Who Can Visit an Inmate at Caddo Correctional Center: Rules for Ex‑offenders, Employees, Victims, and Families

Visitation at Caddo Correctional Center follows Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections visitation rules (OP‑C‑9). Authorized visits are allowed, but facility safety comes first. The process is designed to be consistent while still accounting for security needs.

Anyone can apply to visit an incarcerated person at Caddo Correctional Center - but only if the offender requests the visit first. This matters because the facility builds its process around the offender's approved visitor list, not walk-in sign-ups at the door.

Your visiting application must be approved and on file before you can visit. Once a decision is made, the offender is responsible for telling you whether you were approved or denied. You'll be waiting to hear from them rather than getting a direct notice from the facility.

A criminal record doesn't automatically disqualify you from visiting Caddo Correctional Center. Louisiana's visitation rules are clear: a prior conviction alone won't block your application. The same goes if you're an ex‑offender, on parole, or on probation - those statuses by themselves don't make you ineligible.

If you're on probation or parole, a letter from your supervising officer can strengthen your application. The policy allows for an approval letter on Form OP‑C‑9‑e. Having this letter creates a presumption that you should be eligible for visitation, which supports your case during the review process.

Current Department employees face restrictions - and so do those who left Department employment within the past 10 years. You may only be permitted to visit immediate family members who are incarcerated.

1. If you worked primarily in a prison setting, submit your request to the facility - send your request to visit an incarcerated family member to the Warden or the Warden’s designee (who must be an Assistant Warden or higher).
2. If you did not work primarily in a prison setting, submit your request to the Chief of Operations - this includes roles such as headquarters staff.

Direct victims of the offender are not allowed to visit. The only exception is if the visit is handled under the Department’s Victim‑Offender Dialogue regulation (PS‑H‑2).

You can't visit until your approved application is on file. Once the facility makes a decision, the offender must let you know whether you were approved or denied. Stay in contact with them and wait for confirmation before making the trip.