Search Union Parish Inmate Records

Union Parish Jail Records Overview

No official public web-based Union Parish County jail roster was located in official Union Parish sources. The current-inmate channel documented by the Union Parish Sheriff's Office mobile app page is the Union Parish Sheriff LA app, and the sheriff's FAQ points arrest booking photos to that app rather than to a public web gallery. That makes Union Parish different from parishes that publish a browser-based list of recent bookings. A user looking for someone booked at Union Parish Detention Center should start with the app if a mobile device is available, then call the facility if charges, bond, release status, or identity details need to be checked.

The custody agency also matters. Union Parish Detention Center, often called UPDC, is operated by the Union Parish Detention Center Commission and the Union Parish Police Jury, not by the sheriff's office in the normal parish-jail pattern. UPSO still has important public-facing roles for records requests and bond paperwork, but the jail itself is commission-operated. Local custody, state custody, federal custody, and ICE custody therefore should not be treated as one inmate records system. A person arrested in Farmerville may be booked at UPDC, appear in the app, have formal charges filed later through the Third Judicial District system, and move to Louisiana DPS&C custody if sentenced.

UPSO's app page shows the official source for the app download links. The capture is useful because it is the web source that connects Union Parish County inmate lookup to the mobile app channel.

The app screenshot supports the access chain, but it does not replace a custody verification call. For bond, charges, and release timing, official Union Parish instructions point families to UPDC by phone.

Use Union Parish Jail Roster

The Union Parish County inmate record lookup process starts with the app because the official website did not expose the roster fields in a browser. The Apple App Store listing describes an Inmates feature for current inmates booked at Union Parish Detention Center and alerts based on name and date of birth. The Google Play listing identifies the same Union Parish Sheriff LA app. Because the in-app interface is not visible from the public web, exact field order and display labels should be treated as unconfirmed unless they are visible inside the app at the time of search.

1. Open the Union Parish Sheriff LA app page and choose the Apple or Android download link for the official app.
2. Use the Inmates feature to check current people booked at Union Parish Detention Center. Search by name when the app allows it.
3. Create a booking or release alert if the app offers the name and date-of-birth alert option for the person being tracked.
4. If the person is not listed, call Union Parish Detention Center at (318) 368-9827 before assuming release, transfer, or no booking.
5. For bond or charge details, use the same UPDC phone number because UPSO's FAQ directs families to call the jail before bonding.
6. If a past booking report is needed, request records from UPSO Records rather than relying on the current-inmate app screen.

App status can lag or omit context a family member needs. A roster result is a custody clue, not a complete court file. A charge shown at booking is an allegation from the arrest or intake process. A formal court charge is filed later by the district attorney and kept by the clerk. For that reason, Union Parish County inmate records should be checked against UPDC, UPSO Records, and court records when the purpose is bond, defense planning, victim notification, or release confirmation.

Union Parish Roster Fields

The research found only a partial search-field capture for the app because the official web pages do not expose the in-app Union Parish County roster screen. The table below uses only the fields and modules documented by official app listings and UPSO pages. It should be read as a confirmed access inventory, not as a promise that the app labels each field with the same wording on every device.

For users who need a non-app trail, UPSO Records is the next official channel. The UPSO records request page accepts requests by mail, email, phone, or in person and asks for the requester's name, contact phone number, date, location, and report type. UPSO asks requesters to allow five business days once required information is received. Fees listed in the research include $15 for a state crash report, $10 for a vehicle incident report, $10 for other reports, $1 per page for extra pages over five, $1 per paper photo or copy page, and $10 for each CD or digital medium.

Note: A records request can document a past arrest, but public-record limits may still apply to pending investigations, juveniles, victims, or sealed matters.

Union Parish Inmate Profile

A complete Union Parish County inmate profile could not be inspected from a public web roster because no such official web roster was located. The safest way to describe the inmate record is to separate confirmed app functions from details that must be verified by phone. The known facts are narrow but useful: the app has current UPDC inmate content, it can support booking or release alerts, and UPSO's FAQ says booking photos are in the app. Charges and bond should be confirmed by calling the detention center.

Several common jail-record terms are easy to mix up. Booking is the jail intake entry after arrest. A roster is a custody list. A charge is an alleged offense, while a formal charge is filed in court by the district attorney. A bond is security for court appearance. A hold or detainer can block release even when a bond amount exists. A DOC inmate is a state-sentenced person under Louisiana DPS&C authority, even if housed in a parish jail. A transfer is a move to another facility, while release means the person has left custody.

Union Parish Jail Contact

For current Union Parish County jail custody, the most direct source is the detention center. The official DPS&C and Police Jury listings place Union Parish Detention Center at the Rodeo Circle address in Farmerville and list Warden Donnie Adams. UPSO's FAQ also says the jail is next to the National Guard Armory and directs callers to UPDC for a detainee's bond and charges before bonding.

Bond paperwork for 3rd District charges in Union Parish is handled at UPSO, not at the jail. UPSO says detainees are transported to the sheriff's office for paperwork and release from the front lobby. The same FAQ says the person posting bond may use a bail bondsman or pay cash or money order; checks and debit cards are not accepted. These bond details belong to the release process, while the app and UPDC phone line answer the custody-status question.

Union Parish Booking Process

Louisiana booking law requires peace officers to bring an arrested person promptly to the nearest jail or police station for booking. The booking entry must include the person's name and address, property taken, the date and time of booking, and a booking information summary, and the booking book and summaries are open for public inspection. In Union Parish, detention intake occurs at Union Parish Detention Center when a local booking is made, but official sources did not publish a full local workflow or roster refresh interval.

A practical Union Parish custody chain is arrest by UPSO, municipal police, Louisiana State Police, or another authority; transport to UPDC for local custody when appropriate; booking, property inventory, photo identification, and booking summary; app lookup or UPDC phone check; first appearance; district attorney review; and clerk filing if formal charges are brought. First appearance is important because the court may appoint counsel and determine or review bail. The booking charge may later be amended, reduced, dismissed, or replaced by a formal court charge.

The 2023 Basic Jail Guidelines monitoring report adds useful context about intake and care. It marked admissions, classification, photo ID, sick call, provision of treatment, chronic care, suicide prevention, and death reporting as compliant. It also noted sick call five times weekly and outside medical care through Union Parish General Hospital and Ochsner LSU Health-Monroe when needs cannot be met at the facility.

Union Parish Visitation Status

Official Union Parish visitation rules and a current public schedule were not located. The local record does show that video visitation exists or existed because UPDC minutes referenced video visitation, HomeWAV profit, and revenue from commissary, phone cards, and video visitation. That is enough to identify video visitation as a known access channel, but not enough to publish exact days, times, dress code, approval rules, visit length, or fees. Call UPDC before scheduling, registering, sending money, or traveling to Farmerville.

Mail and commissary details have similar limits. DPS&C lists P.O. Box 749 with the Rodeo Circle street address for Union Parish, and the TWP page lists 707 Rodeo Circle as the mailing address. No official Union Parish jail mail policy was located for inmate number format, photos, publications, postcards, legal mail, money orders, or contraband screening. Commission minutes confirm commissary, phone-card, and video-visitation revenue, but no official public deposit portal or phone-rate table was located.

Union Parish Custody Comparison

Union Parish County inmate records are easiest to find when the custody type is known. UPDC can hold local pretrial detainees, parish inmates, Louisiana DOC prisoners housed locally, transitional work program participants, and, under a May 2026 Basic Ordering Agreement, short-term ICE detainees for up to 48 hours. That mix does not mean every person is searchable in the same place. A pretrial person booked at UPDC belongs first in the app and jail phone channel. A sentenced state prisoner belongs in Louisiana DPS&C and VINE channels. A federal prisoner belongs in BOP records, while an ICE detainee belongs in the ICE locator if held by immigration authorities.

Louisiana VINE is especially useful when the concern is notification rather than a one-time search. LCLE says LAVINE monitors adult inmates in parish jails and state prisons and can notify registered users about release or transfer. The LAVINE phone line is 866-LAVNS-4-U. DPS&C also links public locator searches to VINELink, and its search text says the locator can be searched by location, name, and ID or case number and is updated every 24 hours.

Union Parish Records Requests

When the app or phone line is not enough, a public-records request can seek arrest or booking reports from UPSO Records. Louisiana public-record law broadly covers parish records unless an exception applies, and the booking entry law makes booking books and summaries open for public inspection. At the same time, pending investigative or prosecutive records may be withheld or redacted under Louisiana law. That is why a request should identify the person, date, location, and type of report as clearly as possible without assuming every detail will be released.

UPSO identifies Dy. Holli Finklea as records custodian. Requests may be sent to 710 Holder Road, Attn: Records, Farmerville, LA 71241, emailed to records@unionsheriff.com, made by phone at (318) 608-3017, or made in person. For detention commission or Police Jury records, the Union Parish Police Jury public records request form is the better channel. This split follows the local governance fact: UPSO is not the jail operator, while the detention center commission and Police Jury handle jail operations.

Note: Use the app or UPDC phone line for present custody, and use records requests for documents that may exist after booking.

Union Parish Detention Center

Union Parish has one resolved detention facility page: Union Parish Detention Center. DPS&C also lists the same location as Union Parish Detention Center Transitional Work Program. The facility is at 707 Rodeo Circle in Farmerville and is the local jail, state-prison housing site, and transitional work program location documented in the research. It is not a state-operated prison, a BOP prison, or an ICE detention center, although commission minutes approved a short-term ICE agreement in May 2026.

The facility's role is broader than a small pretrial lockup. Recent commission minutes listed 264 DOC and 122 pretrial inmates in May 2026, 267 DOC and 137 pretrial inmates in January 2026, and 271 DOC and 141 pretrial inmates in October 2025. Those point-in-time figures show why a Union Parish County inmate search may start local and then move to DPS&C or VINE. Many people housed at UPDC are state-sentenced prisoners under Louisiana authority, not only newly arrested local pretrial detainees.

Check Union Parish Inmate Status

A careful Union Parish County inmate records search uses more than one source. Start with the Union Parish Sheriff LA app for the current inmate list and booking photos. Call UPDC for charges, bond, and current release status. Use UPSO Records when a report copy is needed. Use Louisiana VINE or the DPS&C phone locator for state custody and notifications. Use BOP or ICE only when the person is in federal prison or immigration detention. Use court records for formal charges after the district attorney files a case.