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Mississippi County Detention Center Overview

The Mississippi County Detention Center is operated by the Mississippi County Sheriff's Office. It is the county jail for local detainees, including people booked after arrest, people held before trial, sentenced local detainees, court commitments, and some state-related holds when those statuses appear in jail or Arkansas DOC records. Blytheville Police Department also points held arrestees to this sheriff facility after its short processing period, so a Blytheville arrest may become a Mississippi County Detention Center roster entry once the person is moved into county custody.

The sheriff's detention page describes a jail administration structure that includes a Jail Administrator, Assistant Jail Administrator, Chief Jailer, Booking Officer, kitchen supervisors, maintenance staff, four sergeants, and twenty jailers when fully staffed. Booking duties include intake, fingerprinting, and photographing detainees. Jailers cover nights and weekends after cross-training in booking work. The same official page says contracted medical services handle nurse calls and medications, with a doctor visiting weekly, and that detainees have access to phones, visitation, church service, a law library, yard call, and TVs.

The official detention center screenshot in the project manifest comes from the sheriff's detention page. The source page is useful because it describes jail staffing, booking, medical care, meals, services, and jail standards in one place.

Those operational details matter because the county roster only shows selected public fields. The jail page fills in how the Mississippi County Detention Center handles intake, staff coverage, meals, medical calls, and routine jail standards inspections.

Mississippi County Detention Center Population

The sheriff's detention page gives dated local jail counts for 2018: a high count of 162, a low count of 106, and an average count of 130. The public current roster showed 170 inmates when inspected on May 28, 2026. The research did not locate an official rated bed capacity for the county jail, so the page should not label the Mississippi County Detention Center overcrowded from official data alone. It is accurate to say the May 2026 roster count was higher than the 2018 high count disclosed by the sheriff.

Look Up Detention Center Inmates

The correct lookup tool for Mississippi County Detention Center custody is the sheriff's roster chooser. It separates current inmates from the 48-hour release list. The current inmate roster has name, date, current, and released views, plus a search by name field, A-Z links, booking cards, mugshots, booking numbers, booking dates, charge text, bond, and profile links. The roster is free and no login was documented.

The manifest includes the current roster screenshot from the official sheriff source. The source roster shows how names, booking data, mugshot thumbnails, charges, bonds, and pagination appear to the public.

Use the image as a layout reference only. Charges and bond amounts can change after court, so urgent release questions still need confirmation from detention center staff.

1. Open the sheriff roster chooser and pick current inmates if the person should still be in jail.
2. Use Search By Name, date sorting, or the A-Z name links when spelling is uncertain.
3. Open the profile to review the booking number, arresting agency, booking date, charge text, bond, and original court date.
4. Call the jail before posting bond or relying on a charge list, because the sheriff profile warns that bail and charges may change after court appearances.

Detention Center Address and Contact

The Mississippi County Detention Center and sheriff complex use the Luxora address published on the sheriff site, roster pages, contact blocks, and FAQ. Administrative office hours are weekday business hours, but the sheriff publishes the jail phone numbers as 24-hour lines. Call before travel when the question involves bond, release, property, visitation eligibility, or whether a person is still in custody.

Mississippi County Jail Visitation

The sheriff FAQ gives the county jail visitation schedule and core visitor rules. Visits are 30 minutes. Each detainee may have two visitors. Visitors must be over 18, must show photo identification, and may not bring cell phones into visitation booths. The sign-in cutoff matters because late arrival can end the visit before it starts.

Note: Confirm the visit schedule with the jail before leaving, especially after court moves, releases, lockdowns, or weather events.

Mississippi County Mail and Money

The sheriff FAQ separates ordinary letters, electronic correspondence, money orders, and legal mail. Adult jail letters are routed through Smart Communications in Memphis, while money orders and legal mail go to the Luxora jail address. That split is important. If a money order envelope also contains letters, cards, or other mail, the FAQ says it will be returned unopened. Money orders should be payable to the detainee, and mail will not be forwarded after release.

Mississippi County Jail Booking

Booking at the Mississippi County Detention Center begins after arrest, court commitment, or transfer from a police processing location. The sheriff detention page says the Booking Officer handles intake, fingerprints, and photographs for all detainees. Jailers trained in booking cover nights and weekends, so intake is not limited to weekday office hours. After booking, a public roster record may show the mugshot, name, booking number, booking date and time, arresting agency, charges, bond, age, gender, race, city and state address, and original court date.

Roster charges are not the same as final court charges. The jail profile warning tells bond companies and people posting bail to call detention center staff for the correct bail amount, charges, and case numbers. A person may also have a detainer, commitment, state hold, no-bond status, or later court update that is not clear from the public card. For state custody after transfer, use the Arkansas DOC locator rather than the county jail roster.

About Mississippi County Detention Center

The detention center sits in the Luxora area rather than at the Blytheville or Osceola courthouse. That location matters for visitors. Court records, clerk services, prosecutor contacts, and jail custody questions may involve different offices even when they are tied to the same arrest. The sheriff complex is the place to call for current county jail custody, bond verification, property pickup, and visit questions. Property pickup is listed for Monday-Friday from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the administrative reception desk with photo identification.

Mississippi County Detention Center records should be read with the public limits in mind. Juvenile information, medical details, sealed material, active investigative records, and protected personal data may be withheld or redacted. For custody status alerts, VINELink may help when agency data is available. For sentenced state prisoners, use the Arkansas DOC inmate search. For federal or immigration custody, use the federal BOP locator or ICE ODLS rather than the county jail roster.