Temporary Detention Center Release Paths
The Temporary Detention Center, or TDC, is listed separately from Orleans Justice Center in the current Louisiana DPS&C Orleans Parish facility directory. Older OPSO material also describes a TDC Transitional Workforce Facility. That program setting served selected DPS&C-sentenced people who had 18 months or less remaining. This history makes the legal custodian more important than the building label. Two people shown at the same address may have different release calculations and different offices controlling their records.
A successful program completion can lead to return to the community, sometimes with probation, parole, or diminution supervision still active. Diminution means a sentence reduction through legally earned good-time credit. It does not always mean the full sentence has ended. Louisiana law can place a person released by diminution under parole-like supervision for the balance of the original term. In contrast, a participant may leave TDC because the program ended, a detainer became controlling, another case required custody, or OPSO or DPS&C transferred the person elsewhere.
The exit record must name the path. A community discharge should be supported by the release transaction and, when relevant, a supervision status. A transfer should identify the receiving agency if that information is releasable. Merely failing to find the person at TDC does not answer either question because the facility has no stand-alone public historical release search.
Note: The TDC address identifies a placement, but the commitment determines which agency controls the sentence and discharge.
Confirm Temporary Detention Center Release
Begin with OPSO’s inmate search because TDC is an Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office facility. Search by full name and booking number if known. Run the search once for current records and again with “Include Archive Records in Search” checked. The archive results can display a Release Date. Match that date to the exact booking rather than assuming every record for the same name belongs to the same person.
Next decide whether a state sentence controlled the stay. The original Orleans court file can show the sentence and commitment, while Louisiana DPS&C supplies the state correctional calculation and discharge event. DPS&C routes its public web search through Louisiana VINE and provides telephone locator help at 225-383-4580. Its locator can include people in prison and people under probation or parole supervision. That makes it useful after a TDC workforce placement, but it is not a complete archive for all past discharges.
- Search the OPSO booking tool by name and booking number, including archived results.
- Record the booking number, release date, active flag, and any stated facility or custody detail.
- Review the Orleans court case for the sentence, release order, time-served entry, probation term, or later custody event.
- Use the Louisiana DPS&C inmate information route when the person was state-sentenced or may remain under state supervision.
- Request the OPSO release sheet and targeted DPS&C discharge information when the online trail cannot distinguish completion from transfer.
The Orleans Parish release-record search path also explains how court, jail, state, and federal records fit together when the receiving custodian is uncertain.
Temporary Detention Center Custody Records
TDC records can sit on both sides of the parish-state boundary. OPSO controls the local booking and physical-custody transaction. Louisiana DPS&C controls the calculation and discharge of a state sentence. A person can be legally committed to DPS&C while still housed in an Orleans Parish facility. For that reason, the address alone does not decide which agency’s release date governs the sentence.
| Question | Best starting source | What it can establish |
|---|---|---|
| Was the OPSO booking closed? | OPSO current and archive search | Active status and an available release date for the booking. |
| What sentence was imposed? | Orleans court record | Commitment, sentence terms, probation, and later court action. |
| Was state custody or supervision active? | Louisiana DPS&C or Louisiana VINE | State status, location, projected date, or supervision where shown. |
| Where did the person go? | Release sheet or custody chronology | Release type and receiving agency when releasable. |
A future DPS&C “projected release date” is an estimate based on the sentence and credits known at the time. It is not the actual TDC exit. The date can change because of corrected jail credit, consecutive sentences, earned or forfeited credit, court action, parole decisions, or a new hold. For a person who has already left, request the actual discharge event and determine whether state supervision continued.
Note: Physical departure from TDC and discharge from a Louisiana state sentence can occur on different dates.
Temporary Detention Center Release Request
A focused OPSO request should identify the person, the TDC booking, and the time period. Give the full name and aliases, date of birth if lawfully known, OPSO booking number, court case number, and approximate placement and exit dates. Ask for the booking sheet, release sheet or custody-status chronology, actual release date and time, release code with its definition, and destination or receiving agency if transferred. Ask for the nonexempt parts of any record that also contains protected material.
If a DPS&C sentence governed the placement, use the DPS&C number and request the public information named in R.S. 15:574.12(G). That can include general identifying and sentencing information, disposition of charges and incarcerations, and discharge date. Ask whether the event was parole, diminution, full-term discharge, or transfer, and whether supervision remained active to the extent that information is public. Do not request confidential presentence, pre-parole, case-note, or institutional material as though the whole file were open.
No verified current OPSO copy fee, response guarantee, or archive-retention period was found. Request an estimate before copies are made. Louisiana retention law does not require the public OPSO search to display the same information for the full life of the underlying record. A formal request can therefore remain useful after an online result disappears.
Temporary Detention Center Records Contact
The Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office operates TDC at 3000 Perdido Street in New Orleans. Use the official OPSO contact or public-record channel for current phone routing, office hours, and request delivery instructions. The research did not verify a separate TDC records desk or a stand-alone TDC release-information line. Contact details should be checked before visiting because agency routing can change.
Temporary Detention Center
Operator: Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office
3000 Perdido Street
New Orleans, LA
Official OPSO website
Current phone and hours: verify with OPSO
Questions about the state sentence belong with Louisiana DPS&C, not solely with the local facility. Court orders and sentence terms belong with the proper Orleans court and clerk. This split is central to TDC release research. One office can confirm that the person left the building while another maintains the legal discharge and supervision record.
Temporary Detention Center Name History
TDC appears in records under more than one description. Current state directory material lists the Temporary Detention Center as a distinct Orleans Parish facility. Older OPSO sources use “TDC Transitional Workforce Facility” for a work-release setting. Historical Orleans Parish Prison records may also use TDC as one label among Templeman phases, House of Detention, and other campus units. The name should be read in the context of its date.
The modern Orleans Justice Center campus opened in phases after Hurricane Katrina. City planning material records the 1,438-bed OJC detention building, Intake Processing Center, and administrative building opening in November 2015. That change did not erase older facility names from booking and court files. It also did not create a public locator for every old unit. Search by booking number, case number, DPS&C number, and person identifiers so the trail survives a change in building name.
A name match alone can be misleading. “TDC” may describe a physical placement, a transitional program, or a historical unit reference. The booking date and operator show which meaning is likely. The commitment and state record show who controlled the sentence. The release sheet shows the exit transaction. Together those facts prevent an older label from being mistaken for a current, independent release channel.
Temporary Detention Center Supervision
Community return after a TDC placement may still involve parole, probation, or diminution supervision. Probation is imposed by a court, often instead of or after confinement. Parole is conditional release from incarceration under state supervision. A diminution release results from legally earned sentence credit and can carry parole-like supervision for the rest of the original term under R.S. 15:571.5. Full-term discharge is a separate status.
- Program completion
- The participant finishes the applicable placement requirements; it does not by itself define the end of every sentence or case.
- Termination
- The placement ends before successful completion and may result in transfer or another custody decision.
- Detainer
- A request or notice from another authority that may affect the next destination.
- Discharge
- An agency-recorded end point that must be read to determine whether it concerns a facility, supervision, or the full sentence.
The Louisiana DPS&C locator can include people on parole or probation, but the public tool is not guaranteed to preserve every fully discharged record. A court minute entry can show probation, termination, or revocation. Parole decisions and state discharge belong with DPS&C and Committee records. Confirm the exact form of supervision rather than inferring it from the fact that a person left TDC.
Note: Community presence does not by itself show that a Louisiana correctional term or supervision period has fully ended.
Temporary Detention Center Search Limits
Orleans Parish has no verified official rolling TDC release feed. The OPSO “Recent” control means recent bookings, not recent releases. Louisiana VINE can report custody events supplied by participating agencies, but a notification is not a certified release sheet. Docket Master can explain the court event, though its display is not the official court record. These limits make a source-by-source check more reliable than any single status label.
Keep dates tied to the office that published them. An OPSO release date closes the local booking. A court order supplies legal authority but may precede physical processing. A DPS&C projected date is an estimate. A state discharge date records a state correctional event. If the person moves to another custodian, that receiving agency begins a new status trail. Clear labels preserve those differences.
When online results conflict, save the booking and case identifiers and ask narrow questions. Was the OPSO booking closed? Was the person transferred? Which agency received custody? Did supervision begin? Has the state sentence fully ended? Each answer comes from a specific record, and no missing search result can replace that record.