Riverbend Detention Center Overview
Riverbend Detention Center is operated by the East Carroll Parish Sheriff's Office and is listed at 9450 Highway 65 S, Lake Providence, LA 71254. The facility is the primary custody contact for the parish's Riverbend-branded inmate roster and is separate from the sheriff's administrative office at 400 First Street in Lake Providence. Riverbend holds male and female local, state, and contract prisoners, including a large number of people transferred from other Louisiana parishes. That transfer role explains why a Riverbend inmate search often leads back to East Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Calcasieu, Acadia, West Baton Rouge, or another sending jurisdiction for charges, bond, or court details.
The strongest official facility description comes from the 2023 Riverbend PREA audit. That audit says Riverbend was built in 2012, has a rated capacity of 1,560 beds, and housed minimum, medium, and maximum custody inmates. It reported an average daily population of 1,083 during the audit review, along with 194 staff, 25 volunteers, and one contractor. Those figures are facility-level audit numbers, not a guarantee that every current roster row is physically housed in a particular Riverbend unit on the day it is viewed.
Riverbend Detention Center Capacity and Population
The 2023 PREA audit listed Riverbend's rated capacity as 1,560 beds and its average daily population as 1,083. A later public roster inspection on June 16, 2026 found 1,429 total rows in the East Carroll feed, including 1,067 unreleased or current rows and 362 released rows, with the feed version dated June 12, 2026 at 11:00:05 AM. Those measurements should be read carefully. The PREA number is a facility capacity and average daily population source. The roster is a point-in-time public table that mixes current and released rows and does not divide people by Riverbend building, East Carroll Detention Center, or the women's division.
How to Look Up an Inmate at Riverbend Detention Center
Use the official East Carroll Parish inmate roster for the first lookup. The roster is free and public, with filters for show all and A through Z, plus sortable columns for Name, Race, Gender, Date of Birth, Transferred In, Transferred From, Released, and Transferred To. It does not show a mugshot, charge, bond amount, housing unit, court date, or inmate profile page. For a broader explanation of the roster fields, see the local jail inmate records page.
- Open the East Carroll inmate roster and wait for the table and last-updated line to load.
- Search by the first letter of the last name or use the sortable Name column to group matching rows.
- Check the Released and Transferred To columns before treating the person as currently held.
- Call Riverbend at 318-559-5980 for building-level placement because the roster does not identify the Riverbend unit or housing area.
If the row says the person was transferred from another parish, Riverbend may only be the housing facility. Charges, bond, court dates, and case files may still be controlled by the sending parish, the Sixth Judicial District, Louisiana DPS&C, or another agency. Sentenced state prisoners should also be checked through Louisiana DPS&C offender information and VINELink Louisiana. DPS&C's automated phone line is 225-383-4580 and requires either a DPS&C number or the person's name and date of birth.
Riverbend Detention Center Address and Contact
Riverbend is the direct custody contact for placement, visit confirmation, and facility-specific questions. The sheriff's administrative office can route records questions during weekday business hours, but the detention center number is the better first call when a roster result needs physical-location confirmation.
Riverbend Detention Center
9450 Highway 65 S
Lake Providence, LA 71254
318-559-5980
Call before visiting or mailing because local schedules and mail rules were not published in the official pages reviewed.
East Carroll Parish Sheriff's Office
400 First Street
Lake Providence, LA 71254
318-559-2800
Administrative office hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Visiting Someone at Riverbend Detention Center
The East Carroll sheriff site links video visitation to the official video visitation page, which routes users to City Tele Coin. A local in-person visit schedule, visit length, dress code, locker rule, visitor parking map, and attorney visit procedure were not found in the official pages reviewed. The safest process is to confirm custody, ask whether the person is eligible for visits, then check the vendor portal or call Riverbend before traveling to Highway 65 S.
| Visit Topic | Published Detail | What to Confirm |
|---|---|---|
| Video visitation | City Tele Coin is linked by the sheriff site. | Scheduling, account setup, rates, and device rules in the vendor portal. |
| In-person schedule | Not published in official East Carroll pages reviewed. | Days, hours, visit length, arrival time, and whether visits are currently available. |
| Visitor ID | Local ID rule not published. | Photo ID, minor visitor rules, and any approval list requirement. |
| Dress code and items | Not published locally. | Clothing limits, banned items, lockers, and medication or accessibility needs. |
Mail, Phone, and Money at Riverbend Detention Center
The sheriff's commissary page links East Carroll users to Tiger Commissary and Tiger Deposits. The video visitation page links to City Tele Coin. Official pages reviewed did not publish a full mail-address format, mail scanning policy, phone-rate table, book rule, or commissary fee schedule. Do not assume that a generic Louisiana jail mail format is accepted at Riverbend. Include the person's full legal name and obtain any booking or inmate number from the facility if mail or deposits require one.
| Service | Provider / Detail | Local Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Mail Address | Riverbend Detention Center, 9450 Highway 65 S, Lake Providence, LA 71254. | Exact inmate mail format not published, confirm before sending. |
| Phone / Video | City Tele Coin is linked from the sheriff video visitation page. | Rates and schedules not published on the sheriff page reviewed. |
| Money Deposit | Tiger Commissary / Tiger Deposits is linked from the sheriff commissary page. | Fees, limits, kiosks, and phone deposits were not published locally. |
Booking and Intake at Riverbend Detention Center
East Carroll public sources do not publish a full booking manual, but the roster shows the practical structure. Many Riverbend entries are not ordinary new arrests from Lake Providence or East Carroll Parish. The table labels arrival as Transferred In and lists a Transferred From source, which may be a parish, agency, state facility, or shorthand. Intake normally involves identity confirmation, property inventory, search, medical screening, classification, and entry into the facility's custody system. For local warrantless arrests, Louisiana law requires prompt judicial review for continued custody, but that rule should not be applied to every Riverbend roster row because transfer prisoners may already be sentenced, held for another court, or controlled by a sending agency.
Because the roster does not show charges or bond, a current row does not answer every case question. If the person was transferred from East Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Calcasieu, West Baton Rouge, Acadia, or another parish, contact the originating court or jail for the arrest report, bond order, booking photograph, or court date. Riverbend can confirm whether the person is physically housed there, but it may not be the record custodian for the underlying criminal case.
About Riverbend Detention Center
The 2023 PREA audit is the main official conditions document available for Riverbend. It reported that all 45 PREA standards were met. It also reported 58 allegations of sexual abuse or sexual harassment in the prior 12 months, consisting of 26 inmate-on-inmate allegations and 32 staff-on-inmate allegations, with none substantiated. That information should be read as a neutral audit finding, not as a full history of the facility.
Recent official news also includes a May 30, 2026 Louisiana State Police release about the arrest of East Carroll Parish Sheriff's Deputy Kendrick Smith in connection with a Riverbend contraband investigation. The release said Smith was booked into Ouachita Correctional Center on counts that included malfeasance in office, criminal conspiracy, introduction of contraband into a penal institution, and drug-related charges. The release is relevant to Riverbend conditions and contraband enforcement, but it does not change the roster procedure for ordinary custody lookups.
Note: Confirm custody, visit eligibility, and building placement with Riverbend before traveling, because the public roster does not divide inmates by housing location.
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