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Mississippi county jails and state prisons

Mississippi has 82 counties. The sheriff runs the jail. Hinds, Harrison, Rankin, and DeSoto run the large buildings. A rural county may have one jail or send people to a regional facility. City police departments have holding rooms, not county jails.

Jails in Mississippi hold people before trial, people serving a misdemeanor, and a share of state inmates. A felony sentence goes to the Department of Corrections, which then places the person at Parchman, at a regional correctional facility, or back in a county jail under contract. In May 2026 the department listed 1,559 state inmates in county jails, against a county-jail line of 1,940. Regional correctional facilities held about 4,545 of a 4,591 capacity. A federal sentence goes to the Bureau of Prisons. FCC Yazoo City is the federal complex in the state.

The department’s June 2026 daily count ran near 19,800, against a system capacity of 21,912. Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman is rated for 2,690 and held about 2,580. Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, in Rankin County, is rated for 2,928 and was at or over that number on several June days. South Mississippi Correctional Institution is rated for 2,882 and held about 2,670. The Magnolia Women’s Complex, on the CMCF campus, is rated for 1,055 and held about 900. A youthful-offender unit there is rated for 58 and held about 38. Walnut Grove, Marshall County, and Delta are contract sites on the same report.

How many county jails are there in Mississippi?

Most of the 82 counties operate a jail. Regional correctional facilities, including Alcorn, Bolivar, Carroll, Chickasaw, George, and Holmes, hold state inmates under contract and are not county jails in the ordinary sense. When a jail holds someone for another county, for the state, or for the U.S. Marshals, it bills a daily rate. A family can be told the sentence is to the Department of Corrections and still find the person in a county or regional jail.

How many juvenile detention centers are there in Mississippi?

County detention and state commitment are different systems. Counties and youth courts run the detention centers that hold a youth before a hearing. The state commitment facility is Oakley Youth Development Center, near Raymond in Hinds County, run by the Department of Human Services. It is the only state juvenile correctional facility. Capacity is about 150. A youth can be committed for a felony adjudication, or after three misdemeanor adjudications, and Oakley can keep custody until the 20th birthday. A 2023 agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice still governs conditions there. In 2026 the Legislature set aside $12 million to renovate vacant buildings at Oakley and $10 million for the Department of Public Safety to plan youth-detention beds for north and south Mississippi.

Search the county of the arrest. The listing shows the local detention center, and Oakley only if the youth has been committed.

What the first days in a Mississippi county jail are like

Booking is a queue: identity, prints, a medical screen, a search, property bagged, one call. The person has not been convicted. The pod still runs on counts. In summer the building is hot. Food is plain, the uniform does not fit, and sleep is broken. Withdrawal from alcohol, opioids, or methamphetamine can start before the first appearance. A state inmate serving a felony sentence may be in the next bunk.

Deputies who apply the rules the same way to everyone run a quieter floor. Uneven enforcement is how contraband moves. Hinds and Harrison can separate by risk. A small rural jail often cannot, and a full jail there means a transfer.

Many Mississippi jails sell tablet time, video visits, and deposits through a vendor. Those accounts can be shut off. Each county page on this site lists the jail phone, the vendor, and the way to send money for that sheriff’s office.