Locating Inmates in Tallahatchie County
No official Tallahatchie County online jail roster was found. The county does not publish a searchable inmate list, and no Sheriff's Office website or app turned up in any public source. That fact shapes every search. A reader who expects a county roster with photos and charges will not find one here. The reliable path is direct contact with the agency that booked or holds the person.
Sheriff Jimmy Fly leads the office that handles county pretrial custody. The mailing address is P.O. Box 100, Charleston, MS 38921. The phone line is 662-647-3700, and the fax is 662-647-5099. For a recent local arrest, the Sheriff's Office is the first call. Staff can confirm whether someone is being held in county custody and point you to the next step.
The statewide tool covers a different group. The Mississippi Department of Corrections lets the public search sentenced state inmates and parolees by name or ID. That database does not list county pretrial detainees, federal holds, or people housed for other states. Sorting out which system applies is the real work of any inmate lookup in this county.
One more channel exists for records that never go online. Booking logs and arrest records the Sheriff does not post may be requested directly from the office under the Mississippi Public Records Act. That access is not absolute. Active investigations, juvenile records, and privacy redactions can limit what is released, and the request goes to the public body that holds the record.
How to Confirm Someone Is in Custody
Work from the most local agency outward. The same person can move from a county booking to a state sentence over weeks or months, so the right tool depends on where the case stands. These steps follow that order.
- Identify the likely custody authority. A fresh local arrest usually means county jail under the Sheriff. A handed-down prison sentence means the Mississippi Department of Corrections. A federal charge means federal custody.
- Call the holding agency first. For county custody, phone the Tallahatchie County Sheriff's Office at 662-647-3700 to ask whether the person is held there and to get a booking number.
- Have the full legal name and date of birth ready. The more identifying detail you give, the faster staff can match a record by phone.
- Search MDOC for a state sentence. If the person was sentenced to prison or is on parole, use the Mississippi Department of Corrections inmate search by name or MDOC ID number.
- Check federal custody if a federal charge applies. The Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator covers people in federal prison, separate from any county or state system.
- Confirm the facility before you act. A person can be booked in one county but housed elsewhere, so always verify the current location before sending mail or money.
Each step narrows the field. If the Sheriff's Office says the person is not in county custody, the case has likely moved to a state or federal system, and the search shifts to MDOC or the federal locator.
Tallahatchie County Sheriff and Jail Contacts
Two facilities matter most for custody questions in this county, and they are not the same operation. The Sheriff's Office handles local arrests and county jail bookings. The Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility in Tutwiler is a private prison run by CoreCivic, not the county jail. Mixing them up leads to wasted calls, so the contact details and roles are listed separately.
Tallahatchie County Sheriff's Office
Sheriff Jimmy Fly
P.O. Box 100
Charleston, MS 38921
662-647-3700
Fax 662-647-5099
Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility
CoreCivic private facility
19351 US Hwy 49 N
Tutwiler, MS 38963
662-345-6567
Fax 662-345-8527
The CoreCivic facility in Tutwiler is a medium-security private prison. Its listed customer base includes Montana, Vermont, and Wyoming corrections departments, Hinds County, Tallahatchie County, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the U.S. Virgin Islands Bureau of Corrections. Because it can hold inmates for many agencies, the rules for any one inmate come from the sending agency, not from a single county policy.
Note: The Sheriff mailing address is a post office box, and no official physical jail address was published, so confirm the booking location by phone before any visit.
Searching MDOC for Tallahatchie County State Inmates
When a case ends in a prison sentence, the record moves to the state. The Mississippi Department of Corrections runs the public search for sentenced inmates and parolees across Mississippi. It is the closest thing to a statewide roster for people who have left county jail and entered the prison system.
The agency keeps the search simple. Its instructions read: enter the name or the ID number, then click the search button. The fields are limited, which makes a clean match easier when you have either a full name or the MDOC ID number on hand.
The Mississippi Department of Corrections homepage at mdoc.ms.gov carries the inmate search and parolee search fields used for statewide custody checks.
That page confirms the live search fields before you try a name, so a Tallahatchie County inmate already sentenced to state prison can be located through the state system rather than the county.
The fields the public sees are listed below. Remember the scope: this tool returns sentenced state inmates and parolees, not the pretrial detainees a county jail holds while charges are pending.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Name | Text | Optional if ID or last name used | Enter a name or an ID number, not necessarily both. |
| Last Name | Text | Optional if ID used | Searches sentenced inmates and parolees statewide. |
| MDOC ID Number | Text | Optional if name used | Direct lookup by the state inmate or parolee ID. |
| Search | Button | No | Runs the inmate or parolee search. |
What the Jail and MDOC Ask For and Return
Because no official county roster exists, there is no confirmed list of county jail profile fields to publish. Listing mugshots, pod numbers, bond figures, or release dates as if Tallahatchie posts them would be guesswork. What can be described honestly is two things: the details the jail may ask you for when you call, and the details the state search returns for a sentenced inmate.
The left column reflects identifiers a caller should have ready for the Sheriff's Office, drawn from how county custody questions are handled. The right column reflects the state search rather than any county field. Keep both straight so you ask the right office for the right detail.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Full legal name | A detail the jail may ask you for; helps staff match a county booking by phone. |
| Date of birth | A detail the jail may ask you for; separates people with similar names. |
| Booking number | A detail the jail may give or ask for; the reference for a county custody record. |
| Arresting agency | A detail the jail may ask you for; shows which department made the arrest. |
| MDOC name match | What MDOC returns; confirms a sentenced state inmate or parolee by name. |
| MDOC ID number | What MDOC returns; the state identifier for a person in the prison system. |
Note: County booking number, arresting agency, charge, bond, and court date should be requested from the jail by phone, since the county did not publish an official roster with these fields.
Tallahatchie County Jail Versus State and Federal Custody
The single biggest mistake in an inmate search is checking the wrong system. A person booked into county jail this week may be in a state prison next year and could even be held in a private facility for another state. Four custody systems operate in or near this county, and each has its own way to confirm a location.
County jail custody is pretrial and short-term, run by the Sheriff. State prison custody follows a sentence and is tracked by the Mississippi Department of Corrections. The CoreCivic facility in Tutwiler is a private prison that can hold contract inmates for several agencies. Federal custody covers people charged with federal crimes and is tracked by the Bureau of Prisons.
| Custody System | Who Holds the Person | How to Check |
|---|---|---|
| County jail | Tallahatchie County Sheriff | Call the Sheriff's Office at 662-647-3700; no online roster exists. |
| State prison | Mississippi Department of Corrections | Search MDOC online by name or MDOC ID number. |
| Private facility | CoreCivic, Tutwiler | Identify the sending agency first, then contact that agency. |
| Federal custody | U.S. Bureau of Prisons or U.S. Marshals | Use the federal inmate locator; not a county record. |
The private prison point deserves care. Because the Tutwiler facility may hold out-of-county, out-of-state, federal, or contract inmates, the rule source is often the agency that sent the person there, not Tallahatchie County. Confirm the custody authority before assuming county policy applies.
Visitation, Mail, and Money in Tallahatchie County
Visitation hours, mail formats, and money-deposit rules for the county jail were not located on any official county source. No published schedule, vendor, or dress code was found. Rather than print a schedule that may be wrong, the honest answer is to call before you go and confirm the current rules for the specific facility holding the person.
Are visitation hours posted online? No official Tallahatchie County visitation schedule was found. Call the Sheriff's Office to ask whether visits are in person or by video, whether they are appointment-only, and what days and times apply.
How do I send mail or money to an inmate? No official mail format or money-deposit vendor was located for the county jail. Ask the holding agency for the exact inmate name, booking number, and mailing address format, and ask how funds may be added before sending anything.
Who sets the rules at the Tutwiler facility? For the CoreCivic private prison, the sending agency may control visitation and mail rules. Identify whether the person is held for the county, the state, the U.S. Marshals, or another state, then confirm the rules with that agency.
Note: Before mailing money, visiting, or sending mail, call the holding agency to confirm photo ID rules, schedule, any current lockdowns, and whether legal visits follow a separate process.
Federal Custody and Court Records
Some cases never touch the county jail or the state prison system. Federal charges put a person into federal custody, tracked separately from anything Tallahatchie County or Mississippi runs. The Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator at bop.gov is the tool for people serving federal prison time, while the U.S. Marshals Service handles many pretrial federal detainees.
Tallahatchie County sits in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, Oxford Division. Federal criminal and civil filings tied to the county run through that court, not the county clerk. Related federal matters, including bankruptcy, are handled by separate federal offices serving the same district.
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Mississippi publishes its filing and contact details on its official court website.
That court serves the same Northern District that covers Tallahatchie County, so federal filings tied to county residents may appear there rather than in any county or state system.
Federal court documents are reached through the federal electronic system, not a local roster. The PACER court lookup for the Mississippi Northern Bankruptcy Court points users to the right docket access for that court.
That lookup confirms the access path for federal dockets, which keeps federal records separate from the Sheriff, MDOC, and the private facility covered above.
Custody and charges feed many of the same records, so the arrest records and court charges page covers how a booking becomes a filed charge. To check for an outstanding hold before contacting an agency, the warrant records page explains the local options.