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 24, 2026.
Winn Parish, Louisiana, has about 13,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Winn 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 Winn 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: Winn Parish public records, Louisiana arrest records, Louisiana inmate search and Louisiana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Winn Parish
The Winn Parish Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Winn Parish. It reported 50 arrests for 2023, its latest complete year.
One city in Winn Parish reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Winnfield, 3,979 residents: 175 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 Winn Parish
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Winnfield: 175 for 2025, 151 for 2024, 104 for 2023, 254 for 2020 and 219 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Winn Parish Sheriff's Office: 50 for 2023, 286 for 2020 and 435 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2023 on file reported 154 arrests that year.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Winn Parish Are Held
The parish jail is where a person arrested in Winn Parish and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2021 the jail held about 150 people, up from about 100 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 182 beds, and it ran at 58 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Winn Parish Sheriff's Office at winnsheriff.gov/inmateLookup (page title: Winn Parish Sheriff's Office (LA)), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
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 Winn Parish
For Winn Parish the place to look is the custody page of the Winn Parish Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the parish jail.
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 Winn 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 Winn Parish Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Winnfield: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Winn Parish: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the five cities in Winn Parish: Winnfield. Dodson, Calvin, Atlanta and Sikes 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 Winn Parish.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Winn Parish each year?
Winnfield reported 175 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2023, the latest year most of the agencies in Winn Parish sent in full, the two with every month on file reported 154 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Winn Parish?
Look on the custody page of the Winn Parish Sheriff's Office at winnsheriff.gov/inmateLookup. It covers people booked into the parish jail.
Where are people arrested in Winn Parish booked?
Those kept in custody go to the parish jail, run by the Winn Parish Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Winn Parish?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Winn 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 Winn Parish?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Winn 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 Winn 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.