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Lawrence County Jail Overview

Lawrence County Jail is operated by the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office. The Mississippi Sheriffs' Association directory lists Ryan Everett as sheriff and gives the official sheriff contact as P.O. Box 816, Monticello, MS 39654, phone 601-587-2961, and fax 601-587-4740. The Mississippi Association of Supervisors independently identifies Ryan Everett as sheriff and Monticello as the county seat.

The facility type is county jail and local detention. The population held can include adult pretrial detainees, people serving short county sentences, municipal arrestees transferred to county custody, and Lawrence County holds pending court action. Official online sources did not publish a verified physical street address, rated capacity, security classification, housing units, booking desk hours, jail administrator, or public lobby hours.

Lawrence County Jail Population

Facility-specific population data is limited. The only located county-jail count was a 2013 weekly population-list figure of 25 from a BJS Census of Jail Facilities extract surfaced by Prisoners of the Census. A current Lawrence County Jail population, current bed use, annual booking count, and rated bed capacity were not published in official sources reviewed for the research.

Capacity claims from unofficial jail directories should not be used for Lawrence County Jail unless the sheriff, county, or another official source verifies them. No official overcrowding litigation, jail construction project, or consent decree was located during the sweep.

Lookup Lawrence County Jail Inmates

No official Lawrence County, Mississippi online jail roster was located. That makes the jail phone line the primary lookup path for current custody. Provide enough identifying information for staff to distinguish the person from others with similar names, and ask whether the person is held locally, has been released, has a bond, or has a hold from another agency.

1. Call Lawrence County Sheriff's Office / Jail at 601-587-2961.
2. Give the person's full name, date of birth if known, arrest date, and arresting agency.
3. Ask whether the person is currently in Lawrence County Jail or was transferred, released, or cited.
4. Ask whether bond has been set and whether a hold or warrant blocks release.
5. Use MDOC inmate search if the person was sentenced to state custody.

Lawrence County Jail Contact

The jail and sheriff contact information should be treated as a confirmation point, not just an address block. Call before mailing items, visiting, sending money, or relying on a release time. A physical jail-door address and public entrance were not located in official online sources, so the mailing address below should not be treated as visitor directions.

Visit Lawrence County Jail

Lawrence County Jail did not publish an official visitation schedule in the sources reviewed. Visitor ID rules, dress code, child visitor rules, attorney visit procedures, lockdown changes, holiday rules, and video visitation availability were also not located. Use the jail phone line before traveling, and do not rely on visitation schedules from Lawrence County jails in other states.

Mail Phone Money

Mail and money rules were not published for Lawrence County Jail in the official sources reviewed. Before sending mail, ask whether the jail requires a booking number, whether photos or greeting cards are allowed, whether books must come from a publisher, whether cash is banned, and whether the jail uses any mail-scanning vendor. If scan-and-destroy mail processing exists, it was not found online during the sweep.

ConnectNetwork identifies Lawrence County MS-Jail as a facility for AdvancePay Phone service. The page showed account creation and sign-in options. It did not show local calling rates, tablet services, trust-fund deposits, video visitation, or commissary deposits in the captured Lawrence County text.

Lawrence County Jail Booking

Booking follows arrest or transfer to county custody. The research did not locate Lawrence County's own intake page, so timing and exact steps should not be overstated. A typical Mississippi-local intake can include identity confirmation, warrant and hold checks, property inventory, searches under policy, medical screening, fingerprints, a booking photo, charge entry, and housing classification.

The first appearance and bond path depends on charge type and court. Misdemeanors and preliminary matters may involve municipal or justice court, while felony prosecution moves toward circuit court and the 15th Circuit District Attorney. Jail booking charges can differ from charges later filed by prosecutors.

Lawrence County Bond Release

No Lawrence County bond page was located. Call the jail to confirm current custody, bond amount, bond type, court, payment method, and whether any hold blocks release. Bond may be cash, surety through a licensed bail agent, property or secured bond where allowed, personal recognizance, no-bond, or blocked by another agency hold.

Cash bond

Money deposited as directed by the court or jail, with refund or disbursement governed by the case outcome and fees.

Surety bond

A licensed bail agent posts a bond for a fee, subject to court acceptance and any detainer.

PR bond

Release on a promise to appear, usually with court conditions.

No-bond hold

Custody continues unless a court changes the order or the hold is resolved.

Court MDOC Transfer Routing

After a Lawrence County jail arrest, custody records and court records split. The jail can verify current custody, booking facts, release status, and sometimes bond. The court record begins when complaints, indictments, informations, motions, or other pleadings are filed. Lawrence County Circuit and Chancery Courts appear in the Mississippi Electronic Courts path, and Public Access MEC requires registration/login and fees.

Once a person is sentenced to MDOC custody, the county jail is not the final source for prison location or release eligibility. MDOC profiles may show location, unit, entry date, sentence count, total length, offense blocks, county of conviction, sentence date, tentative release date when applicable, and victim-services links. MDOC release processing and records questions should be routed to MDOC.

Lawrence County Jail Notes

No official county jail history, construction page, program list, GED page, substance-abuse treatment page, clergy-visitation process, grievance page, medical-request page, or work-release program page was located. Families should ask the jail directly about medical requests, clergy visits, reentry resources, and any work-release eligibility.

Recent local news reported a January 2026 Lawrence County Jail detainee escape and return to custody. WAPT reported that Leonard Rhymes, described as an armed robbery suspect, overpowered a jailer, escaped, and was captured. The Prentiss Headlight reported Sheriff Ryan Everett confirmed the person was returned to custody just over three hours after the escape. That is recent-news context, not a substitute for current jail policies.