Visiting Checklist for Natchitoches Parish Detention Center: What to Bring, Wear, and Leave Behind
Before you make the trip to Natchitoches Parish Detention Center, confirm you're eligible to visit. You must be on the incarcerated person's approved visiting list - no exceptions. The facility won't confirm your status over the phone, so your best bet is to check directly with the person you're planning to see.
When you arrive, you'll need to register with staff before entering the visiting area. Build in extra time so you're not rushing through check-in.
Photo ID and Registration
- ✓ Valid driver’s license from your state of residence
- ✓ Valid state photo identification card from your state of residence
- ✓ Valid active-duty military photo identification card
- ✓ Valid passport
Bring your photo ID every time if you're 18 or older - staff check it at each visit. You'll also register with staff before heading into the visiting area.
Items to Leave Behind
- ✓ Cell phones and other electronic devices (including pagers)
- ✓ Cameras
- ✓ Video or audio recording equipment
- ✓ Tobacco and tobacco-related items
- ✓ Alcoholic beverages
- ✓ Controlled substances (including marijuana)
Warning: Never pass anything to the incarcerated person during a visit - no items, no money. Doing so without staff approval can result in arrest, criminal charges, and permanent loss of visiting privileges. Money deposits must go through JPAY (mail, internet, telephone, kiosks, or MoneyGram).
Dress with security in mind. Clothing that resembles inmate attire isn't allowed, and neither is anything that looks like a correctional officer uniform - that includes camouflage and blue BDUs.
- ✓ Sheer or transparent clothing
- ✓ Swimsuits
- ✓ Skirts, shorts, skorts, culottes, and dresses shorter than three inches above the kneecap, or with deep/revealing slits
- ✓ Strapless, tube, or halter tops; tank tops; strapless dresses
- ✓ Tops that expose the midriff
- ✓ Tight-fitting pants and exercise-type clothing (stirrup pants, spandex, lycra, aerobic/exercise tights, leotards)
- ✓ Going without shoes
Need medication during your visit? Only prescribed, life-saving or life-sustaining medication is allowed - think nitroglycerine pills, inhalers, or oxygen. Bring just enough for the visit, and let staff at the visiting desk know before you enter.
- ✓ Four diapers
- ✓ Two jars of vacuum-sealed baby food
- ✓ Two plastic bottles of milk or juice
- ✓ One change of clothing
- ✓ One baby blanket (maximum 48 inches by 48 inches)
- ✓ One clear plastic bag of baby wipes
- ✓ Pack everything except the blanket in a single clear plastic container
You can't hand money directly to an incarcerated person. To add funds to their account, use JPAY through one of their approved methods: U.S. mail, internet, telephone, facility kiosks, or MoneyGram.
There's one exception to the
Expect to be searched. All visitors - including minors - can have their person, property, and vehicles screened. That means metal detectors, ion scanning equipment, and K-9 searches. Dogs may also come through the visiting room during your visit.
Note: Refuse a search and you won't be allowed in. If you're already visiting, the visit ends immediately.
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