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Clay County Detention Center Overview

Clay County Detention Center is operated by the Clay County Sheriff's Office in West Point. It is the primary local detention facility identified in official sources for Clay County. No separate West Point municipal jail, Clay County regional jail, state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center was located in official Clay County sources. MDOC lists a Clay Probation and Parole Office in West Point, but that office is community supervision, not a detention facility.

The jail population includes newly booked arrestees, pretrial detainees, county-sentenced inmates, municipal arrestees transferred from local agencies, MDOC holds, and selected state prisoners assigned to work or jail-support roles. The sheriff's official work-program page says the facility houses state prisoners assigned to the Joint State/County Work Program, Sheriff Trustys, and Jail Support. A person physically held at Clay County Detention Center should be checked through the county roster first, even if an MDOC hold later becomes part of the custody path.

Clay County Detention Center Population

The strongest local figures are a capacity number from the jail page and two roster snapshots from the official roster pages. The sheriff's jail page says a recent expansion increased capacity to house up to 160 inmates. The current roster title line showed 60 inmates when inspected, and the 48-hour release list showed six release entries. These are point-in-time roster figures, not an average daily population report.

Using the inspection snapshot, 60 current roster entries against a 160-inmate capacity equals 37.5 percent of stated capacity. That is only a snapshot because roster counts can change throughout the day. The roster choice page also carries a disclaimer that information is collected and provided for convenience and is not certified for accuracy or authenticity by the detention center.

Clay County Detention Center Lookup

The official lookup path starts at the Clay County Detention Center roster choice page. It offers a Current Inmates link for people currently held at the jail and a 48 Hour Release link for people released from the facility within the previous 48 hours. The current list is a browse-and-sort roster rather than a search-box tool. It showed pagination, an Order By Name link, booking photos, names, booking numbers, booking dates, charges, bond fields, and profile links.

1. Open the official roster choice page and choose Current Inmates for a person believed to be in custody.
2. Browse the roster pages or sort by name, then compare the listed name, booking date, and arresting agency.
3. Open the profile to view the booking number, age, gender, race, arresting agency, booking date, charges, bond, and photo.
4. Use the 48 Hour Release list if the person may have bonded out or been released recently.
5. Call the jail or sheriff's office when bond, charges, case numbers, or release status must be confirmed.

Clay County Detention Center Contact

Official sources give two address strings, so arrival plans should be confirmed before travel. The Clay County government sheriff page lists the Clay County Sheriff's Department at 348 W Broad St, West Point, MS 39773. The sheriff website footer lists 330 West Broad Street, P.O. Box 142, West Point, MS 39773. Both sources list the sheriff main phone as 662-494-2896 and fax as 662-494-4034. The county page lists the jail phone as 662-494-2712.

Clay County Jail Visitation

Official Clay County pages inspected did not publish a visitation schedule, visitor registration process, dress code, visitor ID rule, video visitation vendor, or attorney-visit procedure. That absence should be handled plainly. Families should call the jail before traveling, because facility rules can change and the published sources do not give a day-by-day visiting calendar. MDOC prison visitation rules should not be imported into the Clay County jail page unless the person has moved into state prison custody.

Mail and Money Information

Clay County official pages inspected did not identify a jail mail format, commissary vendor, money-deposit vendor, inmate phone vendor, tablet system, online payment link, or fee table. Those details should not be borrowed from other Clay County jails in other states. The correct local path is to call the Clay County Detention Center or sheriff's office and ask for current rules before sending mail or money.

Clay County Bond Confirmation

Bond is one of the most important reasons to call the jail rather than rely only on a roster line. Clay County roster profiles state that charges and bail amounts may change after court appearances and may not be current. The profile note instructs bond companies and people wishing to post bail to contact detention center staff for the correct bail amount, charges, and case numbers. That instruction applies even when the roster shows a dollar amount.

A $0.00 bond field can mean several things. It may be a court-ordered no-bond status, an agency hold, an MDOC hold, a case awaiting a judge, or an administrative entry. It should not be read as free release. One inspected roster entry showed "HOLD FOR MDOC" with a zero bond amount, which is a custody signal rather than a normal payment instruction.

Clay County Jail Administration

Sheriff Eddie Scott has been identified by county government as Clay County sheriff since 2012. The sheriff's jail page lists Frank "Tank" Randle as Jail Administrator, Mike Weever as Administrative Manager, Annie Avant as Assistant Jail Administrator, and Latisha Nance as Accreditation Manager and Training Officer. The page also names correctional officers Gail Myles, Tony Washington, Lee Griffin, Phillip Boggs, and Wilbur White.

The jail page says Sheriff Scott and jail administration personnel implemented a plan to achieve accreditation by the American Correctional Association. That wording is important. It supports describing an ACA accreditation plan, not stating that the facility is already accredited. The page describes accreditation goals in practical terms: trained staff, safer conditions for staff and inmates, measurable operating criteria, upgrades in operations, and reduced exposure to lawsuits and insurance costs.

Clay County Inmate Work Program

The Clay County inmate work program is one of the most specific facility facts in the research. The sheriff's official work-program page says the detention center houses state prisoners assigned to the Joint State/County Work Program, Sheriff Trustys, or Jail Support. These workers perform building maintenance, grass cutting, construction projects, trash pickup, and other county tasks. The jail page also states that the capacity expansion to 160 inmates was carried out by inmate labor under close supervision by jail personnel, keeping construction costs low.

This program explains why the Clay County Detention Center population can include more than new local arrests. Some state prisoners may be physically housed at the county jail because of work or trusty assignments. A sentenced prisoner who has moved into the MDOC system should also be checked through the Mississippi Department of Corrections inmate search, especially for sentence status, eligibility dates, and statewide custody questions.

Clay County Court and MDOC Paths

People booked into Clay County Detention Center can move in several directions. A misdemeanor may stay in Justice Court and be handled by the County Prosecutor. A felony may begin with a preliminary hearing and then move through District Attorney Scott Colom, the 16th Circuit Court, the Circuit Clerk, and the grand jury process. Circuit Court terms are listed for January, April, July, and October, with grand jury terms in April and October.

After conviction and state sentencing, custody questions may shift from the county jail roster to MDOC. MDOC also lists a Clay Probation and Parole Office in West Point, but that office is not a jail. Federal sentenced prisoners are searched through the BOP inmate locator, and immigration detainees are searched through ICE ODLS. No BOP or ICE detention facility in Clay County, Mississippi, was identified in official sources.