Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center Records

Pine Prairie ICE Release Outcomes

Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center is in Evangeline Parish, but it is not an EPSO detention program. ICE is the legal custodian for the immigration placement. The state directory has used older correctional wording and lists Hampton Dupre Road, a post-office box, and a legacy phone number. The current ICE facility page determines the public name, function, and detainee-information route.

A release inquiry must distinguish four possible outcomes: current detention at Pine Prairie, transfer to another facility, removal from the United States, and release from ICE custody. The live locator may help with present placement, yet it is not a complete historical archive. Failure to find a record has several explanations and cannot select an outcome.

Confirm Pine Prairie ICE Releases

Use the search method that best matches the identifiers available. Exact biographical information matters because spelling and date mismatches can hide a result.

1. Open the ICE Online Detainee Locator System.
2. Choose the A-number route when the number and country of birth are known. Follow ICE's padding instruction.
3. If no A-number is available, use exact name, country of birth, and date of birth.
4. Confirm the identity and read the reporting facility rather than assuming a local result is Pine Prairie.
5. If no record appears, check alternate spelling and whether another agency may hold the person.
6. Call Pine Prairie detainee information at 504-599-7845, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and verify current hours.
7. Use ICE DRIL at 1-888-351-4024 or the relevant ERO contact for current help, and use ICE FOIA for older release, transfer, detention, or removal records. DRIL publishes weekday service through 8:00 p.m. Eastern, but callers should confirm current hours.

When the person could instead have a parish or state record, use the Evangeline Parish release verification path to identify the correct custodian.

Pine Prairie ICE Locator Limits

ICE describes ODLS as a current-detention tool with limited additional coverage. Its attorney resource can include people released from ICE custody within 60 days, subject to limitations, and records for people under 18 are excluded. A search result should be dated and preserved because current information can change.

Urgent or disputed results should be checked by telephone. The locator is useful, but it is not a certified immigration disposition or a substitute for the agency record.

Pine Prairie ICE Contact and Address

Use the current ICE contact for detainee information. The legacy directory details can help identify older paperwork but should not replace current federal information.

Call before travel and ask for current location and permitted public procedures. The researched address does not establish a public release entrance or pickup point. If a record is needed, use the facility or ERO for current confirmation and ICE FOIA for historical agency material.

The successful manifest image comes from the official Pine Prairie facility page.

The current federal page establishes the ICE role that older state-directory language can obscure.

Pine Prairie Transfer Versus Release

A transfer ends one facility placement but continues detention. The next ICE facility may appear in ODLS after processing. Ask Pine Prairie or ERO for the receiving facility when lawful and available. Do not describe the person as released merely because Pine Prairie staff no longer hold the case.

Removal is also different from local community release. It is an immigration outcome that should be described using ICE documentation. A release from ICE custody may have conditions or later proceedings that ODLS does not fully explain. The appropriate immigration record supplies that context.

Facility departure

Movement out of Pine Prairie, with destination still to be determined.

Transfer

Continued custody at another ICE or agency placement.

Removal

An immigration outcome, not return to the Evangeline Parish community.

Release from ICE custody

End of ICE detention at that point, subject to the actual immigration record and any other authority.

ICE Detainers Before Pine Prairie Custody

Evangeline Parish contains Pine Prairie and South Louisiana ICE Processing Center. An ICE detainer can request advance notice and up to 48 additional hours after a criminal release point so ICE can assume custody. An EPSO timestamp may therefore be the start of an immigration handoff rather than the end of custody.

Follow the chain by asking EPSO for the receiving agency if a local booking ended, then searching ODLS and calling ICE. If South Louisiana appears instead of Pine Prairie, use that facility's contact. The two facilities are distinct even though both are in Evangeline Parish.

The successful detainer capture comes from the official ICE transfer source.

The source explains why a criminal-custody release time can precede federal immigration detention.

Request Pine Prairie ICE Release Records

ICE FOIA is the historical fallback when ODLS no longer shows the event. Identify the full name, A-number, date of birth, Pine Prairie placement, and approximate time range. Ask for the specific release, transfer, detention, or removal document rather than an undefined case file.

A narrow request helps the agency locate the event and makes the desired custody fact clear. If another authority created the needed record, request it there. EPSO maintains parish booking records, BOP maintains federal prison records, and Louisiana DOC maintains state records. None is a substitute for the ICE file.

Keep proof of identity, consent, privacy limits, exemptions, and any agency instructions in mind. The public locator and a FOIA response serve different purposes.

EPSO Construction and Pine Prairie ICE

EPSO's 2024 new-jail construction announcement concerns the parish facility near the Ward 1 police-jury yard. It does not report construction, relocation, or a new release entrance at Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center.

Use Pine Prairie's current ICE page and contact before travel. The EPSO announcement is relevant only as a contrast between separate local and federal facilities, not as evidence about Pine Prairie operations.

Compare Pine Prairie Records Across Agencies

A person can have more than one custody record in sequence. An EPSO record may show the end of a criminal booking, an ICE detainer may explain the requested handoff, and Pine Prairie information may show federal immigration detention. Later ODLS information can identify another facility. None of those sources should be rewritten as if one agency created the entire chain.

Build a short timeline with the agency, facility, event wording, date, and identifier from each source. If times conflict or a gap matters, contact the agency that created the disputed entry. The parish sheriff cannot certify an ICE removal, and ICE cannot supply the final disposition of an unrelated parish charge.

For a recent ICE release result, check whether another authority or immigration condition followed. For no result, apply the identity, coverage, delay, transfer, and removal possibilities before drawing a conclusion. This is especially important when an older document calls Pine Prairie a correctional center without clearly naming the current ICE role.

Verify the Pine Prairie ICE Event

Record the identifier, reporting agency, facility, status wording, and time checked. Then obtain the source that answers the actual question: ODLS for reported current placement, facility or ERO for immediate confirmation, ICE FOIA for history, and the immigration case record for legal proceedings.

For time-sensitive confirmation, call the current detainee-information number and verify the facility hours before relying on the legacy directory contact. For a past release or transfer, ask narrowly for the event record and destination if recorded. Preserve the response wording rather than turning an agency limitation into proof of release.

Use narrow language in the conclusion. “Transferred from Pine Prairie,” “removed,” and “released from ICE custody” are not synonyms. Checking the next possible custodian prevents a facility departure from being mistaken for unrestricted release.

Note: Current ICE sources control the facility's federal function even when older directories use correctional terms.