The Detention Center
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- Operated byPrentiss County Sheriff's Office
- Sheriff's office address1901B East Chambers Drive, Booneville MS 38829 (county page)
Source: Prentiss County — Sheriff page · checked 2026-09-29
Transparency rating
0/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗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 Randy Tolar
- Runs the jailYes — county page lists serving as jailor and jail record-keeping among the sheriff's duties (Miss. Code 19-25-71)
- How the office is filledElected at-large, four-year term (county page)
- Budget roleSubmits a budget to the Board of Supervisors (county page)
- Office address1901B East Chambers Drive, Booneville MS 38829
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Prentiss County — Sheriff 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 Prentiss County
- Circuit Court: Mississippi's First Circuit Court District, which also serves Alcorn, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc and Tishomingo. Circuit judges are elected district-wide to four-year terms and hear felony cases.
- Justice Court: Prentiss 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 the first Monday and third Wednesday of each month at 10:00 AM; no minutes, agendas or budget posted online.
- The boardPrentiss County Board of Supervisors
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- County site prentisscounty.org confirmed Prentiss County, Mississippi; full link list read.
- Sheriff page names Sheriff Randy Tolar and lists jailer duties, but the site has no jail page: no jail name, roster, capacity, bond, PREA or fee information.
- Board of Supervisors, Finance Department, Courts and How Do I pages opened: no minutes, agendas, budget, audit, bond or jail material.
- No separate sheriff website found.
- 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 Prentiss 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