Minden is home to the Bayou Dorcheat Correctional Facility. This prison serves Webster County County and surrounding areas. Bayou Dorcheat Correctional Facility is a county jail, serving Minden and surrounding areas. The Bayou Dorcheat Correctional Facility facility is located in Minden, Louisiana at 1455 Bravo Blvd. Be sure to verify that your inmate is at this location before traveling to visit.
Maintaining contact with friends and family is important for everyone’s health and wellbeing. Sadly, many prisons don’t make this easy. Phone charges of up to $14 a minute for long distance calls create a financial burden on inmates and the families who pay for these calls. A service from Globaltel helps avoid these additional charges by creating local phone number that an inmate can call that connects to your long-distance number. By eliminating the long-distance surcharge, inmates can talk to friends and family at the local rate no matter where they might live. You can set this up with Globaltel at Inmate Calls. To send mail to an inmate you can visit Jail Postcards.
Every jail or prison will have their own unique rules for inmate visitation. Every inmate is informed of these visitation rules and what days and times they are allowed to have visitors. The first step is to get set up with phone service so you can contact your inmate directly and get accurate information about prison visitation. Prisoners are often placed in city jail for pretrial detention. Then they may be transferred back to jail to serve short sentences after trial, or placed in a temporary facility while awaiting transfer to a longer-term prison facility.
Bayou Dorcheat Correctional Facility is a county jail, so most of the inmates at Bayou Dorcheat Correctional Facility will be post trial convicts serving medium sentences that that were too long for short term police department jail stays, but not long enough to justify transfer to a Louisiana State prison facility. It’s important for inmates in County jail to have access to commissary funds to buy things like toothpaste and stamps for letters. They will also need funds for phone calls which should be made using a service like Globaltel’s cheaper jail call service at Inmate Calls to avoid long distance charges when making prison calls.
Bayou Dorcheat Correctional Facility is in the CST time zone. The warden at Bayou Dorcheat Correctional Facility is Sheriff Gary S. Sexton. It’s important for families of inmates to help each other with information and tips about the prison facility they are in. You can leave comments and tips below about the best places to stay when visiting your inmate as well comments about any local service organization not already on our list of those available to help local families of inmates. We urge you to add your own comments about Bayou Dorcheat Correctional Facility below. “