Columbia Center Youth Overview
Columbia Center for Youth is listed by the Louisiana Office of Juvenile Justice directory as a secure-care facility in Caldwell Parish. Older OJJ material and PREA sources refer to the site as Swanson Center for Youth at Columbia. The facility holds adjudicated youth, not adult pretrial detainees from the parish jail. That distinction controls the whole page. Adult jail roster, adult mugshot, and adult court-charge assumptions should not be used for youth secure care.
OJJ describes the Columbia facility as a therapeutic secure-care setting. Program details in OJJ sources include academic instruction through Pinehill Alternative School, life skills training, daily therapeutic groups, anger management, substance-abuse treatment, victim awareness, parenting, and pre-release preparation. Those details should remain tied to Columbia Center for Youth and should not be copied to the adult Caldwell jail facilities.
The OJJ directory screenshot identifies Columbia Center for Youth as an OJJ location, which is the source basis for treating it separately from adult jail custody.
Because this is an OJJ secure-care listing, adult LAVNS or Caldwell jail roster results should not be expected to show a youth placement at Columbia.
Columbia Center Youth Population
No official public capacity figure, daily population count, demographic table, or current census for Columbia Center for Youth was located in the research sources. The facility map therefore marks capacity as not located in official sources. Youth privacy rules and juvenile-record limits also mean public population details may be less available than adult jail data.
The correct sourced population description is qualitative: Columbia Center for Youth holds adjudicated youth in secure care under Louisiana OJJ, with education and treatment programming. It is not a Caldwell Parish adult jail and is not a place to search for adult booking photos, adult bond status, or adult parish jail charges.
Lookup Columbia Youth Custody
Columbia Center for Youth should be handled as a juvenile secure-care placement, not an adult inmate search. The adult Caldwell LAVNS and VINELink route is built for adult parish jail and state prison custody. OJJ youth records are different. A parent, guardian, attorney, or authorized party should contact the facility or the responsible juvenile-court channel rather than expecting a public adult roster entry.
Some adults sentenced to Louisiana DPS&C may be searched through LAVNS or VINELink, but that does not convert Columbia Center for Youth into a state prison page for adult inmates. The facility is physically in Caldwell Parish and operated by OJJ. If the person being searched is an adult, use the adult jail, DPS&C, BOP, or ICE routes. If the person is a youth in OJJ custody, start with OJJ and authorized contacts. No official Caldwell Parish sheriff or local police mobile app was located for inmate or warrant lookup during the research sweep.
- Confirm whether the person is a youth under OJJ custody or an adult in jail or prison custody.
- For Columbia Center for Youth, call the OJJ facility contact instead of relying on an adult jail roster.
- Ask what proof of identity, relationship, or legal authority is required before information can be released.
- Use adult LAVNS, VINELink, BOP, or ICE locators only when the person is in an adult custody category.
| Custody Type | Where to Start | Public Access Note |
|---|---|---|
| OJJ youth secure care | Columbia Center for Youth or OJJ | Juvenile records are not handled like adult roster entries |
| Adult parish jail | Caldwell LAVNS or VINELink | Use for adult jail custody, not OJJ placement |
| Adult state-sentenced custody | DPS&C/LAVNS route | Separate from youth secure care |
| Federal or immigration custody | BOP or ICE locator | No Caldwell Parish youth facility connection was found |
Columbia Center Youth Contact
The OJJ directory lists Columbia Center for Youth in Columbia. The 2026 PREA report identifies the physical address in the same Highway 850 area and gives a mailing address in Grayson. The PREA report also names facility contacts and administrators, but routine family, legal, visitation, or records questions should begin with the main facility contact unless the caller has been given a more specific OJJ contact.
Columbia Center for Youth
132 Hwy 850
Columbia, LA 71418
(318) 649-4310
Hours not published, call facility
OJJ/PREA Mailing Address
P.O. Box 69
Grayson, LA 71435
(318) 649-4310
Use only after confirming the correct mail format
Columbia Center Youth Visits
No public adult-style visitation schedule was located for Columbia Center for Youth. Because the facility serves youth in secure care, visits may depend on OJJ policy, family authorization, youth status, treatment programming, school schedule, safety restrictions, and court or case-plan rules. A public jail-style weekly visit table would be misleading without an official OJJ schedule.
Authorized visitors should call the facility before travel and ask about approval, identification, minor visitor rules, arrival time, dress rules, property restrictions, and whether the visit is in person or remote. If an attorney, court representative, or case worker is involved, ask whether their access process differs from family visitation.
| Day | Hours | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | not published, call facility | not published, call facility |
| Tuesday | not published, call facility | not published, call facility |
| Wednesday | not published, call facility | not published, call facility |
| Thursday | not published, call facility | not published, call facility |
| Friday | not published, call facility | not published, call facility |
| Saturday | not published, call facility | not published, call facility |
| Sunday | not published, call facility | not published, call facility |
Columbia Center Youth Mail
The research located an OJJ/PREA mailing address, but did not locate a public youth mail handbook, phone vendor, video vendor, money-deposit vendor, commissary fee table, or property rule sheet. For youth secure care, families should not assume adult jail commissary or phone rules. Call the facility and ask how to address mail, whether a youth ID is needed, what items are barred, whether books or photos are allowed, and whether legal mail has a separate marking rule.
| Service | Provider / Detail |
|---|---|
| Mail Address | P.O. Box 69, Grayson, LA 71435; confirm format before mailing |
| Phone / Video | not published, call facility |
| Money Deposit | not published, call facility |
| Commissary Fees | not published, call facility |
Columbia Center Youth Admission
Columbia Center for Youth is not a street-arrest booking jail. The relevant process is youth secure-care admission after juvenile-court adjudication and OJJ placement. That is different from adult arrest, adult booking, first appearance, bond, and parish jail classification. Adult booking law may explain Caldwell Parish jail records, but it does not make youth OJJ placement records public in the same way.
For an adult arrest, the custody flow may be arrest, booking, first appearance, bond review, jail housing, release, sentence, or state transfer. For an OJJ youth placement, the path is tied to juvenile court, case planning, education, treatment, security, and release preparation. The public should not expect adult mugshots, adult bond amounts, or adult jail housing units from Columbia Center for Youth.
- Adjudicated youth
- A young person whose matter has been handled through juvenile court.
- Secure care
- A locked OJJ placement with supervision, education, and treatment.
- OJJ
- Louisiana Office of Juvenile Justice.
- Adult roster
- A jail or prison custody tool that should not be used as proof of youth placement.
Columbia Center Youth Programs
The OJJ history page for Swanson Center for Youth at Columbia describes the location as a therapeutic secure-care setting. It lists Pinehill Alternative School as the on-site state-approved school and describes academic instruction along with life skills, daily group therapy, anger management, substance-abuse treatment, victim awareness, parenting, and pre-release preparation. Those program details give Columbia Center for Youth a different purpose from the adult Caldwell facilities on Highway 845.
The OJJ history page screenshot is the matching source for the facility's program and history context.
That program context is useful only for the youth facility. It should not be used to describe Caldwell Correctional Center or LCS Caldwell Detention Center.
The 2026 PREA report confirms the Columbia facility remains active in Caldwell Parish and provides address and contact context. No official adult jail construction, closure, or overcrowding item applies to the youth facility from the sources reviewed. For a local adult custody search, use the Caldwell jail records route instead.
Note: Confirm youth custody, visit approval, mail format, and records access with Columbia Center for Youth before travel or mailing.