The Detention Center
Alcorn County Correctional Facility
- Operated byAlcorn County (regional correctional facility; the facility site does not state the operator)
- Jail address2839 South Harper Road, Corinth, MS 38834
- What it isDescribed on its own site as a regional correctional facility also known as the Alcorn County Jail
- Regional correctional facilityAlcorn County Regional Correctional Facility — holds state prisoners under an MDOC contract
- Inmate moneyPostal money orders, Tiger Commissary online deposits, lobby kiosk; no fee amounts listed
- ProgramsGED, adult basic education, substance abuse treatment, welding, forklift certification and others
- Rated capacityNot found
- Jail AdministratorEdward Evans, Warden, Alcorn County Correctional Facility
Source: Alcorn County Correctional Facility — Contact · checked 2026-09-29
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✗How to post bond — not published
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Ben Caldwell
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff is the jailer by law (Miss. Code 19-25-71)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Alcorn County — Sheriff · checked 2026-09-29
The Judges
Mississippi's circuit judges are elected state judges who hear felony cases. Bail is often first set at an initial appearance by a justice court judge, elected by district within the county, or by a county or municipal judge.
Who sets bail in Alcorn County
- Circuit Court: Mississippi's First Circuit Court District, which also serves Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc, Prentiss and Tishomingo. Circuit judges are elected district-wide to four-year terms and hear felony cases.
- Justice Court: Alcorn County's justice court judges are elected by district within the county and often set bail at the first appearance.
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-29
The Board of Supervisors
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe county budget, including the sheriff's office and the jail, and the jail building itself. Five supervisors, each elected from a district. In fifteen counties, the county also runs a regional correctional facility that holds state prisoners under a contract with the Department of Corrections.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. By law the sheriff is the jailer of the county and hires the jailers (Miss. Code 19-25-71). No state agency inspects the jail.
- NoteThe board page links no minutes, agendas or budget; it points readers to the State Auditor's website for county financial reports.
- The boardAlcorn County Board of Supervisors
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- County site (alcorncounty.org) opened; its Sheriff page names Ben Caldwell but carries no jail information.
- The facility's own site (alcorncountycorrectionalfacility.com) calls itself a regional correctional facility 'also known as the Alcorn County Jail' — one building serves as both county jail and MDOC regional facility.
- The facility site does not say who operates it; scored as the county's facility site because it is the named county facility's own domain.
- PREA page gives a zero-tolerance policy and reporting channels; no PREA audit reports posted.
- Warden page names Edward Evans as Warden; the PREA page tells readers to contact 'Warden Josh Davis' — the site is inconsistent.
- No roster, capacity, bond guidance, fee rates, deaths or contract/per-diem information found on the facility or county pages.
- County board page posts no budget or minutes; a 2019 PDF on the Chancery Clerk page is an unclaimed-property list, not a budget.
- State inspection/oversight: Mississippi has no state agency that inspects county jails. The State Department of Health's jail inspections ended when the Legislature stopped funding them in 2017.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Alcorn County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff is elected. So are the supervisors who pay for the jail, and the judges who set bail.
Names verified 2026-09-29 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered