Perry County Jail Releases
A departure from the Perry County Jail function can lead to the community or to another custody system. Bond, dismissal, time served, sentence expiration, probation, or a court release order may allow a person to leave custody. A commitment to the Mississippi Department of Corrections, another county, the U.S. Marshals Service, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a transfer. The person has left Perry custody, but has not been released to the public.
The controlling county record is the public jail docket required by Mississippi Code ยง 19-25-63. It must state how the prisoner was released or discharged. When a person is delivered to the penitentiary, it also preserves the receiving officer's receipt. That entry answers a question a missing roster result cannot.
The published jail-docket statute shows the release, discharge, and receiving-receipt language used for this county record.
The statute image supports the durable record route; it is not an online Perry County release feed.
A person who disappears from a current-custody view may have been transferred, not released.
Confirm a Perry Jail Release
Perry County publishes no verified current roster, recent-release feed, or online archive. Start with the sheriff rather than treating a blank web search as proof. Then match the physical event to any court action and follow the receiving system when the docket shows a transfer.
- Call the Perry County Sheriff's Department with the full name, alias, date of birth if known, and booking range.
- Ask for the complete public jail-docket entry, including actual release or transfer time, method, authority, and receiving receipt.
- Check the Twelfth Circuit MEC portal for a felony disposition, bond order, sentence, dismissal, or later order.
- If the entry names MDOC or another agency, search that system instead of labeling the move a community release.
- For a durable copy, make a narrow written request and ask for electronic production and an advance cost estimate.
The complete county search and record-request sequence appears on the Perry County released inmates home page. A court order supplies legal authority. The sheriff docket is the stronger source for the moment the person physically left Perry custody.
Keep a copy of each dated result. If a VINE notice, court order, and sheriff entry use different times, ask the custodian which event each timestamp represents. Booking-system entry, judicial authorization, and physical departure may occur at different points.
When the receiving agency is unclear, request the officer receipt and destination fields before searching another system. That small step prevents wasted searches and an unsupported claim that the person returned to the community.
Perry Jail Release Records
The official county page identifies the sheriff's department but does not give a separate jail entrance, records email, fee schedule, request form, or public-counter hours. Call before traveling and ask where the person is currently housed. The county did not verify a separately named detention complex.
Perry County Sheriff's Department103 South Main Street
New Augusta, MS 39462
601-964-8461
Records hours: not published
A written request should identify the person and a useful date range. Ask for the booking number, admission time, actual release or transfer time, release type, authority, destination or receiving agency, and booking photograph if needed. Request that exempt material be redacted while the public remainder is produced.
Mississippi's public-record framework also shapes the response. If an office has no written procedure, the statutory default is one working day. An adopted procedure may allow up to seven working days for production or denial. When production cannot occur by then, the agency must give a specific written explanation and, absent agreement, produce by 14 working days. Ask for a written denial with the exact exemption if access is refused.
Fees may cover actual search, review, duplication, and mailing costs. Request an electronic copy and an itemized estimate before work begins. A narrow request based on one booking and date range reduces ambiguity and cost. The office need not build a new spreadsheet if no daily report exists, so ask for the existing docket entries instead.
Perry Jail Docket Fields
The statutory docket is more useful than a simple name list because it preserves the custody story. Its fields distinguish legal authority, jail receipt, confinement, discharge, and transfer.
| Field | What it resolves |
|---|---|
| Process or authority | Why the jail accepted the person |
| Receipt or arrest date | When Perry custody began |
| Cause and offense | Which matter supported confinement |
| How released or discharged | Bond, order, completion, or another recorded end |
| Warrant or officer receipt | Whether a release was authorized or another custodian received the person |
Ask for the exact date and time even though the statute describes the required history in broader terms. A related inmate case file may contain added booking and administrative details. Not every field is guaranteed in every associated file.
Perry Jail Release Retention
Mississippi's county retention schedule makes the offline route valuable. The jail docket is permanent. The inmate case file remains at least 25 years after release. A census or meal log that includes a release time remains three years after the related audit is released, while inmate property records remain ten years after release.
Cash-bond records last five years. Those receipts can support a bond-out explanation, but they do not replace the jail-docket release entry. Ask for both when the release authority is disputed. Records can also remain longer because of a legal hold, investigation, or litigation. These are minimum periods, not promises that every document is open without redaction.
Note: A vanished web result does not erase Perry County's permanent public release history.
Perry Release Orders and Events
Perry Circuit Court has used the Twelfth Circuit MEC system since February 21, 2017. Its docket may show a bond order, dismissal, judgment, sentence, amended order, or other action that explains why release became lawful. The Circuit Clerk maintains felony court records and can address certified or unavailable material.
That court trail and the sheriff trail answer different questions. A dismissal may end one case, yet another warrant or detainer may keep the person in custody. A sentencing entry can explain an MDOC commitment, but only the sheriff docket's receiving receipt confirms the handoff. Pair the legal order with the physical release record.
- Discharge
- An official end to the relevant custody or sentence status.
- Detainer
- A request or authority that may hold a person for another jurisdiction.
- Transfer
- Movement between custodians without release to the community.
Perry Jail Release Logistics
No official source reviewed states a normal release hour, weekend practice, exit door, family waiting point, transport service, or property pickup method for the Perry jail function. Do not plan around an assumed midnight release or a neighboring county's policy. Call the sheriff about the named event and confirm the current place of detention before an in-person trip.
The retention schedule does confirm that an inmate property record is kept for ten years after release. If property return later becomes unclear, request that record by name, booking range, and item description. The absence of a public policy does not prove property was or was not returned. It means the transaction must be checked in the official record.
No verified sheriff mobile app, booking-photo gallery, or social release stream fills that gap. A written request may seek the booking photograph as a separate item. Juvenile rules, an expungement order, or a specific exemption may limit production, so ask the custodian to identify the legal basis and release any nonexempt remainder.
Perry Transfers Into ICE Custody
An immigration handoff ends the Perry jail stay but does not establish community release. The sheriff docket should identify the receiving authority. Search ICE's Online Detainee Locator separately, using an A-number and country of birth when available or exact biographical details.
ICE detainee resources explain that ODLS can include certain people who left ICE custody during the prior 60 days. That creates a short second lookup window after an immigration transfer. It still answers only the ICE part of the chain. Obtain the Perry transfer receipt first, then read the ICE result within its stated scope.