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 2019. 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 October 1, 2026.
Jackson, Mississippi, in Hinds County, has about 141,000 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 Hinds 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: Jackson public records, Hinds County arrest records, Mississippi arrest records and Mississippi inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Jackson
The FBI lists Jackson with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Jackson Police Department. It reported 8,585 arrests for 2019, its latest complete year. 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 Hinds County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,727 arrests for 2020.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Hinds County: the Reservoir Police Department and the State Capitol Police (state agency); Jackson State University, Hinds Community College and the University of Mississippi at Medical Center (campus police).
How Many Arrests Jackson 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.
- Jackson: 8,585 for 2019.
Across Hinds County, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,660 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Jackson Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Jackson 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 2021 the jail held about 550 people, down from about 650 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 1,154 beds, and it ran at 57 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Hinds County Sheriff's Office at co.hinds.ms.us/pgs/apps/inmate/inmate_query.asp (page title: Hinds County Inmate Query), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
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 Jackson
Whether someone was arrested in Jackson, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Hinds County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Hinds County Circuit Court, kept by the Circuit Clerk for criminal and civil cases and the Chancery Clerk for divorces, estates and land records, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at co.hinds.ms.us/pgs/courts/results.asp (page title: Hinds County Justice Court Civil Docket), phone 601-965-8800, belongs to a lower court, not to the Hinds County Circuit Court.
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 Jackson
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. 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 Jackson police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at co.jackson.ms.us/330/Records (page title: Records | Jackson County, MS), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 1, 2026.
- An arrest by the Hinds County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Hinds County Circuit Court it is kept by the Circuit Clerk for criminal and civil cases and the Chancery Clerk for divorces, estates and land records. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at co.hinds.ms.us/pgs/courts/results.asp, phone 601-965-8800, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
The Hinds County guide covers every agency in the county: Hinds County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Jackson each year?
Jackson reported 8,585 arrests to the FBI for 2019, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Jackson?
Look on the custody page of the Hinds County Sheriff's Office at co.hinds.ms.us. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Jackson booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hinds County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Jackson?
The court files of criminal cases in the Hinds 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 Jackson?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Jackson police for its own arrests, the Hinds 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 Jackson 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.