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Calhoun County Jail Overview

The official Calhoun County Sheriff's jail page identifies Calhoun County Jail as the local jail serving Calhoun County from Pittsboro. The facility is operated by the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office, not by the Mississippi Department of Corrections. That point matters for inmate search. A person booked after a local arrest, warrant, municipal sentence, county sentence, probation or parole hold, or other-agency hold may be routed through the Calhoun County Jail process first.

The sheriff's jail page describes the jail as a county facility that can house people accused of all levels of charges. It also separates pretrial confinement from sentenced custody. Pretrial confinement means a person is being held before conviction, often to make sure the person appears in court. Sentenced confinement follows a conviction or court sentence. Calhoun County Jail may also hold people who are waiting on a state prison or Community Corrections bed, so a custody search may need both the local jail source and the state locator when a case moves forward.

The Calhoun County Sheriff's Office homepage places the sheriff's office in the same Pittsboro address used for the jail. It lists the sheriff's 24-hour phone number and administrative office hours, while the jail page gives the separate jail office number and the jail administrator. The sheriff site does not publish a construction year, housing-unit map, public parking instructions, or a full mail policy for the jail.

Calhoun County Jail Capacity

Published local jail population data is limited. The sheriff's site does not post a current daily population count, current average daily population, or current rated capacity for Calhoun County Jail. The clearest sourced facility figures in the research come from the Vera Incarceration Trends county dataset. Vera's latest available Calhoun County, Mississippi row in the research was for 2019 and reported a rated capacity of 60 and a total jail population of 35.

Those figures should be read as dated population statistics, not a live bed count. The 2019 Vera row also listed 33 people in pretrial custody and 2 sentenced people, which fits the sheriff page's description of a jail that holds both pretrial detainees and some sentenced or held people. The same research found no official current Calhoun County jail dashboard, annual booking total, overcrowding order, consent decree, or jail construction project from the sheriff or county sources reviewed.

Look Up Calhoun County Jail Inmates

Current county jail custody starts with the sheriff's jail page, because the sheriff states that current inmates are posted on the site. The same page says inmates are removed after release as soon as possible, but all people booked into the jail stay posted for at least one week with a release date showing. If a name is missing, the person may not yet be booked, may have been released long enough to drop off, may be under another agency, or may have moved into state or federal custody.

Booking photos and expanded custody details may route through Mississippi VINELink. The sheriff's jail page gives a specific photo path: click the inmate name if it is highlighted, move to the VINE page, choose "More Info" on the left side, and then click the gray image area on the right side to open the image. This process depends on a highlighted name and an available VINE profile.

1. Open the Calhoun County Sheriff's jail page and check the current or recent inmate posting.
2. If the name is highlighted, use the link to VINE for more custody details and any available picture.
3. Confirm that the person is held at Calhoun County Jail rather than MDOC, BOP, ICE, or another agency.
4. If the online path does not show the person, call the jail office at 662-412-3149 or the sheriff's 24-hour number at 662-412-5000.

For a person sentenced and transferred out of Calhoun County Jail, use the Mississippi Department of Corrections inmate search. For federal sentenced custody, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator. For immigration custody, use ICE Online Detainee Locator System. Those systems do not replace the county jail roster for local pretrial custody.

Calhoun County Jail Contact

The jail office is the direct contact point for basic custody, visitation, and property questions tied to Calhoun County Jail. The sheriff's 24-hour phone number is the broader public safety line for the office. The sheriff homepage also lists weekday administrative hours for the sheriff's office, but the research did not locate separate public counter hours for jail records.

The sheriff also provides a general contact form, but the research did not find a dedicated jail records request form or fee schedule. Older booking records, jail docket records, or booking-photo requests may need a Mississippi Public Records Act request to the sheriff's office, with enough names, dates, and record details for staff to identify the record.

Calhoun County Jail Visits

Public visitation at Calhoun County Jail is listed for Tuesday evenings. The sheriff's jail page says visitation for all cells occurs on the same day and that each visit is 30 minutes. No official online scheduling system, remote video visit rule, visitor approval form, ID rule, dress code, child-visitor rule, holiday rule, attorney visit rule, or lockdown exception was located in the sheriff materials reviewed.

Visitors should call the jail office before traveling if a visit depends on a long drive, a work schedule, or a specific person's custody status. A person can be released, transferred to MDOC, held under another agency, placed under restrictions, or unavailable for a visit even when the usual Tuesday window is posted. The official jail address should be used for mapping because the research did not locate sheriff-published turn-by-turn directions, visitor parking rules, lockers, or public transit instructions.

Calhoun County Jail Phone and Commissary

The sheriff's jail page names City Tele Coin as the inmate phone service for Calhoun County Jail. It says minutes may be bought by calling 1-800-682-0707 or by using the City Tele Coin website. The research did not locate a local phone rate table, tablet program, remote video price, call schedule, or phone account limit in the sheriff materials.

Commissary and inmate trust fund services are handled through Tiger Commissary for Calhoun County Jail MS. The vendor page lists Web Deposits, which place money on an inmate trust fund account, and Order Commissary, which lets a person order commissary items for an inmate. The research did not locate an official local fee table, deposit limit, spending cap, or commissary delivery schedule.

Calhoun County Jail Property

The sheriff's jail page publishes narrow property drop-off rules for clothing. The accepted items are limited to three pairs of white socks, three pairs of white underwear, and three white T-shirts. The T-shirts cannot be sleeveless shirts or muscle shirts. The page states that nothing else is accepted and that all other items must be bought from commissary.

Items must be brought between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. The research did not locate a property inventory form, release-property window, medication drop-off process, eyeglass rule, book rule, or electronic-device policy. Because the accepted list is short, property should not be brought to the jail unless it fits the published rule or jail staff have confirmed a current exception.

Calhoun County Jail Booking

A Calhoun County booking may start with a sheriff's deputy, one of the city police departments in the county, a warrant arrest, a court commitment, a supervision hold, or another agency hold. The sheriff's jail page confirms these custody groups, but it does not publish a step-by-step booking manual. Normal intake may include receiving the legal authority for detention, creating a jail record, searching and identifying the person, taking fingerprints and photographs when required, medical screening, classification, and phone access.

Mississippi law gives the jail record context. Miss. Code Section 19-25-63 requires the sheriff to keep a jail docket showing details such as the warrant or mittimus, the prisoner's name, the cause of imprisonment, when the person was received, and release or discharge authority. Miss. Code Section 45-27-9 addresses arrest-card and criminal-history reporting to the Mississippi Justice Information Center, including fingerprints, descriptions, and photographs when requested by the state system.

Booking

The jail intake process after arrest or court commitment.

Jail docket

The sheriff's required record of people received into jail and the authority for their custody.

Detainer

A hold or notice from another agency that may affect release.

Pretrial detainee

A person held while charges are pending and before conviction.

Calhoun County Jail Bonds

The sheriff's jail page includes a bonding-company list, but it does not publish a bond-payment window, accepted payment methods, jail bond desk hours, online bond portal, or local bond schedule. A roster or VINE entry may help confirm that a person is in custody, but release can depend on court orders, warrants, holds, and whether bond has been set. A bond amount alone does not guarantee release.

Call the jail office to confirm whether the person is still in Calhoun County Jail, whether a hold prevents release, and whether the payment route is through the jail, a court clerk, or a bonding company. If a court case has opened, the clerk or court record may show formal bond orders that differ from booking language. People held for probation or parole, state-bed waits, municipal sentences, other agencies, federal matters, or immigration issues may need more than one office checked.

Directions to Calhoun County Jail

Calhoun County Jail and the sheriff's office are listed at 178 S. Murphree St. in Pittsboro, the county seat. Visitors coming from Calhoun City, Derma, Bruce, Vardaman, Big Creek, or other parts of Calhoun County should use the exact jail address in a mapping app. The official sheriff materials reviewed did not publish cross streets, visitor parking instructions, ADA entrance details, lockers, public transit routing, or a separate public entrance description.

Use the same address for visitation, property drop-off, and jail office routing unless jail staff give a different instruction by phone. For visits and after-hours questions, call before travel because sheriff administrative hours and visitation hours are not the same thing. The jail office number is the better first call for facility rules, while the sheriff 24-hour number is the broader public safety line.