The Avoyelles Parish Marksville Detention Center is in Marksville, Louisiana. The Avoyelles Parish Marksville Detention Center is operated and managed by the Avoyelles Parish County Sheriff’s Office.

The Avoyelles Parish Marksville Detention Center also allows inmates to have visitors as well.

The inmates who are not released will have their own bed and be allotted three meals a day.

The facility does not only meet the state’s standards, but they also surpass the national standards as well. All deputies that work in the Black Hawk Jail go through intense training to help them provide a safe and humane environment for the staff members, visitors, and other inmates.

Inmates are released when they post bail, placed under probation, or on their own recognizance. While new inmates are coming in, there are also inmates leaving as well. The Avoyelles Parish Marksville Detention Center receives new inmates to the jail daily.

This old Avoyelles Parish Marksville Detention Center closed their doors back in 2007 and sat empty since then. The last execution that happened in the facility was back in 1949. They’ve even done their fair share of executions as well. The facility held many, many inmates over the years.

All violent and out of control inmates will be separated from the general population inmates to keep the peace inside the facility.

Avoyelles Parish County Sheriff's Office

Inmate Mailing Address

Inmate Name, ID, Housing #
Avoyelles Parish Marksville Detention Center
675 Government Street, Marksville, LA, 71351

Avoyelles Parish Marksville Detention Center Prison Information