Iberia Parish Inmate Population
The Iberia Parish inmate population is centered on the Iberia Parish Criminal Justice Facility, the parish jail listed by Louisiana DPS&C at 3618 Broken Arrow Road in New Iberia. Sheriff materials also call it Iberia Parish Jail. The sheriff's jail information says the facility can hold up to 512 prisoners and is staffed by about 65 employees. That count is not the same as an average daily population, which was not published in the official local sources reviewed. It is a rated capacity figure for the main jail and should be read as a bed limit, not as proof that all beds are full on a given day.
The local custody mix matters. The sheriff's jail information says the jail houses New Iberia city inmates, Iberia Parish inmates, state prisoners, federal prisoners, and prisoners held for other local agencies. That means the Iberia Parish inmate population can include a person arrested the same day by New Iberia Police, a parish defendant waiting for court, a sentenced Louisiana prisoner still housed locally, and a person held on another agency's authority. A name search in the parish roster is the first step for people physically held in the local jail, but it is not the only custody check.
Iberia Parish Inmate Statistics
The strongest local figures come from the sheriff's jail information, the Vera Louisiana Locked Up parish profile, and statewide or national sources used for context. The sheriff figure gives the main jail capacity. Vera reports two prisons or jails in Iberia Parish with a combined capacity of 675, which matches the research finding that Iberia Parish has the main jail plus the Iberia Transitional Work Program. The exact current jail count and official average daily population were not located in a local public data table, so those fields should not be guessed.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Year |
|---|---|---|
| Main jail capacity | 512 prisoners | Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office jail information, inspected 2026 |
| Jail staff | About 65 employees | Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office jail information, inspected 2026 |
| Parish prisons or jails counted | 2 facilities | Vera Iberia Parish profile |
| Combined local capacity | 675 beds | Vera Iberia Parish profile |
| Meals prepared | 1,500 meals per day by crews of 36 inmates | Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office jail information, inspected 2026 |
| National local jail population | 664,200 people at midyear | BJS Jail Inmates in 2023 |
The Vera Iberia Parish profile provides the clearest public capacity comparison for the parish custody footprint.
Use the Vera figure as capacity context only. The sheriff roster is still the source to check for a current person in local custody.
Iberia Parish Inmate Population Trends
The research did not locate a parish-published trend chart with annual average daily population. The available trend data is instead a set of source dates and observed custody signals. The active roster can show arrest dates across several years, while the recent bookings view covers only a short window of new bookings. Neither one should be treated as a full annual admissions count. For trend analysis, the best supported local figures are capacity and facility count, with statewide and national jail data used only for comparison.
| Year / Date | Population or Capacity Figure | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 inspection | 512 capacity | Sheriff jail information for the Iberia Parish Criminal Justice Facility |
| 2026 inspection | Active list included arrest dates from 2022 through 2026 | Shows long-held or hold cases can remain active, not annual admissions |
| 2026 inspection | Recent bookings covered a short June 2026 window | Useful for new intake, not average population |
| Vera profile | 675 combined capacity | Two Iberia Parish prisons or jails in the profile |
| 2023 national | 664,200 local jail population | National context from BJS, not an Iberia Parish count |
Louisiana adds another trend caveat. Parish jails can house state-sentenced people under state law, so the Iberia Parish inmate population is not a simple pretrial jail count. A local rise may come from arrests, slow court movement, sentenced state prisoners awaiting placement, holds from other agencies, or transfers into and out of the parish jail.
Iberia Parish Inmate Demographics
The public roster and sheriff app show demographic facts at the individual-record level, not as a local aggregate table. The active list displays race, gender, date or year of birth, arrest date, and a photo thumbnail. The recent bookings view can show race and gender together, full date of birth, booked date, and an agency row. The app and VINE-linked feed can show gender, race, age, custody status, custody status date, booked date, reporting agency, and contact phone.
- Gender and race: Listed on roster or app records when present, but no official aggregate Iberia Parish table was found.
- Age or birth year: The sample roster profile showed year of birth, while list views may show DOB data.
- Custody status: The app feed used status code IN for current custody entries reviewed.
- Arresting agency: Recent bookings showed agency rows such as Iberia SO and New Iberia Police.
- Charge level: The booking profile includes a Felony column, although the sample field was blank.
These fields help identify the right person, but they do not replace the jail phone or clerk record when identity, court status, or release authority must be confirmed.
Iberia Parish Jail Capacity
The main capacity fact is local and direct: the sheriff's jail information says the jail can hold up to 512 prisoners. Vera's parish profile reports 675 combined capacity across two prisons or jails, which suggests the main jail and the transitional work program together make up the local correctional capacity footprint. Because the Iberia Transitional Work Program did not have an official bed count in the materials reviewed, the difference between those two numbers should be described as context, not as a published work-program capacity.
No official overcrowding order, consent decree, or jail construction plan was located in the accessible sheriff, parish government, or state materials reviewed. The most useful capacity warning is practical rather than legal: a roster search can include people held under city, parish, state, federal, and other local authority. That makes the jail population broader than a simple list of newly arrested parish defendants.
Iberia Parish Inmate Record Laws
Louisiana law starts with broad public access, then places limits on some law-enforcement, prosecutive, juvenile, sealed, and state corrections records. For the Iberia Parish inmate population, that means the roster can be public and useful while still not being a certified court document. The sheriff roster disclaimer says the online inmate inquiry is offered for public safety and convenience, but the office cannot certify accuracy, authenticity, or timeliness. Older booking records and official copies should be requested from the custodian.
Key Statutes:
La. R.S. 44:1 defines public records broadly, including photos and electronic data kept for public business unless exempt.
La. R.S. 44:31 gives adults the right to inspect, copy, or reproduce public records unless another law limits access.
La. R.S. 44:32 covers custodian duties, reasonable copy fees, and written determinations when access is questioned.
La. R.S. 15:824 explains why state-sentenced prisoners may be housed in parish jails under DPS&C authority.
Louisiana death-in-custody reporting guidance covers reportable deaths for people detained, under arrest, transported, or incarcerated.
Note: Public access does not mean every investigative file, sealed case, juvenile matter, or state corrections record is open online.
Iberia Parish State Prison Custody
Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections custody is relevant even though no state-operated adult prison was found physically in Iberia Parish. DPS&C routes public person-in-prison lookup through Louisiana VINE. Its annual statistics page says imprisoned-person records in DPS&C custody are confidential under R.S. 15:574.12, so public lookup is more limited than a parish roster. A sentenced person may remain in the local jail for a time under the Louisiana parish-jail housing framework, then later move to a state custody channel.
The DPS&C annual statistics page is useful for statewide dashboards and population context, but it is not a local Iberia jail roster.
Check Louisiana VINE or DPS&C channels when a person is sentenced, transferred, or no longer appears in the Iberia Parish roster.
Search Iberia Parish Jail Roster
The first online custody channel is the Iberia Parish Jail Roster. It opens with a legal disclaimer, then allows access to the active inmate search, active list, and recent bookings pages. The roster is free after agreement to the disclaimer. The disclaimer is strict: it says information is provided as is, cannot be certified for accuracy or authenticity, and may rely on name information supplied at arrest before all fingerprint or criminal-history controls are complete.
The official sheriff mobile app is also important. The Iberia Parish Sheriff app for iOS and Google Play app advertise inmate viewing, bail posting, tips, alerts, Most Wanted, commissary information, jail information, and contact tools. The app feed reviewed in research showed custody status, booked date, reporting agency, race, gender, age, and phone data. It may be easier on mobile, while the web roster can show fuller charge and bond tables.
- Open the Iberia Parish Jail Roster and accept the disclaimer if you choose to continue.
- Use the Active Inmate Search form for jacket number, last name, first name, middle initial, or birth year.
- Use the Active Inmate Listing when the exact spelling is uncertain and an alphabet filter may help.
- Use Recent Bookings for the newest intake list and booking-photo view.
- If no result appears, check the sheriff app, call the jail, and then check VINE, BOP, or ICE depending on the custody type.
Iberia Parish Current Inmate Lookup
The Active Inmate Search form uses specific fields that are worth entering carefully. The jacket number is split into a two-digit year field and an eight-digit number field. A sample booking profile displayed a jacket number in the format 26-00002800. Name fields can be searched by last and first name, with a one-character middle initial and a four-digit year of birth available to narrow common names.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacket # | Two text boxes | Unspecified | Two-digit year prefix plus an eight-digit number field |
| Last Name | Text | Unspecified | Best first search when the jacket number is unknown |
| First Name | Text | Unspecified | Use with last name to reduce false matches |
| Middle Initial | One-character text | Unspecified | Helpful when names are similar |
| Year of Birth | Four-digit text | Unspecified | Useful when only a birth year is needed to narrow the list |
| Search / Clear | Buttons | Not applicable | Search submits the form; Clear resets the main fields |
The roster footer on the sample profile showed a last import time on the inspection date. Treat that as an observed update marker, not as a promised real-time interval.
Iberia Parish Past Inmate Records
Past and released records require a different path. The active roster is meant for current custody and recent booking access. It may show people with older arrest dates when they remain in custody, but it is not a complete historical archive for every released person. For older booking records, certified copies, incident reports, or booking photos that are no longer online, contact the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office or the jail under Louisiana Public Records Law.
Use the jail phone for real-time custody status. Use the sheriff administrative office for records routing when the request is not a live custody question. If a case has moved from jail custody into court filings, the Iberia Parish Clerk of Court is the court-record custodian. If a person was sentenced to state custody or transferred, use Louisiana VINE or DPS&C rather than the parish roster.
Iberia Parish Inmate Record Fields
A typical Iberia Parish booking profile shows the jail record created after intake. The sample inspected in the research displayed a large booking photo, jacket number, name, year of birth, booking date and time, arresting agency field, court date field, court field, release date, and a charge table. The charge table used columns for counts, charge, felony, and bond. Some fields can be blank or marked N/A, especially before court data is added.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Booking photo | Large profile image when available, with thumbnails on list pages |
| Jacket number | Local jail identifier, such as a year prefix plus number |
| Booking date | When jail intake was entered for the person |
| Charges | Booking or arrest charge text, often with Louisiana statute-style numbering |
| Bond | Per-charge bond field if populated, but blank does not always mean no bond exists |
| Court date / court | Roster fields that may show N/A before a case date is posted |
| Release date | Release information, with 00/00/0000 used in the sample for no posted release |
Iberia Parish Jail vs Prison
The most common lookup error is searching the wrong custody system. A person recently arrested in New Iberia or elsewhere in Iberia Parish usually starts with the parish jail roster. A person sentenced to Louisiana state custody may be in the parish jail for a time, but the public state custody path is Louisiana VINE and DPS&C. A federal sentenced prisoner belongs in the BOP locator, while immigration detention belongs in ICE ODLS.
| Parish Jail | State Prison / DPS&C | Federal or ICE | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who is held | Recent arrests, pretrial cases, city/parish inmates, local holds | Sentenced state prisoners or state custody cases | Federal sentenced prisoners or immigration detainees |
| Primary lookup | Iberia Parish Jail Roster and sheriff app | Louisiana VINE / DPS&C | BOP locator or ICE ODLS |
| Record detail | Booking photo, charges, bond, booking date, roster fields | Custody status and notifications, with DPS&C limits | Federal register or detainee locator fields |
| Best fallback | Jail phone or sheriff public-records request | VINE notification and DPS&C locator routing | Federal agency locator and case-specific court records |
Iberia Parish State Federal Search
When the local roster does not find someone, follow the custody chain rather than repeating the same search. Louisiana VINE is the public notification and locator channel for state custody. The Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator is for sentenced federal prisoners, not a parish jail roster. The ICE Online Detainee Locator System is for immigration custody and may show a person held outside Iberia Parish after transfer.
The Louisiana VINE landing page is the state custody and notification path named in the research.
VINE can help with custody status and alerts, but the parish jail remains the best source for current local booking details and bond fields.
Iberia Parish Detention Facilities
Two Iberia Parish custody facilities were identified in the facility map. The main jail is the public roster facility and primary booking point. The transitional work program is a separate work-release setting for eligible sentenced people. Use the correct page and phone channel because a work-release placement does not function like a new arrest booking.
- Iberia Parish Criminal Justice Facility - the parish jail at 3618 Broken Arrow Road, holding city inmates, parish inmates, state prisoners, federal prisoners, and other local-agency prisoners.
- Iberia Transitional Work Program - a transitional work or work-release program at 3701 Broken Arrow Road for eligible sentenced people in a structured reentry setting.
- Jacket number
- A local jail identifier used by the Iberia roster, formatted with a year prefix and number.
- Detainer
- A hold or request from another agency that may affect release even when a local bond appears.
- Transitional work
- A structured work-release setting for eligible sentenced people preparing for reentry.
- DPS&C
- Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, the state corrections agency.
Iberia Parish Inmate Population FAQ
How big is the Iberia Parish inmate population?
The official current average daily population was not found in local public material. The main jail capacity is 512 prisoners, and Vera reports two Iberia Parish prisons or jails with combined capacity of 675. Use those as capacity figures, not a live head count.
How do I search the Iberia Parish inmate population?
Start with the Iberia Parish Jail Roster, then use the Active Inmate Search, Active Inmate Listing, or Recent Bookings view. If that fails, check the sheriff app, call the jail at (337) 369-2431, and use VINE, BOP, or ICE if custody may be state, federal, or immigration related.
Does the roster show mugshots?
Yes. The active list, recent bookings view, and booking profile can show booking photos. The roster screenshots failed in the image manifest because of a certificate issue, so no roster image is used here.
Who runs the Iberia Parish jail?
The Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office operates the jail. Sheriff Thomas S. Romero is listed by DPS&C and the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association. The administrative office is at 300 Iberia Street, New Iberia, LA 70560, (337) 369-3714, with hours of 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM Monday through Friday.
What if a person is in state prison?
Use Louisiana VINE and DPS&C channels. A person may be housed in the parish jail under state authority, but once state custody is the main issue, the state locator path is more reliable than the parish roster.
Can I request older jail records?
Yes, when records are not exempt. Louisiana Public Records Law allows adults to inspect or copy public records unless another law restricts access. Contact the sheriff or jail custodian for older booking records or official copies.