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.
Hinds County, Mississippi, has about 212,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Hinds County Sheriff's Office, eight city agencies and five campus, state or other agencies. 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 Hinds 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: Hinds County public records, Mississippi arrest records, Mississippi inmate search and Mississippi criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Hinds County
The Hinds County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Hinds County. It reported 1,727 arrests for 2020, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists eight cities in Hinds County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Jackson, 141,449 residents: 8,585 arrests reported for 2019.
- Clinton, 26,617 residents: 1,486 arrests reported for 2025.
- Byram, 12,656 residents: 446 arrests reported for 2023.
- Terry, 1,552 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
- Raymond, 1,387 residents: 16 arrests reported for 2025.
- Edwards, 927 residents: 5 arrests reported for 2025.
- Utica, 604 residents.
- Bolton, 420 residents: 1 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.
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 Each Agency Reports in Hinds 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.
- Clinton: 1,486 for 2025, 1,812 for 2024, 1,187 for 2023, 1,400 for 2022, 1,534 for 2021 and 1,160 for 2020.
- Terry: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Raymond: 16 for 2025, 32 for 2024, 30 for 2023, 22 for 2022 and 28 for 2021.
- Edwards: 5 for 2025, 19 for 2020 and 53 for 2019; 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Bolton: 1 for 2025.
- Jackson: 8,585 for 2019.
- Hinds County Sheriff's Office: 1,727 for 2020 and 3,025 for 2019.
- Byram: 446 for 2023, 365 for 2022, 258 for 2021, 332 for 2020 and 397 for 2019.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,660 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,654 in 2025 against 2,996 in 2024, down 11 percent.
Through June 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 977 arrests, against 1,369 in the same months of 2025.
Byram reported only part of 2025 (10 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Hinds County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Hinds 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 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 Hinds County
An arrest in Hinds County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: 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 Hinds 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 Hinds County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Jackson, Clinton, Byram, Terry, Raymond, Edwards or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by the Reservoir Police Department, the State Capitol Police or Jackson State University: the records office of the agency involved.
- 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.
Cities in Hinds County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for eight of the nine cities in Hinds County: Jackson, Clinton, Byram, Terry, Raymond, Edwards, Utica and Bolton. Learned has 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 Hinds County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Hinds County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Hinds County each year?
Clinton reported 1,486 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,660 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Hinds County?
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 Hinds County 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 Hinds County?
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 Hinds County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Hinds 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 Hinds 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.