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Lawrence County Inmate Population

The Lawrence County inmate population is local first. The Facility Map resolves to one detention facility, Lawrence County Jail, operated by the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office. The jail is the local custody point for adults booked after Lawrence County arrests, people awaiting bond or first appearance, short county commitments, and municipal arrestees transferred into county custody. A person sentenced to Mississippi Department of Corrections custody is no longer best searched as a county jail inmate, even if the case started in Lawrence County.

Official online sources did not publish a current Lawrence County jail dashboard, a live booking list, a rated bed count, or a public roster. That makes the Lawrence County inmate population different from counties where a sheriff's site posts current detainees every few minutes. The reliable path is to separate the question being asked: current county custody goes to the sheriff's office, sentenced-prison custody goes to MDOC, court-filed charges go to Mississippi Electronic Courts or the clerk, and federal or immigration custody uses separate national locators.

Lawrence County Inmate Population Statistics

The public statistics for the Lawrence County inmate population are limited. The only county-jail count located in the research was a 2013 weekly population-list figure surfaced through Prisoners of the Census from the BJS Census of Jail Facilities. Current jail population, annual bookings, sex breakdown, charge-level split, and rated jail capacity were not found in official county or state pages. That gap should not be filled with numbers from commercial jail-directory sites.

Lawrence County Jail Population Trends

Trend data for the Lawrence County inmate population is thin because no official county dashboard or annual jail report was located. The 2013 BJS-linked count gives one historic point, not a current trend line. For statewide context, Vera reports that 45 percent of the Mississippi jail population was held pretrial, and BJS reported 7.6 million local jail admissions nationwide from July 2022 through June 2023. Those figures describe wider jail systems, not a current Lawrence County count.

Who Is Counted Locally

The Lawrence County inmate population can include several kinds of custody. A new arrest may start with deputies, Monticello Police, another local agency, or a warrant. After booking, the person may be held for bond, a first appearance, a court date, a probation or parole hold, or another agency. A short county sentence may also be served locally. None of the official sources located a public breakdown by male or female housing, felony or misdemeanor charge, age group, race, pretrial status, or holds for other jurisdictions.

Pretrial detainee

A person held before the case has ended, often while bond, holds, or court dates are pending.

Short county sentence

A local jail commitment served under county custody rather than a long state prison sentence.

Detainer

A hold from another agency that may block release after local bond is posted.

MDOC custody

Mississippi Department of Corrections custody for sentenced prisoners, searched through the state locator.

Lawrence County Jail Capacity

Lawrence County Jail capacity was not published in the official online sources found during the sweep. That matters because capacity is often repeated on unofficial jail pages without a cited county source. The build record specifically warns not to use a 119-bed figure from unofficial directories. Current overcrowding, bed use, pods, housing units, medical cells, work-release beds, and classification levels were also not found in official Lawrence County material.

No official consent decree, Department of Justice investigation, current jail-overcrowding lawsuit, new-jail bond issue, or major construction project was located for Lawrence County Jail. Statewide reporting context is broader: a Bureau of Justice Assistance Mississippi Death in Custody Reporting Act plan described state-level reporting challenges. It should not be read as a Lawrence County-specific finding.

Laws for Lawrence County Custody

Mississippi law sets the basic frame for Lawrence County jail custody and records access. The sheriff has charge of the county jail and prisoners under state law, while public-record access depends on the Mississippi Public Records Act and its exceptions. Booking information may also connect to state criminal-information rules because arrest-card data can include fingerprints, descriptions, and photographs.

Lawrence County MDOC Search

Sentenced prisoners from Lawrence County enter a different system. The MDOC inmate search accepts name or MDOC ID number and can show state-prison profile details such as location, unit, sentence count, sentence length, county of conviction, sentence date, and a photo on some profiles. MDOC also has a parolee search for searches by name, ID number, city, or county.

MDOC's facilities map did not show a state prison in Lawrence County. It did list the Lawrence Probation & Parole Office at 6013 Hwy 587 / Robinwood Road in Monticello, but that office is for community supervision and is not a jail or prison page for this site. MDOC records questions use MDOC records channels, not the Lawrence County jail line, after a transfer to state custody.

Search Lawrence County Inmates

No official Lawrence County, Mississippi online jail roster was located. That is the main lookup fact for the county. Search results for "Lawrence County jail roster" often point to Arkansas, Missouri, Alabama, Indiana, Ohio, or Illinois. Those pages are not Mississippi custody sources. A Lawrence County, Mississippi custody check should stay anchored to Monticello contacts and 601-area-code offices unless a new official source is verified.

1. Call the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office or jail contact at 601-587-2961 with the person's full name, date of birth if known, and arrest date.
2. If Monticello Police made the arrest, call 601-587-7732 to ask whether the person was cited, released, or transferred to county custody.
3. For sentenced state prisoners, search the MDOC locator by name or MDOC ID number.
4. For federal custody, use the BOP inmate locator and remember that pretrial federal defendants may be held outside BOP's sentenced-inmate list.
5. For immigration custody, use ICE ODLS, then verify with the agency because county jail and immigration custody are separate systems.
6. For court-filed charges, use MEC/PAMEC or contact the Lawrence County Circuit Clerk.

Lawrence County Roster Fields

The county roster field table is short because no official county roster screen was found to inspect. MDOC, BOP, and PAMEC do have searchable fields, but those systems do not replace the local jail for a new Lawrence County booking. Current county jail confirmation remains a phone or written-records path unless Lawrence County later publishes an official roster.

Past Lawrence County Inmate Records

Past Lawrence County inmate records may require a written request because no archive or released-inmate roster was found online. Ask for a specific booking sheet, jail log extract, arrest docket entry, booking photograph if releasable, charge list, bond entry, or release date. A narrow request with full name, date of birth, arrest date, arresting agency, and case number is easier for the record holder to process.

For state custody records, MDOC says public-records and inmate-records requests must be in writing and are not accepted by telephone. For court-filed records after an arrest, use MEC/PAMEC or the clerk. Expunged, sealed, dismissed, or restricted records may not be available through the same public path.

Lawrence County Inmate Record Details

Because no Lawrence County online roster profile was available, the public field inventory for local jail records is unknown. The sheriff's office may be able to verify limited custody facts by phone, but release may depend on record type, case status, public-record exemptions, and whether the request concerns an active investigation. MDOC profiles are more inspectable because the state locator publishes a standard profile format.

County Jail vs State Prison

Lookup errors often happen because the county jail and MDOC answer different custody questions. The Lawrence County jail is the local intake and detention point. MDOC is the statewide sentenced-prison system. Federal and immigration custody are separate again. A person can move across these systems after arrest, bond, indictment, plea, sentence, transfer, or a hold from another agency.

Lawrence County Detention Facility

The Facility Map for Lawrence County lists one local detention facility for the site. No state prison, federal prison, ICE detention center, or regional correctional facility was located inside Lawrence County during the research sweep. The MDOC Lawrence Probation & Parole Office is not a detention facility.

• Lawrence County Jail - county jail and local detention operation run by the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office for pretrial detainees, short county commitments, municipal transfers, and local holds.

Lawrence County Local Routing

Local routing should use the Mississippi contacts, not same-name counties elsewhere. The Mississippi Sheriffs' Association directory lists Sheriff Ryan Everett, P.O. Box 816, Monticello, MS 39654, phone 601-587-2961, and fax 601-587-4740. The Mississippi Association of Supervisors lists Monticello as county seat and gives the county Board/courthouse address as 517 E. Broad Street. The Town of Monticello lists its police department at 202 Jefferson Street with phone 601-587-7732.

The Mississippi Association of Supervisors county profile is a useful local cross-check because it identifies Lawrence County elected officials and county seat details. The Lawrence County CDA Board page also gives county-government context, including Board meetings on the first and third Monday at 9 a.m. in the County Court Building Board Meeting Room. Those Board details help identify local government, but they do not create a jail roster.

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