This site is a private reference guide, not a sheriff's office, jail, court clerk, or government records desk. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release a person, post bond, schedule visitation, or retrieve official booking records. Use the contacts below for the office that holds the record you need.
Official Smith County Record Contacts
For local custody questions, begin with the sheriff-operated Smith County Detention Center. For hearing dates, citations, filed criminal cases, or docket records, use the Justice Court or Circuit Clerk contacts listed below.
- Smith County Detention Center / Sheriff: 206 Courthouse Square, Raleigh, MS 39153; phone 601-782-4531; fax 601-782-4003.
- Sheriff Joel Houston: jhouston@smithcountyms.gov.
- Detention contact Robert Garner: rgarner@smithcountyms.gov.
- Justice Court Clerk Donna Watts: PO Box 171, Raleigh, MS 39153; phone 601-782-4334.
- Circuit Clerk Anthony Grayson: PO Box 517, Raleigh, MS 39153; phone 601-782-4751.
Use these Smith County routes by record type:
- For someone currently held in the county jail, start with jail inmate records and then call the detention center if the roster is unclear.
- For booking photos or photo availability, review jail roster mugshots and ask the sheriff's office about any public-records request.
- For charges, hearings, citations, or filed case information after booking, use court records after a jail arrest and the proper clerk's office.
- For facility address and jail service details, use the Smith County Detention Center page listed in the footer.
- For a sentenced state prisoner, search the Mississippi Department of Corrections locator instead of the Smith County roster.
- For a federal prisoner or immigration detainee, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons locator, U.S. Marshals district contact, or ICE Online Detainee Locator.