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Yalobusha County Jail Overview

The official Yalobusha County sheriff page identifies the Yalobusha County Jail as a sheriff-operated county jail and lists it at the same Highway 32 address as the sheriff's department. The operator is the Yalobusha County Sheriff's Department. The current sheriff named by the county page is Jerimaine Gooch. For detention records, the most useful local fact is that the county page describes the sheriff as county jailor and says the sheriff keeps a jail docket. That makes the sheriff and jail the first local source for current custody and jail docket questions.

The facility is a county jail and local detention site, not a state prison, BOP prison, or ICE detention center. Research did not locate an official rated capacity, current population count, pod list, building-history page, medical unit description, or public housing-unit plan. Those gaps should be preserved. The facility holds local arrestees, pretrial detainees, county-sentenced inmates, and people waiting for release, bond, transfer, or court action.

Yalobusha Jail Contact

Use the jail phone for current custody, booking status, bond routing, and whether a person has been released or transferred. Use the sheriff's office phone for office-level questions that are not urgent custody checks. The official county page does not publish lobby hours, public counter hours, booking window hours, or a visitor-entry map, so call before driving to the facility.

Who Is Held Here

Yalobusha County Jail is the local custody point for people held after county-level arrests or arrests routed to the county jail by local agencies. A person may be held while booking is completed, while waiting for a first court appearance, while bond is reviewed or posted, while serving a county jail sentence, or while waiting on transfer to another agency. If the arresting agency was Water Valley Police Department, custody may still route through the county jail because the official city department page lists police and sheriff/jail contacts separately.

Do not use MDOC as the first search for a person just arrested in Yalobusha County. MDOC is for sentenced state offenders and state custody or supervision records. Do not use BOP or ICE unless there is a federal or immigration reason to think the person has left local or state custody. A county jail custody answer can be short-lived because release, bond, transfer, detainer action, or court orders may change status quickly.

Look Up Yalobusha Jail Custody

No official Yalobusha County online inmate roster, live jail docket, recent-bookings feed, or public mugshot gallery was located in the official sources reviewed. That means the lookup chain has to start with the jail rather than a county web form. Have the person's full legal name, date of birth if known, arrest date, and arresting agency ready before calling. If the jail cannot confirm a current hold, ask whether the person bonded out, was released, or was transferred.

1. Call Yalobusha County Jail at 662-473-2722 for current custody and booking status.
2. Ask whether the person is still being processed, has a bond, has a court date, or has a hold from another agency.
3. Use Mississippi VINE for custody notifications where the jail or MDOC data is available.
4. Use the MDOC inmate search only if the person has been sentenced or moved to state custody.
5. Use Mississippi Electronic Courts or clerk contacts for filed criminal charges after arrest.
6. Use BOP or ICE only when the case has moved into federal or immigration custody.

MobilePatrol may be worth checking because historical reporting said Yalobusha County used it and current app-store pages describe jail booking, warrant, alert, and public-record features where agencies participate. Current Yalobusha participation was not verified from the sheriff page, so it should not be treated as the official roster.

Jail Docket Records

Mississippi law gives a stronger record clue than the county web page. Mississippi Code section 47-1-21 requires each county sheriff to keep an alphabetical jail docket. The statute lists prisoner identity and custody fields such as name, age, color, sex, commitment date, time required to be served, fine and cost amounts, jail fees charged, and discharge date. The Yalobusha sheriff page also says the sheriff serves as county jailor and keeps the jail docket.

For older booking information or a documentary record, use the Mississippi Public Records Act process instead of relying only on a phone call. Identify the person by full name, date of birth if known, arrest date, arresting agency, and the record type requested. Ask the sheriff's office what delivery method, fee, redaction rule, and timing apply. Booking photos, juvenile material, active-investigation records, medical details, sealed cases, and expunged matters may be restricted or redacted.

Yalobusha Jail Visitation

No official Yalobusha County Jail visitation schedule, video-visit provider, visitor dress code, visitor ID rule, attorney-visit procedure, lobby hour list, or visitor parking rule was located in the official sources reviewed. Do not borrow rules from MDOC or another Mississippi county. The practical rule is to call the jail before traveling and ask whether visits are available for the person, whether visits must be scheduled, and what identification or property limits apply.

State prison visitation is different. MDOC visitation is application-based, and MDOC tells prospective visitors to wait for approval before travel. That rule applies after state transfer, not to a local Yalobusha County Jail visit unless the jail adopts its own separate rule.

Mail Phone and Money

Official Yalobusha jail sources did not publish a mail address format, inmate ID format for mail, phone-call provider, video provider, commissary vendor, money-deposit method, deposit limit, fee table, tablet program, property drop-off rule, or approved package rule. Confirm each item with the jail before mailing anything or paying a deposit. This matters because jail mail and money systems are vendor-specific, and a wrong format can delay or reject a letter or deposit.

Booking and Court Routing

A typical Yalobusha County jail intake begins with arrest and transport to local custody. Staff normally verify identity, check warrants or holds, inventory property, record commitment information, and hold the person pending release, bond, court, or transfer. Official Yalobusha sources did not confirm that mugshots, fingerprints, medical screening, housing unit, or classification details are visible online. Treat those as jail operations, not public web fields.

Once the case moves toward court, Justice Court is important for the first felony appearance and affidavit filing. Circuit Court and the Circuit Clerk matter when criminal jurisdiction shifts to formal filings, indictments, motions, and related papers. The Yalobusha County court records after jail arrest path is the better source for charge status, while the jail is the better source for physical custody.

Directions and Arrival Notes

Use the official jail address, 11803 Hwy 32, Water Valley, MS 38965, for custody-related travel. Do not assume every court or clerk task is at the same place. The county court materials list Circuit Court addresses in both Coffeeville and Water Valley, and Justice Court materials may route a person to Coffeeville for certain matters. Confirm whether the task is jail custody, court hearing, clerk filing, bond, records request, or prosecutor contact before driving.

From central Water Valley, route toward Highway 32 and call the jail if a mapping app stops near a sheriff driveway instead of a marked public entrance. From Coffeeville, allow time for the split between court offices and the jail. From I-55 or US-51 approaches, use the exact highway address and confirm visitor entry, parking, ID rules, and whether a visit or public counter task is available that day.