Detention Center Release Destinations
A release from Assumption Parish Detention Center ends the sheriff's physical control over one booking. For a local defendant, the destination may be the community after bond, dismissal, acquittal, time served, or completion of a parish sentence. A court can also place the person on probation. Each path should appear in the jail's release or transfer entry and in the criminal docket, though the court record may not show the exact moment the person left the building.
Other departures are transfers. A person can move to another parish jail, a Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections placement, federal custody, or immigration custody. A transfer ends detention-center custody without ending confinement. Read the release disposition, releasing authority, and receiving agency together. Phrases such as “DOC,” “hold,” “detainer,” or “released to the custody of” require a search of the next agency.
| Departure | Where to confirm it |
|---|---|
| Bond, dismissal, or time served | Jail release entry plus Assumption Parish court docket |
| Probation | Court sentence, VINELink, and Donaldsonville District |
| DPS&C transfer | Louisiana state locator or LAVNS |
| Another parish | Named receiving jail |
| Federal or ICE transfer | BOP, federal court, ICE locator, or receiving office |
Note: The receiving agency is essential when the detention center entry shows a transfer instead of community release.
Confirm Detention Center Releases
APSO publishes a Current Inmates portal, not a release archive. A matching profile means the person is currently listed. No match does not prove release because the profile can disappear after release, transfer, a data correction, or another custody event. Record the check time, then follow the custody path.
- Confirm the person's full name, likely spelling, approximate date of birth, booking date, charge, and booking number if known.
- Check APSO Current Inmates once. If listed, contact the jail for current status. If absent, do not assign a release date from the absence.
- Call the detention center and ask whether the named booking ended by release or transfer. Request actual date, time, reason, and receiving authority.
- Review the Assumption Parish Clerk criminal docket for bond, dismissal, sentence, probation, revocation, or an order sending the person elsewhere.
- If the person entered DPS&C legal custody, use Louisiana VINELink or call the state locator. If a federal or immigration agency received custody, use that specific system.
The Assumption Parish released inmate search explains the full local, state, court, and federal sequence and the public fields to request.
Detention Center Release Records
Call the Assumption Parish Detention Center for a direct custody question. For a lasting record, send APSO a written request that identifies one booking. Ask for the actual release or transfer date and time, disposition or reason, releasing authority, receiving agency or destination if public, charge and bond status maintained with the booking, and the booking photograph when needed. Request an electronic copy, ask for a fee estimate, and keep the submission date.
233 Highway 1008
Napoleonville, LA 70390
Phone: 985-369-7283
Fax: 985-369-9782
Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office
112 Franklin Street
Napoleonville, LA 70390
Mailing: P.O. Box 69, Napoleonville, LA 70390
Phone: 985-369-7281 | Fax: 985-369-1395
APSO has not posted a dedicated release-record form, a named records custodian, a copy schedule, a booking-photo policy, a retention term, or records-office hours in the sources reviewed. Do not reuse unrelated hours from the sheriff's site. Ask which office should receive the request and where an older record is stored.
Louisiana Public Records Law allows inspection and copies of public material, subject to specific limits. Article 228 keeps core booking-book information open. Investigative facts, juvenile material, protected personal data, security information, and sealed or expunged records may be withheld or redacted. Request the public release event rather than an entire investigative file.
Note: A posted fee was not found, so ask for a written estimate before copies or archive work begin.
Assumption Detention Center Custody Mix
The Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office operates this parish jail. It holds pretrial and other local people and can house some DPS&C offenders locally. That legal mix changes the search route. A local defendant may leave after court or bond action. A DPS&C offender can remain in state custody even after transport away from Napoleonville.
A June 2022 Basic Jail Guidelines monitoring report gives a dated snapshot. It recorded operational capacity of 125 and an inspection-day count of 115. The count included 36 male DOC offenders and 79 local people. Those are not current population numbers and do not measure annual releases. They establish the facility's dual role on that inspection day.
The official monitoring report should be cited with its date each time. It cannot support a claim about today's occupancy.
Note: The dated report proves a mixed custody role, not current population, capacity use, or release volume.
Why Assumption Releases Stay Ambiguous
The dated custody mix explains a local problem that a simple name search cannot solve. The same roster can display a person awaiting a parish court decision and a person already serving a state sentence. Both profiles may later vanish from the public view. One departure can be a true community release. The other can be transport to a state institution or a different local housing site.
For a local case, request the APSO exit entry and check the clerk docket. For a state case, call the DPS&C locator at 225-383-4580 with the person's DPS&C number, or name and date of birth. The locator can give current housing, the facility address and phone, and a projected release date when applicable. A fully discharged state case may require a narrow request for the public discharge date under R.S. 15:574.12.
The APSO Corrections Services page draws the same line. State locator coverage does not extend to every pretrial person or someone serving only a parish or municipal sentence.
Assumption Detention Center Portal Limits
The public jail configuration is set to people in custody today. It enables name, race, sex, date of birth, cell block, arrest date, and mugshot information. Its configured filters are name, race, and sex. Although the underlying software may contain components for release dates, APSO's public configuration does not enable a release-date column. Software capacity is not proof of publication.
The official APSO gateway labels the function and provides the right starting point:
The screenshot documents the source route, not a release feed. Save a booking number or other record key if later proof will be needed, and avoid retaining more personal information than the task requires.
Note: A current portal profile can aid identity matching, but its disappearance does not supply a release reason.
Assumption Detention Center Release Logistics
No official source was found for a public exit point, release-desk hours, fixed daily release time, weekend or holiday practice, property-pickup rule, family waiting area, or transportation instruction. The sheriff's posted weekday hours for a prescription drop box do not govern jail release processing. Call the detention center before traveling or arranging a pickup.
Ask staff where an approved pickup may wait, whether the person must retrieve property at the time of release, and whether a transfer is pending. Those are questions, not claims about a standing policy. Court timing, bond processing, identity checks, another hold, and transport can all affect the actual exit. A projected or expected time is not the final record.
Leadership names can change as well. The Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory identified Warden Shawanda Lemon and Capt. Rodney Rhodes as corrections leadership when researched. Use the durable public detention-center number for current confirmation.
Assumption Release Reentry Programs
A DPS&C attachment dated July 2020 listed seven programs at the detention center. The documented set included FDIC Money Smart for Young Adults, Inside/Out Dad, Louisiana Risk Management Model phases, Partners in Parenting, Thinking for a Change, UCCI cognitive-behavioral work, and Understanding and Reducing Angry Feelings. These programs relate to financial, family, decision, and behavior skills.
The DPS&C program attachment is historical evidence, not a current schedule. Ask the detention center which programs remain offered, who qualifies, and whether records of completion follow the person. Participation does not prove a release date or supervision status.
Assumption Federal Transfer Records
No verified federal or ICE contract was found for the Assumption Parish Detention Center. The 2022 inspection counted zero federal and zero ICE occupants on that date. Generic agency codes in the jail software include federal and immigration labels, but a code list does not prove that the jail currently houses those groups.
If a release record names ICE, the U.S. Marshals Service, BOP, or another federal authority, treat it as a transfer until the receiving office confirms otherwise. BOP mainly covers sentenced federal custody. Federal court and the Marshals may be more useful for a pretrial federal case. ICE's locator can help with current or recent immigration custody, but an empty result does not prove community release.
Ask APSO whether physical custody was handed to another agency and request the receiving authority if public. The exact agency name is far more useful than a generic “federal hold” label.