Warden Bill Bookout

The correctional facility located at the Sulphur Law Enforcement Center was opened in December of 1982 with Bill Bookout assigned as its first full time jailer a few months later (February ‘83).  Mr. Bookout has since become the Jail Superintendent and supervises the jail operations as the Warden.  The Sulphur jail’s capacity is thirty inmates and houses Sulphur Police prisoners as well as those from the Louisiana Department of Corrections and  Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office. Quite often, stowaways and illegal aliens from countries such as Peru, Chile, Mexico, Columbia, Venezuela, Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, Germany, Russia and England are brought to our jail.  The Sulphur Police Department correctional facility works closely with the U. S. Border Patrol & the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and all area law enforcement agencies.  Even though our jail is classified as a medium security facility, we do have maximum security capabilities.  In the past, the Sulphur jail has housed a number of extremely high-risk prisoners and several inmates that are now on death row in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.