Search Leake County Jail Inmates

Leake County Jail Overview

Leake County Jail is tied to the Leake County Sheriff's Office at 316 C.O. Brooks Street in Carthage. The official county sheriff page names Sheriff Randy W. Atkinson, gives phone 601-267-7361, fax 601-267-4658, and lists weekday office hours. It also states that the sheriff is elected at large for a four-year term and keeps the peace within the county. For inmate lookup work, the most important listed duties are serving as the county jailer and keeping a jail docket.

No official county page reviewed for this build gave a stand-alone Leake County Jail bed count, construction year, public visitation schedule, mail address format, booking-desk number, lobby rules, or current online roster. That makes the jail a phone and in-person lookup facility rather than a verified online roster facility. It also means capacity numbers from Vera should be treated as county jail or regional reporting-unit data, not as a published bed count for only this building.

Leake County Jail Population

Vera's 2023 county-level data lists Leake County jail population as 433 and rated capacity as 462, with 57 pretrial, 376 sentenced, 306 held from state prison, and 67 held from another jail. Those figures likely reflect the county jail and regional correctional reporting unit rather than just the sheriff's front-end jail building. Use them to understand the broader Leake County inmate population, but do not call them the exact daily count for Leake County Jail alone.

The official sheriff page did not publish a live daily population. A same-day count, housing location, or release status should be confirmed directly with the sheriff's office. If the person has moved to MDOC custody, use the state locator instead.

Look Up Leake County Jail Inmates

No official Leake County jail roster search form was located on the sheriff page, so lookup is a sequence of official contacts. The sheriff is the first local custody channel. Justice Court is the first court channel for felony initial appearances and affidavits. The Circuit Clerk and PAMEC/MEC become relevant when a filed court case exists.

1. Call the sheriff's office with the person's full legal name, date of birth if known, arrest date, and arresting agency.
2. Ask whether the person is at Leake County Jail, has been released, transferred, or moved to Leake County Correctional Facility.
3. Ask whether a bond order, hold, warrant, or detainer affects release.
4. Contact Justice Court for initial appearance or affidavit questions.
5. Search MDOC if the person has been sentenced or moved into state custody.

Leake County Jail Contact

The sheriff's office is the official contact point for jail-docket, current custody, release, transfer, and county booking questions. The same address may not be the right destination for every court need, because the courthouse and Circuit Court are on Court Square and the regional correctional facility is nearby on C. O. Brooks Street. Verify the destination before travel.

Visiting Leake County Jail

No official Leake County sheriff page reviewed for this build published a county-jail visitation schedule, video-visit vendor, mail rule, commissary policy, or inmate-phone vendor. Call before traveling. Do not assume that MDOC visitation rules for state prison automatically apply to the sheriff-run jail.

Leake County Jail Mail and Money

The research did not locate a Leake County Jail mail format, inmate-money vendor, commissary fee schedule, or phone provider. That is a material access limit. Ask the jail to confirm the person's custody status before sending mail, arranging a visit, or sending funds. A person who has moved to the regional facility or MDOC custody may need a different address and account vendor.

Booking at Leake County Jail

After a local arrest, the person is taken to the proper custody officer without unnecessary delay under Mississippi law. The sheriff's jail docket should record the person's name, legal authority for custody, date of arrest and commitment, cause of imprisonment, and release or transfer. Booking commonly includes identification, fingerprints, photograph, and property handling. Mississippi law authorizes criminal information systems to collect fingerprints, descriptions, photographs, and other identifying data for covered arrests and detentions.

Leake County Justice Court holds jail sessions three times weekly to protect initial-appearance timing. A person may then bond out, remain pretrial, transfer to Leake County Correctional Facility, transfer to another county, or after sentencing move into MDOC custody. That is why a failed county-jail lookup should be followed by court and MDOC checks.

Leake County Jail Court Path

The jail and court records should be read together, but they are not the same record. The jail docket records custody authority and jail status. Justice Court handles misdemeanors, felony preliminaries, DUI matters, county ordinance violations, citations, and felony initial appearances. Its page says felony cases are first heard there for initial appearance and filing of affidavit. If a felony moves forward, the District Attorney, grand jury, Circuit Clerk, and MEC/PAMEC records may become the main court-record path.

Bond questions should start by confirming custody with the sheriff and then asking which court set release conditions. A no-bond hold, detainer, probation issue, bench warrant, or other agency hold may keep a person in custody even when a bond amount exists. The older Burks v. Scott County settlement is also relevant local context because it covered Leake County and addressed public defenders at arrest and detention based only on inability to afford money bail.

Municipal Arrests in Leake County

Official sources did not locate a city jail roster for Carthage, Walnut Grove, or Lena. Carthage has an official police contact, and Walnut Grove lists a police department and town hall, but neither page reviewed for this research published jail, lockup, visitation, or inmate-money information. The safest practical assumption is that many municipal arrests route into the county custody and court process unless the city police department confirms a different short-term holding arrangement.

Leake County Jail Records

Public access is governed by the Mississippi Public Records Act and jail-docket law. A written request to the record-holding agency is stronger than a broad verbal question when asking for a booking sheet, jail-docket entry, or booking photo that is not online. Incident report information may be public, while investigative material and protected identities may be withheld or redacted.