Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 24, 2026 and September 26, 2026.
Booneville, Mississippi, in Prentiss County, has about 9,400 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the Prentiss County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Booneville public records, Prentiss County arrest records, Mississippi arrest records and Mississippi inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Booneville
The FBI lists Booneville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Booneville Police Department. It reported 653 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Prentiss County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 260 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Prentiss County: Northeast Mississippi Community College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Booneville Reports
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Booneville: 653 for 2025, 598 for 2024, 633 for 2023, 657 for 2022, 790 for 2021 and 1,592 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
Booneville's 653 arrests in 2025 were up 9.2 percent from 598 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Booneville reported 236 arrests, against 363 in the same months of 2025.
Across Prentiss County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,065 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Booneville Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Booneville and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2023 the jail held about 67 people, up from about 59 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 70 beds, and it ran at 96 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at mdoc.ms.gov/inmate_search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Booneville
For Booneville the place to look is the case index of the Prentiss County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at prentisscounty.org/courts, phone 662-728-8151).
Mississippi does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety Criminal Information Center goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Booneville
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Mississippi Public Records Act the agency must answer within 7 working days, or up to 14 where local rules allow, and it may charge the actual cost of search, review and copying.
- An arrest by the Booneville police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofboonevillems.com/bpd (page title: BPD | City of Booneville, MS), phone 662-728-5611, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Prentiss County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Prentiss County Circuit Court, through the court records page at prentisscounty.org/courts, phone 662-728-8151.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
The Prentiss County guide covers every agency in the county: Prentiss County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Booneville each year?
Booneville reported 653 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Booneville booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Prentiss County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Booneville?
The court files of criminal cases in the Prentiss County Circuit Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety Criminal Information Center is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Mississippi Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Booneville?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Booneville police for its own arrests, the Prentiss County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Mississippi Public Records Act the answer is due within 7 working days, or up to 14 where local rules allow.
Is this the official Booneville website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.