Calhoun County Inmate Records
The Calhoun County Sheriff's Office runs the local jail in Pittsboro and controls the county's inmate postings. Its website says staff will post current inmates and remove them as soon as possible after release. Each person booked in stays listed for at least one week after they leave, with a released date showing next to the name. That one-week rule is unusual. Many jail sites drop a person the moment they walk out, so the Calhoun policy gives family and bondsmen a short window to confirm what happened. When an inmate's name is highlighted on the page, it links to a VINE record with booking and custody detail.
What you see online has limits. At inspection, the jail page did not display a live, static roster table with a search box, so a full sample profile could not be captured there. The Sheriff's mobile app is reported to carry current-inmate mugshots, though that feature is likely rather than fully confirmed from the official store listings. The county posting also does not cover everyone in custody. People already sentenced to a state prison sit in the Mississippi Department of Corrections system, federal prisoners appear in the Bureau of Prisons locator, and neither shows on the county jail page.
Because of those gaps, a thorough Calhoun County inmate search works through channels in order. Start with the Sheriff and jail for anyone recently booked. Move to the state corrections search for sentenced prisoners. Use the statewide VINE alert tool to track custody changes you cannot watch in person. Call the jail directly when the public posting is thin, which it often is for this small, rural county.
How to Use the Calhoun County Roster
The current-inmate posting lives on the Sheriff's Office site rather than in a separate search portal. The page that explains the jail, the posting policy, and the VINE photo steps is the Calhoun County jail page. Work through it in a set order so you do not miss the linked custody detail.
- Open the Sheriff's Office jail page and read the current-inmate posting. Names of people booked into the Calhoun County Jail appear there, and the page keeps each one for at least a week after release.
- Find the name you want. Scan the posting for the inmate. A highlighted name is a clickable link into that person's VINE record.
- Click the highlighted name to open the VINE page for that inmate. This is where custody status and notification options live.
- On the VINE page, click "More Info" on the left side, then click the gray image on the right side to display the booking photo, following the steps the jail page lists.
- If the name is not posted or the link is dead, call the jail administrator's office to confirm whether the person is in custody and what they were booked on.
What a Calhoun County Inmate Profile Shows
The static jail page exposed only the posting policy, the VINE photo steps, and the jail's own contact block during inspection. The booking-level fields below were not all visible, so this inventory reflects the detail a county jail record and its linked VINE entry are expected to carry. Treat it as a guide to what to ask for, not a guarantee of what the screen will print.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | The booked person's full legal name, and sometimes known aliases. |
| Booking Number | The unique jail file number assigned at intake; useful when calling about a specific person. |
| Booking Date and Time | When the person was processed into the Calhoun County Jail. |
| Date of Birth | Used to tell apart people who share a name; may be partly masked on public views. |
| Physical Description | Height, weight, and similar identifiers recorded at intake. |
| Charges and Statute | The offense or offenses the person is held on, often with a code section. |
| Bond Amount | The dollar figure set for release, if a bond has been set. |
| Court Date | The next scheduled hearing tied to the booking. |
| Housing Location | The unit or area where the person is held inside the jail. |
| Released Date | Shown for at least a week after release under the county posting policy. |
County Jail Versus State Prison Search
The Calhoun County Jail and a state prison hold different groups. The county jail covers pretrial detainees, people booked on local charges or warrants, and those waiting to transfer somewhere else. Once a court sentences a person to prison, custody usually passes to the Mississippi Department of Corrections, and that record stops showing on the county jail posting. Searching the wrong system is the most common reason a Calhoun County inmate search comes up empty.
For sentenced state prisoners, the right tool is the corrections search. The starting point is the MDOC inmate search, which looks up people in state custody and on prison or parole records statewide.
Use this state search when a relative was indicted, convicted, and sent to prison rather than held locally on a fresh arrest.
The Mississippi Department of Corrections inmate search is the official statewide tool for people in state custody.
That state search will not list a person who is only booked into the Calhoun County Jail, so check both systems when you are not sure where someone is held.
MDOC Inmate Search Fields
The state corrections search keeps its form short. You pick how you want to search, then fill in either a name or the assigned ID. The fields below are what the public interface accepts, and the same layout drives the search whether you reach it through the corrections site or the state portal.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search Criteria | Radio | Yes | Choose Name or ID Number. |
| Last Name | Text | Conditional | Used when Search Criteria is set to Name. |
| First Name | Text | Optional | Narrows a name search when used with the last name. |
| MDOC ID Number | Text | Conditional | Used when Search Criteria is set to ID Number. |
| Search | Button | Yes | Runs the search. |
The state also offers the same lookup through its general services portal. You can open the name and ID options on the MS.gov MDOC inmate search interface and run a query there.
Either route reaches the same state custody data, so use whichever interface loads cleanly for you.
Calhoun County Jail and Sheriff Contacts
When the online posting is thin, a phone call to the jail is the fastest fix in this county. The jail and the Sheriff's Office share a single address in Pittsboro, but they keep separate numbers for routine jail questions and for urgent law-enforcement contact. The jail administrator handles inmate and booking questions, while the 24-hour Sheriff's line is for time-sensitive custody or warrant matters.
Calhoun County Jail
178 S. Murphree Street
Pittsboro, MS 38951
662-412-3149
Jail Administrator Andy Eubanks; fax 662-412-3197
Calhoun County Sheriff's Office
178 South Murphree Street
Pittsboro, MS 38951
662-412-5000
24-hour line; Sheriff Greg Pollan; admin hours Mon-Fri 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
For records held by the state corrections system rather than the county, questions go to a different office. The MDOC contact page lists the records department address, phone, and email.
That state records office can confirm a sentence, location, or release projection that the county jail does not track once a person leaves local custody.
Booking and the Posting Policy
Booking is the intake process the jail runs after an arrest. Staff record the person's name, the charges, and identifying detail, then assign a booking number and a housing location. From that point the person may post bond, wait for a first appearance, or stay held until a court date. The Calhoun County Jail posts people booked in and ties highlighted names to a VINE record so the public can follow custody status.
The posting policy is the county's most useful local feature. Staff say they remove inmates as soon as possible after release, but every person booked in stays on the site for at least one week, with a released date showing. That window matters when an arrest happened overnight or over a weekend and a family member is trying to confirm what the charge was and whether bond has been set.
The county posting reflects local jail bookings only. A name missing from it does not prove someone is free, since they may be in state prison, federal custody, or another county's jail.
Visitation at the Calhoun County Jail
Call before you plan a visit. Official Calhoun County online sources do not publish a jail visitation schedule, a video-visit vendor, a commissary vendor, a money-deposit portal, or inmate-mail rules. The only reliable county-specific guidance is to phone the jail administrator at 662-412-3149 or the Sheriff's 24-hour line at 662-412-5000 and ask for the current rules before you travel, mail anything, or send money. Ask about the visiting day, required photo ID, dress code, whether the inmate must add you to a list, whether video visits exist, how attorney visits work, and which vendor handles commissary or phone deposits.
The table below shows what the official pages actually published as of inspection. Where a row reads "not located," the detail was not posted online and must be confirmed by phone.
| Visit Type | Published Schedule | Required Action |
|---|---|---|
| Public and family visits | Not located in official sources | Call the jail before arrival. |
| Attorney visits | Not located in official sources | Attorney should call jail or admin staff. |
| Video visits | Vendor not located | Ask the jail whether video visitation is used. |
| Religious or clergy visits | Not located | Ask the jail administrator. |
| Money deposits and commissary | Vendor and fees not located | Ask the jail for current approved methods. |
| Inmate mail | Format not located | Ask the jail for mailing format and banned items. |
Note: The Calhoun County Jail and a state prison are different facilities, so once a person transfers to MDOC custody, visitation follows the state and destination-prison rules instead.
Calhoun County Sex Offender Registry
Custody is one record; the sex-offender registry is a separate public tool. Mississippi keeps a statewide registry through the Department of Public Safety, and it lets the public look up registered offenders by area. The starting point is the Mississippi DPS sex-offender registry, which serves the public-facing search.
The registry is statewide, but registration itself happens locally in Calhoun County. The Sheriff's sex-offender division requires offenders to register and keep that registration current in person at the Sheriff's Office, 178 S. Murphree Street, Pittsboro. The office handles registration on a split daily schedule, Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. and again from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. only. Anyone with a registration question for this county should plan around those two windows rather than a full business day.
VINE Custody Alerts
VINE is the statewide notification service the jail links to from highlighted inmate names. It lets you check custody status and sign up to be told when that status changes, which is helpful for victims and families who cannot watch a posting every day. The jail page describes how to reach an inmate's VINE photo and detail through the posting.
- Open the Sheriff's jail page and click the inmate's name if it is highlighted, which carries you to that person's VINE record.
- On the VINE page, click "More Info" on the left side to expand the custody detail.
- Click the gray image on the right side to display the booking photo, as the jail page instructs.
- Follow the VINE prompts to register for release or transfer notifications if you want an alert when custody changes.
Note: VINE tracks custody status, but it is not a substitute for the court file, so charges and hearing dates should still be confirmed with the clerk or the jail.
The Calhoun County Sheriff App
The Sheriff's Office publishes an official mobile app that can be useful alongside the website. It lets residents report crimes, submit tips, use interactive features, and receive public-safety news. The app is free, and the Sheriff's own announcement calls it the only official app for the Calhoun County Mississippi Sheriff's Office. You can install it from the Apple App Store listing or the Google Play listing.
Reports describe the app as carrying mugshots of current inmates along with news releases. That current-inmate feature is likely but not fully confirmed from the official store listings, so treat an app-only mugshot view as probable rather than guaranteed. If you rely on it, verify anything important by calling the jail. The app is a convenience layer on top of the Sheriff's site, not a separate, complete custody database.
Bonding Companies and Bail
When a bond is set, a family often turns to a bail bonding company to post it. The Calhoun County jail page publishes a general list of bonding companies with names and phone numbers as a convenience. The Sheriff's Office does not endorse any one company, and listing a business is not a recommendation. The companies named on the official jail page include the following.
- A & A Bonding, Larry Edwards 662-258-6500, Russell McGehee 662-542-7440
- A-Bail Bonding, Heather White 662-832-3645
- Allright Bonding Company, Gary Campbell 662-983-4296
- Al Williams Bonding, 662-412-2144, agent Larry Neal 662-550-0145
- American Bonding, Joe Dye 662-628-6435, Monica Ratliff 662-809-6741
That list is a sample of the longer roster the jail page carries. Confirm a company's current status and rates before you commit, and ask the jail what bond amount and type apply to the specific booking.
Requesting Calhoun County Booking Records
When the public posting does not show what you need, the next step is a direct request to the Sheriff's Office, the custodian of jail booking records. There is no countywide online request form in official Calhoun sources, so a written request to the Sheriff under the Mississippi Public Records Act is the standard route. Identify the person, the approximate booking date, and the exact records you want, then ask in advance about any search, copy, and certification fees. Booking detail tied to a current arrest also feeds the broader Calhoun County arrest records picture, and the formal charges that follow move into the county's criminal court records at the Circuit Court.
For people in state custody, the request goes to the corrections records office instead of the county. The state records department can verify a sentence, current location, and release projection that the local jail no longer tracks. Match the request to the right custodian, and keep the booking number or MDOC ID handy, since it speeds any search.
Phone contact remains the quickest channel in this rural county. The jail administrator's office at 662-412-3149 fields routine inmate and booking questions during weekday hours, and the Sheriff's 24-hour line at 662-412-5000 covers urgent custody matters at any time.