Morehouse Detention Center Release Paths
Morehouse Parish Detention Center is locally operated, but the people held there do not all have the same legal status. A pretrial parish detainee may leave after bond, dismissal, or court action. A parish-sentenced person may complete a local sentence. A Louisiana DPS&C offender in the same building can move to another state custody site, enter transitional work, leave prison for community supervision, or reach full discharge.
MPSO’s booking and release record proves a local physical transaction. Louisiana DPS&C proves state placement, sentence computation, supervision assignment, and discharge. The Morehouse Clerk proves the court disposition. A move out of Collinston is not automatically a release from the state sentence, and an active supervision result is not the same as full discharge.
Choose Morehouse Detention Release Channels
The booking number, sentencing court, and DPS&C number help select the correct route. A local booking with no state commitment stays on the MPSO path. A state-sentenced person needs the Louisiana locator and discharge channel even when housed in a local Morehouse building. The physical facility and the agency with release authority are related but not interchangeable.
| Status at the Center | Primary release source | What to confirm |
|---|---|---|
| Pretrial parish detainee | MPSO and Morehouse Clerk | Bond or court action plus actual jail departure |
| Parish-sentenced prisoner | MPSO facility record | Local computation, credit, and actual release entry |
| DPS&C offender held locally | Louisiana DPS&C | State placement, projected date, supervision, and discharge |
| Transferred person | Sending and receiving custodians | Destination and continued custody |
When the legal status is unclear, ask the Center which agency controls the sentence. A state person may disappear from the Morehouse roster while remaining imprisoned elsewhere. A local person can also move among the Jail, Annex, Center, and Transitional Work Program without returning to the community.
Confirm Morehouse Detention Release Records
For a recent local booking, start with the official MPSO-linked roster and preserve the search time. Search Louisiana VINELink for the exact person and compare identifiers, agency, event date, and status. Then call the Center and request the existing transaction. For a state sentence, use the DPS&C number whenever possible and follow the state route.
- Identify the person’s booking number, sentencing court, and DPS&C number if one exists.
- Ask whether MPSO or Louisiana DPS&C controlled the custody and sentence at the time of departure.
- For local custody, request the booking sheet, actual release time, disposition, and destination from MPSO.
- For state custody, call 225-383-4580 for placement, projected release date if applicable, or the assigned supervision district.
- Search the matching VINELink record and preserve the displayed event and update time as corroboration.
- Request the DPS&C discharge date under R.S. 15:574.12(G)(1)(a) when final state proof is needed.
A community-supervision result supports that prison confinement ended on that placement while supervision continues. It does not establish the date of full discharge. If the state result later disappears, the statutory discharge-date request and sentencing court record become the durable channels.
Morehouse Detention Center Release Contact
The official DPS&C Morehouse Parish directory lists the Center at 6444 Patey Road, Collinston, LA 71229, with telephone 318-874-7855. The facility fax is 318-874-5311. No verified public release hours, exit location, or family waiting procedure was found. Call for current operational details rather than applying a schedule from another jail.
Morehouse Parish Detention Center6444 Patey Road
Collinston, LA 71229
318-874-7855
Fax: 318-874-5311
Confirm current information before visiting
For a local public-record request, contact MPSO and specify the Center. For a state discharge request, contact Louisiana DPS&C, Attn: Deputy Secretary’s Office, PO Box 94304, Baton Rouge, LA 70804, at docpublicrecords@la.gov or 225-342-6744. Sentence-computation questions go to 225-342-0799 rather than the public-records custodian.
When calling, state whether the request concerns a local booking event or a state sentence. Staff can then identify the proper custodian. A phone confirmation can resolve the route, but the written event record remains the better source for an exact date, disposition, or transfer destination.
Morehouse Detention Release Capacity Context
A 2023 DPS&C Basic Jail Guidelines monitoring report described the Center with a capacity of 272 and documented custody of state offenders. That number is a dated capacity snapshot, not a current population count. It should not be used to estimate how many people are now confined or how many releases occur.
The report’s greater value for release research is its description of mixed custody and process records. It shows why a generic “county jail release” search can fail at this facility. The person’s legal status controls the relevant locator, computation office, records law, and discharge proof.
Morehouse Detention Center Release Checklist
The 2023 monitoring report documents a concrete planned-release trail. Personal property is returned with a signed receipt. Medical staff ensure required medication is supplied. People receive community-resource information. Releasees from the regional reentry program were reported to have two valid forms of identification. These details can corroborate an orderly discharge process, though none replaces the actual date and disposition.
- Property receipt
- Documents return of inventoried personal property with a signature.
- Medication provision
- Records the supply of required medication during planned release processing.
- Resource information
- Shows that community-resource material was provided at departure.
- Identification
- The report states regional-reentry releasees had two valid forms of identification.
Ask for these existing nonexempt items only when they relate to the booking and are needed to clarify the event. A release record request should remain focused. The checklist should not be turned into a promise that every person receives the same item under every type of transfer or emergency departure.
Note: Release-process documents corroborate a planned discharge, while the transaction record supplies the controlling date, disposition, and destination.
Morehouse Detention Center Transfer Records
The monitoring report says files move with an offender transferred to another local or DPS&C facility. That procedure supplies a concrete reason not to equate a roster disappearance with release. A person can leave the Patey Road building while records and legal custody continue at the receiving site.
When MPSO reports a transfer, request the destination agency and time. Then use the receiving custodian’s record to confirm arrival or later release. For a DPS&C move, the automated locator at 225-383-4580 can return custody assignment, facility contact, a projected release date if applicable, or the assigned Probation and Parole district. A missing projected date can reflect incomplete court paperwork rather than an immediate release.
Federal or immigration channels apply only when the actual record shows a federal writ, USMS transfer, or immigration detainer. No official evidence established a Morehouse ICE contract. The disappearance of a name from MPSO’s roster does not, by itself, justify an ICE conclusion.
Morehouse Detention Center Release Roster
MPSO describes its LA VINE roster as a live current-custody view updated every 30 minutes. It is a starting point for a local booking. It is not an official released-person list, and its written description does not promise release time, release reason, post-release history, or retention after departure.
The MPSO roster explanation shows its present-custody focus and documented update statement.
The screenshot helps identify the official local view, but a state-sentenced person may require the DPS&C route even while housed at the Center. MPSO’s 30-minute roster interval and the state’s 24-hour LAVNS update statement describe different layers. Preserve their labels rather than blending them.
Request Morehouse Detention Release Records
No dedicated MPSO release form, fixed fee, or published turnaround was verified. For a local case, direct a precise request to the Morehouse Parish Sheriff’s Office at 351 South Franklin Street, Bastrop, LA 71220, telephone 318-281-4141. Identify the Center, the person, booking number, and date range. Ask for the booking sheet, release screen, disposition, destination, and any nonexempt transfer record.
Louisiana R.S. 44:32 generally makes inspection free during regular hours and permits reasonable copying or transmission charges. Ask for electronic copies and the posted fee schedule or advance estimate. For a state person, cite R.S. 15:574.12(G)(1)(a) and request the discharge date plus public disposition or incarceration information. Most other state offender records remain confidential.
The full Morehouse Parish named-person search and record path is available from Home. It keeps local release, state discharge, court disposition, and VINELink status in their proper roles.
Note: A court order defines the legal action, but the controlling custodian’s event record proves when confinement actually ended.