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.
Jasper County, Mississippi, has about 16,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Jasper County Sheriff's Office and three city 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 Jasper 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: Jasper County public records, Mississippi arrest records, Mississippi inmate search and Mississippi criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Jasper County
The Jasper County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Jasper County. It reported 51 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Jasper County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Bay Springs, 1,488 residents: 17 arrests reported for 2025.
- Heidelberg, 607 residents: 25 arrests reported for 2025.
- Louin, 266 residents: 0 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 Jasper 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.
- Jasper County Sheriff's Office: 51 for 2025, 43 for 2024, 42 for 2023, 36 for 2022, 56 for 2021 and 42 for 2020.
- Heidelberg: 25 for 2025, 4 for 2024, 18 for 2023, 17 for 2022, 7 for 2021 and 8 for 2020.
- Bay Springs: 17 for 2025, 22 for 2024, 14 for 2023, 19 for 2022, 21 for 2021 and 11 for 2020.
- Louin: 0 for 2025.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 93 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 93 in 2025 against 69 in 2024, up 35 percent.
Through July 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 36 arrests, against 38 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Jasper County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Jasper 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 19 people, up from about 4 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 50 beds, and it ran at 8 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 Jasper County Sheriff's Office at jasperso.com/inmate-roster (page title: Inmate Roster | Jasper SO), 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 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 Jasper County
Whether someone was arrested in Jasper County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Jasper County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Jasper County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at courts.ms.gov).
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 Jasper 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 Jasper County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Bay Springs, Heidelberg or Louin: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Jasper County Circuit Court, through the court records page at courts.ms.gov.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
Cities in Jasper County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the four cities in Jasper County: Bay Springs, Heidelberg and Louin. Montrose 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 Jasper County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Jasper County each year?
The Jasper County Sheriff's Office reported 51 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 93 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Jasper County?
Look on the custody page of the Jasper County Sheriff's Office at jasperso.com/inmate-roster. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Jasper County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Jasper County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Jasper County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Jasper 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 Jasper County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Jasper 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 Jasper 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.