before trial, sentenced parish prisoners, and people awaiting transfer or other-agency action when applicable. Official sources did not publish separate male and female housing details, pod names, medical-unit details, work-release units, juvenile-certified-as-adult rules, or security classification levels. The facility page should be used as a local custody and contact reference, not as an operations manual.
The DPS&C Bienville Parish page provides the state listing for the jail and local offices. The screenshot below matches the local jail listing used to resolve this facility page.
The same official state source places the sheriff, clerk, and district attorney in the courthouse office cluster that shapes local record routing.
Bienville Parish Jail Capacity
The strongest sourced capacity figure found for Bienville Parish facilities is 69 people, reported by Vera's Louisiana Locked Up profile. Prison Policy Initiative correctional-facility data listed 47 local prisoners at Bienville Parish Jail on a December 31, 2013 survey date. The sheriff and DPS&C parish pages did not publish a current daily population, annual bookings, average length of stay, or sheriff-rated bed count. Use those gaps plainly rather than replacing them with third-party estimates.
| Measure | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bienville Parish facilities capacity | 69 people | Vera Louisiana Locked Up, accessed June 2026 |
| Bienville Parish Jail local population | 47 prisoners | PPI/Census-era facility data, 12/31/2013 |
| Live jail count | Not located | LAVNS unavailable during research; official pages did not publish it |
Look Up Bienville Parish Jail Inmates
The correct lookup source for this county-jail facility is the Bienville LAVNS roster when it is available. Use it for current local jail custody, not for sentenced state prisoners after transfer, federal prisoners, or immigration detainees. If the roster does not load, call the jail. The research found no official sheriff mobile app, no app-only roster, and no separate municipal jail roster serving Bienville Parish.
- Open the Bienville LAVNS roster and search by name if the page loads.
- Use recent booking, history, sort, or A-Z filters if those tools appear.
- Confirm the person is in Bienville Parish Jail custody, not state, federal, or immigration custody.
- Review charge, bond, arresting agency, booking date, and custody status fields when shown.
- Call (318) 263-2215 when the roster is down, incomplete, or unclear.
- Use VINELink Louisiana for custody-notification registration when needed.
For a broader explanation of roster fields and fallback searches, use the Bienville Parish County inmate records page.
Bienville Parish Jail Address
Official sources align on the courthouse address. The DPS&C parish page lists P.O. Box 328 and 100 Courthouse Drive, Arcadia, LA 71001, with phone (318) 263-2215 and fax (318) 263-7418. The parish sheriff page also lists Sheriff John E. Ballance at that address and gives the same main phone. The Louisiana Sheriffs' Association adds a prison phone of (318) 263-7415.
Bienville Parish Jail
100 Courthouse Drive
Arcadia, LA 71001
Mailing: P.O. Box 328, Arcadia, LA 71001
(318) 263-2215
LSA prison phone: (318) 263-7415
Visiting Bienville Parish Jail
Official Bienville Parish visitation rules were not located on the sheriff website, parish page, DPS&C parish page, or LSA directory. No official visitor schedule, ID list, dress code, video-visit vendor, arrival window, attorney-visit procedure, or minor visitor rule was published in the reviewed sources. Call the jail before traveling, especially because local jails can change visit rules due to staffing, security, court transport, or medical restrictions.
| Topic | Published Bienville Detail | What to Do |
|---|---|---|
| In-person visit schedule | Not published | Call the jail before visiting |
| Video visits | Not published | Do not assume a vendor or account system |
| Visitor ID | Not published | Ask about photo ID and minor visitor rules |
| Dress code | Not published | Confirm clothing restrictions before arrival |
| Attorney visits | Not published | Attorneys should contact the jail directly |
Note: Confirm custody status and visit rules with Bienville Parish Jail before traveling to the courthouse complex.
Mail and Money at Bienville Parish Jail
Official mail, commissary, phone-call, video-call, and money-deposit rules were not published in the reviewed Bienville sources. No official vendor name or fee schedule was found. Do not send funds through a private vendor just because a third-party page names one. Call the jail and ask for the current approved method, payee, inmate-name format, booking-number requirement, and whether physical mail is accepted or scanned.
| Service | Provider / Detail |
|---|---|
| Mailing address | P.O. Box 328, Arcadia, LA 71001; call for inmate-name and booking-number format |
| Phone or video provider | Not published in official Bienville sources |
| Money deposit | No official commissary or deposit vendor located |
| Commissary fees | Not published; call before sending money |
Booking at Bienville Parish Jail
A Bienville Parish arrest can be made by the sheriff, municipal police, Louisiana State Police, wildlife agents, or another authorized agency. After arrest, a person may be brought to the jail for identification, property inventory, safety screening, fingerprints, booking photo, charge entry, bond entry, and housing assignment. Public roster data usually comes after enough intake information is entered for publication.
The first court step can affect custody quickly. Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure art. 230.1 requires prompt appearance within 72 hours, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, for counsel appointment. A roster bond field can change after a judge, warrant, or DA filing changes the case. The court charge is tracked through the clerk and DA, while jail custody remains with the sheriff.
Transfers from Bienville Parish Jail
A person can leave the Bienville Parish Jail roster because of release, bond, transfer to another local agency, transfer to Louisiana DPS&C, federal custody, or immigration detention. The Louisiana DPS&C facility directory showed no state prison physically in Bienville Parish. David Wade Correctional Center in Homer is a nearby state-prison example in Claiborne Parish, but it is not a Bienville Parish facility and should not be treated as a local jail page.
| After Local Jail | Lookup Source | Use Case |
|---|---|---|
| State sentence | Louisiana DPS&C locator | Person transferred to sentenced state custody |
| Federal sentence | BOP inmate locator | Federal custody or post-1982 federal records |
| Immigration detention | ICE ODLS | Immigration detention lookup |
| Custody notification | VINELink Louisiana | Notification registration and status alerts |
About Bienville Parish Jail Records
The local record pattern is unusually compact because the jail, sheriff, clerk, and district attorney are all tied to the courthouse address. Sheriff John E. Ballance is listed by the parish, DPS&C, and LSA. The LSA directory also lists LaTricia Green as Parish Prison Warden and gives the prison phone and fax. The official sheriff website is a basic public landing page with court-cost, property-tax, traffic-ticket, crash-report, and policy links rather than a full jail manual.
That source mix shapes how Bienville Parish Jail information should be read. The sheriff and jail answer custody, jail docket, roster, and booking questions. The clerk answers filed criminal-record and copy questions. The DA decides prosecution. DPS&C, BOP, and ICE answer custody only when the person has moved out of the local jail system.