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 on September 24, 2026.
Claiborne County, Mississippi, has about 8,100 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Claiborne 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 Claiborne 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: Claiborne County public records, Mississippi arrest records, Mississippi inmate search and Mississippi criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Claiborne County
The Claiborne County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Claiborne County. It reported 14 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Claiborne County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Port Gibson, 1,166 residents: 20 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 Claiborne 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.
- Port Gibson: 20 for 2025, 25 for 2024, 14 for 2023, 12 for 2022 and 36 for 2021.
- Claiborne County Sheriff's Office: 14 for 2025, 30 for 2024, 27 for 2022, 35 for 2021, 43 for 2020 and 271 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 34 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 34 in 2025 against 55 in 2024, down 38 percent.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 22 arrests, against 19 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Claiborne County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Claiborne County 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 2019 the jail held about 10 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 50 beds, and it ran at 20 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 Claiborne County Sheriff's Office at claiborneso.com/press/index.html (page title: Press | Claiborne County Sheriff's Office), 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 Claiborne County
For Claiborne County the place to look is the case index of the Claiborne County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at ccmsgov.us/courts, phone 601-437-4992).
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 Claiborne County
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 Claiborne County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Port Gibson: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Claiborne County Circuit Court, through the court records page at ccmsgov.us/courts, phone 601-437-4992.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
Cities in Claiborne County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for Port Gibson, the one city in Claiborne County.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Claiborne County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Claiborne County each year?
Port Gibson reported 20 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 34 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Claiborne County?
Ask the Claiborne County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at claiborneso.com/press/index.html.
Where are people arrested in Claiborne County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Claiborne County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Claiborne County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Claiborne 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 Claiborne County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Claiborne 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 Claiborne 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.