Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site on September 30, 2026.
Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, has about 24,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office and one city agency. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the parish jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the District Court for Morehouse Parish. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Morehouse Parish public records, Louisiana arrest records, Louisiana inmate search and Louisiana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Morehouse Parish
The Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Morehouse Parish. It reported 313 arrests for 2025.
One city in Morehouse Parish reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Bastrop, 8,922 residents: 300 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Morehouse Parish
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office: 313 for 2025, 537 for 2024, 540 for 2023, 530 for 2022, 482 for 2021 and 325 for 2020.
- Bastrop: 300 for 2025, 268 for 2024, 146 for 2023, 159 for 2022, 265 for 2021 and 682 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 613 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 300 in 2025 against 268 in 2024, up 12 percent.
Through May 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 222 arrests, against 233 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Morehouse Parish Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Morehouse Parish is held at the parish jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2021 the jail held about 440 people, down from about 480 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2018, the last year with a capacity figure, was 264 beds, and it ran at 61 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office at mpso.net/corrections-division (page title: Corrections Division), phone 318-281-9336, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, whose inmate locator is at doc.la.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Morehouse Parish
For Morehouse Parish the place to look is the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at 4thda.org, phone (318) 388-4720).
Louisiana does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Morehouse Parish
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. Under the Louisiana Public Records Law the agency must answer within 3 business days when the record is not immediately available, and it may charge a reasonable fee for copies.
- An arrest by the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 318-281-9336.
- An arrest in Bastrop: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (318) 388-4720, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Morehouse Parish: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the five cities in Morehouse Parish: Bastrop. Mer Rouge, Collinston, Bonita and Oak Ridge have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the parish the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the parish jail and the case goes to the District Court for Morehouse Parish.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Morehouse Parish, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Bastrop (8,922)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Morehouse Parish each year?
The Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office reported 313 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 613 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Morehouse Parish?
Ask the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office at 318-281-9336; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at mpso.net/corrections-division.
Where are people arrested in Morehouse Parish booked?
Those kept in custody go to the parish jail, run by the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Morehouse Parish?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Morehouse Parish are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Louisiana Public Records Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Morehouse Parish?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Louisiana Public Records Law the answer is due within 3 business days when the record is not immediately available.
Is this the official Morehouse Parish website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official parish, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.