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.
Prentiss County, Mississippi, has about 25,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Prentiss County Sheriff's Office, two city agencies and one campus 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 Prentiss 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: Prentiss County public records, Mississippi arrest records, Mississippi inmate search and Mississippi criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Prentiss County
The Prentiss County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Prentiss County. It reported 260 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Prentiss County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Booneville, 9,367 residents: 653 arrests reported for 2025.
- Baldwyn, 3,084 residents: 1,152 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 one more agency in Prentiss County: Northeast Mississippi Community College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Prentiss 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.
- Baldwyn: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Booneville: 653 for 2025, 598 for 2024, 633 for 2023, 657 for 2022, 790 for 2021 and 1,592 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Prentiss County Sheriff's Office: 260 for 2025, 310 for 2024, 186 for 2023, 197 for 2022 and 174 for 2021.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,065 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,065 in 2025 against 2,060 in 2024, up 0.2 percent.
Through July 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 926 arrests, against 1,203 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Prentiss County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Prentiss 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 2023 the jail held about 67 people, up from about 59 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 70 beds, and it ran at 96 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 Prentiss County
For Prentiss County the place to look is the case index of the Prentiss County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at prentisscounty.org/courts, phone 662-728-8151).
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 Prentiss 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 Prentiss County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Booneville or Baldwyn: 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 Northeast Mississippi Community College: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Prentiss County Circuit Court, through the court records page at prentisscounty.org/courts, phone 662-728-8151.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
Cities in Prentiss County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the four cities in Prentiss County: Booneville and Baldwyn. Jumpertown and Marietta 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 Prentiss County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Prentiss County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Booneville (9,367)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Prentiss County each year?
Baldwyn reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,065 between them.
Where are people arrested in Prentiss County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Prentiss County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Prentiss County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Prentiss 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 Prentiss County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Prentiss 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 Prentiss 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.