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Vermilion Parish Jail Overview

Vermilion Parish Correctional Center is operated by the Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office Corrections Division. Louisiana DPS&C also lists the facility as Vermilion Parish Jail in its Vermilion Parish local jail listing. It is the only confirmed parish detention facility found in the official sources reviewed for Vermilion Parish. No separate state prison, federal Bureau of Prisons facility, ICE detention center, or long-term city jail was confirmed inside the parish.

The jail holds pre-trial detainees and sentenced inmates. A pre-trial detainee is a person held before a final case result. A sentenced inmate is serving a court-imposed jail sentence or waiting on transfer after commitment. VPSO states that Vermilion Parish Correctional Center houses both male and female inmates and uses separate housing areas for minimum, medium, and maximum classification levels. Classification is the jail's housing and security decision based on risk, conduct, court status, medical needs, and other facility factors.

The strongest public description of the building comes from VPSO's corrections page, which frames the jail as a secure local facility with custody, medical care, communication privileges, commissary access, and rehabilitative programming. For a broader view of current local custody tools, the Vermilion jail inmate records page explains the parish roster and records channels in more detail.

Vermilion Jail Capacity and Population

Official VPSO and DPS&C pages reviewed for Vermilion Parish Correctional Center do not publish a current daily population count for the jail. The public roster searches current inmates, but the captured official pages did not provide an aggregate count for how many people were in custody on a given day. Because of that gap, no occupancy rate or average daily population can be calculated from the official jail pages.

Vera's Louisiana Locked Up parish profile reports a combined Vermilion prisons and jails capacity of 155, but the source date was not visible in the captured research and the figure is not broken out as a current VPSO bed count. VPSO's Community Report gives one strong activity figure: 1,588 inmates were booked into VPCC from July 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025. That number is a booking volume, not a head count of people in custody at one time.

Vermilion Parish Inmate Lookup

For current parish custody, start with the VPSO Prisoner Search. The page is built for current inmates at Vermilion Parish Correctional Center and includes Last 24 Hours, Search by Name, and Search by Letter controls. VPSO warns that the information is updated on a regular basis but may not show the most current status. When timing matters, especially after a new arrest, the official fallback is the booking line.

The older official VPSO prisoner page at files.vpso.net/prisoners.aspx gives extra detail about search methods. It accepts first name, last name, both names, first name only, last name only, or CCN, and it states that all name searches are partial searches. It also has a Recent Arrest button and an A through Z last-name dropdown. The older page prompts users to register with LAVNS for custody-status change notices.

The current VPSO prisoner search shows the search tabs, visitation information, commissary link, booking number, jail administration number, and facility address for Vermilion Parish Correctional Center.

The search page is the right place to begin for a person who may still be in local custody, but VPSO's phone fallback remains important for the newest arrests and release changes.

1. Open the current VPSO Prisoner Search when the person may be held at Vermilion Parish Correctional Center.
2. Use Last 24 Hours for a recent arrest, Search by Name when a full or partial name is known, or Search by Letter when spelling is uncertain.
3. If the person was just booked, call booking at (337) 898-4430 because the online status may lag behind the jail record.
4. If the person no longer appears after sentencing, switch to LAVNS/VINELink or the DPS&C phone locator.

Vermilion Parish Jail Contact

The jail is separate from the sheriff's downtown administrative address and from court offices in Abbeville. The Law Enforcement Center and jail address is the point of contact for jail administration, booking, visitation confirmation, and facility-specific questions. VPSO's contacts page lists several direct jail lines, which helps route calls without treating every issue as a general sheriff's office question.

Vermilion Jail Visitation Rules

VPSO publishes both on-site and online visitation windows for Vermilion Parish Correctional Center. The posted schedule should be confirmed before a visitor travels, because VPSO states that visitation schedules can change. Visitors must also be on the approved visitation list, show valid government photo identification, and follow the facility dress code.

Visitor rules are strict because the same building houses people at different custody levels. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Visitors may be searched before entry. Cell phones, cameras, and electronic devices are not allowed in visitation, and no outside food or beverages may be brought into the visiting area. Rule violations can result in loss of visitation privileges.

Vermilion Jail Mail and Money

VPSO states that inmates at Vermilion Parish Correctional Center have telephone privileges and written correspondence privileges under facility policy. The public pages reviewed did not publish a complete mail format, phone vendor, phone rate, tablet vendor, postcard-only rule, or attorney-mail rule. Use the jail address for general routing only after confirming the exact mail instructions with jail administration.

For commissary, VPSO links a Make a Deposit option to CommissaryDeposit.com/Deposit. The vendor page showed fields for State, Facility, Date, Inmate ID, Name, Gender, Date of Birth, Amount, Fee, Total, and Phone Number. A fee field appears, but no fee schedule was captured before facility and inmate selection, so no dollar amount should be assumed.

Vermilion Jail Records Access

Current custody status starts with the VPSO roster, but records access does not end there. The VPSO Records Division accepts public-records requests in person, by email, and by U.S. mail. The research identifies records@vermilionsheriff.gov and Attn: Records, PO Box 307, Abbeville, LA 70511-0309 as the mail route. Records staff can be reached at (337) 898-4405.

Louisiana public-records law generally favors inspection and copying. Louisiana R.S. 44:31 gives adults the right to inspect, copy, or reproduce public records unless an exception applies, and Louisiana R.S. 44:32 addresses custodian duties, reasonable copy fees, and written determinations when public-record status is questioned. Jail records can still be limited by active investigation rules, juvenile confidentiality, expungement orders, medical privacy, booking-photo restrictions, or other exceptions.

Booking photos have their own rule set. Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure Article 234 governs booking photographs and remove-for-pay website obligations. The older VPSO prisoner page states that basic booking information may still display when a photo is withheld under Act 494.

Vermilion Jail Booking Intake

VPSO does not publish a full public booking checklist, but the official pages confirm the main public path. After an arrest by VPSO or another law-enforcement agency, a person may be brought to Vermilion Parish Correctional Center for booking. Booking creates the jail record, and the person may appear in the current prisoner search if held in local custody. A new arrest can take time to appear online, so the booking phone is the practical confirmation point.

1. Arresting officers transport the person to VPCC or another proper intake point.
2. Booking staff confirm identity and create the basic booking record.
3. The jail may take a booking photo, but some photos may not be displayed publicly under state law.
4. Property is secured, medical and mental-health screening occurs, and classification staff assign housing.
5. The person receives communication access under facility policy while the court process moves forward.

Formal criminal charges are a separate court process. The 15th Judicial District Attorney's criminal-process materials state that arrest files are sent to prosecutors after arrest, then reviewed for charging decisions. That means an early booking entry may not match the later bill of information, indictment, dismissal, amended charge, or court disposition.

Vermilion State and Federal Lookup

Vermilion Parish Correctional Center is the local jail search path, not the statewide prison database. When a person is sentenced to Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections custody, the search changes to Louisiana LAVNS/VINELink or the DPS&C phone locator at 225-383-4580. DPS&C says callers need either the person's DPS&C number or the person's name and date of birth, and the phone system can return housing assignment, address, facility phone, and projected release date if applicable.

Federal and immigration custody are separate again. The BOP Inmate Locator searches federal inmates from 1982 to the present by number or name. ICE custody uses the ICE Online Detainee Locator System. No BOP prison, ICE detention center, or confirmed current USMS contract facility was identified as a Vermilion Parish detention facility in the official sources reviewed.

Vermilion Jail Programs

VPSO's corrections materials describe several programs for people housed at Vermilion Parish Correctional Center. Educational services include GED preparation, literacy work, and vocational training. Treatment and support services include substance-abuse programming, anger management, religious services, Bible studies, and pastoral counseling by approved chaplains and volunteers. Work programs are available for eligible inmates and are supervised by staff.

The VPSO Corrections Division page also describes on-site medical staff, healthcare, mental-health services, and emergency medical response. The jail nurse line is listed separately on the VPSO contact directory, which is useful for routing medical questions through the proper facility channel rather than the general sheriff's office line.

• GED preparation, literacy support, and vocational training.
• Substance-abuse counseling and treatment programs.
• Catholic and nondenominational religious services and Bible studies.
• Anger-management sessions focused on triggers, reactions, and conflict control.
• Supervised work programs for eligible inmates.
• On-site healthcare, mental-health services, and emergency medical response.

The corrections page identifies Warden Captain Sammy LaPorte as the facility leader and summarizes the jail's custody, safety, and rehabilitation duties.

The corrections materials are the best official source for facility programs, while the prisoner search remains the starting point for current custody status.

Vermilion Jail Accountability

Recent public reporting should be handled with care. In March 2026, KATC and KPLC reported that a former Vermilion Parish corrections deputy was terminated after a grand-jury indictment tied to alleged sexual misconduct involving an inmate at VPCC. The reports attributed details to VPSO statements, including that Warden LaPorte received a complaint, requested an investigation, and forwarded information for outside review by the District Attorney's Office. The reporting described allegations and an indictment, not a conviction.

No current official consent decree, federal DOJ investigation, new-jail construction project, or overcrowding release order specific to Vermilion Parish Correctional Center was located in the reviewed sources. For conditions complaints by people in DPS&C custody, DPS&C materials describe staff contact followed by written concerns and the Administrative Remedy Procedure. Local VPCC grievance details were not published in the inspected VPSO pages.