Find Evangeline Parish Released Inmates

Evangeline Parish Release Records

A release is an event tied to one booking or sentence. It is not a permanent label on a person. The Evangeline Parish Sheriff's Office, often shortened to EPSO, records a departure from its jail. The court records the ruling that may have led to it. Louisiana corrections records state custody and any later supervision. ICE and the Federal Bureau of Prisons keep separate federal records. Those systems should not be blended.

An EPSO card in the official Released view confirms that the named booking left EPSO custody at the shown time. It does not say that the person went home. The departure could follow bond, time served, dismissal, a transfer, or another authority's hold. One profile may also contain more than one booking. Match the booking number and date so a closed episode is not mistaken for a later one.

Evangeline Parish Release Types

The reason for departure controls which record to check next. A public EPSO card can show charges and bond, but a bond amount on the card does not prove that bond caused the release. The jail transaction and court minute provide the missing link. Transfers need confirmation from the receiving authority.

Probation is a court-ordered sentence served in the community. Parole is conditional release from imprisonment under parole authority or statute. Discharge means the relevant custody or supervision term has ended. These terms describe different legal stages, so the exact source wording should be kept.

Evangeline Release Record Fields

The public EPSO Released card supplies a useful first layer. It can show a photograph, name, booking number, age, release date and time, booking date and time, charges, bond, and a profile link. The card does not publish the release reason, authority, destination, sentence status, transfer agency, or supervision status. Those gaps matter whenever the question is more than whether one EPSO booking ended.

Name and age

Identity clues that must be checked against the correct person.

Booking number

The specific custody episode connected to the release.

Booking date and time

When that episode began.

Release date and time

When EPSO recorded departure from that booking.

Charges and bond

Booking-level entries, not final disposition or proof of release method.

Release authority or destination

Information that usually requires the underlying jail entry or another agency record.

EPSO's underlying electronic list is more durable than the short public view. A completed federal reform agreement required an update at each booking and release and called for at least ten years of reviewable, auditable retention. The agreement also listed core fields such as case status, offenses, bond, next court date, and release date if known. Exemptions and redaction may still apply to a public request.

Request Evangeline Release Records

For an old release, missing destination, or unclear transaction, use the EPSO public records request form. A narrow request is faster to identify and less likely to collect protected material. Ask for the booking-and-release entry, not an entire jail file, unless a broader record is truly needed.

1. Print the EPSO form, then give the full name, aliases, approximate date of birth, booking number, and a tight date range when known.
2. Ask for booking and release timestamps, release disposition or authority, receiving agency if transferred, and the releasable booking photograph.
3. Sign and submit it to the Custodian of Records at 415 West Cotton Street, Ville Platte, LA 70586, by fax at 337-205-5866, or by email to monica.devillierreed@leo.gov.
4. Do not attach payment. Wait for the cost estimate, then follow the form's money-order instructions. A request may need to be filed again if payment is not received within ten working days.

EPSO posts a copy rate of $1 per page for the first 25 pages and $0.50 per page after that. A double-sided sheet counts as two pages. Disk, CD, or flash-drive media are listed at $15. Louisiana law allows inspection during regular office hours without a fee merely for looking at the record, while reasonable copy or transmission charges may apply.

Louisiana Release Record Law

Louisiana Revised Statutes 44:1 broadly covers paper and electronic material used or kept in public business, unless an exemption controls. Code of Criminal Procedure Article 228 keeps the booking book and listed booking summaries open for inspection. Release time and release type are not both part of Article 228's stated field list, so a request should name them under the broader public records law.

R.S. 44:32 addresses adult requests, inspection, and reasonable copy charges. R.S. 44:33 requires prompt written certification and a set day and hour within three days when an immediately available record is in active use, excluding weekends and legal holidays. That rule does not promise full production of every request in three days. R.S. 44:3 can protect investigative or security-sensitive material, while juvenile, medical, victim, sealed, and expunged information may also be withheld.

General retention under R.S. 44:36 is not the same as web visibility. The completed EPSO reform agreement documents a longer ten-year period for the electronic incarceration list and related case files. A short online feed may rotate long before the record itself reaches a lawful retention end.

Midnight Evangeline Release Logistics

EPSO policy specifically anticipates a midnight release. If family or transportation has not arrived, the person stays in back with a corrections officer rather than waiting in front. A person who elects to walk home exits through the sally port. The policy does not say all releases occur at midnight, and it does not identify a universal pickup door.

Call detention staff before leaving for the jail. Confirm that processing is complete, ask where a driver may wait, and ask which entrance is in use. The detention verification number shown on released profiles is 337-336-8687. EPSO also lists a 24-hour main line at 337-363-2161. A displayed timestamp records the completed event, not the start of paperwork.

Getting Home After Evangeline Release

Family pickup and walking home are both addressed in the local corrections policy. That makes transport planning part of a reliable release check. A driver should not assume the administrative office, detention address, and release door are the same place. Confirm the exact point with staff, especially after hours.

EPSO announced a new-jail construction project near the Ward 1 police-jury yard in 2024. The announcement does not establish completion or a change in operations. It is a reason to call ahead, not proof that pickup moved. Ask about property return at the same time because the public release card does not state when or where personal property is handed back.

Find Evangeline Parish Releases

A named-person search should follow the custody path, not stop at one database. Start with the official parish source for an EPSO booking. Move to Louisiana DOC for a state sentence, the court for disposition, and the correct federal system if another authority may have taken custody. The order below keeps each result in its proper scope.

1. Open the EPSO Released view and match name, age, booking number, booking date, charges, and photo. Record the release timestamp and access date.
2. Open the profile and separate every booking episode. One release must not be used to close a different booking or hold.
3. Check the 13th Judicial District Court record for bond, dismissal, sentence, or another judicial action.
4. Use Louisiana DOC and LAVNS when a state sentence or community supervision may apply.
5. Use ICE, BOP, or the relevant holding agency when a federal, immigration, or out-of-parish transfer is possible.
6. File a focused EPSO request when the short public view has expired or the release reason and destination remain unclear.

The Evangeline Parish 24-Hour Releases page focuses on the sheriff's changing recent-release snapshot. It is not a guaranteed rolling 24-hour archive. For an older named event, the retained list and court record are stronger paths.

Evangeline Recent Release Feed

EPSO publishes a real Released filter, sorted with the newest timestamp first. It does not label the display as a 24-hour or 72-hour window and gives no public refresh promise. On the research date, seven visible entries spanned part of two calendar days. The sound description is a short recent-release view whose contents change.

The EPSO recent releases screen shows the local source used for quick booking checks.

The screen's timestamps and booking numbers are useful evidence, while a fixed three-day range still requires a date-bounded records request.

Note: The public web view can change before an underlying record expires, so record the booking number and access date.

Evangeline State Release Search

Louisiana may keep legal custody of a sentenced person who is physically housed in a parish jail. An EPSO departure can therefore be a transfer into state custody. Begin with the Louisiana DOC offender information page, then use the locator route it provides. Search the full legal name and DPS&C number when available. Compare returned identifiers and read the status and facility literally.

A date labeled projected, tentative, parole eligibility, full term, or actual release must keep that label. A future calculation may change due to court papers, credit review, discipline, sentence amendments, detainers, new cases, or correction of the record. Louisiana DOC also offers an automated locator at 225-383-4580 using a DPS&C number or a name and date of birth.

The official Louisiana DOC instructions explain which state custody questions the locator answers.

This state channel should be used for DPS&C custody and release information, not as an archive of every Evangeline municipal arrest.

Evangeline Court Records After Release

The Evangeline Parish Clerk of Court serves the 13th Judicial District Court. Its linked public portal is account-based and paid, not an open free docket. Posted access prices can change, so confirm the terms before purchase. Direct clerk contact remains the durable route for a docket entry, minute, bill of information, judgment, sentence, dismissal, probation termination, or expungement order.

The clerk is at 200 Court Street, Suite 104, Ville Platte, LA 70586, with a mailing address of P.O. Box 347. The phone is 337-363-5671. Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. A court minute can prove the judicial action, but EPSO's transaction supplies the physical release time. Use both when timing and legal outcome must be kept separate.

The official Evangeline Parish Clerk site provides the court office path.

The clerk source remains useful after a sheriff roster card rotates out of public view.

Evangeline Supervision After Release

Louisiana LAVNS can include people under probation or parole supervision, and DOC states that its data update every 24 hours. A result can help connect a former state prisoner with an assigned agency. It does not cover every former parish detainee and is not a real-time clock.

The Ville Platte Probation and Parole District serves Evangeline, Allen, and St. Landry parishes from 1863 East Main Street in Ville Platte. Its phone is 337-363-6679. A district-wide program or caseload figure should never be treated as Evangeline-only data. EPSO also has a separate Sheriff Probation Division policy but publishes no named-person search for that local program. The Evangeline Parish Post-Release Supervision page explains how to identify the right authority.

Evangeline Release Notification Layers

Louisiana calls its statewide service the Louisiana Automated Victim Notification System, or LAVNS. It is reached through VINELink and the 24-hour telephone line at 866-528-6748. DOC says LAVNS can report criminal-justice movements that include release and that its data update every 24 hours. That daily update limit means an alert or search result should be checked with the reporting agency when timing is urgent or disputed.

Registration begins with the correct person record. Match the person, choose a notification option offered by the live system, provide and verify the contact method, and complete its confirmation step. If the telephone process requests a PIN, keep it private. A release or out-of-custody event reflects what the named reporting agency sent. It does not rule out a transfer, another hold, probation, parole, ICE custody, or a federal placement.

Louisiana has more than one notice layer. DOC states that ordinary LAVNS registration is not the same as Louisiana Victim Outreach registration, which is presently required for specified notices about a state-imprisoned person's projected and actual release. EPSO also has a separate registered-victim policy for properly registered victims or designated family members, including attempted notice before release and special handling of transfer, improper release, or escape events. Registering in one system should not be treated as registration in all three.

Evangeline Release Search Systems

Each public system answers a limited question. A live roster is about current jail custody. A release card is about one closed booking. A state locator can reflect legal custody or supervision that continues after physical departure. Federal tools cover only their own agencies.

Evangeline Release and ICE Handoffs

Evangeline Parish contains two immigration facilities: Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center and South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile. Neither is part of the EPSO booking roster. An ICE detainer can request notice and up to 48 additional hours so ICE may assume custody. An EPSO release timestamp may therefore mark a handoff rather than a return home.

Use the ICE Online Detainee Locator with an A-number and country of birth or the required biographical details. A missing result can mean release, transfer, removal, a data delay, a spelling mismatch, age limits, or custody elsewhere. Contact ICE or the facility when the outcome matters. Historical immigration records use ICE FOIA.

Evangeline Federal Release Records

The Federal Bureau of Prisons locator is the main historical search for a federal prison sentence. It accepts a BOP, DCDC, FBI, or INS identifier, or a name with optional race, age, and sex fields. A past result marked Released can provide the date the person left BOP custody. “Not in BOP custody” is narrower than “free.” State custody, immigration detention, supervised release, or another federal process may still apply.

A future BOP date is projected and may change. Louisiana good-time rules do not control a federal calculation. If the public result is incomplete, BOP FOIA is the historical prison-record fallback. The federal court docket and judgment establish case disposition and supervised release, while the BOP result addresses prison custody.

The U.S. Marshals Service holds and transports many federal pretrial prisoners, sometimes through local or private facilities. It does not provide a general public named-person locator on its custody pages. For a federal pretrial placement or movement that never became a standard BOP record, use the federal court's detention or release order, the relevant USMS district, and the holding facility. A person vanishing from a local roster during that movement is not proof of release.

New Jail and Evangeline Releases

EPSO announced in July 2024 that construction had begun near the Ward 1 police-jury yard. That notice offers useful local context but does not prove the project is complete, the jail has moved, or a new release entrance is active. Published sources also list both the administrative office at 200 Court Street and a location at 415 West Cotton Street.

Families should call before travel and ask for the current physical release point. The same call can confirm whether the public timestamp is final and whether transportation may wait there. No address should be treated as a pickup door merely because it appears in an agency footer or directory.

Expunged Evangeline Release Records

Louisiana expungement removes a qualifying record from public access without destroying it. Code of Criminal Procedure Article 971 keeps an expunged record confidential while allowing access for law enforcement and other authorized purposes. Article 983 generally caps combined expungement charges at $550, but waivers, allocations, and exceptions mean that figure is not a universal bill.

An order may make a photograph, fingerprints, disposition, arrest, and conviction information confidential. That can explain why a prior public profile or court item is no longer visible. Article 234 also provides a remove-without-charge process for qualifying booking photographs when the required proof is supplied. A stale copy does not override a current order or become proof of present custody.

Evangeline Parish Release Facilities

The facility map separates local booking sites from state and federal systems. Evangeline Parish Jail supplies the parish Released view. Basile, Mamou, and Ville Platte city jails require direct municipal and court confirmation because no separate public release feed was found for them. Louisiana DOC covers state legal custody, even when a sentenced person is housed locally. BOP covers federal prison history. The two ICE centers require ICE locator and facility checks.

• Evangeline Parish Jail / Evangeline Parish Detention Center, for EPSO bookings and parish release records
• Basile City Jail, a municipal jail distinct from the immigration facility in Basile
• Mamou City Jail, with direct city and court verification
• Ville Platte City Jail, where callers should name the booking agency
• Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections institutions and parish-jail placements, for state custody and discharge information
• Federal Bureau of Prisons institutions nationwide, for federal prison release history
• South Louisiana ICE Processing Center and Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center, for immigration custody

Note: “Basile jail” is ambiguous, so identify the operator and exact address before choosing a release search or making a call.