Amite County Jail Inmate Lookup

Amite County Jail Overview

Amite County Jail is a sheriff-operated county jail in Liberty. The Amite County Sheriff's Office operates the jail, and the official county page identifies Sheriff Tim Wroten as the county law-enforcement officer who supervises deputies, jailers, and dispatchers. The same county page describes jailers as responsible for inmates, trusties, and mental commitments. That wording matters for the Amite County Jail inmate search because the held population is not limited to newly arrested pretrial detainees.

The jail is the only detention facility physically identified in Amite County from official and high-authority sources. No separate city jail, state prison, BOP prison, ICE detention center, regional jail, work-release annex, or dedicated U.S. Marshals facility was located inside the county. MDOC lists an Amite Probation & Parole Office at the same street address, but that office is a supervision office and should not be treated as a detention facility.

The Mississippi State Department of Health facility listing identifies AMITE COUNTY JAIL at 243 South Broad Street in Liberty. The official sheriff page uses the mailing address for the office. Because the visitor entrance, lobby hours, and parking rules are not published in the county material, anyone planning to visit should confirm the correct public door before traveling.

The official sheriff page is the local source for the jail's operator and phone line.

The Amite County sheriff page shows the office contact information and describes jail supervision duties.

Use that page as the county-level contact source, while using the health department listing for the physical jail address.

Amite County Jail Population

Published current population figures were not found on the Amite County website, so the best sourced numbers come from broader research datasets. The Vera Institute Amite County fact sheet, published in March 2021, reported that the jail held 23 people on a typical day in 2020. Vera also reported that this was 51 percent of total capacity, which implies a rated capacity of about 45 beds.

The Prison Policy Initiative Census 2020 correctional facility locator lists Amite Co. Jail with 40 local prisoners from a December 31, 2013 survey date. That figure is useful as a historical census reference, not as a current daily count. No sheriff dashboard, annual booking report, housing-unit list, or public daily jail count was located.

The Amite County Jail population includes pretrial detainees, people serving short local sentences, trusties assigned to jail work functions, mental commitments awaiting proceedings or transport, and other-agency holds when accepted by the sheriff. Vera's 2020 breakdown also showed people held for Amite County, for the state prison system, and for other counties, so a jail record can involve more than one agency.

Look Up Amite County Jail Inmates

No official online Amite County Jail roster, booking report, recent-arrests feed, or mugshot gallery was located on the county government website. Search results may show commercial or aggregator pages, but those are not official county sources and should not be used as the basis for custody decisions. For current custody and bond questions, the practical Amite County Jail lookup chain starts with the sheriff's phone line, then written record requests, then state and federal locators if the person is no longer in the county jail.

1. Call the Amite County Sheriff's Office at 601-657-8057 and ask whether the person is currently in custody at Amite County Jail.
2. Provide the full legal name, date of birth if known, approximate arrest date, arresting agency, and any known court or warrant information.
3. Ask whether bond has been set, whether a hold exists, and whether the case is awaiting Justice Court initial appearance or Circuit Court action.
4. If phone information is limited, request the jail docket entry or booking sheet in writing under the Mississippi Public Records Act and Mississippi Code Section 19-25-63.
5. Register with Mississippi VINELink for custody notifications when the person appears in the notification system.
6. Use the MDOC inmate search if the person has been sentenced and transferred to state custody.

Mississippi Code Section 19-25-63 is the key jail-record citation for this facility because it requires the sheriff to keep a public jail docket. That docket should record the warrant or mittimus, prisoner name, receiving date, arrest and commitment dates, cause of imprisonment, authority for custody, length of imprisonment, release or discharge, and transfer receipt if the person is sent to the penitentiary.

Amite County Jail Contact

The jail and sheriff contact details should be used carefully because the physical jail address and the sheriff's mailing address come from different official sources. The street address below comes from the Mississippi health facility listing for AMITE COUNTY JAIL. The mailing address, phone number, and email come from the official Amite County sheriff page. The county did not publish a separate jail records desk, a dedicated roster phone line, a local records form, or public lobby hours.

The MSDH listing is the source that physically identifies the Amite County Jail at South Broad Street.

The listing helps separate the jail location from the sheriff's mailing address, which is the address to use for written sheriff correspondence unless the office directs otherwise.

Amite County Jail Visits

No official Amite County Jail visitation schedule, video visit vendor, visitor ID rule, child-visitor policy, dress code, property rule, or public waiting-room policy was located. Do not rely on third-party jail directories for visit hours. Call 601-657-8057 before traveling, and ask whether visits are available that day, whether the person is eligible for a visit, and whether the visit is in person, by video, or limited by court, medical, discipline, transport, or classification status.

Visitors should ask about government photo ID, arrival time, search procedures, phones, bags, purses, keys, medication, lockers, clothing rules, and whether minors may enter with a parent or guardian. The sheriff page does not publish accessibility information, so callers should also confirm accessible parking, the public entrance, ramps, and any mobility needs before arrival.

Amite County Jail Mail

No official inmate mail format, phone vendor, video vendor, commissary vendor, money-deposit page, kiosk rule, money order rule, or fee schedule was located for Amite County Jail. Tiger Commissary's Mississippi selector was inspected during research, and Amite County Jail was not visible in the facility list. That does not prove the jail has no commissary process, but it means no Amite-specific Tiger deposit path was documented.

For sentenced state prisoners, the rules change after transfer. MDOC has separate family and friends pages for state-prison money and phone services, including state money-transfer instructions and state phone-account information. Those state services should not be treated as Amite County Jail services unless the jail confirms a connection.

Amite County Jail Booking

Amite County does not publish a detailed booking timeline online. A typical local custody path begins when a sheriff's deputy, constable, Gloster police officer, Mississippi Highway Patrol trooper, or another authorized agency makes an arrest and delivers the person to the county jail if the jail accepts custody. Jail staff then process identity information, receive arrest papers or a warrant, inventory property, conduct screening, and place the person according to safety, gender, medical needs, mental-health status, and bed space.

The local court connection is more specific. The Amite County Justice Court page says felony cases are first heard in Justice Court for initial appearance and filing of affidavit. It also says Justice Court judges hold court sessions at the jail three times each week to ensure initial appearance within three days of arrest. That explains why bond or charge information may change after booking, even when the person was already received into the jail.

Booking is not the same thing as conviction. A booking record confirms jail intake and the authority for custody. Court records later show whether a charge was filed, amended, dismissed, bound over, indicted, resolved by plea, tried, or expunged. For Circuit Court criminal filings, the Amite County Circuit Clerk is the local court-record contact.

Amite Jail Transfer Search

A person arrested in Amite County may not remain in Amite County Jail for the whole case. Some people are released on bond or court order. Some are transported to court or medical appointments by the sheriff. Some sentenced prisoners move to the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Others may have holds from another county, a state probation or parole office, a federal court, BOP, ICE, or another agency.

The MDOC facilities list confirms that Amite County has a probation and parole office, not a state prison. If a caller hears the South Broad Street address in an MDOC context, confirm whether the question involves supervision or jail custody before assuming the person is held there.

Amite County Jail Records

When a live roster does not exist, a written records request becomes more important. Direct requests to the Amite County Sheriff's Office with the person's full name, date of birth if known, arrest date or booking date, arresting agency, and the records sought. Useful wording includes jail docket entry, booking sheet, bond information, release date, arresting agency, charge or cause of imprisonment, and booking photo if one is being requested.

The Mississippi Public Records Act provides the broad records framework. Mississippi Code Section 25-61-7 allows public bodies to charge fees reasonably tied to search, review, duplication, and mailing costs. Mississippi law may also protect investigative records, victim identifying information, juvenile records, medical records, sealed or expunged records, and security-sensitive information. A denial or redaction does not always mean no record exists.

Jail docket

The sheriff's public custody record for people received into the county jail.

Mittimus

A court commitment paper that directs a jail to hold a person.

Detainer

A hold from another agency or jurisdiction that may delay release.

Trusty

A jail inmate assigned lower-custody work duties, when approved by jail staff.

Amite Jail News Notes

Recent local reporting has covered the October 4, 2024 death of Trumaine White at Amite County Jail and a 2025 protest in Liberty seeking answers. Those reports are useful as conditions and public-interest context, but they should not be treated as a court finding or a final determination of wrongdoing. Custody status, official investigative conclusions, and civil or criminal filings must be confirmed through the agency or court that created the record.