Prentiss County Jail Inmate Lookup

Prentiss County Jail Overview

Prentiss County Sheriff's Office jail information identifies Prentiss County Jail as the local jail at 1901-B East Chambers Drive in Booneville. The facility is operated by the Prentiss County Sheriff's Office under Sheriff Randy M. Tolar, whose county page also explains that the sheriff acts as county jailor and keeps the jail docket. The jail handles county inmates, local pretrial detainees, sentenced local custody, and some state inmates.

The official jail page says the building was constructed and opened for use in 1996. Jail administration is attributed in the research to Jail Administrator/Investigator Joey Clark and Deputy Jail Administrator Stephen Mitchell, with the command-staff material stating that Joey Clark oversees staffing, payroll, budgeting, and general jail management. The jail sits in Booneville's East Chambers Drive justice complex area, near the county Justice Court address at 1901C East Chambers Drive.

Prentiss County Jail Capacity and Population

The strongest current capacity figure is the sheriff's own jail page, inspected in June 2026. It gives Prentiss County Jail a capacity of approximately 70 inmates and notes that the count includes county inmates and state inmates. Official Prentiss County sources did not publish an average daily population, annual bookings, racial or age demographics, or a current jail population dashboard.

The work-center number is separate from ordinary county jail intake. The Prentiss County Joint State/County Inmate Work Center can house as many as 18 low-risk state inmates, but those people are in a state/county work arrangement rather than a normal new-arrest booking population.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Prentiss County Jail

No ordinary sheriff-hosted current-inmate web roster was located in the official Prentiss County sources. The local lookup path therefore starts with the jail phone and Mississippi SAVIN/VINE, then moves to MDOC, BOP, or ICE only when the person is outside the county jail system. The sheriff jail page points readers to Mississippi SAVIN, also known as VINE, for custody-status and notification information.

1. Call the jail at 662-728-2016 or the sheriff's 24-hour line at 662-728-6232 to confirm whether the person is currently booked at Prentiss County Jail.
2. Use Mississippi VINE/SAVIN for custody-status notices about release, transfer, or escape where the person is covered by the system.
3. If the person has been sentenced or transferred to state custody, search the Mississippi Department of Corrections inmate locator by name or MDOC ID.
4. For a federal sentence, use the BOP inmate locator. For immigration custody, use the ICE detainee locator rather than the county jail channel.

For older jail records, booking photos, or a jail-docket entry that is not available through VINE, the practical channel is a written public-records request to the sheriff as the custodian of local jail records. Mississippi law requires the sheriff to keep a jail docket showing the authority for custody, the prisoner's name, date of arrest and commitment, cause of imprisonment, and release authority.

Prentiss County Jail Address and Contact

The official county sheriff page at prentisscounty.org/sheriff lists Sheriff Randy Tolar and the East Chambers Drive address. The sheriff's office is also the practical local fallback when a person does not appear in VINE or when a family member needs to confirm whether a recent arrest has been booked, released, transferred, or held for another agency.

Visiting Someone at Prentiss County Jail

The official inmate-property and visitation material says visitors must call the jail during weekday business hours to make an appointment. Visitors must be on the inmate's completed visitor list, present valid government identification, bring no items into the jail, follow the dress code, and submit to search. Official child-visitor rules, attorney visit rules, parking rules, and visit length were not located, so those details should be confirmed with the jail before traveling.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Prentiss County Jail

No detailed official mail policy was located beyond the property and drop-off restrictions. Use the jail address for ordinary mail only after calling to confirm the current envelope, photo, book, magazine, legal mail, and package rules. The official property material says accepted clothing/property items must come together, are accepted one time only, and must be brought Monday-Friday during 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. by someone with valid government ID.

The Tiger Commissary Prentiss County Jail page shows the vendor path for web deposits and commissary ordering.

That vendor page supports the local research finding that commissary deposits may be handled online, while the sheriff material also references a jail kiosk and other payment channels tied to an inmate's five-digit jail ID.

Booking and Intake at Prentiss County Jail

Local sources do not publish a complete booking manual, but the available Prentiss County records show the basic custody path. A person arrested by the sheriff's office, Booneville police, another municipal agency, a state agency, or an outside agency on a warrant can be transported to the jail for local booking. Staff confirm identity, arresting authority, charge or hold, property, and whether another agency has a detainer.

The sheriff app release is older, but it described inmate information that included name, address, photo, and specific charges. The property PDF refers to an inmate five-digit jail ID, which is used for money transactions. Booking charges are not always the final court charges, so a person looking for the case record should also use court records after jail arrest once the matter moves to Justice Court, Circuit Court, or the prosecutor.

About Prentiss County Jail

Prentiss County Jail is a small-county jail with a local role and a state-custody connection. The county's official materials describe a jail opened in 1996, an approximately 70-inmate capacity, a direct jail phone line, and a state/county work-center component. The jail page also says inmate labor in the onsite kitchen saves the county about four dollars per inmate per day, a local detail tied to the broader work-center program.

The facility is not an MDOC-operated state prison, a BOP prison, or an ICE detention center. A Prentiss County arrest can still move into those systems later. For county custody, use the jail phone and VINE. For state prison custody, use MDOC. For federal or immigration custody, use the federal locator that matches that authority.