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George County Jail Roster Overview

The George County Sheriff's Office runs the local jail roster and the inmate search behind it. Sheriff Mitchell Mixon was elected in August 2023 and sworn in on January 2, 2024 at the George County Courthouse. His office sits at 355 Cox Street in Lucedale and serves as the county's chief law enforcement agency. The roster is published through the office web app at georgecountymssheriff.com, which loads an Inmate Search feed rather than a plain list. Because the feed renders inside the app or widget, a name may not appear in a basic text view until the tool finishes loading.

The Sheriff's Office posts its inmate data through an OCV web app, and the roster is one of its quick links. The screen below comes from the live inmate roster at the Sheriff's OCV inmate roster page, the address the app points to for current detainees.

That roster covers people booked into the George County Correctional Facility. It does not list everyone connected to the county. Federal detainees held for the U.S. Marshals appear in the Bureau of Prisons locator, not here. People already sentenced and moved into state custody show up in the Mississippi Department of Corrections system instead. For an urgent custody question, a phone call to the office is faster than refreshing a roster that may lag or need the app to render.

How to Use the George County Inmate Roster

The roster works best from the Sheriff's Office app or website, where the feed loads in full. The same Inmate Search link sits under the app's Jail Info menu alongside Commissary, Phone Services, and Visitation guides. Working through it in order keeps the search simple.

1. Open the Sheriff's Office app or visit georgecountymssheriff.com, then choose Inmate Search from the Jail Info menu.
2. Let the roster feed finish loading, since the list is pulled in live rather than printed on a static page.
3. Type a last name in the search box, or scroll the sorted list when you are not sure of the spelling.
4. Use the sort control to order recent bookings first, which helps when you know roughly when the arrest happened.
5. Open the matching entry for the fuller record, and call 601-947-4811 to confirm anything the screen does not show.

The inmate lookup is also built into the Sheriff's Office mobile app, where the search runs as an app feature rather than a separate website. The app is free on the Apple App Store under id 6755545728 and on Google Play under com.ocv.a1457. Installing it puts the roster, commissary links, and visitation rules in one place on a phone.

George County Roster Search Fields

The Inmate Search feed keeps its controls light. There is no long advanced-search form with date ranges or charge filters. The widget settings drawn from the app manifest show a simple text search, a sort control, and a capped feed list. The table below lays out what the roster actually accepts.

Behind the roster sits a raw data feed that the app reads from. You can see the underlying source at the Sheriff's OCV inmate feed, which is the stream the search widget renders for visitors.

Because the search is name-based, a misspelling can hide a record that is really there. When a name does not return a match, try fewer letters, check alternate spellings, or call the jail. A blank result is not proof that someone is free, only that the roster did not match what you typed.

What a George County Inmate Profile Shows

When a roster entry opens, it leads to a fuller booking profile. A live public profile did not render during research, so the fields below are the typical and expected layout for an OCV jail roster rather than a verified George County screen. Treat them as a guide to what an entry usually carries, and confirm any detail that matters with the Sheriff's Office.

The charges listed at booking are not the same as the charges a court later files. A prosecutor may add, reduce, or drop counts after review. For the formal counts and how they move through the case, the George County court charge records page tracks the prosecutor's side of the process.

County Jail Versus MDOC and Federal Custody

One roster cannot answer every custody question, because three different systems hold people from George County. The county jail holds pretrial detainees and people serving short local sentences. Once a court sentences someone to state prison time, that person transfers into Mississippi Department of Corrections custody and leaves the county roster. Federal defendants follow a separate path entirely.

For sentenced state inmates, the MDOC statewide search at mdoc.ms.gov/inmate_search is the right tool. It lets you search by name or by MDOC ID number. Choose the name option and enter a last name, or switch to the ID option and enter the MDOC number when you have it. The same web app that powers the county roster is documented in the Sheriff's OCV web-app manifest, which lists the Jail Info menu the office publishes.

Federal prisoners held for the U.S. Marshals Service do not appear in either the county roster or the state search. Those records belong to the Bureau of Prisons locator. Matching the person to the right system first avoids a long, fruitless search in the wrong database.

Note: a blank county roster result may simply mean the person has already moved into state or federal custody, so check MDOC or the Bureau of Prisons before assuming release.

George County Correctional Facility

The county detention site is the George County Correctional Facility, also written as GCRCF in the Sheriff's Office materials. It is run by the Sheriff's Office and shares the Cox Street address with the main office. The contact card below pulls the address, phone, and hours the office publishes for the jail.

The Sheriff's Office app card also lists a second line, 601-947-9399, for general contact. For custody status, booking questions, and visitation approval, the 601-947-4811 number is the primary line. Visiting hours for the public are limited and run on the bi-weekly zone schedule covered further down, not the round-the-clock booking hours.

Booking and Sheriff Records Requests

Booking starts when deputies bring an arrested person into the facility. Staff record identity, take the offense information, and assign housing. From there the person waits for a first appearance, where a judge reviews the charge and may set bond. Until that bond is set and posted, the person stays in custody and shows on the roster.

The Sheriff's Office also handles records that go beyond the live roster. A completed Records Request Form must be turned in at the office in person, full payment is due before any record is retrieved, and the requester or an authorized law-firm representative collects the record in person. Several services carry set fees, and the office takes exact cash only.

Fingerprinting runs Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. If an arrest leads to an active warrant question, the George County warrant search page explains the phone and court fallback the county uses when no warrant appears online.

George County Jail Visitation Rules

Visitation at the George County Correctional Facility runs on approval first, then a fixed schedule. Every inmate must complete a Visitor's Application that is approved before any visitor is accepted. It is the inmate's job to have all required information in before approval, so a visitor cannot simply show up and expect entry.

The list of approved visitors updates on a clock that differs by custody type. County inmates may update their visitation list every 60 days after they first enter the facility. State inmates may update theirs once a year, on their entry date into MDOC custody and processing at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility. Visits themselves fall on Saturdays and Sundays, on a bi-weekly rotation tied to the inmate's housing zone. A dress code applies to every visitor, including children, and bars items like tank tops, above-the-knee shorts, head coverings, and most jewelry.

The full approval rules come straight from the office. You can read them at the Sheriff's inmate visitation guidelines, which set out the application, dress code, and update windows in detail.

Because the schedule is keyed to housing zones, knowing the inmate's zone matters as much as knowing the day. The roster entry or a call to the jail tells you the zone, and the zone tells you which Saturday or Sunday window applies.

George County Inmate Visitation Schedule

The facility splits visits across two weekends, with state inmates and county inmates on different days. The table below maps each group and zone to its day and time window. Visitors should confirm the inmate's current zone before traveling, since a zone change shifts the day.

The official schedule is published by the office. It is posted at the Sheriff's inmate visitation schedule, which lists each zone and window the same way.

Note: state inmates have no visitation on the second or fourth Sunday, so plan trips around the first and third Sunday windows for those housing zones.

Inmate Mail and Digital Copies

George County has moved inmate mail to an electronic system. County inmates no longer receive physical letters in their hands. Instead they receive digital copies of mail on jail kiosks or tablets. The exception is legal mail and approved privileged mail, which still arrives in physical form under stricter handling.

Regular letters, legal mail, and inmate-sent mail with a proper return address go to a remote processing address run by City Tele Coin: 4506 Marlena Street, Unit 17, Bossier City, LA 71111. Staff there scan the mail and upload it to the inmate's profile within 24 hours of receipt. Legal mail must come from an official law office and carry the inmate name, the CTC Pin, George County Jail, and that same Bossier City address. Mail with the wrong address, missing postage, or an inmate who cannot be verified is returned to the sender. Questions about the mail service go to 318-746-1114.

The complete mail rules are spelled out by the office at the Sheriff's inmate mail regulations, including the return-address format and the digital-copy process.

Sending mail to the jail's street address by mistake is a common error. Letters for an inmate should go to the Bossier City processing unit, not to 355 Cox Street, so the scanning system can match them to the right account.

Phone, Tablet, and Video Calls

Living areas at the facility are fitted with tablets for inmate video chat. Calls are capped at 15 minutes each, and every call and conversation is subject to monitoring or recording. Prepaid accounts run through City TeleCoin, the same vendor that handles the mail, reachable at 1-318-746-1114.

Rates depend on the kind of call. The figures below come from the office's published phone and tablet rules.

• Video chat costs $0.50 per minute.
• State inmate phone calls cost $0.11 per minute, with a 15-minute limit per call.
• County inmate calls cost $0.35 per minute, with a 15-minute limit.
• Out-of-state county calls add $0.21 per minute on top of that rate.

Setting up a prepaid account before an expected call avoids dropped or blocked connections. Since calls are monitored, anyone discussing a pending case should remember that recordings can become part of the record.

Commissary and Inmate Funds

Inmates are not allowed to hold cash. Money for the commissary moves through an online account instead. The only accepted deposit site for commissary funds is tigerdeposits.com, where an outside contact can add money to an inmate's balance.

Commissary is provided once a week. The maximum an inmate can spend is $150 per person, and approved purchases cover personal hygiene products, food, and drinks. Photo and email credits are also placed on an account, but only after the housed inmate sends a request to the outside contact who then funds it. Keeping deposits within the weekly cap keeps the account in line with facility rules.

Restricted George County Jail Records

Not every jail-related record is open to the public. The Sheriff's Office withholds records that pertain to an open or active investigation until the matter is closed or resolved, except where those records must be disclosed through court discovery. So a recent booking may appear on the roster while the underlying investigative file stays sealed.

Other limits come from the type of case. Juvenile and youth-court matters are confidential and are not part of the public roster. Records can also carry redactions for Social Security numbers, financial account numbers, and information that identifies minors. When a record will not display, the usual cause is one of these protections rather than a system error, and the Sheriff's Office or the relevant court is the place to confirm status.