Search Lincoln County Inmate Records

Lincoln County Jail Roster

The official starting point is the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office roster gateway. It offers two paths: current inmates at the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office MS Detention Center and a 48 Hour Release list for people released from the detention center within the last 48 hours. The roster is free to use and does not require an account. It is best for recent booking and local custody questions because it reflects the county jail, not a state prison or federal detention system.

Each roster result can show a mugshot thumbnail, name, booking number, age, booking date or release date, charges, bond, and a View Profile link. The current list can be sorted by booking time or name, and the release list can be sorted by release time. A person booked by Brookhaven Police Department or another local agency can still appear on the county jail roster because the county jail receives multi-agency bookings.

The official roster search/list view shows how Lincoln County presents the inmate list and profile links.

The image fits the main lookup task because the roster list is where a searcher moves from a name or booking entry into a full Lincoln County inmate profile.

Use Lincoln County Inmate Records

Begin with the sheriff's roster disclaimer page so the search path matches the custody status. If the person was just arrested or may still be in custody, choose Current Inmates. If the person bonded out, served a short hold, or was released very recently, choose 48 Hour Release. Names may be shown in last-name-first format on the list page, while the profile page can show the full name in a different order.

1. Open the sheriff's roster gateway and choose the current or 48-hour release list.
2. Sort current inmates by booking time for recent arrests or by name for alphabetical browsing.
3. Use the release list when custody ended recently and the current roster no longer shows the person.
4. Open View Profile for the matching entry and compare name, age, booking date, and arresting agency.
5. Call detention staff before posting bond or relying on a charge total, because profile details can change after court.

This process works for county jail custody. If the person is absent from both sheriff lists, use the fallback chain: call the jail information line, submit a written records request when needed, check MDOC for sentenced state custody, register through VINE for status notices, and use federal or ICE locators only when the custody type points that way.

Lincoln County Roster Fields

The Lincoln County roster does not act like a broad statewide background check. Its visible controls are the actual current-release filters, sort links, pagination, and profile links documented from the sheriff's public roster. The search endpoint exists, but the inspected text did not show a normal keyword input, so the table below keeps to observed roster features.

Note: When names are common, the booking number and booking date are better match points than name alone.

Lincoln County Inmate Profile

A Lincoln County inmate profile is a booking record snapshot. It can show custody facts, but it is not the final court file. The inspected sample profile warned that charges and bail amounts may change after court appearances and may not be current. That warning is important because a bond field on the web roster can lag behind a judge's later order, a new hold, or a corrected case number.

The sheriff's sample roster profile illustrates the public fields, the booking photo, and the bond warning.

The public profile image is useful because it shows which details are available online and which details, such as a court case number or final charge, may require a call or court-record search.

Call Lincoln County Jail

The sheriff's office is the local fallback when the web roster is unclear. Call before posting bond, sending money, scheduling a visit, or assuming a person has been released. The sample roster profile specifically directs bond companies and people who want to post bail to contact Detention Center staff for the correct bail amount, charges, and case numbers.

Sheriff Steve Rushing operates the jail through the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office. Jail Warden Randy Pickett oversees daily jail operations, and Assistant Jail Warden Willard Blue helps run daily operations. For written routing, the county government sheriff page lists the sheriff's office at 215 Justice Street, P.O. Box 587, Brookhaven, MS 39601, with email sheriff@co.lincoln.ms.us.

Lincoln County Booking Records

Lincoln County does not publish a full intake manual, but the roster and jail rules show the main path. A person arrested by the sheriff, Brookhaven Police Department, a state agency, or another local authority is brought to the Justice Street jail. Jail staff create a booking number, record the name and demographic fields, list the arresting agency, set a booking date, record charges and bond status, and attach a booking photograph. The public roster entry appears when the jail publishes that custody record.

Intake can also include search and property inventory, fingerprints, medical and medication review, classification into male or female housing, access to phone service, and setup for commissary or canteen funds. Family medication must be current, in its original bottle, and approved by the nurse or doctor before it is administered. Juveniles are housed in a separate facility, not in the adult jail listed for the public roster.

Booking charges are not the last word on a criminal case. A first appearance or later court event can change bond, add a condition, or alter the charge path. Court filings after arrest are handled separately from the jail roster, so filed charges and case status may need the Circuit Clerk or the court-search process described on the Lincoln County court records after jail arrest page.

Lincoln County Jail Visitation

Visitation rules depend on the inmate category. The sheriff's jail page separates ordinary county, city, and state inmates from county/state joint work crew inmates. Visitors should treat the roster as the custody check and then confirm with the jail before travel, because release, transfer, court, discipline, or a classification change can affect whether a visit occurs.

Nonlegal mail for ordinary inmates is scanned into the inmate account. Books must come by mail from an online company, and packages are not accepted for ordinary inmates. Work crew mail is physically delivered Monday-Friday after inspection, and packages are accepted through the mail for that category.

Request Lincoln County Records

If a Lincoln County inmate record is not on the current roster or the 48-hour release list, use a written public-records request. The sheriff's pages inspected did not publish a separate jail-records request form or policy, so requests should follow the Mississippi Public Records Act and be routed in writing to the sheriff's office address or nonurgent email channel. The sheriff's contact form can route messages, but the site warns that email is not monitored around the clock and urgent matters should use 911 or the office phone.

Mississippi law treats public records as open unless an exemption applies. The Public Records Act definitions include incident-report information for persons charged and arrested, while investigative reports can be treated differently. State access rules also allow redaction, written explanations for denial or delay, and fees for actual search, review, duplication, redaction, and mailing costs. Ask for the specific booking record, booking date, name, and booking number if known.

Lincoln County Locator Split

The county roster only covers the Lincoln County jail. After a conviction and transfer to state custody, use the Mississippi Department of Corrections inmate search or the MS.gov MDOC search interface. MDOC profiles are different from jail profiles. They can show MDOC ID Number, race, sex, date of birth, physical descriptors, entry date, current location, unit, sentence data, offenses, county of conviction, photo, and victim services information.

Lincoln County does not have a state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center identified in the research. Federal prisoners from 1982 to present can be searched through the BOP inmate locator. Federal pretrial detainees may be held under U.S. Marshals arrangements outside Lincoln County. Immigration custody uses ICE Online Detainee Locator System, which searches by A-Number or by biographical data for people in covered ICE or CBP custody.

The MDOC facilities list was used to confirm that no state prison is listed at a Lincoln County address.

That state facilities view supports the county-state split: Lincoln County jail records stay local until a person moves into MDOC custody elsewhere.

Lincoln County VINE App

VINE is a notification channel, not a replacement for the jail roster. The MDOC VINE services page says Mississippi SAVIN/VINE can provide automated notices for release, transfer, escape or abscond, and return to custody. Registration is available through VINELink Mississippi, and MDOC lists MS SAVIN business-hours help at 601-359-5759, 24-hour assistance at 1-888-9-MSSAVIN, and TTY 866-847-1298.

The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office also offers the Lincoln County MS Sheriff mobile app. The app listing advertises public information for press releases, inmates, most wanted, and sex offenders, plus crime tips and contact-us messages. The research did not confirm an app-only roster or a historical booking archive, so the official web roster remains the primary public lookup channel.

The Mississippi VINELink portal is useful after a roster search when a person wants custody-change alerts instead of repeatedly checking the jail list.

VINE is most helpful when custody may change quickly, especially after bond review, release, transfer, or state-prison movement.