Female Program Departure Paths
The Louisiana DPS&C directory identifies the Ouachita Parish Transitional Work Program (Females) as a transitional work program. It is not the place to check a new parish arrest, and its residents should not be described as the current OCC pretrial population. Transitional placement is one stage within a sentence or correctional status. Leaving the facility can coincide with full sentence expiration, a change to parole or another form of community status, a transfer, or an administrative move.
The first question is therefore not simply whether the resident left the building. Ask which legal status followed. A discharge means the relevant sentence or agency authority ended. Parole means institutional confinement ended while the sentence continued under a legal release status. A transfer means custody continued elsewhere. Program administration can document the departure event, while the DPS&C master prison record addresses the state sentence. Monroe Probation and Parole is the local contact when the state record assigns community supervision.
Check Female Program Status
Louisiana’s official public route begins with the DPS&C inmate-information page and its LAVNS/VINELink path. LAVNS covers imprisoned people and people under probation or parole supervision, and DPS&C says it updates every 24 hours. Search by exact name or an ID or case number, narrow by location when that option appears, and compare all visible identifiers before selecting a result. A common name or the word Monroe is not enough to establish identity.
Use this sequence for a known program resident:
- Search Louisiana LAVNS by exact name or identifier and record the query time.
- Read the displayed agency, location, and status literally. Do not turn “not found” into proof of discharge.
- Call the female program and ask which public record can confirm the departure date and destination.
- Use the DPS&C phone locator when a facility, district office, or projected date is needed.
- If Monroe P&P appears, contact that office through the proper public verification channel.
The state phone locator can provide a custody facility or Probation and Parole district and a projected release date if applicable. Call 225-383-4580 with the DPS&C number or the person’s name and date of birth. A projected date is an estimate, not the actual departure event. If no date is available, DPS&C says computation can be incomplete, often because sentencing documents have not arrived.
Do not substitute parole eligibility or a hearing date for release. Eligibility only permits consideration when the law allows it. A favorable decision may still have conditions and a later effective event. The facility departure, state status, and any parole result should be dated and attributed separately. This protects against announcing a discharge based on a planned or conditional step.
Female Program Departure Records
A public search result is a useful current-status clue. It is not guaranteed to preserve a permanent history after full discharge. For a durable answer, ask the program for the record name and request the public release or departure facts from DPS&C. The state master prison record is the core sentence-computation document. It can distinguish placement, projected date, credits, and later changes from the facility’s own physical movement record.
DPS&C says imprisoned-person records are generally confidential beyond limited public information identified under R.S. 15:574.12. A requester should seek specific public facts, such as the official status label, placement or release date, and whether the record shows supervision. Sensitive file material may be withheld. A narrow request is easier to route and less likely to blur a program departure with complete sentence discharge.
DPS&C Public Records
Deputy Secretary’s Office
P.O. Box 94304
Baton Rouge, LA 70804
Phone: 225-342-6744
Email: docpublicrecords@la.gov
For time-computation questions, the research identifies 225-342-0799. That specialized line is different from the public-records contact. A person in state custody seeking the formal calculation may need to work through the facility Records Office or the administrative remedy process described by DPS&C.
Note: Request the exact agency label and query date so a projected date is not later repeated as an actual discharge date.
Female Program Release Contacts
The official directory lists the Ouachita Parish Transitional Work Program (Females) at 4081 Hwy 165 By-pass South, Monroe, LA 71207. Its phone is 318-324-2792, and its fax is 318-324-2795. No public program hours were verified in the research. Call before visiting and ask for the correct records or administration contact. Do not substitute the OCC general line merely because both facilities are in Ouachita Parish.
Ouachita Parish Transitional Work Program (Females)
4081 Hwy 165 By-pass South
Monroe, LA 71207
Phone: 318-324-2792
Fax: 318-324-2795
Hours: Not verified
When the program confirms a departure, ask whether it can state the destination or legal status in releasable form. Then match that answer to LAVNS, the DPS&C master record, or Monroe P&P as the case requires. An oral answer can resolve immediate confusion. A written record is stronger when the exact date, destination, or status must be preserved.
Female Program Source Record
The official facility page is the best source for the program’s current name and contact details. Review the DPS&C female program listing before relying on an address or number.
The captured page ties the contact information to the female program. It does not display a resident, departure result, or release archive.
Female Program Supervision Status
A Monroe Probation and Parole assignment can support that a resident moved into community supervision, but it should be read with the state status and any release document. Parole continues the sentence in the community under the terms that apply to the individual. Probation comes from a court sentence and may follow a suspended term or a split sentence. Neither word should be inferred from physical absence alone.
The Monroe District office is at 24 Accent Drive, Suite 101, Monroe, LA 71202, with phone 318-362-3171. The office is a navigation point when the official record assigns it. It is not a general public list of every person who has ever left the work program. No verified statewide public name-based probation database or general absconder list was found beyond the LAVNS route.
| Record signal | Next check |
|---|---|
| Program departure only | Ask for destination and legal status |
| Monroe P&P assignment | Confirm the public supervision channel with the district |
| New correctional location | Contact that facility’s records office |
| No LAVNS result | Check spelling, timing, scope, and request the state record |
A fully discharged person may not remain in a public locator. That is why the program record and DPS&C records route matter. The Ouachita Parish release search can help distinguish state supervision from parish, youth, federal, and immigration custody.
Louisiana sentence rules vary by offense date and eligibility. For qualifying offenses committed on or after August 1, 2024, R.S. 15:571.3.1 describes a maximum 15 percent good-time reduction and an 85 percent floor, with exclusions and other provisions. Older cases follow different statutory branches. Those rules cannot be applied from a name and sentence length alone. The authorized time-computation record controls, and a good-time release status may continue the legal sentence after institutional placement ends.
Ouachita Work Program Departures
Ouachita Parish has two distinct transitional work programs, one for females and one for males. The female program’s Highway 165 By-pass South address and phone are separate from the male program’s South Grand Street location. That local detail prevents a request from being sent to the wrong facility. It also shows why the label “Ouachita work release” is too broad for an accurate records inquiry.
Neither program should be merged into an OCC recent-release feed. A person may have entered transitional work after another correctional placement and later moved to supervision or discharge. The state and program chain follows that progression. OCC booking records apply only if the person also had a distinct OCC custody episode. Identify the facility, the time period, and the legal authority before asking for a record.
The official directory is also more reliable than a loose address search. Several correctional settings operate in the Monroe area, and the female program’s name contains both the parish and program type. Use all of that language in a request. A record custodian can then identify the right placement without guessing whether the requester means OCC, the male program, Swanson youth secure care, or Richwood immigration detention.
- Departure
- The physical act of leaving this program.
- Discharge
- The end of the identified sentence or correctional authority.
- Supervision
- A community status that can continue after institutional confinement ends.
- Transfer
- A move that continues custody or placement under another location or authority.
Note: Similar facility names do not make their records interchangeable; use the female program’s exact official name in every inquiry.