Rapides Parish Transitional Work Program Offender Lookup

Rapides Parish Transitional Work Program Overview

The Rapides Parish Transitional Work Program, often shortened to TWP, is located at 400-C John Allison Drive, Alexandria, LA 71303. The "400-C" address is important because Detention Center II uses 400 B John Allison Drive nearby. RPSO describes TWP as housing about 315 transitional work offenders who are employed throughout the community. The purpose is reentry-focused: offenders build work history, trade experience, and gainful employment before returning to the community.

TWP is a facility type with different user intent from a normal jail roster page. Families may need housing and visitation information, but employers may also need hiring information. RPSO lists Jamie Lemoine and Kary Beebe as hiring contacts at (318) 449-4363, with office hours for hiring information Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The official source also lists Warden Kenneth Ferrell Sr., Assistant Warden Julie Sasser, Secretary Cynthia Smith, TWP Transportation, and a visitation contact number.

The source used for this page is the official RPSO Transitional Work Program payload. It supplies the facility address, program role, population figure, mail format, hiring contacts, visitation phone, transportation phone, and dorm-based visitation schedule.

Rapides Parish Transitional Work Program Capacity and Population

RPSO says the Transitional Work Program houses approximately 315 transitional work offenders. The research file treats that as a facility-described population figure from the official TWP page JSON inspected in June 2026. Because TWP is a work-release and reentry setting, the figure should not be blended into pretrial jail population without explanation. The combined official facility total for Rapides Parish includes TWP participants, but they are not the same category as newly booked pretrial detainees at DC-I.

How to Look Up an Offender at the Rapides Parish Transitional Work Program

The public lookup channel for TWP remains the Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office inmate search and Jail Records pathway. The official RPSO inmate search links to the New World inquiry at http://12.189.45.22/NewWorld.InmateInquiry/LA0400000. A person assigned to TWP may have moved there after sentencing, classification, and work-program approval, so a recent arrest may first appear under DC-I before a later work-program assignment. If the person is not listed locally, check whether they transferred into Louisiana DPS&C custody outside Rapides Parish.

1. Open the RPSO inmate search from the sheriff site, app, or New World inquiry endpoint.
2. Search by the available name or booking fields shown on the live form.
3. Confirm that the facility or housing detail points to the Transitional Work Program before using the TWP mail or visitation schedule.
4. For employment-related questions, use the TWP hiring contacts rather than the booking desk.
5. For state custody outside the parish system, use the Louisiana DPS&C offender locator; for release notification, use Louisiana VINELink.

Rapides Parish Transitional Work Program Address and Contact

TWP has more specialized contacts than the detention centers because the program interacts with employers, transportation, dorm visitation, and work-release operations. Use the hiring line for employer questions, the visitation line for schedule confirmation, and the transportation number for work-program transportation issues. For an initial arrest or booking-status question, the DC-I booking desk is still the all-parish intake contact.

Visiting Someone at the Rapides Parish Transitional Work Program

TWP uses a dorm-based schedule on the first and third full weekends. Trusty visitation is Saturday morning from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Dorms A through E visit Saturday afternoon from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Dorm I and Dorm II rotate Sunday times by half-year: from January through June, Dorm I visits Sunday morning and Dorm II visits Sunday afternoon; from July through December, Dorm I visits Sunday afternoon and Dorm II visits Sunday morning. Because dorm assignment controls the time, call the TWP visitation number before traveling.

Mail, Phone, and Money at the Rapides Parish Transitional Work Program

The official TWP mail format is offender's name, Rapides Parish Transitional Work Program, 400-C John Allison Drive, Alexandria, LA 71303. Use the full facility name and the "400-C" address because 400 B John Allison Drive belongs to DC-II. Complete mail restrictions, photo rules, publications rules, and prohibited-item lists were not located in the official JSON, so confirm the current rules before mailing anything. For account funds, RPSO's parishwide commissary source lists TouchPay/GTL online deposits through the GTL portal, phone deposits at 1-866-232-1899, and facility number 271309. Ask TWP whether a work-program participant has additional account or employer-pay restrictions.

Work-Program Intake and Assignment

TWP is not the all-parish booking desk. Rapides Parish intake begins at DC-I, where booking, property inventory, screening, charge entry, bond review, and initial classification occur. A person assigned to TWP has moved into a transitional work setting after the custody and classification process supports that placement. The program's focus is community employment, so the day-to-day questions can involve work schedule, transportation, employer contact, dorm assignment, visitation rotation, and mail rather than the first-booking questions handled downtown.

For court questions, separate the jail or work-program status from the criminal case. The RPSO inmate search can help locate the person and facility. Jail Records handles jail records and local custody calculations. Court filings, formal charges, and dispositions belong with the Rapides Parish Clerk of Court and District Attorney. If a person leaves Rapides Parish local custody for a state prison, use the Louisiana DPS&C locator and the receiving facility's visitation and mail rules.

About Rapides Parish Transitional Work Program

The Transitional Work Program is the most reentry-focused facility in the Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office corrections system. Research-Rapides Section 17 identifies it as the strongest local reentry detail because it houses about 315 offenders employed throughout the community so they can gain work history, trade skills, and regular employment before release. Employers can contact the program at (318) 449-4363. For families, the most important practical points are the dorm-based visitation rotation, the exact 400-C John Allison Drive mail address, and the need to verify whether the person remains in TWP before sending money or mail.