The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byNoxubee County Sheriff (jailer by law)
- Published jail informationNot examined — no county or sheriff page could be opened
Source: Mississippi Sheriffs' Association directory · checked 2026-09-29
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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 Tedrick Liddell
- CurrentNamed in the Mississippi Sheriffs' Association directory; not confirmed on a county page
- Runs the jailYes — by law the sheriff is the jailer of the county (Miss. Code § 19-25-71)
- Listed address2832 Jefferson St. Ste. 1, Macon, MS 39341
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Mississippi Sheriffs' Association directory · 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 Noxubee County
- Circuit Court: Mississippi's Sixteenth Circuit Court District, which also serves Clay, Lowndes and Oktibbeha. Circuit judges are elected district-wide to four-year terms and hear felony cases.
- Justice Court: Noxubee 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.
- NoteNo county website found; board minutes not available online.
- The boardNoxubee County Board of Supervisors
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- NOT EXAMINED: no page on a county or sheriff website could be opened, so no checks are scored.
- Wikipedia lists no official county website; no county site turned up in search.
- Search returned noxubeesheriff.org ('Noxubee County Sheriff's Office, MS'); our reader was blocked by its robots.txt, so it could not be confirmed as the sheriff's own site or read.
- Sheriff's department has a Facebook page (facebook.com/ncsd01) — not counted.
- Sheriff name is the Mississippi Sheriffs' Association directory lead, not confirmed on a county page.
- What was tried: noxubeesheriff.org (robots.txt). Search cap reached; no further domains tried.
- 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 Noxubee 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