Medium Center Release Outcomes
Bossier Medium Correctional Center is listed by Louisiana DPS&C as a local jail. The official Bossier Parish facility directory gives it a separate address and telephone line from the neighboring Maximum Center and Transitional Work Program. That separate listing matters because movement inside the Plain Dealing cluster can look like a release from one location while the person remains confined in another.
For a local pretrial or parish-sentence case, possible outcomes include bond, recognizance or another court order, time served, completion, or transfer. For a person in DPS&C legal custody, leaving Medium may mean a state discharge, release to supervision, reassignment to another local facility, or transfer to a state institution. The public record should preserve the actual event term. Transfer, parole, good-time release, and full-term discharge are not synonyms.
Confirm Medium Center Releases
Start with the Bossier Police-to-Citizen inmate catalog. If the last booking remains visible, note its exact identifiers and agency. An absent name is not enough. The vendor record can change because of spelling, delay, a transfer, restricted access, or a true release.
- Record the full name, Bossier inmate or booking number, booked date, and charge context from the last reliable result.
- Search LAVINE by name or available ID, compare identifiers, and open the matched record.
- Read the status and location labels without translating a transfer or supervision result into a full discharge.
- For a local case, check the 26th JDC minute for the bond, sentence, dismissal, time-served, or release order.
- Contact Medium Center or request the Sheriff release event if the sources do not align.
The Bossier Parish released-inmate lookup explains the broader route for local, state, court, federal, and immigration records. On this facility page, the decisive issue is whether Medium was merely the last building or also the agency responsible for the release record.
Medium Center Contact Record
The official DPS&C directory lists Bossier Medium Correctional Center at 2984 Old Plain Dealing Road with its own phone and fax. The page displays ZIP code 70164, which conflicts with the 71064 ZIP otherwise used for Plain Dealing. Research instructions require that discrepancy to remain visible rather than being silently corrected. Verify mailing details by telephone before sending a request or document.
Bossier Medium Correctional Center
2984 Old Plain Dealing Road
Plain Dealing, Louisiana
Official DPS&C page displays ZIP 70164; verify by phone
Phone: 318-326-5927
Fax: 318-326-7052
The facility can address an immediate placement question. The Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office is the route for a local booking and release-event request. No official Medium Center release schedule, public exit, property procedure, weekend rule, or visitor waiting location was found. Do not infer those details from another jail.
Request Medium Release Records
A useful public-records request identifies one booking and asks for existing fields. Include the person's exact name, the inmate or booking number, and the relevant arrest or custody date. Ask for booking and release date and time, releasing facility, release type or destination code, code legend, bond or court-order reference, and receiving agency when the event was a transfer.
The Bossier Sheriff Public Records Request page is the formal local route. Requests may be mailed to the Custodian of Records, P.O. Box 850, Benton, LA 71006; emailed to recordsrequest@bossiersheriff.com; or delivered to the Records Division at 204 Burt Boulevard in Benton during its published weekday hours. The office says not to send payment with the first request. It issues an invoice if a charge applies, and an unpaid cost notice closes after ten business days.
Note: Ask for a code legend when the Medium Center event uses an abbreviation that does not clearly distinguish release from transfer.
Medium Center Court Proof
The 26th Judicial District Court record can explain the legal basis for a Bossier Parish custody change. Relevant minutes may show bond, recognizance, dismissal, a plea, sentence, credit for time served, probation, revocation, or an order to release. The court serves both Bossier and Webster Parishes, so confirm the parish and docket before relying on a result.
| Record | What it can prove |
|---|---|
| Sheriff release event | Operational date, time, facility, event type, and coded destination when recorded |
| Court minute or order | Legal authority, bond action, sentence, dismissal, or probation disposition |
| LAVINE status | Agency-fed custody, location, release, transfer, or supervision wording |
| DPS&C discharge record | State-sentence discharge date or public incarceration disposition |
A judge's order can authorize release before staff finish processing. The court record may therefore establish why a person was entitled to leave, while the Medium Center event establishes when that placement ended. When timing matters, use both.
Medium Center State Custody
A person serving a Louisiana sentence can be physically held at Medium Center while remaining in DPS&C legal custody. In that case, the statewide path is more reliable than treating the person as an ordinary county-jail release. Search LAVINE on VINELink, which DPS&C says includes imprisoned people and people under probation or parole supervision. Louisiana data is described as updating every 24 hours, but that cadence does not apply to the separate Bossier vendor catalog.
The DPS&C telephone locator at 225-383-4580 accepts a DPS&C number or name and date of birth. It can return a facility assignment, facility contact, projected release date if calculated, and an assigned Probation and Parole district. A projected date is not proof of departure. For actual release, seek a discharge date, release certificate, or community-supervision assignment, then pair it with the local physical event.
- Legal custodian
- The agency with authority over the sentence or detention.
- Physical custodian
- The facility where the person is held at that moment.
- Community supervision
- A correctional status after physical confinement has ended.
- Projected date
- An estimate based on sentence records and applicable credits, subject to change.
Medium Center Transfer Trap
The adjacent Plain Dealing sites create a local records problem that is easy to miss. Maximum, Medium, and the Transitional Work Program have different names and contact lines, yet a person can move among them without leaving custody. One list may stop showing the name as another location becomes responsible. This is why the destination field should sit beside the release-time field in every request.
Work-program placement also remains custody. A move from Medium into the Transitional Work Program may reflect a less secure placement and prerelease planning, but it is not itself release. A move back from the program to Medium can reflect a correctional change, not a new arrest. LAVINE, the DPS&C locator, and the assigned supervision office are the better state channels when the person has a DPS&C number.
Note: Facility movement and community release can occur close in time, so confirm each event separately rather than combining them.
Medium Center Historical Holds
Historical ICE inspection material and a U.S. Marshals agreement show prior federal use of Bossier Parish correctional space. The ICE documents are from 2019 and describe an intergovernmental arrangement for an over-72-hour facility. They justify a federal or immigration transfer check only when the case record supplies that clue. They do not prove a current 2026 contract, a current dedicated immigration function, or a federal population at Medium Center.
If the local release code identifies a federal transfer, use the receiving system. BOP covers Bureau of Prisons custody and covered historical releases. It does not cover every U.S. Marshals pretrial detainee. ICE's locator covers civil immigration detention. A local roster disappearance, no BOP result, or failed ICE exact-name search is not proof of community release.
Reliable Medium Release Finding
The strongest conclusion uses two aligned records. For a local case, match the Medium Center release event to a Bossier court or bond minute. For a state sentence, match the physical event to DPS&C discharge or supervision data. For a transfer, identify the receiving agency. Each route answers where the person went and whether legal custody continued.
Weaker signs can help locate the next record but should not carry the conclusion. A bond amount is not completed release. A projected date is not an actual date. A missing vendor result is not an event. A court dismissal may not show the final processing time. Keeping those limits clear protects the difference between leaving Medium Center and leaving custody altogether.