The Detention Center
Stone County Regional Correctional Facility
- Operated byStone County Sheriff's Department
- Jail address1420 Industrial Park Road, Wiggins, MS 39577
- Regional correctional facilityStone County Correctional Facility — holds state prisoners under an MDOC contract; sheriff appoints the warden (MDOC facility page)
- VisitationApproved visitor list, photo ID, rotating weekend zones (county visitation form)
- DepositsCanteen via kiosk or Tigerdeposits.com; phone via ConnectNetwork/GettingOut — no rates stated
- Jail AdministratorJohn Moran (Warden, named on the county's visitation form)
Source: Stone County Sheriff page · checked 2026-09-29
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗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 Todd Stewart
- Runs the jailYes — sheriff's page lists the Stone County Regional Correctional Facility under the sheriff's office (sheriff is jailer by law, Miss. Code 19-25-71)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Office address1420 Industrial Park Road, Wiggins, MS 39577
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Stone 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 Stone County
- Circuit Court: Mississippi's Second Circuit Court District, which also serves Hancock and Harrison. Circuit judges are elected district-wide to four-year terms and hear felony cases.
- Justice Court: Stone 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 page lists meetings (1st and 3rd Monday, 9 a.m., courthouse) but posts no minutes, agendas or budget; Finance Department page posts no budget.
- The boardStone County Board of Supervisors
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- County site stonecountyms.gov opened; sheriff page names Sheriff Todd Stewart and the Stone County Regional Correctional Facility, with an Active Roster link (code=stoneMS) and a visitation form.
- The roster itself (tcsi-roster.azurewebsites.net) refused our reader (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED).
- MDOC lists Stone County Correctional Facility as a regional facility holding state prisoners, run by the sheriff under an MDOC agreement (https://www.mdoc.ms.gov/facilities/stone-county-correctional-facility). The county does not publish the contract, per-diem or bed count.
- Visitation form names deposit and phone vendors but no fee rates; no bond, PREA, capacity or deaths material found.
- Board of Supervisors, Finance Department and County Administrator pages opened: no minutes, agendas or budget posted.
- The /scf/ page is an economic-development page, not the correctional facility.
- What was tried: guessed root https://www.stonecountyms.gov/ refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED) before search.
- 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 Stone 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