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). Every warrant for Prentiss County comes from a judge of the Prentiss County Circuit Court or the Justice Court and County Court, is served by whichever agency finds the person, and is recorded in the court file of the case it was issued in. This guide says who issues and serves warrants here, where a person arrested on one is held, how to check for one and how one is cleared.
This guide covers who issues warrants, who serves warrants, after a warrant arrest, checking for a warrant, clearing a warrant and common questions.
Related guides: Prentiss County public records, Prentiss County arrest records, Prentiss County criminal records, Prentiss County court records, Prentiss County police reports, Mississippi arrest records and Mississippi inmate search.
Who Issues Warrants in Prentiss County
In Mississippi an arrest warrant is signed by a judge. For Prentiss County that means the Prentiss County Circuit Court, which hears felonies and the larger civil cases; the Justice Court and County Court issue their own warrants on the cases before them. A city with a municipal court of its own issues warrants on the tickets and ordinance cases it tries.
When a defendant misses a court date the judge issues a bench warrant, and either kind of warrant lives in the court file of the case, kept by the Circuit Clerk for criminal and civil cases and the Chancery Clerk for divorces, estates and land records.
For Prentiss County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at prentisscounty.org/courts (page title: Courts | Prentiss County), phone 662-728-8151, 200 Bridge Street PO Box 477 Booneville MS 38829, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
Mississippi has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.
Who Serves Warrants in Prentiss County
The Prentiss County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Booneville and Baldwyn serve warrants in Prentiss County.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Prentiss County: Northeast Mississippi Community College (campus police); it serves warrants on its own ground.
A warrant issued in Prentiss County is good anywhere in Mississippi, so it is served by whichever agency finds the person, in a traffic stop as often as at the door.
Together, the three agencies in Prentiss County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,065 arrests to the FBI that year; arrests on warrants are counted among them, not separately.
Each agency and what it reported is in Prentiss County arrest records.
Where a Person Arrested on a Warrant from Prentiss County Is Held
A person arrested on a warrant and kept in custody goes to the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest. The jail, run by the Prentiss County Sheriff's Office, held about 67 people on an average day in 2023 by the Vera Institute of Justice's count.
A person arrested in Prentiss County on a warrant from another county is held at the same jail until that county takes custody.
How to Check for a Warrant in Prentiss County
The place to check for a warrant from Prentiss County is the court file of the case, through the Circuit Clerk for criminal and civil cases and the Chancery Clerk for divorces, estates and land records at 662-728-8151, since a warrant is recorded in the case it was issued in.
The one Prentiss County page SearchSystems verified, the court's, is not a list of open warrants.
The statewide criminal history kept by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety Criminal Information Center is not open to the public in Mississippi, so it is not a route to a warrant check on someone else.
Clearing a Warrant from Prentiss County
A warrant is recalled by the court that issued it, so clearing one from Prentiss County starts with the Circuit Clerk for criminal and civil cases and the Chancery Clerk for divorces, estates and land records at 662-728-8151: the case goes back on the calendar and the judge recalls the warrant when the person appears.
A missed date in a case before the Justice Court and County Court is handled by that court, not by the Prentiss County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I check for a warrant online in Prentiss County?
Not from the Prentiss County pages SearchSystems verified; none of them is a warrant list. The court file is the record of a warrant: ask the Circuit Clerk for criminal and civil cases and the Chancery Clerk for divorces, estates and land records at 662-728-8151.
Who serves warrants in Prentiss County?
The Prentiss County Sheriff's Office, and the agency that reports for the city where the person is found; an Mississippi warrant is valid anywhere in the state.
Where is a person arrested on a warrant in Prentiss County held?
At the county jail, run by the Prentiss County Sheriff's Office, if kept in custody.
How is a warrant from Prentiss County cleared?
By appearing before the court that issued it; the judge recalls the warrant in court. The case is put back on the calendar through the Circuit Clerk for criminal and civil cases and the Chancery Clerk for divorces, estates and land records at 662-728-8151.
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.