Morehouse Parish Jail Inmate Lookup

Morehouse Parish Jail Overview

Morehouse Parish Jail is listed by the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office Corrections Division as the jail facility at 250 East Walnut Street in Bastrop. The operator is the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office, led by Sheriff Mike Tubbs. The jail should be treated as the first local contact for a newly arrested person or someone believed to be in parish custody, but it is not the only correctional location in the parish system. The sheriff also identifies the Annex and Detention Center as separate correctional locations, and Louisiana DPS&C lists the jail, annex, detention center, and transitional work program as local jails or programs for Morehouse Parish.

The jail's public lookup path is the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office Jail Roster, hosted through LA VINE. The roster is useful for current custody because the sheriff's corrections page describes LA VINE rosters as live lists updated every 30 minutes from jail-management-system data. It is not a complete case file. The public table shows name, date of birth, race, gender, arrest date when available, and a VINELink registration icon. It does not show public mugshots, charges, bond amounts, housing units, court dates, or booking numbers in the inspected table.

Morehouse Parish Jail Capacity and Population

The best sourced capacity figure for this facility is grouped with the Jail Annex. A December 2021 legislative/DOC local corrections table listed "Morehouse Parish Jail and Annex" capacity as 264. The same excerpt listed the Jail and Annex population or ADP row figure as 72. Those numbers should be read as the combined jail-and-annex line from that 2021 table, not as a current bed count or a building-by-building daily population.

The live roster count is also broader than a single building. The Morehouse LA VINE roster inspected on June 16, 2026 displayed 201 offenders and a last-updated time of 10:30:51 AM Central Time. Because Morehouse uses multiple facilities and the roster is a point-in-time custody list, the count should not be called the official 2026 average daily population for the East Walnut jail.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Morehouse Parish Jail

Use the county roster first for people believed to be held locally at the jail, annex, detention center, or another Morehouse sheriff facility. Open the Morehouse LA VINE roster over HTTP if the HTTPS version does not load. The page is an older ASP.NET roster with a disclaimer modal, alphabet filters, table-header sorting, and VINELink logo links for notification registration.

1. Open the Morehouse roster and click "I agree" on the disclaimer before the table appears.
2. Use "Show All" or choose the first letter of the person's last name, then sort by name, DOB, race, gender, or arrest date if needed.
3. Compare name, DOB, race, and gender carefully because the roster does not provide a booking number search box or facility dropdown.
4. Use the VINELink icon beside a row to register for custody-status notifications, not to view a full charge or bond profile.
5. If the person is not listed, call Morehouse Parish Jail at (318) 281-9336 or the sheriff's main office at (318) 281-4141.

If the person has already been sentenced or transferred, check the Louisiana VINELink person search and DPS&C location path. Federal inmates use the BOP locator, and immigration detainees use ICE ODLS rather than the parish roster.

Morehouse Parish Jail Address and Contact

The jail's published address and phone are the main custody-confirmation channels for the Bastrop jail location. LA DPS&C also lists the jail fax and email contact. For public-record requests that are not answered by the roster, the sheriff's administrative office at 351 South Franklin Street is the broader agency contact point, but immediate custody, visiting, and deposit questions should start with the jail phone number.

Visiting Someone at Morehouse Parish Jail

The official Morehouse sources inspected do not publish a visitation schedule, dress code, approved visitor process, video-visit rule, property rule, or holiday/lockdown policy for the jail. Do not rely on third-party hours. Call (318) 281-9336 before traveling, confirm that the person is still held at the East Walnut jail, and ask whether visitors need government photo identification, prior approval, a specific visitor entrance, or a current restriction. The jail is in the downtown Bastrop government area, but official sources do not publish visitor parking or accessibility details.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Morehouse Parish Jail

The sheriff's corrections page names Correct Solutions/CSG Pay for phone and deposit services. It describes prepaid collect call accounts, where the incarcerated person can call the phone number attached to that account, and PIN debit accounts, where the incarcerated person uses a unique PIN to choose numbers, including international calls. Customers are directed to create an account at csgpay.com or use the phone deposit line. The official pages inspected did not publish jail mail rules, a mail-scanning policy, legal-mail instructions, money-order rules, or book/package rules, so call before mailing anything beyond a basic letter.

Booking and Intake at Morehouse Parish Jail

Morehouse official pages do not publish a step-by-step local booking manual. Based on the local roster and Louisiana process, a person arrested by the sheriff, Bastrop Police, Louisiana State Police, or another agency may be transported to a Morehouse facility for identification, search and property inventory, fingerprinting or photographing where required, medical and security screening, classification, and entry into the jail-management system. Once the jail data transmits to LA VINE, the person may appear on the public roster.

Roster timing can lag behind intake, verification, and data transmission. Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure art. 230.1 requires prompt appearance before a judge within 72 hours of arrest, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, for appointment of counsel. That means the public roster may confirm custody before the court record fully reflects formal charges, bond activity, or later prosecutorial decisions.

About Morehouse Parish Jail

Morehouse Parish Jail sits in Bastrop near the parish courthouse and related government offices. The jail is one part of a split local correctional system that also includes the Jail Annex, the Detention Center, and the Transitional Work Program. That structure matters when looking up a person because a roster result confirms Morehouse custody but may not identify which building houses the person. The sheriff's corrections page and the DPS&C Morehouse Parish listing should be read together for facility context.

Local program details, medical services, grievance rules, education, religious services, and jail-specific condition reports were not published in the official Morehouse jail pages inspected. Recent local news in the research file concerns broader law-enforcement activity and litigation, not a confirmed jail-conditions order for this facility. For practical purposes, confirm custody through the roster, verify location by phone, and use court or clerk channels for formal case records.