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Orleans Justice Center Overview

Orleans Justice Center, often shortened to OJC in City jail-population reports, is operated by the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office. It is the parish's primary local jail, not a state prison. The facility receives people booked by New Orleans police and other arresting agencies, people waiting for first appearance or later court dates, people held only on warrants or probation and parole detainers, and people whose cases have ended but who remain in custody while waiting for transport to Louisiana DPS&C or the Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System.

The jail sits in the Mid-City criminal justice corridor near Tulane Avenue, South Broad Street, and the criminal courthouse complex. For records work, the most useful distinction is custody type. A current pretrial Orleans Justice Center inmate is searched through OPSO or Orleans LA VINE. A state-sentenced person who has left OJC for state custody is searched through Louisiana DPS&C/VINELink. A federal or immigration case may require a federal or ICE lookup, even when the first local arrest happened in Orleans Parish.

The OPSO detainee landing page is an official source for OJC service links, including detainee search, visitation, programs, mail, commissary, chaplain resources, and the Travis Hill School. The OPSO detainees page shows those channels in one place.

That screenshot matches the practical route for most family members: start with search, then move to visit, mail, commissary, or programs only after confirming the person is still assigned to OJC.

Orleans Justice Center Population

Orleans Justice Center does not read like a simple bed-count facility in the public reports. The key local benchmark is the 1,250-person City Council cap referenced in official and public reporting. City Office of Criminal Justice Coordination reports use OPSO data through the OCJC Data Warehouse and give a clearer picture of the OJC inmate population than a single rated-capacity label would.

The 2024 OCJC annual report recorded a 1,366 average daily jail population, with a high daily count of 1,567 on November 15, 2024, and 1,489 people in custody on the last day of 2024. The December 2025 OCJC monthly report recorded a lower 1,278 average daily detainees. The weekly report for the week ending January 3, 2026, recorded 1,245 average daily detainees. Those figures matter because OJC holds a mix of active cases and post-disposition transfer waits.

Orleans Justice Center Custody Types

The December 2025 OCJC report separates open matters from sentenced cases. Open matters include people whose state or municipal cases have not reached final disposition and people admitted only on warrants or detainers. Sentenced detainees are people whose cases have closed but who are waiting for transport to a DOC facility or to the Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System. That split is essential when reading an Orleans Justice Center inmate record because release or transfer status may depend on more than a local bond amount.

• Open matters: December 2025 reports placed 90.4% of the average daily population in this group.
• Sentenced detainees: December 2025 reports placed 9.5% of the average daily population in this group.
• Open felony charges: 77.1% of December 2025 ADP was held on open felony charges.
• DOC waits: Some sentenced people remain at OJC while waiting for Louisiana DPS&C transport.
• ELMHS waits: Some people remain after case disposition while waiting for mental-health transport.

A detainer is a hold or request from another agency. A remand is a court order sending a person back to custody. Either can keep a person in jail after a bond issue looks resolved in a basic charge table.

Orleans Justice Center Inmate Lookup

Current Orleans Justice Center inmate lookup starts with OPSO Inmate Inquiry. The public form allows searches by last name, first name, or booking number, and it includes an archive-records checkbox for older or released records. The Recent button returns a current and recent booking table. Results inspected during research showed booking number, photo status, inmate ID, name, date of birth, sex, race, booking date, release date, and an InCustody flag.

1. Open OPSO Inmate Inquiry and search by last name, first name, or booking number.
2. Use the Recent button when the arrest is new and a name search does not return a clear match.
3. Check Include Archive Records in Search if the person may have been released or moved from current custody.
4. Compare date of birth, race, sex, booking date, release date, and the InCustody flag before assuming a match.
5. Open the booking-number link to review charge information, bond fields, case numbers, and disposition fields.

A second current-custody channel is the Orleans LA VINE roster. The Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement describes LA VINE jail rosters as live data redeployed from jail-management feeds, updated every 30 minutes, with custody status and notification registration. LA VINE is useful when a person wants victim notification or a second check against OPSO data.

Orleans Justice Center Contact

Use the jail phone for current custody, visit-arrival questions, mail and communication questions, or release-status issues that do not make sense online. OPSO's broader main number is also useful when the question is about sheriff's office routing rather than a single OJC custody record.

Orleans Justice Center Visitation

OPSO keeps regular visitation and attorney visitation on separate official pages. The available official text confirms that regular visitation has an active-status visitor-list rule, that children must stay with parents, and that cameras are not allowed. The research did not locate a full public schedule, lobby-hours table, parking-rate notice, or complete visitor-arrival rule set in the accessible official page output.

The OPSO regular visitation page is the source to check before planning a visit.

Because the official page confirms rules but not a complete extracted schedule, a phone check with OJC is the safer step before leaving for the jail.

Orleans Justice Center Mail and Money

OPSO publishes official pages for mail instructions, detainee commissary, and communication or contact support. Those pages confirm that these service channels exist, but the research did not locate a complete current mail format, phone or video vendor, commissary vendor, deposit limit, or fee table in accessible official text. Do not send funds or mail based on old forum posts, third-party vendor claims, or screenshots from another parish.

Confirm the person's custody status before sending money. A release, transfer to DOC, ELMHS transport, or a corrected booking record can change which agency can accept mail or funds.

Orleans Justice Center Booking

OCJC defines jail admission as the transfer of custody from an arresting agency, such as NOPD, to OPSO. The booking path can include identity checks, property intake, fingerprints or other identification, health screening, initial classification, roster entry, and housing assignment. The public OPSO detail page can show booking number, inmate ID number, booking date, release date, physical descriptors, a photo status area, and a charge table.

Very recent arrests may not appear online until booking and data-feed updates occur. The LA VINE roster update note is useful, but it is not a promise that each arrest appears at the same speed. For a missed result, use OPSO Inmate Inquiry, LA VINE, direct OJC contact, and Clerk Connect for court activity.

Orleans Justice Center Programs

OPSO lists several programs tied to the jail population. Programs for Detainees is the main detainee-program landing page. Travis Hill School is listed as operating inside Orleans Justice Center. The Chaplain's Office page describes work with people incarcerated at the facility, and OPSO also lists an OPSO Book Program. These are separate from roster lookup and should be confirmed through the sheriff's official detainee pages when a specific person is housed at OJC.

Recent reform and conditions reporting should be read with dates attached. OJC has operated under long-running federal oversight, and public reporting in 2025 and 2026 focused on jail management, the 2025 escape, population pressure, and sheriff transition issues. For a current custody question, official OPSO and OCJC data are the primary sources.