Marion/Walthall County Correctional Facility Inmates

Marion/Walthall Facility Overview

Marion/Walthall County Correctional Facility is the Columbia facility used for Marion County custody searches. The official sheriff inmate-records page refers users to current Marion County Correctional Facility inmate records and links to JailTracker. The current Mississippi Department of Corrections facility page identifies the same facility as Marion/Walthall County Correctional Facility, lists Warden Derek Mingo, and classifies the type as Regional.

The regional label is important. The facility may hold Marion County local detainees, Walthall County detainees, county-sentenced prisoners, and state offenders assigned through the Mississippi regional facility system. A new arrest should be checked through the sheriff-linked county roster. A sentenced state offender, or someone who has moved under MDOC control, should also be checked through the MDOC inmate search. The Marion County inmate population overview explains how those local and regional custody paths fit together.

MDOC's Marion/Walthall facility page is the current official source for the warden, regional type, address, and phone.

The MDOC listing supports treating the Columbia building as a regional jail, not only as a sheriff-only holding cell.

Marion/Walthall Facility Contact

Use the facility phone for live custody, visiting, mail, phone, money, and arrival questions. The sheriff's administrative office is a separate public agency office, and the court offices handle court records rather than day-to-day housing rules. Calling the facility first is the safest path when a person is trying to visit, send money, confirm whether a detainee is still there, or check whether a state offender is housed through the regional system.

Marion/Walthall Capacity Note

Current official rated capacity and current average daily population were not posted on the sheriff or MDOC facility pages reviewed for Marion/Walthall County Correctional Facility. Research located an external Census 2020 correctional-population reference listing 280 for the facility, but that number should be read as an external correctional-population reference from that vintage, not as a current rated-capacity figure or live jail count.

Daily population can shift with new bookings, releases, Justice Court appearances, transfers to MDOC, Walthall County housing, probation or parole holds, and state/regional assignments. For a live custody question, the roster and the facility phone are more useful than an older population reference.

Lookup Marion/Walthall Inmates

The correct lookup path depends on the custody type. For a fresh Marion County arrest or current local detention, start with the official sheriff inmate-records page and the JailTracker/Public Safety Cloud roster for MARION_COUNTY_MS. For sentenced state custody, use the Mississippi Department of Corrections inmate search. VINELink is useful for custody alerts. The Bureau of Prisons and ICE locators are separate federal systems and are not county jail rosters.

1. Open the sheriff-linked current roster for Marion County local custody and search by last name first.
2. Add a first name or booking detail when common names return too many matches.
3. Check whether the profile shows Marion/Walthall County Correctional Facility, charge details, bond fields, holds, or release status.
4. Search MDOC by name or MDOC ID if the person is sentenced, state-assigned, or no longer visible on the local roster.
5. Use VINELink for notification and BOP or ICE only when a federal sentence, federal hold, or immigration custody may be involved.

For a broader explanation of roster fields, booking charges, and public-records requests, Marion County jail inmate records gives the local custody search path in more detail.

Marion/Walthall Visitation Status

Current official visitation days, hours, video visit provider, visitor approval steps, dress code, and lobby rules were not posted on the current sheriff or MDOC facility pages reviewed. That absence should be treated as a live-status issue. Do not rely on old third-party jail pages for Marion/Walthall County Correctional Facility visit rules. Call 601-736-3621 before traveling, and ask about visitor ID, approval, schedule, arrival time, property limits, professional visits, and whether the person is eligible for visits.

Visitor parking, entrance location, accessible entry details, lockers, and current lobby limits were not found in official Marion/Walthall facility postings. The facility is in Columbia near South Main Street, but arrival details should come from the facility before the trip.

Marion/Walthall Mail and Money

Official Marion County-specific mail format, commissary vendor, deposit vendor, phone provider, and current fee schedule were not posted in the reviewed sheriff or MDOC facility pages. The facility address is published, but an inmate mail address is more than a street address. Mail often needs the person's full legal name, booking number or MDOC number, and a facility-approved format. Do not send cash, packages, stamps, or money orders unless the facility confirms the rule.

Mississippi regional jail canteen money and offender welfare fund handling is addressed generally by Miss. Code 47-5-938. That statute does not identify the local vendor or fee schedule for this facility, so it should not be used as a substitute for current facility instructions.

Marion/Walthall Booking Process

A Marion County arrest can move from the arresting agency to intake at Marion/Walthall County Correctional Facility. Intake may include identity checks, property inventory, booking photo, fingerprints, warrant and hold review, medical questions, classification screening, and creation of an arrest or booking number. Once the record is processed into the roster, the public profile may show charges, bond, court date, warrant number, arresting agency, holds, facility, image, and release status if the public configuration displays those fields.

Justice Court is the early court anchor after a booking. The county court source says all felony cases are first heard in Justice Court for initial appearance and affidavit filing, and that jail court sessions occur three times each week to secure an initial appearance within three days of arrest. That timing explains why a person can have a roster entry before a later Circuit Court case is visible.

Detainer

A hold from another agency or jurisdiction that can keep a person in custody.

PR bond

Release based on a promise to appear, often with court-set conditions.

MDOC ID

A state corrections number used for sentenced or state-assigned custody searches.

Marion/Walthall Facility History

Historical MDOC annual-report snippets identify Marion/Walthall County Correctional Facility as opened in March 1999 and accredited by the American Correctional Association in January 2001. Older snippets also describe medium custody and list past programs such as ABE, GED, alcohol-and-drug programming, discipleship or religious programming, vocational classes, basic computer classes, literacy skills, and pre-release programming. These details are useful history, but the current MDOC facility page reviewed for the research does not restate current custody level, staffing, active programs, or rated capacity.

No official Marion County source reviewed for the research published a current jail-construction project, consent decree, recent facility-specific litigation notice, or current program schedule. Current program, classification, medical, and visitation questions should be directed to 601-736-3621, and state-offender questions may also require MDOC confirmation.