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.
Kosciusko, Mississippi, in Attala County, has about 6,800 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 Attala 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: Kosciusko public records, Attala County arrest records, Mississippi arrest records and Mississippi inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Kosciusko
The FBI lists Kosciusko with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Kosciusko Police Department. It reported 727 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 Attala County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 56 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Kosciusko 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.
- Kosciusko: 727 for 2025, 484 for 2024, 520 for 2023, 395 for 2022, 324 for 2020 and 412 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Kosciusko's 727 arrests in 2025 were up 50 percent from 484 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Kosciusko reported 415 arrests, against 398 in the same months of 2025.
Across Attala County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 783 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Kosciusko Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Kosciusko 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 2016 the jail held about 23 people. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Attala County Sheriff's Office at attalacounty.net/sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Attala County), phone 662-289-5556, 102 Ridgewood Circle Kosciusko, MS 39090, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
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 Kosciusko
An arrest in Kosciusko can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Attala County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at attalacounty.net/courts, phone 662-289-2921); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at county-government-offices.cmac.ws/attala-county-district-attorney/4..., phone 662-289-6552).
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 Kosciusko
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 Kosciusko police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at kosciusko.ms/police-department (page title: Police Department | City of Kosciusko), phone 662-289-3131, 209 W. Adams Street Kosciusko, MS 39090, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Attala County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 662-289-5556.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 662-289-6552, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Attala County Circuit Court, through the court records page at attalacounty.net/courts, phone 662-289-2921.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
The Attala County guide covers every agency in the county: Attala County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Kosciusko each year?
Kosciusko reported 727 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Kosciusko?
Ask the Attala County Sheriff's Office at 662-289-5556; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at attalacounty.net/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Kosciusko booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Attala County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Kosciusko?
The court files of criminal cases in the Attala 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 Kosciusko?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Kosciusko police for its own arrests, the Attala 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 Kosciusko 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.