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Calcasieu Sheriff's Prison Overview

Calcasieu Sheriff's Prison is operated by the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office. The official facility map lists it at 5300 East Broad Street in Lake Charles, with phone (337) 431-1300 and fax (337) 431-1340. CPSO publishes a separate Calcasieu Sheriff's Prison page, and Louisiana DPS&C also lists it among Calcasieu Parish correctional locations. It is best described as a county-jail or prison-style parish facility, not as a full Louisiana state prison.

The facility sits in the same East Broad Street corrections corridor as the sheriff office and Calcasieu Correctional Center. That geography is useful, but it can also cause confusion. The CPSO roster is systemwide for sheriff custody, and the research extraction did not show a public housing or facility field on each roster card. A person may be in sheriff custody without the public page clearly proving whether the person is at Calcasieu Sheriff's Prison or another sheriff facility.

The official pages inspected did not publish a current capacity figure for Calcasieu Sheriff's Prison. Vera reports 1,110 combined capacity across 12 Calcasieu Parish prisons and jails, but that is not a facility-level number and should not be used as the prison's capacity.

The facility screenshot comes from the official CPSO Calcasieu Sheriff's Prison page.

The source page confirms the distinct facility name and helps separate Sheriff's Prison questions from Calcasieu Correctional Center questions.

Calcasieu Sheriff's Prison Population

Calcasieu Sheriff's Prison holds a sheriff-custody population rather than a federal, immigration, or ordinary state-prison population. The facility map describes the population as Calcasieu Parish prisoners and work or detail eligible people under sheriff custody. That wording matters for lookup: the person may still appear in the CPSO inmate roster even when the public needs a phone call to confirm the exact building.

Population and capacity data for this facility were not published in the official CPSO or DPS&C sources inspected. No average daily population, annual intake number, sex breakdown, or security-classification count was found. The public roster can show current individual records, but it should not be treated as a complete statistical report for the facility.

Search Calcasieu Sheriff's Prison Roster

Start with the CPSO inmate roster for anyone believed to be at Calcasieu Sheriff's Prison. The roster page documented in the research has a Type to Search field, paginated inmate cards, booking photos, View Charges links, and VINELink Notify Me links. Because the public extraction did not expose a facility assignment field, a roster match should be followed by a call to the prison when a visit, mail exception, pickup, or bond action depends on the actual building.

1. Search the CPSO roster by name, using the most distinctive part of the person's name if spelling may vary.
2. Open View Charges from the matching card to inspect the jail profile or charge view.
3. Use the VINELink status link if release, transfer, or notification is the main concern.
4. Call Calcasieu Sheriff's Prison at (337) 431-1300 to confirm housing before travel or mail decisions.
5. If the person is no longer in sheriff custody, check Louisiana VINELink, BOP, or ICE depending on the type of transfer.

Calcasieu Sheriff's Prison Contact

Use the prison number for housing confirmation, visitation questions, and facility-specific directions. Use the main CPSO number when a question is about a sheriff division rather than the jail building. The prison fax number appears in the facility facts and is useful for official routing, but families should not send normal inmate mail by fax or to the street address unless CPSO instructs them to do so.

Calcasieu Sheriff's Prison Visits

CPSO did not publish a visitation schedule table for Calcasieu Sheriff's Prison in the sources inspected. The safest public instruction is to call before traveling. Ask whether the person is housed at the prison, whether visits are available that day, what identification is required, whether visits are in person or video based, and whether the person's classification or disciplinary status affects visits.

Calcasieu Sheriff's Prison Mail

CPSO applies the same published normal-mail system to Calcasieu Sheriff's Prison and Calcasieu Correctional Center unless a later official exception says otherwise. Normal personal mail is sent to Smart Communications in Florida with the facility name, inmate name, and inmate ID number. It is scanned and delivered through a kiosk process. Mail sent to the jail building can be returned unless it qualifies as legal mail, court documents, bank statements, or publications.

For funds, the current CPSO inmate funds page names kiosk, online, and phone methods. Kiosks are located in the lobbies of Calcasieu Correctional Center and Calcasieu Sheriff's Prison. The page says deposits record to the inmate account within 24 hours. It did not publish a fee schedule, and an older FAQ note conflicts with the current page, so confirm if the deposit method is important.

Calcasieu Sheriff's Prison Intake

The facility map describes Calcasieu Sheriff's Prison as a prison-style parish facility. That means users should not assume it functions like a public walk-in booking counter for every new arrest. Intake and movement can depend on sheriff classification, court status, work or detail eligibility, and available housing. The public roster may show the person in sheriff custody while the physical assignment is confirmed by phone.

For charges and bond, start with the roster and the View Charges link, then use Court Records & Bonds or the Clerk and DA channels when the question becomes a formal court-record issue. A booking charge is not the same as a conviction. A bond amount or status can also change after court action.

About Calcasieu Sheriff's Prison

Calcasieu Sheriff's Prison is part of the local custody network that makes Calcasieu Parish different from a county with one jail building. The sheriff system includes the primary correctional center, this prison-style parish facility, and connections to transitional work programs listed by Louisiana DPS&C. Current custody starts with the sheriff roster, but state custody may move to VINELink, and federal or immigration custody moves to BOP or ICE tools.

CPSO's corrections materials also document work opportunities for eligible inmates and a modern mail-scan system. Those features affect daily jail access. Families should use the published CPSO mail and funds pages rather than third-party summaries because normal personal mail is not routed to the local street address.