The Detention Center
Lenoir Rowell Criminal Justice Center (County Jail)
- Operated byPearl River County Sheriff's Department
- Jail address171 Savannah Millard Road, Poplarville, MS 39470; 601-403-2538
- Rated capacityNot published
- Other agencies' prisonersCounty visitation schedule sets separate visiting days for state inmates and federal inmates held at the jail; the jail page also links notices on state offenders and federal inmates (PDFs unreadable by our reader)
- Published jail materialVisitation dates and dress code, inmate mail rules, clothing-package rules, approved bonding agents list, inmate lookup link
- Jail AdministratorRebecca Rasmusson (Jail Administrator, named on the county jail page)
Source: Pearl River County — County Jail page · checked 2026-09-29
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✓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 — 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 David Allison
- Runs the jailYes — by law the sheriff is the jailer of the county (Miss. Code § 19-25-71)
- How the office is filledElected to a four-year term (county sheriff page); page says he has served since 2008
- Office200 S. Main Street, Poplarville, MS 39470
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Pearl River County — Sheriff's Department page · 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 Pearl River County
- Circuit Court: Mississippi's Fifteenth Circuit Court District, which also serves Jefferson Davis, Lamar, Lawrence and Marion. Circuit judges are elected district-wide to four-year terms and hear felony cases.
- Justice Court: Pearl River 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.
- NoteMeets at 9 am in the Board of Supervisors Meeting Room, 109 W Pearl Street, Poplarville; agendas and minutes on a CivicClerk portal linked from the board page.
- The boardPearl River County Board of Supervisors →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Official county site pearlrivercounty.net opened (found via search); Sheriff's Department, County Jail, jail directory, Administration, Services, Find and Board of Supervisors pages read, plus jail PDFs.
- County Jail page names the Lenoir Rowell Criminal Justice Center, its address and its jail administrator, and posts visitation, mail and package rules.
- Roster: the county's own 'Inmate Lookup' page (pearlrivercounty.net/141/Inmate-Lookup) redirects to a vendor lookup (inmates.bluhorse.com, ID=PEARLRIVERMS) that our reader could not open, so roster scored no — it may deserve a yes if a person can view it.
- Visitation schedule (county PDF) shows the jail holds state inmates and federal inmates, with separate visiting days; no contract, per-diem or bed agreement is published. The 'AD State Offenders Notice' and 'Federal Inmates' PDFs had no machine-readable text.
- Bond: the county posts an 'Approved Bonding Agents' PDF (no readable text) but no guidance on how to post bond — bond_info scored no.
- Mail rules say money orders are the only currency accepted; no commissary, phone or video-visit rates published.
- Board meets at 9 am at 109 W Pearl Street, Poplarville; agendas and minutes are on a CivicClerk portal (pearlrivercoms.portal.civicclerk.com) that our reader could not open. No budget or audit posted on the pages read.
- What was tried: pearlrivercounty.net root (fetch refused); CivicClerk portal (refused); inmates.bluhorse.com (refused).
- 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 Pearl River 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