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Grant Parish Detention Facility Overview

Grant Parish Detention Facility is operated by the Grant Parish Sheriff's Office and serves as the parish jail in Colfax. The sheriff's Contact an Offender page states that the facility serves Grant Parish and the municipalities of Colfax, Montgomery, Dry Prong, Creola, Georgetown, and Pollock. It also houses offenders arrested by Louisiana State Police, Probation and Parole, Wildlife and Fisheries, and federal law-enforcement agencies when the crime occurred in Grant Parish.

The sheriff's corrections page lists a 106-inmate capacity and says the corrections division includes 41 deputies, clerical personnel, and medical personnel. It also notes video arraignment and video visitation. That video infrastructure affects both court movement and family access, because it can reduce inmate transport and reduce contraband risk. Warden Chance Durand and Assistant Warden MiChelle Pittman are listed on the sheriff's offender-contact page.

Grant Parish Detention Facility Capacity

The capacity figure for Grant Parish Detention Facility comes from the official sheriff's corrections page, and Vera facility data also lists 106. Vera's 2021 parish data counted 79 people in the Grant Parish local jail population, with 41 pretrial people and 38 held for DOC/DPS&C. That split matters for lookup and visitation because a state DOC offender may be physically housed in the parish jail while still tied to state custody.

The Grant Parish Sheriff's Office offender-contact page provides the detention facility address, jail phone, warden contacts, and service-area statement.

The service-area detail is especially useful because the arresting agency may differ from the facility that holds the person.

Look Up Grant Parish Detention Inmates

Use the official Grant Parish Sheriff's Office app for a current inmate search. KALB reported that the app provides a real-time inmate list with arrests, transfers, and status changes, but the research environment could not inspect the app profile fields. If an app result is missing or unclear, call the jail at 318-627-3724 and ask whether the person is in booking, housed, released, transferred, or held for another agency.

1. Search the official Grant Parish Sheriff's Office app for the inmate list.
2. Use the person's full legal name and date of birth if available.
3. Call 318-627-3724 if the app does not show a clear custody status.
4. Mail a written public-records request for older booking records or mugshots.
5. Use VINELink, DPS&C phone lookup, BOP, or ICE ODLS if the person is no longer in local jail custody.

Grant Parish Detention Address

The detention facility has a different public address and phone number from the sheriff's main office. Use the jail contact for custody, bond, visitation, and local detention questions. Use the sheriff's main office or records process for public-records routing and incident report questions.

Grant Parish Detention Visitation

Grant Parish Detention Facility uses video visitation. Visits must be scheduled at least 24 hours ahead by calling 318-627-3724 or using the JailFunds link from GPSO. The sheriff's visitation page separates parish offenders from DOC offenders, which helps explain why a state custody person may still have a local jail visit schedule.

All visits are monitored or recorded. GPSO rules prohibit cell phones, food, drinks, profanity, electronic devices, smart watches, tobacco, and vaping devices in the visitation room. Each monitor is limited to two visitors. Dress rules apply to female and male visitors.

The official visitation page shows the local video visitation schedule and room rules.

The schedule should be confirmed before travel because custody status, discipline, court, or facility needs can affect a visit.

Grant Parish Detention Mail Money

Ordinary offender mail is scanned through JailATM rather than sent directly to the jail. Legal mail, business documents, and transactional documents use the Richardson Drive jail address with the correct attention line. General correspondence included with official or transactional documents can be destroyed under GPSO rules, so separate ordinary mail from legal or business items.

The GPSO mail page lists the JailATM scanning address and the direct legal or business mail rules.

Use the correct address type because ordinary scanned mail and legal mail follow different paths.

Grant Parish Detention Bond

Bond transactions can be completed at the Grant Parish Detention Facility when bond is available. GPSO describes cash, surety, property, ROR, and fines/costs release channels. A judge must authorize ROR. A surety bond involves a bonding agency, and GPSO says it does not recommend bonding companies or get involved in the fee between the company and the person posting bond.

Grant Parish Detention Records

For records not available through the current app, GPSO requires written public-records requests by U.S. Mail. Send requests to Grant Parish Sheriff's Office, Custodian of Records, P.O. Box 187, Colfax, Louisiana 71417. The requester should be specific about the record requested, such as a booking record, booking photograph, arrest date, booking date, or arresting agency. GPSO may charge reasonable fees and does not have to create a custom format if the data does not already exist that way.

Crash reports and initial incident reports are handled through the Records Division in the Criminal Building at 220 Cedar Street, Colfax, LA 71417. That channel is separate from the jail information line. Medical record requests require a HIPAA form with the inmate's original signature.

Grant Parish Detention vs Pollock

Pollock can cause confusion. A local Pollock-area arrest for a Grant Parish offense may be taken to Grant Parish Detention Facility in Colfax. A sentenced federal inmate at FCI Pollock, USP Pollock, or the Pollock federal prison camp is in BOP custody at the federal complex and must be searched through the BOP inmate locator. The parish jail app does not locate sentenced BOP inmates.

State custody is separate too. For a DOC offender, search Louisiana VINELink or call the DPS&C phone locator at 225-383-4580. DPS&C lookup may return housing assignment, facility address, phone, and projected release date if applicable.