Lincoln Parish Detention Center Inmate Roster Lookup

Lincoln Parish Detention Center Overview

Lincoln Parish Detention Center, often shortened to LPDC, is the parish jail facility at 170 Road Camp Road in Ruston. The official sheriff detention-center page says LPDC is governed by the Lincoln Parish Detention Center Commission and operated day to day by the Lincoln Parish Sheriff's Office, led by Sheriff Stephen Williams, under a cooperative endeavor agreement. That structure matters because LPDC is not just a sheriff office building. The commission is tied to the statutory and funding framework for a centralized Lincoln Parish jail and prison, while the sheriff's office handles jail operations.

The facility holds male and female inmates, including pretrial inmates, parish-sentenced inmates, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections inmates housed locally, people held on probation or parole matters, bench warrants, fugitive holds, drug court holds, and arrests made by multiple local agencies. The official visitation schedule separates 17-year-old youthful inmates, female pretrial inmates, female DOC and sentenced inmates, male pretrial inmates, and male DOC and sentenced inmates, which is the clearest local evidence of the custody categories handled at LPDC.

The official LPDC about page is the source for the facility's governance, address, phone, fax, and funding background.

The local source confirms that LPDC is commission-governed and sheriff-operated, which is useful context when routing questions about custody, maintenance, funding, or jail operations.

Lincoln Parish Detention Center Address and Contact

For custody status, visitation questions, or facility-specific instructions, start with LPDC rather than the courthouse. The jail and the sheriff's public safety complex are both on Road Camp Road, while the clerk and district attorney offices are downtown near West Texas Avenue. That local geography helps prevent a common errand problem: jail visitation, inmate mail, and custody confirmation are Road Camp Road issues, while filed criminal case records are courthouse and clerk matters.

Lincoln Parish Detention Center Capacity and Population

Use LPDC population figures carefully. No current official sheriff or DPS&C page located for this build published a separate rated capacity, average daily population, annual booking count, or length-of-stay trend for Lincoln Parish Detention Center. Vera's Louisiana Locked Up profile reports a combined Lincoln Parish prisons and jails capacity of 348, but that figure is not separated into an official LPDC-only rated bed count. It should not be quoted as the jail's official capacity without a later primary source.

The OCV roster feed behind the official sheriff inmate listing returned 370 entries when inspected on June 16, 2026. That is a live roster count from a point-in-time inspection, not an average daily population, not an official census report, and not a rated-capacity figure. The same extraction parsed 324 male entries, 45 female entries, and 1 unparsed or blank sex field. Arresting agency abbreviations included LPSO, Ruston Police, Louisiana State Police, Grambling-related agencies, Louisiana Tech Police, LPNET, and Probation and Parole.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Lincoln Parish Detention Center

For current county-jail custody, use the official Lincoln Parish Sheriff's Office inmate roster. The roster is backed by an OCV inmate feed and is the correct starting point for people held at LPDC after a local arrest, a warrant, a probation or parole hold, a campus-police arrest, or a parish-level detention event. If the web roster does not load, call LPDC at (318) 255-4440 and use the Lincoln Sheriff mobile app as a fallback channel for roster-related access, public safety information, and sheriff updates.

1. Open the official LPSO inmate roster page and let the embedded roster load.
2. Search by name, using alternate spellings if the person does not appear on the first try.
3. Check the record for booking information, charges, arresting agency, hold type, bond information when posted, and photo availability.
4. Confirm the person is still associated with Lincoln Parish Detention Center before planning a visit or mailing anything.
5. For post-transfer sentenced custody, use Louisiana VINELink or DPS&C resources, then call LPDC if the transfer timing is unclear.

The official roster page shows the OCV current inmate listing used for LPDC custody lookups.

The roster screenshot helps distinguish the sheriff's current custody listing from court records, state prison locators, and commercial search tools.

Lincoln Sheriff App and Phone Fallbacks

The Lincoln Sheriff app is available for iOS and Android. The App Store listing names the app "Lincoln Sheriff," while Google Play lists "Lincoln Parish Sheriffs Office." The store descriptions say the app helps residents connect with LPSO through public safety news, tips, reporting features, and interactive tools. Reviews and research notes mention jail roster loading issues after updates, so the app should be treated as a useful fallback, not as the only source.

Use the web roster first when it loads. If it fails, try the app, then call LPDC at (318) 255-4440 for current custody confirmation. For an emergency, the app listing itself says to call 911 rather than use the app. For a written public-records route, use the sheriff's public-records request instructions instead of relying on the app.

App links: Lincoln Sheriff on the Apple App Store and Lincoln Parish Sheriffs Office on Google Play.

Visiting Someone at Lincoln Parish Detention Center

LPDC visits are no-contact visits limited to one adult visitor and 15 minutes. A current valid photo ID is required, and visitors are subject to search and warrant check. Minor visitors age 17 and under must be accompanied by an adult, and small children may not be left unattended on LPDC property or in vehicles. Weekend registration begins at 7:45 AM and ends at 9:45 AM, with last sign-in at 9:30 AM.

LPDC publishes a detailed dress code. The listed exclusions include revealing shorts, halter tops, see-through garments, low-cut tops or dresses, hats or caps, sagging pants, jackets, sweaters, hoodies, skirts more than 2 inches above the knee, high-split skirts or dresses, inmate-like khaki, orange, or military clothing, sundresses, bathing suits, crop tops, spandex, backless tops, and sleeveless garments. Because jail schedules can change for lockdowns, court movement, discipline, staffing, or holidays, confirm the visit before traveling.

The official LPDC visitation schedule gives the population-specific days and times.

The schedule is especially important because LPDC separates pretrial, sentenced, DOC, female, male, and youthful visitation groups rather than using one general visiting window.

The official LPDC visitation rules page lists visitor limits, ID requirements, search and warrant-check rules, registration timing, and dress-code restrictions.

Those rules should be reviewed before a first visit because a clothing issue, missing ID, late arrival, or warrant problem can stop a visit at the door.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Lincoln Parish Detention Center

LPDC does not process ordinary non-legal inmate mail at the jail address. The sheriff's mail instructions send non-legal mail to a central scanning address in Bossier City, where it is opened, scanned, and delivered electronically through a kiosk system. Use the inmate's name and CTC PIN in the address. The located official page did not publish a legal-mail address, so legal materials should be confirmed directly with LPDC before mailing.

The official LPDC inmate mail page is the source for the Bossier City central processing address and scanned-mail process.

The mail screenshot is a practical checkpoint because sending ordinary mail to the jail itself can delay or prevent delivery.

The official commissary page lists commissarydeposit.com, City Tele Coin, the deposit phone line, and the LPDC lobby kiosk.

The commissary source confirms the deposit channels but does not publish a fee schedule, so deposit costs should be checked with the vendor before payment.

Booking and Intake at Lincoln Parish Detention Center

LPDC roster entries show that people arrive through several law-enforcement routes, not only through the sheriff's office. Arresting agency abbreviations in the feed include LPSO, RPD, GPD, GSUPD, GUPD, LATECH, LSP, LPNET, and P&P. In practical terms, a person arrested by Ruston Police, Grambling Police, campus police, Louisiana State Police, a narcotics task force, or probation and parole may still appear in the same LPDC inmate roster.

Roster charges should be read as booking charges or holds, not final court dispositions. A bench warrant, fugitive hold, probation or parole hold, or drug court hold can keep someone in custody even when the underlying court file is elsewhere. For filed charges, minutes, dispositions, or background searches, the Lincoln Parish Clerk and Third Judicial District Court records process is separate from the jail roster.

DOC and Sentenced Custody at LPDC

Louisiana DPS&C does not list a separate state prison in Lincoln Parish in the sources located for this build. However, LPDC's official visitation schedule has "DOC & sentenced" categories, which means some sentenced or state-custody inmates may be housed locally. After sentencing, a person may remain at LPDC for a time, transfer to another local jail that houses DOC inmates, or move to a state facility.

For sentenced custody after transfer, use Louisiana VINELink through DPS&C or the LAVINE notification system. LAVINE states it monitors adult inmates in parish jails and state prisons and provides release, transfer, and custody-change notifications. The LAVINE phone line listed in the research is 866-LAVNS-4-U or 866-528-6748. When the county roster and state locator disagree, call LPDC if the timing affects visitation, bond, pickup, or court appearance planning.

About Lincoln Parish Detention Center

LPDC's local history is unusually specific. The sheriff's research notes identify Louisiana R.S. 15:848 as the framework used in 1982 for the Lincoln Parish Police Jury to create a centralized single-parish jail and prison for people lawfully incarcerated in Lincoln Parish. The Lincoln Parish Detention Center Commission is responsible for equipping, maintaining, operating, and supporting the facility and prisoners held there. Operating costs are funded by a one-quarter-percent sales tax on retail sales in the parish.

The sheriff's newer administrative-staff page names JD Driskill as Major/Warden and Pam Torbor and Sara Knox as deputy wardens. The state DPS&C directory record also confirms the LPDC address, phone, and fax, but staff listings can change, so the sheriff's current administrative page should be treated as the best local staff source when it differs from a directory.