The Avoyelles Parish Women's Correctional Center is located in the region of Cottonport, Louisiana. This jail facility started off by holding training and employee orientation classes. It was a few months later, when the inmates began arriving at the facility.
The prime goal of the Avoyelles Parish Women's Correctional Center is to maintain a safe, secure, and humane place for the staff members and the inmates that carry charges.
The facility features an administrative office.
The inmates roster at the Avoyelles Parish Women's Correctional Center is kept public, and can be found on the jail’s website. Using this roster, you can look for an inmate by using the first and the last name. The roster will also view the charges that the inmate carries along with the number of days that they have spent on the facility.
Apart from that, the roster also displays their charges, mugshot, their personal identification number, and the date of birth. Atop that, it can also be used to schedule a visit.
The facility allows inmates to receive mail and care packages. These packages are, however, scanned through a smart communications system before handing on to the inmates.
In case you want to send a mail to an inmate, the following address can be used:
Once the mail arrives and goes through the smart communications system, the inmates can receive and check their mail at the kiosks. This is done to ensure that the inmates and staff remains safe from other harmful things that people often try to sneak into postal mail, postcards, and letters.
Moreover, inmates may also choose the snail mail to send letters. However, most of the inmates prefer the Smart Communications system for emails simply because it works faster and more efficiently.
However, both sides of the message which include the family/friends of the inmates and the inmate must bay $0.5 for every single message. In case a photograph is to be sent, $1 has to be paid by the inmate’s friends and family. These photos cannot be printed out by the inmates.
There are a number of ways in which you can send money to an inmate being held at the facility. These include:
Through Phone
The Keefe Commissary can be contacted at 866-345-1884 for funding purposes and queries. Moreover, money can also be added via Correct Solutions via this phone number: 877-618-3516.
In-Person
In case you are near in proximity to the jail, you can arrive in between 7 am to 11 pm on workdays to the Sheriff's Office Lobby to send some money to an inmate.
Sending money online
The third and most convenient way of sending money to an inmate is through the internet. In order to do this, Access Corrections must be contacted and an account needs to be set up. Do note that this service involves a fee.
The inmates at the Avoyelles Parish Women's Correctional Center get the facility of calling their friends and families. However, friends and family cannot initiate a call to the inmates from outside.
Each and every call that goes out of the prison facility is a collect call. This means that the person on the receiving end is liable to pay for it. Moreover, the inmates need to know the phone numbers on top of the head as no address book or list of numbers is provided.
Access to the internet is not provided at the Avoyelles Parish Women's Correctional Center. However, access to Access Corrections does exist. This system allows the inmates to send/receive emails from the family and friends along with money.
This service, however, has its costs associated with the sending and receiving of hte messages. These messages may also include photos sent to the inmates.
The inmates at the Avoyelles Parish Women's Correctional Center can order whatever they need via touchscreen tablets, that area delivered to them once a week. The menu includes more than a hundred items to choose from. However, the Commissary must be funded with money in order to place an order.
A jail clerk cannot set up a visitation appointment anymore. In order to set up a visit, a government ID is required. Moreover, at one time, no more than four people can visit the facility.
Based on the pod of an inmate, a visitation can be scheduled in between 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM. There are two visitation times that are dedicated to each housing pod.
Moreover, every visitor at the facility has to get registered, including children. At the same time, in order to make a visit, an appointment as to be scheduled via a call within 24 hours of a visit.