Allen Correctional Center Overview
Allen Correctional Center is operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections at 3751 Lauderdale Woodyard Rd. in Kinder. DOC lists Keith Cooley as warden and describes the facility's mission, reentry focus, programs, directions, and visitation rules. It is physically in Allen Parish, but it is not the Allen Parish Jail and is not searched through the sheriff's current-inmate roster.
The facility serves sentenced people in Louisiana DOC custody. Research identified minimum, medium, and maximum visiting categories in the DOC visitation rules, and DOC describes a classification process that covers reception, orientation, treatment planning, programming, reassessment, and release preparation. Program staff provide medical, psychiatric, psychological, social, religious, vocational, educational, and recreational services.
Allen Correctional Inmate Search
The correct lookup source is the Louisiana DPS&C offender information system and phone locator. DOC guidance states that callers need a DPS&C number or the person's name and date of birth. LA VINE also monitors adult inmates in all parish jails and state prisons and allows people to register for notices about release, transfer, escape, or other status changes. The Allen Parish sheriff roster is still useful for local bookings before transfer, but it is not the main state prison locator.
- Open the Louisiana DPS&C offender information page or use the DOC phone locator.
- Search with a DPS&C number when known.
- If no number is known, use name and date of birth to narrow the record.
- Confirm whether the person is housed at Allen Correctional Center.
- Register with LA VINE when release or transfer notification is needed.
DOC offender information is not the same as a parish booking entry. DOC's statistics page warns that records of imprisoned people in DOC custody are confidential under R.S. 15:574.12, so public lookup data should be treated as a location and status aid rather than a full prison file.
Allen Correctional Contact
Use the DOC facility contact for state prison questions. Use Allen Parish Jail for active parish bookings, bond, and current roster questions. The two facilities are in the same parish but operate under different agencies and custody rules.
Allen Correctional Center
3751 Lauderdale Woodyard Rd.
Kinder, LA 70648
337-639-2943
Operator: Louisiana DPS&C
Warden listed by DOC: Keith Cooley
The official DOC facility page is shown below.
The DOC page is the facility source for state prison information, while the sheriff roster remains the source for local parish jail bookings.
Allen Correctional Visits
DOC visitation for Allen Correctional Center is a state prison process. The facility page lists visits on Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., with no entry after 2 p.m. Fifth weekend days are limited to minimum trusty and medium honor, while medium and maximum custody are not allowed on fifth weekends. State prison visits may require approval and scheduling, and custody level can affect eligibility.
| Facility | Days | Time | Restrictions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allen Correctional Center | Saturday and Sunday | 8 a.m.-4 p.m.; no entry after 2 p.m. | Fifth weekend limits by custody level. |
Visitors should confirm approval status, ID rules, dress rules, and any custody-level limit with DOC before traveling to Kinder.
Louisiana DOC Locator Fields
The research captured the DOC locator inputs in a limited way because DOC search functions are not as openly inspectable in static pages as the parish roster. Still, the official guidance is clear enough to distinguish state prison search from local jail search.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| DPS&C number | Identifier | One accepted path | Best path when known. |
| Name | Text | One accepted path | Used when DPS&C number is unknown. |
| Date of birth | Date | Used with name | Helps identify the correct imprisoned person. |
| Phone locator | Telephone | Not applicable | 225-383-4580 listed in official guidance. |
Allen Correctional Mail Money
The research did not capture a facility-specific money-deposit fee table, mail format, phone vendor, or commissary policy for Allen Correctional Center. Use DOC statewide resources and the facility phone for current rules. Do not rely on the Allen Parish Jail's JailATM remote-visit reference for state prison deposits because the jail and DOC prison have separate systems.
| Service | Best source |
|---|---|
| Confirm with DOC facility guidance. | |
| Phone / communication | Confirm through DOC statewide rules. |
| Money deposits | Use DOC current instructions; no fee table captured. |
| Custody notification | LA VINE / VINELink. |
Allen Correctional Programs
DOC describes Allen Correctional Center as having reentry and classification functions. The classification procedure covers reception, orientation, treatment planning, programming, progress review, reclassification, and release or reintegration preparation. Program staff provide interdisciplinary services in medical, psychiatric, psychological, social, religious, vocational, educational, and recreational areas.
That program detail belongs to the state prison page, not to ordinary Allen Parish jail roster pages. The parish jail handles booking, pretrial custody, local bond, and court transport. Allen Correctional Center handles sentenced DOC custody and state-prison programming.
State custody also changes the records boundary. A parish booking entry can be requested through the sheriff under Louisiana booking-entry and public-records rules, but DOC warns that records of imprisoned people in its custody are confidential under R.S. 15:574.12. For Allen Correctional Center, public search should focus on location, custody status, facility contact, visitation, and release notification rather than expecting the same profile fields shown on the Allen Parish jail roster.
Allen Correctional Center's local presence can still matter after an Allen Parish arrest. A person may be booked into the parish jail first, appear in court, receive a sentence, and later enter DOC custody. At that point, families and record searchers should stop relying on the sheriff's roster for current location and should use the DOC locator, phone locator, and LA VINE.
DOC also publishes broader annual statistics, demographic dashboards, admission and release dashboards, a death dashboard, briefing book material, and data files. Those sources help explain Louisiana prison population context, but they should not be quoted as Allen Correctional Center-specific counts unless the source names the facility. The facility-specific capacity figure in this build comes from the Louisiana Division of Administration budget request, while current individual custody should be checked through DOC and LA VINE.
Federal custody is separate again. A federal sentenced prisoner belongs in the BOP locator, and an immigration detainee belongs in ICE ODLS, even when a federal or immigration hold first appears during an Allen Parish jail booking.
- DOC
- Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, the state prison agency.
- Classification
- The prison process used to decide housing, custody level, programs, and reassessment.
- LA VINE
- Louisiana's custody-status and victim-notification system for parish jail and state prison custody.
Note: Confirm custody through DOC or LA VINE before visiting because transfers can move a sentenced person between state facilities.