Rapides Parish Detention Center I Inmate Search

Rapides Parish Detention Center I Overview

Rapides Parish Detention Center I, often shortened to DC-I, is operated by the Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office. The official facility page places it at 701 Murray Street, Suite 303, Alexandria, LA 71301, in the downtown government area near the sheriff's headquarters and courthouse traffic. RPSO identifies DC-I as the intake facility for all of Rapides Parish, which makes it the first local jail stop for many people arrested by the sheriff's office, Alexandria Police, Pineville Police, Louisiana State Police, municipal agencies, or another lawful arresting agency inside the parish.

The facility population is broader than one simple "city jail" category. RPSO says DC-I houses about 330 pretrial offenders, parish prisoners, Louisiana Department of Corrections offenders, and municipal offenders. That means the same building can hold someone waiting for a first court appearance, someone serving parish or municipal time, or a DOC offender housed locally under parish supervision. For readers, the important distinction is that DC-I is a Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office jail, not a state prison. The parish inmate search and the DC-I booking desk are the correct starting points for current local custody.

The official RPSO DC-I content payload is available at the Detention Center I page source. That source is the basis for the facility address, contacts, visitation blocks, offender mailing address, and the approximately 330-offender figure used here.

Rapides Parish Detention Center I Capacity and Population

RPSO describes DC-I as housing approximately 330 pretrial offenders. The research file notes that this is a facility-described population statement from the official RPSO JSON payload inspected in June 2026, not an audited average daily population report. Use the number as a practical facility figure and avoid treating it as a certified daily census. The same official source also says DC-I serves all-parish intake and can hold parish prisoners, DOC offenders, and municipal offenders, so the population can include more than newly arrested pretrial detainees.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Rapides Parish Detention Center I

The correct public lookup channel for DC-I is the Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office inmate search, which links to the official New World inmate inquiry at http://12.189.45.22/NewWorld.InmateInquiry/LA0400000. The RPSO manifest also identifies an OCV inmate feed and recent-arrests feed. Because the static research pass could not verify every field shown in the live portal, searchers should avoid assuming that every profile will show a mugshot, bond amount, housing unit, or court date. Current custody and release-sensitive information should be verified with the DC-I booking desk.

1. Open the RPSO inmate search from the sheriff site or go directly to the New World inmate inquiry endpoint.
2. Search by the name or booking fields shown on the live form. Use both first and last name when common names return too many results.
3. Confirm that the record is a Rapides Parish custody record and check whether the listed facility is DC-I or another RPSO facility.
4. Review any available custody, charge, bond, and status details, then call the booking desk before visiting, posting bond, sending money, or relying on a release date.
5. If the person has been sentenced and moved out of parish custody, use the Louisiana DPS&C offender locator instead. For custody notifications, use Louisiana VINELink.

Rapides Parish Detention Center I Address and Contact

Use the booking desk for immediate custody questions, recent booking confirmation, and basic routing before a visit. RPSO's official DC-I contacts also identify Warden Julie Sasser, Assistant Warden Mark Thomas, and Administrative Assistant Jennifer Williams. Email addresses appear in the official contact material, but phone contact is the better first step for time-sensitive custody, visit, or bond questions.

Visiting Someone at Rapides Parish Detention Center I

DC-I visitation is limited to Saturday blocks in the official RPSO facility material. The page lists a morning block from 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and an afternoon block from noon to 3:30 p.m. Special visits, child visits, and pastoral visits require pre-approval through the Warden's office. The published source does not provide a full dress code, attorney-visit policy, ID list, parking map, or prohibited-items list, so confirm the active rules with DC-I before traveling to Murray Street.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Rapides Parish Detention Center I

The official DC-I page lists the offender mailing address as 701 Murray Street, Suite 303, Alexandria, LA 71301. It also says money orders may be mailed to the facility address or brought on visitation days, and that personal property for an offender may be brought on visitation days. In addition, RPSO publishes a parishwide TouchPay/GTL deposit channel at the TouchPay/GTL online payment portal, with phone deposits at 1-866-232-1899 and facility number 271309. Confirm whether a particular DC-I account can receive a mailed money order, an online deposit, or property before sending anything.

Booking and Intake at Rapides Parish Detention Center I

Rapides-specific intake begins at DC-I. A person arrested in the parish is normally transported to the facility for identity confirmation, security search, property inventory, booking record creation, fingerprinting, booking-photo workflow if used by the facility, medical or mental-health screening, charge and hold entry, bond review, and classification. After booking, the jail side controls custody, housing, visits, mail, account funds, and release logistics. The court side controls formal charges, case filings, hearings, arraignment, motions, plea, trial, disposition, and sentence. Do not treat a booking charge in the jail search as the final court charge.

If a person later moves to DC-II, DC-III, or the Transitional Work Program, the lookup may still begin through the RPSO inmate inquiry, but the visitation and mail instructions change by facility. If a sentenced person moves to Louisiana DPS&C custody outside Rapides Parish, the parish roster may stop being the best source and the state offender locator becomes the better channel.

About Rapides Parish Detention Center I

DC-I is the local custody hub that connects the sheriff's jail process to Rapides Parish courts, bonds, Jail Records, and other RPSO facilities. Jail Records handles jail records, DOC classification and billing, parish probation, DWI probation, and parish-time calculation. Bonds and fines are handled through RPSO Bonds & Fines during weekday office hours, with bonds also routed through the Main Office Desk Sergeant outside regular department hours. The sheriff's public ecosystem includes Inmate Search, Recent Arrests, Bonds & Fines, Jail Records, PREA Reports, and Louisiana VINELink as a separate notification tool.