The Detention Center
Tishomingo County Jail
- Operated byTishomingo County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address1208 Betty Dale Drive, Iuka, MS 38852
- VisitationIn-house visits scheduled by phone; video visitation through City Tele Coin
- Commissary deposit fees$2.50 for cash deposits or 10% surcharge on card transactions (Tiger Commissary)
- PhonesOne free call at booking; all others collect
- BondsApproved bonding agents list kept at detention intake
- Jail AdministratorJason Blakney (Jail Administrator, named on the sheriff's Detention & Dispatch page)
Source: Tishomingo County Sheriff's Office — Detention & Dispatch · 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 — 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
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 Jamie Stuart
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's own site runs a Detention & Dispatch division that operates the Tishomingo County Jail (sheriff is jailer by law, Miss. Code 19-25-71)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Office address1208 Betty Dale Dr., Iuka, MS 38852
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Tishomingo 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 Tishomingo County
- Circuit Court: Mississippi's First Circuit Court District, which also serves Alcorn, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc and Prentiss. Circuit judges are elected district-wide to four-year terms and hear felony cases.
- Justice Court: Tishomingo 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 contact details only; no minutes, agendas or budget posted. County FAQ points to the CRMS public access portal for records.
- The boardTishomingo County Board of Supervisors
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- County site co.tishomingo.ms.us opened; sheriff page names Sheriff Jamie Stuart and links the sheriff's own site, tishso.org.
- Sheriff's Detention & Dispatch page names the Tishomingo County Jail and its Jail Administrator, and publishes commissary deposit fees ($2.50 cash / 10% card).
- No roster, capacity, PREA, deaths, contracts or budget found. Bond information is limited to a note that an approved bonding agents list is kept at intake (not scored as guidance).
- The detention page still carries a March 2020 note suspending in-person visitation for COVID-19.
- Sheriff's Administration page lists a Grant & Budget Manager but posts no budget.
- Board of Supervisors page opened: no minutes, agendas or budget.
- What was tried: https://www.tishomingo.ms.us/ refused before search; https://www.tishso.org/index.php refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED) but the plain root opened.
- 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 Tishomingo 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