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 2024. 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.
Ridgeland, Mississippi, in Madison County, has about 25,000 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 Madison 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: Ridgeland public records, Madison County arrest records, Mississippi arrest records and Mississippi inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Ridgeland
The FBI lists Ridgeland with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Ridgeland Police Department. It reported 1,743 arrests for 2024, 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 Madison County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 2,200 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Madison County: Holmes Community College at Ridgeland (campus police).
How Many Arrests Ridgeland 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.
- Ridgeland: 1,743 for 2024, 2,647 for 2023, 2,894 for 2022, 2,537 for 2021, 2,160 for 2020 and 2,947 for 2019.
Ridgeland's 1,743 arrests in 2024 were down 34 percent from 2,647 in 2023.
Across Madison County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 4,910 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Ridgeland Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Ridgeland 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 270 people, down from about 430 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 528 beds, and it ran at 51 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Madison County Sheriff's Office at sheriffrandytucker.com/madison-county-detention-center (page title: Madison County Detention Center | Madison County Sheriff's Department), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Mississippi Department of Corrections lists its inmates at mdoc.ms.gov/inmate_search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Ridgeland
Whether someone was arrested in Ridgeland, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Madison County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at madison-co.com/court-systems); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at madison-co.com/elected-offices/district-attorney/contact-us, phone (601) 859-7838).
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 Ridgeland
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 Ridgeland police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at ridgelandms.org/wp-content/uploads/Public-Records-Request-Form.pdf (page title: CITY OF RIDGELAND, MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST FORM), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Madison County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (601) 859-7838, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Madison County Circuit Court, through the court records page at madison-co.com/court-systems.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
The Madison County guide covers every agency in the county: Madison County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Ridgeland each year?
Ridgeland reported 1,743 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Ridgeland?
Ask the Madison County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at sheriffrandytucker.com.
Where are people arrested in Ridgeland booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Madison County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Ridgeland?
The court files of criminal cases in the Madison 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 Ridgeland?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Ridgeland police for its own arrests, the Madison 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 Ridgeland 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.