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Richland Parish Male Jail Overview

Richland Parish Detention Center (Male) is listed as a local jail in the Louisiana DPS&C Richland Parish directory and is also shown through the Richland Parish Sheriff's Office contact system. The official sheriff site identifies Neal G. Harwell as sheriff. The male center serves adult male custody needs for Richland Parish and may also house Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections prisoners assigned to local jail or transitional work program space. That mix matters. A person arrested in Richland Parish may be a pretrial detainee, a locally sentenced prisoner, or a state prisoner housed locally under DPS&C authority.

The official contact record is not perfectly uniform. The sheriff and DPS&C parish directory list the detention center at 474 Highway 15 in Rayville, while the separate DPS&C male facility detail page lists 456 Highway 15 in Rayville and names Warden Joel Weatherly. Both entries are official enough to preserve. Visitors, family members, attorneys, and records requesters should confirm the entrance and mailing address before travel or mail, especially when time-sensitive mail, property pickup, bond questions, or an approved visit is involved.

The DPS&C male facility page is the matching image source for this facility. The screenshot below comes from the Richland Parish Detention Center (Males) detail page and shows why the address and contact details should be checked against the live agency record.

The image is useful because it is tied to the male detention center itself, not a general sheriff landing page or unrelated custody system.

Richland Parish Male Jail Capacity

The strongest sourced capacity figure is for "Richland Parish Detention Center and TWP," not a live roster count. A Louisiana legislative corrections report from December 2021 lists maximum capacity as 782 and shows a total figure of 610 on that report line. Vera's Louisiana Locked Up parish page also identifies one Richland Parish prison capacity as 782 people. Those numbers should be read as dated facility capacity and reporting context, not as a current head count for the Richland Parish Detention Center (Male) inmate population.

Richland Parish is rural, but this detention footprint is larger than many readers expect from a small parish. The TWP label points to a transitional work program relationship, and Louisiana commonly houses DPS&C prisoners in parish facilities. For search purposes, that means the parish roster path and the state VINE/LAVNS path may both be relevant for the same building.

Richland Parish Male Inmate Lookup

Start with the official Richland Parish Sheriff's Office Inmates page. During research, that page displayed a check-back message rather than a live roster, so the fallback chain is important. Use the Richland LAVNS roster if it is available, then use statewide Louisiana VINE/LAVNS person search for state custody and victim notification. If the arrest is new, call the detention center because booking, classification, and online publication can lag.

1. Open the sheriff Inmates page and check whether the roster is active.
2. If the sheriff page is unavailable, search Richland LAVNS or statewide VINE/LAVNS by name, location, or ID/case number when those fields are offered.
3. Call the facility at (318) 248-3057, or use (318) 248-3070 when following the DPS&C male detail page, for a recent arrest or uncertain housing status.
4. For a sentenced DPS&C prisoner assigned to local space, use VINE/LAVNS before relying only on the parish page.
5. For older booking records, use the sheriff public-records request route rather than expecting the current roster to show a release.

For broader context on roster fields and released-booking requests, the Richland Parish jail inmate records page keeps the local roster, public-records, state locator, BOP, and ICE routes separated by custody type.

Richland Parish Male Jail Contact

Use the contact details below as official-source contact points, then confirm which address the facility wants used for mail, visits, or delivery. The public counter hours found in the research belong to the sheriff's office, not a published jail lobby schedule. Jail intake may operate around the clock, but public visitation, property, records, and money procedures can have narrower hours.

Richland Parish Male Jail Visits

No official Richland Parish local visitation schedule was located on the sheriff site or DPS&C parish directory. Because the male center may hold both local jail detainees and DPS&C prisoners in local space, visitors should ask two questions before traveling: whether the person is held in the male center and whether local jail rules or DPS&C-approved visitor rules apply. A government photo ID, search screening, dress rules, contraband limits, and visitor-list approval may apply.

Note: Confirm the correct Highway 15 entrance and visit approval before leaving for the facility.

Richland Parish Male Mail Money

Local Richland Parish jail mail, phone, video, and commissary rules were not published in the official sources located. DPS&C statewide material gives useful fallback rules for prisoners assigned to DPS&C custody, including JPay deposits, Securus phone service, secure email through JPay, and Access Securepak packages. Do not assume those rules cover a local pretrial detainee unless the facility confirms it.

Richland Parish Male Booking Records

Louisiana booking law requires a booking entry after arrest and makes the booking book and booking information summaries open for public inspection. A Richland Parish Detention Center (Male) record may include the person's name, address, property taken, booking date and time, charges, arresting officer or person, and a short summary of the facts or event that led to arrest. Some investigative material may still be withheld under law-enforcement record exceptions.

For a new arrest, call the jail after checking the online channels. For a past release, use the sheriff public-records request page and provide the person's name, date range, booking date if known, and preferred delivery method. Court charges after the arrest are a separate clerk or court record, so a jail charge should not be treated as a conviction.

Richland Parish Male Jail Directions

The male detention center sits on the Highway 15 corridor south of central Rayville. Travelers coming from Interstate 20 generally enter Rayville and then use Louisiana Highway 15 toward the detention-center area. Travelers coming from rural Richland Parish should follow Highway 15 toward Rayville and watch for detention-center signage. The key local issue is not the route itself, but the address conflict between official sources.

Use the sheriff and DPS&C parish directory address first for general contact, then compare it with the DPS&C male facility detail listing before a visit or mailing. Parking rates, public transit, and ADA entrance details were not published in the sources reviewed. DPS&C tells visitors who need ADA accommodations to contact the facility in advance.