Ouachita Correctional Center Inmate Lookup

Ouachita Correctional Center Overview

Ouachita Correctional Center, commonly called OCC, is operated by the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office. OPSO identifies OCC as the only jail facility serving the parish. The jail is at 4801 Highway 165 Bypass in Monroe, and it functions as the main booking, detention, sentence-processing, and local custody site for the sheriff's office.

OCC is not limited to people arrested that day. OPSO says the facility houses pretrial detainees awaiting court proceedings, people sentenced through parish courts, and Louisiana Department of Corrections inmates held locally. That mix matters when searching records. A new arrest may appear through OPSO bookings or the Ouachita Sheriff App, while a sentenced state prisoner may also require VINE or DPS&C custody-status checks.

The official OCC page is the image and source page for the facility photo below. OPSO uses that page to describe the jail's capacity, history, staffing, budget, kitchen, farm, and trustee labor program.

The image is useful because it ties the facility page back to the sheriff's own OCC material rather than a third-party directory. Use the OPSO page for facility context, and use the booking, app, records, and VINE channels below for a custody lookup.

Ouachita Correctional Center Capacity and Population

OPSO says OCC opened in 1963 with 180 beds and has grown to a maximum bed capacity of 1,222. The sheriff's office also reports that about 150 OPSO deputies staff the facility. Research did not locate a current official daily population count, annual bookings figure, average daily population, or demographic breakdown for OCC, so those numbers should not be estimated from the capacity figure.

OCC's Administrative Division oversees a stated $13 million operating budget. OPSO says funding includes parish tax revenues and reimbursements for housing Louisiana DOC inmates. The Warden and Deputy Warden lead the Administration Division, and an Administrative Lieutenant manages functions that include the kitchen, inmate trust accounts, trustee labor programs, sentence processing, and clerical or administrative work.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Ouachita Correctional Center

For OCC, start with the sheriff's local channels rather than a state or federal locator. OPSO maintains an official Bookings acknowledgement page that links to the hosted booking portal. The acknowledgement warns that booking information changes quickly, may be updated periodically, may contain errors, and does not prove conviction. Research also found an important current access note: the OPSO app page says the bookings page is being reconfigured and directs users to the Ouachita Sheriff App for the latest booking information.

1. Open the OPSO Bookings page, read the disclaimer, and use the "Acknowledge & Proceed to Bookings" link if the hosted portal loads.
2. If the web booking portal is unavailable or incomplete, use the Ouachita Sheriff App because OPSO points users there for current booking information while the web page is being reconfigured.
3. If neither channel confirms the person, call the jail at (318) 329-1200 or OPSO Records/Identification at (318) 324-2630 with the full name, approximate booking date, date of birth if known, and arresting agency.
4. Use Louisiana VINELink for custody-status notifications or for a person who may have moved into a state DOC custody path.

OPSO Records/Identification is the practical fallback for booking documentation and public-records questions. The division says it receives and maintains offense reports, accident reports, warrants, and inmate booking documentation; stores records in physical and electronic formats; responds to public-records requests; and provides background-check and fingerprinting services.

Ouachita Correctional Center Address and Contact

The facility address is the correct location for OCC facility business and for approved money orders when the sender follows OPSO's trust-account instructions. The sheriff's office public address is 400 St. John Street in Monroe, but the jail itself is on Highway 165 Bypass. Visitors, bondsmen, and family members should confirm the correct destination before driving because courthouse, sheriff's office, records, and jail functions are not the same counter.

Visiting Someone at Ouachita Correctional Center

OPSO publishes a Video Visitation page with English and Spanish instructions and a GettingOut "Get Started" link. The captured official text did not publish a full daily on-site or remote schedule, so it would be inaccurate to list specific visit days or hours here. Confirm the current schedule, account setup, ID requirements, dress code, and check-in location through OPSO and GettingOut before traveling or scheduling a session.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Ouachita Correctional Center

OPSO moved non-legal mail to TextBehind digital processing as of November 21, 2022. Family and friends should not send regular personal mail to the jail's physical address. The mail page requires the complete facility name with no abbreviations and the state, the inmate's full name and identifier, and the sender's full name and physical address. Do not send checks, money orders, or attorney-client privileged mail to the Phoenix mail-processing address.

Phone access is through GTL and ConnectNetwork. AdvancePay lets an inmate call a funded outside number, while Inmate PIN Debit lets the inmate pay for approved calls from funds in the inmate's PIN Debit account. Money can be handled through ViaPath/ConnectNetwork, Correct Solutions, kiosks, phone deposits, or approved money orders depending on the account type and instructions.

Booking and Intake at Ouachita Correctional Center

A person arrested by OPSO, Monroe Police, West Monroe Police, or another local agency may be taken to OCC because OPSO identifies OCC as the parish jail. Official local sources do not publish a complete public intake manual, but the confirmed functions include booking documentation, sentence processing, classification into local custody, and records maintenance through OPSO. A normal jail intake may include identification, search, property inventory, fingerprints or photographs as allowed by law, medical or mental-health screening, and housing assignment.

Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure art. 228 says booking books and booking information summaries are open for public inspection. That does not make every internal jail record an online record, and it does not mean every field in a booking file appears in the app or booking portal. For a legal deadline, court date, bond question, or release issue, verify with the jail, OPSO Records/Identification, the Clerk, or the court rather than relying only on a changing roster entry.

About Ouachita Correctional Center

OCC's local details are unusually specific. OPSO says meals are approved by a registered dietitian and prepared at an average cost of $0.55 to $0.65 per meal. The jail operates a self-managed farm that produces fresh vegetables used in daily meals. OPSO also reports trustee labor savings of $1,547,396 for trustees working within OCC, $547,781 for trustees assigned to other public agencies, and $2,095,177 in total estimated taxpayer savings using minimum wage as the baseline.

OCC also connects to work and reentry programming. OPSO describes a Transitional Work Program and a Women's Transitional Work Program housed at OCC. Those programs are separate from ordinary pretrial booking status. Selected sentenced participants may work off-site, earn money, and pay incarceration costs or support obligations while still under custody rules.