The Detention Center
Raymond Detention Center
- Operated byHinds County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address1450 County Farm Road, Raymond, MS 39154
- Other detention facilitiesJackson Detention Center; Joint County and State Work Facility
- Video visitationOnline scheduling offered at Raymond and Jackson Detention Centers (GTL VisitMe per county flyer)
- FY2020 budget linesDetention – Raymond $7,471,256; Detention – Jackson $2,577,142; Detention administration $410,867; Penal Farm $3,002,765
- Federal oversightCounty FY2020 budget book lists goals of compliance with the Amended Consent Decree and release from the federal consent decree
Source: Hinds County — Sheriff · 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
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✗PREA audits — not published
- ✗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 Tyree D. Jones
- Runs the jailYes — by law the sheriff is the jailer of the county (Miss. Code § 19-25-71)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Named onHinds County's own Sheriff page
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Hinds 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 Hinds County
- Circuit Court: Mississippi's Seventh Circuit Court District, which serves Hinds County alone. Circuit judges are elected district-wide to four-year terms and hear felony cases.
- Justice Court: Hinds 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.
- NoteBoard meets 1st and 3rd Mondays at the Chancery Court Building, 316 South President Street, Jackson. Agendas and video posted on the county's Boardroom page.
- The boardHinds County Board of Supervisors →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- County site hindscountyms.com names the sheriff and three detention facilities: Jackson Detention Center, Raymond Detention Center and the Joint County and State Work Facility.
- Budget: the FY2020 budget book on the county site shows separate lines for the Raymond and Jackson detention centers; newer 'combined budget' newspaper notices (FY2024) show only broad categories such as Public safety, and the FY2025 notice PDF had no readable text.
- Roster: the county links an inmate search at co.hinds.ms.us/pgs/apps/inmate/inmate_query.asp, but our reader was refused (robots), so roster is not credited.
- No capacity, PREA, deaths, fee rates, contracts or bond guidance found on the county's sheriff or visitation pages. The sheriff page only restates the statutory duty on bonds.
- No court-monitor or consent-decree reports found posted on the county's own site; the FY2020 budget book mentions consent-decree compliance as a goal.
- The inmate mail guidelines file (.docx) could not be read by our reader.
- What was tried: hindscountyms.com root (refused, provenance); co.hinds.ms.us inmate query and soapp.pdf (robots); FY2025 combined budget PDF (no readable text).
- Seat: the Board of Supervisors meets in Jackson; the page does not use the words 'county seat'.
- 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 Hinds 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