St. Martin Jail II Status
St. Martin Parish Correctional Center II should not be presented as a second current public jail. A December 2020 legislative table described the 365-capacity property as vacant. The St. Martin Parish Sheriff’s FY2024 audit later described an agreement allowing Louisiana State Police to occupy Jail II and a related substation. Those sources describe the property at different times and for different purposes.
Neither dated source publishes a current roster, booking line, release feed, or public-facing custody workflow for Jail II. They also do not prove present Louisiana State Police occupancy on the day of a search. A named person’s claimed custody or release must be confirmed directly with SMPSO or LSP. If the name “Jail II” came from an old document, first determine whether the actual custodian was the active parish correctional center or another agency.
Note: The 365-capacity figure describes the property in a dated source and is not a current occupied-bed count.
Verify St. Martin Jail II Claims
A useful inquiry asks the agency to confirm the facility and custodian before asking about release. Do not start with the adult roster and assume its silence proves a Jail II exit. The active adult roster is tied to St. Martin Parish Correctional Center, and the research found no separate Jail II public roster.
- Identify the source of the Jail II claim, including its document date, agency name, and any booking or case number.
- Contact SMPSO and ask whether the named property was a Sheriff custody location for the relevant date.
- If the record points to Louisiana State Police, contact LSP for the office that controls the relevant record.
- If another custodian is named, continue with that agency rather than treating departure from a building as community release.
Any response should preserve exact wording. “Not at this location” differs from “released,” and “transferred” differs from “returned to the community.” The agency record or court order must support the claimed outcome. The St. Martin Parish custody-search workflow explains how receiving systems differ after a local, state, federal, or immigration transfer.
St. Martin Jail II Timeline
The two main sources form a limited property timeline. The 2020 legislative report labeled Jail II vacant and listed an operational capacity of 365. The FY2024 Sheriff audit referred to an agreement under which Louisiana State Police could occupy Jail II and a related substation. Capacity is a building figure, not an occupant count.
| Dated source | What it supports | What it cannot prove |
|---|---|---|
| December 2020 legislative table | Jail II was listed vacant with capacity 365 | Custody of any named person now |
| FY2024 Sheriff audit | An LSP occupancy agreement was described | A live roster, current use date, or release |
| Current SMPSO facility sources | The active adult jail is at Sheriff headquarters | A separate Jail II public search service |
These dates must travel with the facts whenever they are repeated. Removing them turns historical evidence into a false present-tense claim. The research found no matching successful manifest image for Jail II, so no unrelated jail image is used here.
St. Martin Jail II Contacts
No verified public Jail II booking number or records counter was located during the July 2026 research review. The SMPSO main office is the starting point for identifying the correct custodian of a Sheriff record. Louisiana State Police is the other named agency in the FY2024 audit context. Ask SMPSO to route a written request to its records custodian rather than assuming a general email owns the file.
St. Martin Parish Sheriff’s Office
400 Saint Martin Street
P.O. Box 247
St. Martinville, LA 70582
Main: 337-394-3071
Monday–Thursday, 7:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Friday, 7:00–11:00 a.m.
The SMPSO Civil Bureau identifies criminal records management and public-record reporting requests among its duties. A person seeking a Jail II property, agreement, or custody record should describe the date and record type precisely. Do not ask adult booking staff to interpret an old audit or infer LSP operations.
Note: A Sheriff property record and an LSP operational record may have different custodians, even when both mention Jail II.
Request St. Martin Jail II Records
A Jail II request should separate property records from person-level custody records. An occupancy agreement, audit entry, maintenance record, or property-use document addresses the building. A booking, transfer, or release record addresses a person. One does not substitute for the other. Ask the office to identify the proper custodian if the request was sent to the wrong agency.
For a property question, specify the agreement or fiscal period. For a custody question, provide a full name and available identifiers, the claimed date range, the source that named Jail II, and any booking or case number. Request the releasing facility, actual exit date and time, release or transfer code, and destination only if those fields are maintained by that agency.
Louisiana R.S. 44:1 broadly defines public records, subject to constitutional and statutory limits. R.S. 44:3 preserves law-enforcement exceptions while recognizing initial reports and booking records as public. That framework does not guarantee that SMPSO holds an LSP record or that a historic property file contains personal custody data. Ask for segregable nonexempt material and the legal basis for any withholding.
Keep the provenance of each response. Note the office, request date, record title, reporting period, and whether the agency confirmed ownership of the file. A Sheriff audit may describe an agreement without containing operational logs. A legislative capacity table may identify a structure without recording who used it. If SMPSO says LSP controls the responsive material, redirect the request instead of treating the referral as proof of custody.
The official Letter of Incarceration process is tied to St. Martin Parish Jail and a requested date range. Research does not show that it certifies a stay at Jail II or supplies a release reason. Ask the issuing office whether the claimed site is within the form’s scope. If the returned letter verifies only incarceration dates, seek any maintained transfer or release entry separately.
Use St. Martin’s Active Jail
The active adult parish facility is St. Martin Parish Correctional Center, also described by the Sheriff as Main Offices & Corrections–Parish Jail. It operates on the second floor of Sheriff headquarters at 400 Saint Martin Street and has an official capacity of 186 beds. The parish owns and maintains it, while SMPSO staffs and administers it.
The Sheriff links its adult Online Inmate Search and LAVNS from the jail page. During the July 2026 research sweep, the PublicLogs host did not resolve, while the local LAVNS endpoint identified itself as a current incarcerated-offender roster. Neither creates a Jail II release archive. For a person actually held in the active center, use the St. Martin adult correctional-center release page.
- Active adult jail
- The current public-facing parish correctional center at Sheriff headquarters.
- Jail II
- A separate property documented by dated vacancy and occupancy-agreement sources.
- Capacity
- A facility’s rated bed figure, not proof of current occupancy.
- Custodian
- The agency responsible for the particular record or custody episode.
St. Martin Custody Can Transfer
Even at the active adult center, leaving the local roster does not always mean community release. A dated December 2021 legislative table showed DOC, federal, pretrial, and parish categories at the single 186-bed center. That snapshot is not a current count. It does show why the legal custodian and receiving agency matter more than a familiar building name.
A Louisiana state sentence routes to DPS&C records. A USMS pretrial detainee may require the federal docket and physical custodian before any BOP record appears. An ICE pickup means parish custody ended by transfer to immigration custody. Another parish transfer requires the receiving jail. None of those paths should be attached to Jail II unless a responsible agency confirms the person and date.
Note: Match the record date, person identifiers, facility, and responsible agency before describing any departure as a release.
Why St. Martin Jail Names Conflict
Local records contain three distinct facility ideas: the active adult correctional center, the separate Juvenile Training Center, and Jail II. Search results can flatten those differences. The active jail’s second-floor location at Sheriff headquarters is unusual enough that “main office,” “parish jail,” and “correctional center” may all point to one adult site. Jail II does not.
The vacancy table and later audit agreement explain why Jail II can appear in official documents without operating as a public booking facility. A current claim needs fresh confirmation because the dated records answer only what those sources reported at their own times. Repeating “vacant” forever would be as inaccurate as treating the later agreement as a permanent, live LSP roster.
St. Martin Historical Record Limits
A historical source proves only its stated fact and time. Keep the document title, reporting period, and agency with every note. Do not derive a current population, current contract, or named-person release from an old capacity line. If an agency confirms that it has no responsive record, report that narrow outcome instead of claiming the event never occurred.
Good verification identifies the last custodian, distinguishes a building from an agency, and separates transfer from community release. It uses more than a name and preserves the exact status language. Jail II is useful local history. It is not a shortcut around the official records held by SMPSO, LSP, a receiving corrections agency, or the court.