This is a private reference website, not a government office. We cannot confirm whether a person is in custody, release anyone, post bond, change a court date, or pull an official booking record. Use the official office or locator listed below for those tasks.
Official Lincoln County Jail and Sheriff Contacts
For custody confirmation, current bond amounts, booking questions, or detention-center routing, start with the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office and jail staff.
Lincoln County Sheriff's Office / Lincoln County JailSheriff Steve Rushing
215 Justice Street
Brookhaven, MS 39601
Mailing address: P.O. Box 587, Brookhaven, MS 39601
Jail information: 601-833-5251
Sheriff non-emergency and detention confirmation: 601-833-5231
Main phone: 601-833-7182
Fax: 601-833-4492
Email: sheriff@co.lincoln.ms.us
Office hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Crime tip hotline: 601-823-0150
The sheriff's contact form is for nonurgent messages and is not monitored around the clock. Call 911 for emergencies.
- For a person in the county jail, begin with jail inmate records and then call jail staff before relying on bond or release information.
- For booking photos shown with roster entries, use the jail roster mugshots page and the official roster profile.
- For charges filed after arrest, use court records after a jail arrest and the Lincoln County court record channels.
- For facility-specific rules, address, and phone details, use the Lincoln County Jail page.
- For a sentenced Mississippi prisoner, search the Mississippi Department of Corrections inmate locator rather than the county roster.
- For federal prison custody or immigration detention, use the federal BOP inmate locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator System.