How to visit, scheduling, dress code, and visitor requirements
B.B. Rayburn Corrections Center allows visits for authorized visitors, with department policy focused on safety and consistent procedures across institutions. If the person you're visiting is in intake status, visits generally aren't permitted during intake processing—though special visit requests may be considered if intake runs longer than usual. Every visitor, including minors, must pass screening and may be searched. This includes searches of your person, property, and vehicle. Refuse a required search, and you won't get in—or your visit ends early. Adults need an accepted photo ID each time. Minors must come with a parent or legal guardian who's responsible for their behavior. Only prescribed life-saving or life-sustaining medication is allowed during visits, limited to what you need for the visit duration. Let staff know at the visiting desk if you're carrying medication. Bringing contraband—phones, cameras, drugs—can get you removed, referred for prosecution, and banned from future visits.
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Your first visit to B.B. Rayburn goes smoother when you show up with less. Here's what to leave locked in your car, what's prohibited in the visiting area, what infant items you can bring, and what screening looks like.
First visits can feel overwhelming, but the basics are straightforward: get approved, bring the right ID, and know the rules for minors if you're bringing kids. Run through this checklist before you leave home — it'll save you from getting turned away at the door.
Already heading to Raymond Laborde for a visit? You can add money to your loved one's account right there using the kiosk in the visitation processing building—up to $499.99 per visit.
Setting up a video visit with someone at B.B. Rayburn comes down to two things: getting started with Securus Video Connect and understanding what Louisiana DOC visitation rules (OP-C-9) currently allow. Here's what you need to connect from home.
Bringing a child to B.B. Rayburn? Plan on hands-on supervision the entire time. Louisiana DOC rules require anyone under 18 to be accompanied by their parent or legal guardian at all times on facility property. Children can't be left alone anywhere on the grounds — not in the parking lot, not outside the entrance, not while you run back to the car. If you need to step away, bring your child with you or have the parent/legal guardian stay with them.
Bringing a baby to a visit takes extra planning — item limits are strict. Use these checklists to pack the right infant essentials and avoid surprises at check-in.
A visit goes smoother when you show up with the right items—and leave the wrong ones behind. Use this checklist for B.B. Rayburn so you don't get turned away at the door or have your visit cut short.
Screening feels a lot like airport security. You'll walk through metal detectors, and staff may use ion scanning equipment to check for traces of contraband. These searches happen before you enter the visiting area—and sometimes during the overall visiting process.
Before you can enter the visiting area at B.B. Rayburn Corrections Center, you’ll need to register with staff at check-in. If you’re 18 or older, you’re required to show a picture ID every single time you visit — not just your first visit.
A prior criminal conviction by itself does not automatically disqualify you from visiting. Approval can still be denied if the nature of the offense is considered a security risk under the facility’s criteria.
If you refuse a search of your person, property, or vehicle, you can be denied entry and barred from visiting. Screening can include tools like metal detectors, ion scanning, and K-9s.
Yes, but only prescribed life-saving or life-sustaining medication is permitted, and only in an amount needed for the length of the visit. Tell staff at the visiting desk if you have medication with you.
When calls from B.B. Rayburn aren't coming through, it usually comes down to two things: the number isn't on the approved list, or there's a billing issue with the phone vendor. Here's how the 20-number list works, what to expect from calls, and who to contact when something goes wrong.
Phone calls at B.B. Rayburn run through an approved "master phone list." Your loved one can add up to 20 phone numbers, with updates allowed quarterly. If your number isn't on their list, the system blocks the call automatically. Getting on that list matters just as much as having your phone ready to accept the call.
You can't hand money directly to someone during a visit at B.B. Rayburn or any other Louisiana state prison. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections requires all deposits to go through JPay, so any funds you want your loved one to have must be sent using one of JPay's approved methods.
