Walthall County Inmate Records and Jail Roster Lookup

Walthall County Jail Roster Overview

The Walthall County Sheriff's Office operates the county jail and posts an inmate roster on its official website. The roster is split into two free public lists: a Current Inmates list showing people held in the Walthall County Detention Center right now, and a 48 Hour Release list showing people who left custody within the past two days. The sheriff in charge is Kyle Breland, and the detention center is led by Jail Warden Cherie Bailey. The jail page describes the facility's job as the care, custody, and control of the people held there, enforcing rules fairly while recognizing each inmate's statutory, judicial, and constitutional rights, and notes that video surveillance helps staff track activity and maintain safety. The jail's published page gives a window into how that custody operation is run.

The sheriff's jail page is a useful first stop before searching the roster. A lead-in link to the Walthall County Jail page sets the context for who runs the facility and what it does.

It is important to understand what this county roster does not cover. The Walthall County jail roster reflects local detention only. It does not show people held in federal custody, people serving sentences in the Mississippi Department of Corrections prison system, people detained by immigration authorities, or people held in other counties. Someone arrested in Walthall County can also be moved after an initial appearance, transferred to a state facility after sentencing, or released, so the roster is a snapshot rather than a permanent record. A name that appears one day may be gone the next once charges, bond, or custody change.

How to Use the Walthall County Inmate Roster

The roster is reached through the sheriff's site, which first offers a chooser between current inmates and recent releases. From the Walthall County inmate roster chooser, a visitor picks the list they need and then searches or browses it.

The chooser leads to a working roster page where each entry carries a photo, booking number, booking date, charges, bond, and a link into the full profile. The steps below outline the normal path from the roster home to an individual record.

1. Open the sheriff's inmate roster and choose the Current Inmates list, or the 48 Hour Release list if the person may already be out.
2. Type a name into the Search By Name box and click Search, or click Show All to browse every entry on the list.
3. Review the results, using the Name or Date sort controls and the newest-to-oldest or oldest-to-newest order to find the right booking among similar names.
4. Click the View Profile link on the matching entry to open the booking profile with the mugshot, charges, and bond, then call the jail to confirm anything that affects bail or release.

Walthall County Jail Roster Search Fields

The roster is not a fill-in form with many fields. It offers a single name search box plus a set of tabs, filters, sort links, and pagination controls. The table below lists the controls observed on the roster so a searcher knows what each button does. There is no posted minimum-character rule for the name box, so a partial last name can be tried if a full-name search returns nothing.

The 48-hour release list uses the same controls as the current roster. A lead-in to the Walthall County 48-hour release roster shows where to confirm that a person has recently left custody rather than still being held.

If a name is missing from both lists, the person may have been released more than 48 hours ago, transferred, never booked into this jail, or held under a different spelling. In those cases the phone is the reliable channel, because the online lists only reflect current and very recent custody.

What a Walthall County Inmate Profile Shows

Clicking through to a profile opens the detail page for one booking. A sample public profile reviewed on the roster, for inmate Gary Brown under booking number 0100982782, showed a consistent set of fields. The table below maps each field to what it tells a searcher. The profile is built around the booking event, so it focuses on identity basics, the arresting agency, the charges at booking, and the bond, rather than on the full case history.

Several fields people expect were not present on the inspected profile. The sample did not show a full date of birth, home address, height or weight, eye or hair color, cell or pod assignment, court date, magistrate, warrant number, projected release date, sentence, or any medical or security flags. The roster is therefore not a substitute for the court file, which holds the case number, hearings, and dispositions. Researchers tracing the charge side of a case often pair the roster with arrest and court charge records, because the charges shown at booking are not always the charges a prosecutor formally files.

Every profile carries a critical warning that searchers must respect: charges and bail amounts may change after court appearances and may not be current. Bonding companies and anyone planning to post bail should contact detention center staff at 601-876-3481 for the correct bail amount, charges, and case numbers before relying on the roster figures or sending money.

Walthall County Jail and Sheriff's Office Contacts

The jail and the sheriff's administrative office share one location at 807 Magnolia Avenue in Tylertown, the same Magnolia Avenue government block that also houses Justice Court. That is a different address from the courthouse and Circuit Clerk on Ball Avenue, so inmate, bond, and booking questions go to Magnolia Avenue, not to the courthouse. The main jail number is staffed around the clock, while the administrative office keeps weekday business hours.

The sheriff also publishes a contact page with the office phone, address, hours, and a crime-tip hotline at 844-786-7200. A lead-in to the Walthall County Sheriff's Office contact page shows the full set of phone and form options.

The contact page warns that plain-text email is not secure and should not be used for confidential or personal information such as a Social Security number, driver's license number, bank or card numbers, or medical details. For anything involving an inmate's private data, a bond payment, or a sensitive question, the phone line is the safer channel than the web form.

Booking Process in Walthall County

Booking is the intake step that creates the record a searcher later finds on the roster. After an arrest by a local agency such as the Tylertown Police Department or the sheriff's deputies, the person is brought to the detention center on Magnolia Avenue, where staff record identity information, take a booking photograph, assign a booking number, list the charges from the arresting officer, and note any bond already set. That booking event is what produces the date, time, agency, charges, and bond fields shown on the public profile.

Bond and the first court appearance are handled by the courts, not the jail. In Mississippi, Justice Court and Tylertown Municipal Court conduct initial appearances, bond hearings, and preliminary felony hearings, so the bond figure attached to a booking can be set or changed at one of those hearings. Felony matters typically begin with an initial appearance and preliminary steps in the lower court and then move to Circuit Court after indictment. Because the roster only reflects the booking snapshot, anyone tracking a hearing date, a bond change, or a release should confirm it with the jail or the court rather than assuming the online figure is current. People checking whether a hold stems from an outstanding order can also review warrant records and the court most likely tied to the case.

Visitation, Mail, and Money at the Walthall County Jail

The official Walthall County Sheriff's pages do not publish a detailed visitation schedule, mail rules, a commissary or money-deposit vendor, or a phone and video provider for the detention center. Because none of those details were posted, no visiting days, visit lengths, dress codes, kiosk vendors, deposit limits, or call rates are listed here, and no schedule should be assumed from other jails. Instead, the jail line at 601-876-3481 is the required confirmation channel before visiting, mailing, or sending money. The table below frames a visit and contact plan as questions to confirm by phone rather than fixed hours.

As with bond, staff at 601-876-3481 are the authority on charges, bail, and case numbers, and the same number answers visit, mail, and money questions. Confirming the person is still in custody and on an approved list before driving in is especially worthwhile in a rural county where many visitors travel a long way to reach Tylertown.

How to Contact an Inmate in Walthall County

There are three practical ways to reach a person held in the county jail, and all of them start with confirming custody by phone. The first is mail. Before sending a letter, call the jail to confirm the inmate is still housed there, get the current booking number, and ask for the exact address format the facility wants, since mail that does not match the active booking can be delayed or returned. The second is visiting, in person or by video where offered, which again depends on calling ahead to confirm the schedule, the approved-visitor list, and the ID and dress rules. The third is funding an account so the person can buy commissary items or make calls, which means asking staff which deposit methods the facility accepts.

Throughout, the same cautions apply: do not send private information through the website's email form, and do not treat the roster's charges or bond as final. The jail phone line, staffed 24 hours, is the single most reliable point of contact for an inmate's family because it can confirm whether the person is still in Walthall County custody and how to reach them. For state-sentenced relatives moved out of the county jail, the contact path shifts to the Mississippi Department of Corrections, covered next.

Statewide MDOC Inmate Search and the Marion/Walthall County Correctional Facility

People who have been sentenced to state prison do not appear on the county jail roster. For them, the Mississippi Department of Corrections runs a statewide inmate search for state-sentenced offenders. The search accepts a first name, a last name, or an MDOC identification number, and the Mississippi.gov version of the tool lets a user toggle between a Name search and an ID Number search. A lead-in to the MDOC inmate search shows the statewide tool used once a person leaves county custody for the state system.

The Marion/Walthall County Correctional Facility is a separate place from the Walthall County Jail and should not be confused with it. It is an MDOC regional facility located at 503 South Main Street, Columbia, MS 39429, with telephone 601-736-3621 and Warden Derek Mingo. It houses offenders within the state correctional system rather than people in pretrial county custody in Tylertown. A relative recently arrested and booked into the Tylertown jail is found on the sheriff's roster, while a relative serving a state sentence may be found through MDOC and may be housed at this regional facility or another state location.

The sheriff's site also links to the Mississippi sex offender registry, which is a separate public database maintained by the state Department of Public Safety rather than a jail roster. A lead-in to the Mississippi sex offender registry points to that official statewide tool.

One last point clears up a common search frustration. There is no official Walthall County Sheriff or Tylertown Police mobile app. A check of the Apple App Store and Google Play did not locate an official county sheriff or city police application, and the sheriff's site shows no app badge. The website roster, the 24-hour phone line at 601-876-3481, and an in-person visit to 807 Magnolia Avenue are the genuine channels for inmate information, so any app claiming to be the official Walthall County jail roster should be treated with caution.