Find Sherman Walker Releases

Sherman Walker Release Destinations

Lt. Sherman Walker Correctional Facility houses two groups under one roof: parish detainees and people held for the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. That mixed population changes the meaning of a release timestamp. A parish detainee may leave on bond, after dismissal, for time served, at the end of a sentence, or into probation. A person held for LA DPS&C may leave the building only because the state moved them to another institution. The local roster records departure from the facility, not freedom from every authority.

The most useful local field is Held For Agency. A Sheriff entry points toward the St. John the Baptist Parish booking record and 40th Judicial District Court file. An LA DPS&C entry calls for the Louisiana Person Search or the automated state locator. A federal or immigration indicator needs a BOP, federal court, or ICE check. When another agency receives the person, describe the event as a transfer unless the receiving custodian confirms a later community release.

Confirm a Sherman Walker Release

The Sheriff does not publish a distinct released-person feed. Its Zuercher portal instead allows a historical In Custody On search for dates within the prior 30 days. A person known to have been held on a recent date may still appear in that cohort with a later exact release timestamp. This route is stronger than assuming that disappearance from today’s roster means release, but it is not a complete list of everyone who left during an interval.

1. Open the official Sheriff inmate portal and search the person’s name.
2. If the current search is empty, choose a recent date when the person was known to be held. Match name, age, arrest date, and held-for agency.
3. Record the release timestamp, booking or case clue, historical query date, and held-for agency. Do not treat the mugshot as release proof.
4. Call the Booking Desk to ask whether the event was bond, time served, sentence completion, community release, or transfer.
5. Check the 40th JDC docket for the order behind a local exit. If LA DPS&C held the person, check LA VINE for the next location or supervision assignment.

The full parish search and release-record process is covered on the St. John the Baptist Parish released-inmates home page. Use it when the historical portal does not preserve enough detail to identify the type or destination.

Read Sherman Walker Release Fields

A historical row has several fields that should be read together. Arrest Date marks entry into a custody event, not departure. Release Date is the strongest public exit field, but it still does not state bond, dismissal, time served, sentence completion, or transfer. Held For Agency identifies the authority that most likely controls the next check. Cell Block describes past internal placement and is not a current location after release.

Name, age, race, sex, and the mugshot can help separate people with similar names, but none is as stable as a booking number, CCN, DPS&C number, or court case number. Age can change, and a photo records appearance at booking. Preserve at least one stable identifier before calling or requesting a record. The portal also warns that information can change quickly, and the Sheriff does not publish an update cadence for this Zuercher screen.

Sherman Walker Release Contacts

The secure facility and the Sheriff’s administrative records office are at different locations. Questions about an immediate exit go to Booking. A written request for a booking and release sheet goes to Records. The Sheriff division directory supplies the unit contacts. Call before visiting because no official source established a routine release hour, public waiting area, release door, transport service, or property-pickup process.

The intake-booking lobby kiosk is listed as available around the clock, but that fact does not establish 24-hour public waiting or a fixed release schedule. Ask Booking or Transportation about current procedures close to the expected event.

Sherman Walker Release Facility Record

The Sheriff’s official facility page says the jail opened in February 1997 and has 300 beds. It is operated by the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office and holds parish and state inmates. Captain Kaiana Knight is listed as warden in the research source. These facts explain why the same building can produce very different release paths.

View the official Sheriff description of Sherman Walker before relying on the facility image below.

The official page ties the Granier Drive secure facility to the capacity, history, and contact details used here.

Request Sherman Walker Release Records

A portal timestamp does not show release authority, reason, or receiving agency. Request the booking and release record when those fields matter. Include the person’s full name and date of birth, approximate booking date, arrest date, CCN or case number if known, and the timestamp seen online. Ask for actual release date and time, release type or authority, destination or receiving agency, and the booking photograph. Request segregable nonexempt parts and the legal basis for any withholding.

Send the request to Sheriff Mike Tregre, St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office, P.O. Box 1600, LaPlace, LA 70069, or to records.request@stjohnsheriff.org. The Records Division is at 1801 West Airline Highway and can be reached at (985) 359-8873. Published charges include a $10 record check, printed records up to five pages for $25 plus $1 for each extra page, $10 mailing, and a $50 disc for photographs or video. Prepayment is required. Ask for an electronic estimate before agreeing to a medium.

Louisiana public-records law does not promise every requested item. Active investigative, juvenile, victim, security, sealed, and expunged information may be restricted. If the custodian questions public status, R.S. 44:32 requires a written determination and reasons within five days excluding weekends and legal holidays. That is a decision deadline, not a promise that all copies arrive within five days.

Court Proof for Sherman Walker Releases

The jail record answers when a physical processing event occurred. The court record may explain why. Search the 40th JDC eClerks Civil & Criminal Inquiry for bond orders, dismissal, plea, sentence, time-served credit, probation, or revocation. A court order by itself may not prove the time the jail finished processing an exit, and a jail timestamp by itself may not reveal the legal authority. Using both records is deliberate.

A later expungement can remove arrest, photograph, and disposition material from ordinary public access without erasing the historical fact from every authorized record. For that reason, a no-result should be reported only as a current public-search outcome. It cannot establish that no arrest, custody event, or release ever occurred.

Bond release

Needs the bond authority and the jail exit timestamp. The criminal case can remain open.

Time served

Needs the sentence or minutes, custody credit, and actual facility exit.

Probation

Needs the court sentence and the correct Probation and Parole assignment.

Transfer

Needs confirmation from both the sending and receiving custodians.

ICE Holds at Sherman Walker

An ICE detainer can turn departure from Sherman Walker into an immigration-custody transfer. ICE asks the jail for notice before an ordinary release and requests that custody continue for up to 48 hours so ICE can assume it. If ICE takes the person, the parish-jail exit is not a community release. If ICE does not assume custody within the allowed period, ICE’s own explanation says the jail must release.

Check the jail destination, then use the ICE Online Detainee Locator or the Detention Reporting and Information Line at (888) 351-4024. ICE’s official locator coverage guidance explains the tool’s scope. A failure to find the person in one system does not prove freedom from another. Preserve the held-for agency and ask Booking which authority accepted custody.