Start with Yalobusha County Jail Records
The official Yalobusha County sheriff page lists the Yalobusha County Jail as the local detention point and gives a separate jail phone line from the sheriff's main office. It also states that the sheriff serves as county jailor and keeps a jail docket. That matters because no official Yalobusha County online inmate roster, live jail docket, recent booking feed, or public booking report was located in the county sources reviewed. The county record path is therefore not a web-form-first process. It is a jail-contact and records-request process.
For a person recently arrested in Water Valley, Coffeeville, an unincorporated area, or by another local agency, current custody should be checked with the jail before using outside locators. The jail may be able to say whether the person is still in custody, has bonded out, has been released, or has been transferred. If the arresting agency was the Water Valley Police Department, the City of Water Valley departments page can help with police routing, but the county jail remains the local custody point when a person is booked into the sheriff's jail.
Yalobusha County Jail
11803 Hwy 32
Water Valley, MS 38965
Jail phone: 662-473-2722
Jail fax: 662-473-4640
Yalobusha County Sheriff's Department
11803 Hwy 32
Water Valley, MS 38965
Office phone: 662-473-3602
Sheriff: Jerimaine Gooch
Yalobusha County Roster Search Fields
A standard roster page often lets the public search by name, booking number, date, or facility. That was not confirmed for Yalobusha County. The official county sheriff source gives the jail contact block, but it does not publish a public inmate-search form or a public roster photo page. The most accurate field table for Yalobusha County inmate records is a no-roster inventory, which prevents a false claim that a search screen exists.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Options / Format Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| No county web field located | No official web form located | Not applicable | No official county inmate-search web form was located. Use the jail phone, in-person request path, or a written Mississippi Public Records Act request. |
| Name details to provide | Caller or requester supplied | Recommended | Give full legal name, date of birth if known, approximate arrest date, and arresting agency if known. |
| Custody question | Phone or counter request | Recommended | Ask whether the person is in custody, released, bonded out, transferred, or held for another agency. |
This gap should not be read as proof that no record exists. Jail records are created through booking and docket practices even when they are not published online. For older booking records, a written request is usually more precise than a broad phone question because the office can match the request to the correct person, date, and record type.
How to Search Yalobusha County Inmates
The Yalobusha County inmate search works best as a fallback chain. Each step answers a different custody question. A county jail call answers the current local-custody question. VINE can help track custody status in participating systems. MDOC covers sentenced state offenders. Court records show filings and case events after arrest. BOP and ICE apply only when the person is no longer in the local jail system and may be in federal or immigration custody.
- Call the Yalobusha County Jail at 662-473-2722. Ask for current custody status, release or transfer status, and any bond routing that staff can provide.
- If the arrest was very recent, ask whether booking is complete. A new arrest may not appear in VINE, court, or state systems right away.
- Use Mississippi VINE for custody notifications where the person appears in a participating county facility or in MDOC custody.
- Search the MDOC inmate locator if the person has been sentenced to state custody or transferred out of the county jail.
- Check Mississippi Electronic Courts, the Yalobusha County Circuit Clerk, or the proper local court when the question is about filed charges, court dates, indictments, or case status.
- Use the BOP inmate locator for sentenced federal custody and the ICE Online Detainee Locator System for immigration custody.
MobilePatrol is a separate caveat. App-store descriptions for MobilePatrol say the app can show jail bookings, warrants, most-wanted data, sex-offender information, alerts, and tips where an agency participates. Historical news tied the app to Yalobusha jail information, but the current official sheriff page reviewed did not verify a live Yalobusha MobilePatrol roster link. Treat the app as an optional check, not the official source of record.
Yalobusha County Jail Docket Fields
The strongest source for what a Yalobusha County jail record can show is not an online profile. It is Mississippi law and the county sheriff duty language. Mississippi Code section 47-1-21 requires the sheriff of each county to keep an alphabetical jail docket. Title 19, Chapter 25 also ties sheriff duties to jail records. These fields do not prove that each item appears on a public web page, because no official Yalobusha County roster page was found. They do show the core docket fields the sheriff is required to keep.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | Statutory jail docket field; the public display format was not verified online for Yalobusha County. |
| Age | Basic identity field listed in the jail docket statute. |
| Color / race | The statute uses the term "color"; public records may use different wording. |
| Sex | Basic identity field in the jail docket. |
| Commitment date | Date the person was committed to jail under legal authority. |
| Time required to be served | Confinement time if the person is serving a county jail sentence. |
| Fine and costs | Fine and cost amount entered in the docket when applicable. |
| Jail fees | Fees charged in connection with confinement when entered. |
| Discharge date | Date of release or discharge from jail custody. |
| Booking photo | Not verified on an official web roster. A requester can ask the sheriff whether a booking photo is releasable under public-records rules. |
| Charges and bond | Not verified online. Ask the jail for custody and bond routing, then check court records for filed charges. |
| Housing unit | No official public Yalobusha County housing-unit display was located. |
Request Older Yalobusha County Jail Records
For a document, not just a same-day custody answer, use the Mississippi Public Records Act process. Title 25, Chapter 61 states the public-records framework for inspection unless another law provides an exemption. A good request should be narrow. Ask for the jail docket entry, booking record, booking photo, arrest report, or release information by name and date. Include date of birth if known, the arresting agency, and the approximate arrest date.
Some records may be redacted or withheld because of juvenile confidentiality, sealed records, active investigation limits, privacy rules, or court orders. A public-records request is not the same thing as legal discovery. It also does not clear a record. If the goal is to remove or seal an old case, the relevant path is a court expunction or sealing request under Mississippi Code section 99-19-71, not a jail roster search.
Statutory anchor: Mississippi's Public Records Act controls access requests, while section 47-1-21 describes the county sheriff's alphabetical jail docket fields.
Yalobusha County Booking and Court Records
Booking is the jail intake event. Court filing is a separate case step. A person may be booked into the Yalobusha County Jail before the full court record is visible in MEC or at the clerk's office. The Yalobusha County courts page says Justice Court handles early felony appearances and affidavit filing, while Circuit Court and the Circuit Clerk handle criminal filings such as indictments, motions, and related papers. That means a jail answer and a court answer may not match word-for-word on the first day.
Arrest charges can change after prosecutor review, indictment, dismissal, or amendment. Bond can also depend on the court stage, a warrant, a judge's order, or a hold from another agency. For charge status after the first custody check, use court sources rather than relying only on the jail. The separate Yalobusha County court records after jail arrest page is the better place for charge-versus-conviction questions.
Yalobusha County Jail Visitation Gaps
No official Yalobusha County jail visitation schedule, mail policy, commissary vendor, money-deposit fee table, phone provider, video-visit vendor, tablet program, property rule, dress code, or attorney-visit rule was located in the official sources reviewed. That does not mean visits or mail are never available. It means the county did not publish enough official detail to state a schedule or vendor with confidence.
| Topic | Official Source Found | What to Do |
|---|---|---|
| In-person visitation | Not published in official sources located | Call the jail before travel and ask whether visits are available, scheduled, or restricted. |
| Video visitation | Not published | Ask whether a vendor or pre-registration system is used. |
| Visitor ID / dress code | Not published | Confirm rules first; bring government photo ID if visiting is allowed. |
| Mail address format | Not published | Call for the exact inmate-name, ID, and address format before mailing. |
| Commissary deposits | Not published | Ask for vendor, payment options, limits, and fees before sending funds. |
| Phone calls | Not published | Ask for the provider and whether accounts are prepaid or collect. |
| Attorney visits | Not published | Attorneys should contact the jail directly for professional-visit procedures. |
MDOC rules should not be copied onto the county jail. MDOC has its own application process for visits, its own mail format, and its own money-transfer options for sentenced state prisoners. Those rules apply after a person is in state custody, not just because the arrest happened in Yalobusha County.
Yalobusha County Custody Lookup Channels
Each lookup channel covers a different slice of custody. The Yalobusha County Jail is the local point for recent arrests, pretrial detainees, county jail terms, and local holds. Mississippi VINE can help with custody-change notifications where the person is in a participating county jail or MDOC custody. MDOC records are for sentenced state offenders, parole, probation, and state-prison status. Federal and immigration locators are outside the sheriff's local jail system.
| Custody Type | Best Channel | What It Can Answer |
|---|---|---|
| Current Yalobusha County jail custody | Yalobusha County Jail phone or in-person request | Whether the person is held, released, bonded out, or transferred. |
| Custody notifications | Mississippi VINE | Notifications for participating county jail detainees and MDOC state offenders. |
| Sentenced state custody | MDOC inmate search | Name or MDOC ID search for state offenders. |
| Filed criminal case records | MEC, Circuit Clerk, Justice Court, or Circuit Court | Charges, affidavits, indictments, motions, court dates, and case events. |
| Federal sentenced custody | BOP inmate locator | Federal inmate records from 1982 to the present. |
| Immigration detention | ICE ODLS | A-number or biographic searches when ICE or qualifying CBP custody applies. |
Note: If a jail search fails, do not assume the person was never arrested. They may have been released, booked under a different name, moved to MDOC, held on a federal writ, or not yet visible in a downstream system.
Yalobusha County Inmate Record Terms
Several terms appear across jail, court, and correctional records. Knowing the difference helps keep the search path focused and avoids mixing a jail docket with a court case file.
- Booking
- The jail intake event after arrest, before release, bond, transfer, or court action.
- Jail docket
- The sheriff-maintained custody record required by Mississippi law.
- Commitment date
- The date a person is received into jail under legal authority.
- Detainer
- A hold or request from another agency that may affect release.
- MDOC ID
- The state corrections identification number used for sentenced state offenders.