Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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.
Alcorn County, Mississippi, has about 34,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Alcorn County Sheriff's Office and one city agency. An arrest 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 each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Alcorn County public records, Mississippi arrest records, Mississippi inmate search and Mississippi criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Alcorn County
The Alcorn County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Alcorn County. It reported 236 arrests for 2025.
One city in Alcorn County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Corinth, 14,219 residents: 1,139 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Alcorn County
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.
- Corinth: 1,139 for 2025, 1,319 for 2024, 1,340 for 2023, 958 for 2022 and 633 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
- Alcorn County Sheriff's Office: 236 for 2025, 273 for 2024, 491 for 2023, 607 for 2022, 401 for 2021 and 450 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,375 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,375 in 2025 against 1,592 in 2024, down 14 percent.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 738 arrests, against 840 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Alcorn County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Alcorn County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
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 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 Alcorn County
Whether someone was arrested in Alcorn County, 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 Alcorn County
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 Alcorn County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Corinth: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- 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.
Cities in Alcorn County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the five cities in Alcorn County: Corinth. Farmington, Glen, Rienzi and Kossuth have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Alcorn County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Alcorn County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Corinth (14,219)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Alcorn County each year?
Corinth reported 1,139 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,375 between them.
Where are people arrested in Alcorn County 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 Alcorn County?
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 Alcorn County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Alcorn County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 Alcorn County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.