Smith County Jail Roster
The official Smith County jail roster path begins on the Smith County Sheriff's Office page, which links to the public Bluhorse current-inmate site. The sheriff operates the Smith County Detention Center and oversees the local jail population. The county page says the detention center houses both pre-trial and sentenced adult inmates, so the current roster may include people waiting for court, people waiting for bond, and people serving a local sentence.
The roster itself is hosted at the Bluhorse Smith County current inmate portal. It is free to use for public current-inmate records. No public login is required for the current list. A staff agency login exists, but that is not the public path. The live service returned current entries through an AJAX-backed roster when inspected for the research.
The Smith County roster does not replace every custody system. A sentenced person transferred to Mississippi Department of Corrections custody should be searched through MDOC. A federal prisoner should be searched through the Bureau of Prisons or the U.S. Marshals district contact path. An immigration detainee should be searched through ICE. Current county jail custody is only the first branch of the record search.
Use Smith County Inmate Roster
Start with the public roster when the question is whether someone is currently held at the Smith County Detention Center. A name is usually enough to begin, but a booking number, jacket number, or date can help separate records. Because the Smith County public setting does not expose past inmates, a person who has been released may no longer appear online.
- Open the Smith County Sheriff's Office page and use the current-inmates link, or open the Bluhorse Smith County roster directly.
- Review the current roster list and search by name when the visible interface permits it.
- Open the inmate profile to check booking number, location, charges, bond, detainers, and court tabs.
- Call the Smith County Detention Center at 601-782-4531 if release, bond, or hold status is unclear.
- Use MDOC, BOP, ICE, or VINELink if the person is not in the current county jail roster.
The mobile Smith County roster interface uses the same service backend and provides current and past-inmate tabs, although the past-inmate setting was not public for Smith County.
Smith County Roster Search Fields
The Smith County roster is more list-driven than many form-heavy jail sites. Research confirmed the current-inmate list, mobile interface, profile tabs, and backend fields rather than a complex public search form with many filters. The useful search values are the identifiers and list fields exposed by the roster.
The Bluhorse current inmate roster shows the public custody interface linked by the sheriff.
This roster view is the main online route for a current Smith County booking before moving to the profile tabs or calling the jail.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Text/list value | Helpful | Use full name when possible because common names can repeat. |
| Booking Number | Identifier | No | Profile and list values can identify the booking event. |
| Jacket Number | Identifier | No | Helps separate people with similar names in the jail system. |
| Location | Housing code | No | Examples in the live data used compact codes such as B 1 6 or G 1 4. |
| Release Date | Status/date field | No | May be blank. Verify actual release status with the jail. |
Smith County Inmate Profile Fields
A Smith County inmate profile can include more than the visible list. The Bluhorse services support tabs for inmate information, charges, bonds, detainers, court, incarceration, and images. Public settings control what appears. The inspected sample returned some populated fields and some blanks, so profile data must be read as a public snapshot.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Booking Number | The custody event identifier, including numeric formats or an SCJ-style prefix in samples. |
| Jacket Number | A person-related jail identifier used in the roster system. |
| Arrest and Offense Date | The date tied to arrest or the charged conduct when public. |
| Charges | Charge code, description, type, disposition, case number, OTN, offense date, and bond field when shown. |
| Bonds | Agency, bond type, bond amount, and bond status if the bond endpoint returns rows. |
| Detainers | Hold descriptions, agency, bond amount, and bond type if public data exists. |
| Court | Court, date, room, and hearing type fields if the tab returns public rows. |
| Image | A booking-photo endpoint exists, but the inspected sample returned no public image. |
Booking charges are not the same as final court charges. A charge may later be amended, dismissed, indicted, reduced, or disposed in court records after the arrest.
Smith County Custody Lookup Paths
Smith County inmate records split by custody type. The county roster is the local jail tool. The MDOC locator is for sentenced state prisoners. BOP, U.S. Marshals, and ICE channels handle federal or immigration custody. VINELink is a notification and custody-status route, not a full court-record system.
| Custody | Where to Look | Use It For |
|---|---|---|
| Smith County jail custody | Bluhorse Smith County roster | Current local jail bookings, charges, bond fields, and housing codes. |
| Sentenced Mississippi prisoner | MDOC inmate search | State prison custody after sentencing and transfer. |
| Federal prisoner | BOP inmate locator | Federal inmate records from 1982 to present. |
| Federal pretrial hold | U.S. Marshals Southern District of Mississippi | Federal pretrial custody and district contact questions. |
| Immigration custody | ICE Online Detainee Locator | ICE custody or CBP custody more than 48 hours. |
| Notification registration | Mississippi VINELink | Custody-status search and anonymous notification registration. |
Smith County Jail Facility
The facility map identifies one county detention facility for Smith County jail inmates. The Smith County Detention Center is operated by the Smith County Sheriff's Office and holds pre-trial and sentenced adult inmates. No separate county work-release annex, regional correctional facility, state prison, BOP prison, or ICE detention center was located inside Smith County.
Smith County Detention Center
206 Courthouse Square
Raleigh, MS 39153
601-782-4531
Fax: 601-782-4003
Saturday visitation rotates by male and female inmates; call before arrival.
For facility-specific visitation, mail, phone, and commissary details, use the Smith County Detention Center page.
Smith County Booking Records
Smith County did not publish a jail-specific booking checklist. Local booking can still be understood from the roster fields. After arrest, a person is transported to the Smith County Detention Center, entered into the jail system, assigned a booking number and jacket number, associated with arrest or offense dates, and placed on the current roster when the public system posts the record.
The profile services include fields for arresting agency or officer, book date, book time, building, pod, cell, bed, release date, and farm-out location, though not all fields are public in each record. Intake is the jail admission process. It may include identity checks, property handling, housing assignment, and medical screening. Classification means the jail's housing and security assignment process.
MDOC prison intake is different. MDOC's family materials describe searches, clean clothing, picture ID, property inventory, fingerprinting, and evaluations by classification, mental health, medical, and education staff after a person enters state prison. That is not the same as Smith County jail booking.
Smith County Visitation Records
The sheriff page says visitation at the Smith County Detention Center is held each Saturday on a rotating schedule for male and female inmates. Family members must present valid ID and follow all visitation rules. Exact hour-by-hour times were not published in the located official sources, so visitors should call the jail before travel.
| Service | Smith County Detail | Source Gap |
|---|---|---|
| In-person visitation | Saturday rotating male/female schedule | Exact times not published |
| Visitor ID | Valid ID required for family members | Specific accepted ID list not published |
| Video visitation | No official Smith County video visit vendor located | Do not assume remote visits are available |
| Attorney visits | Not published in located sources | Confirm directly with the jail |
Note: Call 601-782-4531 before traveling because the Saturday visitation schedule rotates and the county page does not publish the full time grid.
Contact Smith County Inmates
The Smith County sheriff page says inmates may send and receive mail and make limited collect calls. A full local mail-address format was not located, so senders should confirm the format with the detention center before mailing anything important. The research did not locate a county-specific phone vendor page.
For money and commissary, the sheriff page states that friends and family can deposit commissary funds online or by phone and points to CommissaryDeposit.com for Smith County inmate commissary purchases. The located county source did not publish local deposit fees, limits, or kiosk hours.
Smith County Records Requests
No separate Smith County sheriff records-request form was located. If the roster does not show the needed jail record, use the sheriff contact route: phone, fax, email, mail, or in-person contact at the courthouse-square address. The Mississippi Public Records Act is the legal fallback for public records held by a Mississippi public body.
Make the request narrow. Give the person's full name, booking number if known, approximate booking date, and the specific record type, such as booking record, charge sheet, non-displayed booking photo, release date, or bond information. Court-filed charges should be checked through MEC, the Circuit Clerk, or Justice Court rather than treated as final from the jail roster alone.
Bond and hold questions deserve a separate verification step. The Smith County charge and bond tabs can show bond amount, bond type, bond status, agency, detainers, and court fields when public data exists, but a blank or zero field does not prove that release is available. The person may have a no-bond order, a probation or parole hold, a hold for another agency, or a state, federal, or immigration detainer. Call the jail before posting money, scheduling a visit, or assuming that a roster entry gives the full custody status.