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 30, 2026.
Corinth, Mississippi, in Alcorn County, has about 14,000 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 Alcorn 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: Corinth public records, Alcorn County arrest records, Mississippi arrest records and Mississippi inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Corinth
The FBI lists Corinth with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Corinth Police Department. It reported 1,139 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 Alcorn County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 236 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Corinth Reports
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Corinth: 1,139 for 2025, 1,319 for 2024, 1,340 for 2023, 958 for 2022 and 633 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
Corinth's 1,139 arrests in 2025 were down 14 percent from 1,319 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Corinth reported 534 arrests, against 704 in the same months of 2025.
Across Alcorn County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,375 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Corinth Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Corinth 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 2018 the jail held about 110 people. Its rated capacity in 2018 was 212 beds, and it ran at 50 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 Corinth
Whether someone was arrested in Corinth, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Alcorn County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at alcorncounty.org/circuit-clerk, phone 662-286-7740); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at alcorncounty.org/district-attorney, phone 662-432-2802).
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 Corinth
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 Corinth police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at corinthms.gov/police-dept (page title: Police Dept | City of Corinth), phone 662-286-1468, 2837 South Harper Rd Corinth, MS 38834, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Alcorn County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 662-432-2802, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Alcorn County Circuit Court, through the court records page at alcorncounty.org/circuit-clerk, phone 662-286-7740.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
The Alcorn County guide covers every agency in the county: Alcorn County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Corinth each year?
Corinth reported 1,139 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Corinth booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Alcorn County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Corinth?
The court files of criminal cases in the Alcorn 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 Corinth?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Corinth police for its own arrests, the Alcorn 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 Corinth 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.