Lieutenant Latifa Williams

Lieutenant Latifa Williams began her career with the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office in Thibodaux, Louisiana 9 years ago. In late 2015, she began working at the Lafourche Parish Detention Center as a Corrections Officer. She has since worked in many capacities within the Corrections Department, including serving on the Correctional Complex's transition team assisting with building new policies and procedures. Her primary focus on the team was corrections training. This led to her role as the Corrections Training Manager beginning in 2018, responsible for the building, tracking and reporting of all correctional training. In 2019, she was promoted to the rank of Sergeant and served as a shift supervisor directly responsible for booking and intake procedures. In 2020, she transitioned to a program facilitator on the Correctional Complex’s Reentry Team where she taught rehabilitation courses and reentry methods to the facility’s offender population. Additionally, Lt. Williams aids in maintaining the Correctional Complex’s ACA accreditation through her work with the accreditation team.

Most recently, she was promoted to serve as the Assistant Director of Programming, where she co-heads the Southeast Central Louisiana Regional Reentry Team and the Lafourche Parish Day Reporting Center that covers rehabilitation and reentry from initial incarceration to community supervision reaching 7 parishes in the southern-most part of Louisiana. In her free time, Lt. Williams enjoys building and presenting workshops sharing about reentry; she has presented at the American Correctional Association Conferences in 2021 and 2024, the Louisiana Correctional Association Conference in 2023, as well as, the Louisiana Sheriff’s Association Conference in 2024. Lt. Williams holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology Degree earned from Nicholls State University in 2021 and is set to begin her Clinical Mental Health and Addiction Counseling Master’s Program in August of 2024.