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 between September 23, 2026 and October 9, 2026.
Henry County, Tennessee, has about 33,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Henry 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 General files charges, a case in the Henry County Circuit and Chancery Courts. 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: Henry County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Henry County
The Henry County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Henry County. It reported 607 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Henry County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Paris, 10,517 residents: 506 arrests reported for 2025.
- Puryear, 715 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2020.
- Henry, 452 residents: 3 arrests reported for 2020.
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 McKenzie Police Department is listed by the FBI across three counties including Henry County, so its arrests are not broken out for Henry County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Henry 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.
- Henry County Sheriff's Office: 607 for 2025, 730 for 2024, 917 for 2023, 700 for 2022, 833 for 2021 and 824 for 2020.
- Paris: 506 for 2025, 554 for 2024, 581 for 2023, 561 for 2022, 610 for 2021 and 578 for 2020.
- Henry: 3 for 2020 and 2 for 2019.
- Puryear: 0 for 2020 and 2 for 2019.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2020 on file reported 1,405 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2020 and 2019 complete reported 1,405 in 2020 against 1,655 in 2019, down 15 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Henry County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Henry County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 170 people, down from about 180 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 204 beds, and it ran at 82 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 Tennessee Department of Correction lists its inmates at foil.app.tn.gov/foil/search.jsp.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Henry County
An arrest in Henry County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Henry County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at henrycountyclerktn.com, phone 731-642-2412); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-24/our-staff).
Tennessee is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: TORIS lets anyone run a name-based criminal history search online, for $29 a search, through the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Henry 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 Tennessee Public Records Act the agency must answer within 7 business days, and it may charge copying, and labor after the first hour.
- An arrest by the Henry County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Paris, Puryear or Henry: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney General handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Henry County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at henrycountyclerktn.com, phone 731-642-2412.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The other Henry County guides go further: police reports.
Cities in Henry County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the four cities in Henry County: Paris, Puryear and Henry. Cottage Grove 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 Henry County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Henry County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Paris (10,517)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Henry County each year?
The Henry County Sheriff's Office reported 607 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2020, the latest year most of the agencies in Henry County sent in full, the four with every month on file reported 1,405 between them.
Where are people arrested in Henry County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Henry County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Henry County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation: TORIS lets anyone run a name-based criminal history search online, for $29. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Tennessee Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Henry County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Henry County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Tennessee Public Records Act the answer is due within 7 business days.
Is this the official Henry 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.