The Detention Center
Tunica County Detention Center
- Operated byTunica County Sheriff's Office — Corrections Division
- Jail address5126 Old Mhoon Landing Road, Tunica, MS 38676
- LeadershipChief of Corrections and Courts: Eugene Bridges; Director of Corrections/Warden: Reginald Boykin
- PhonesInmate phone service through City Telecoin (CTC); no rates stated
- Jail AdministratorReginald Boykin (Director of Corrections/Warden, named on the sheriff's Corrections page)
Source: Tunica County Sheriff's Office — Corrections · 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 Calvin K.C. Hamp
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's office has a Corrections division that runs the Tunica County Detention Center (Miss. Code 19-25-71)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- TermSixth term, elected November 2023 (sheriff's own site)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Tunica County Sheriff's Office — Office of the Sheriff · 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 Tunica County
- Circuit Court: Mississippi's Eleventh Circuit Court District, which also serves Bolivar, Coahoma and Quitman. Circuit judges are elected district-wide to four-year terms and hear felony cases.
- Justice Court: Tunica 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.
- NoteCounty website tunicacountyms.com (listed by the Mississippi Association of Supervisors) refused our reader, so board minutes could not be checked.
- The boardTunica County Board of Supervisors
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- Sheriff's own site tunicamssheriff.com opened: home, departments, Office of the Sheriff, command staff, administration, Corrections, roster and forms pages read.
- Corrections page names the Tunica County Detention Center, its address and its warden; the site posts a live current-inmates roster and a 48-hour release list.
- No capacity, bond guidance, fee rates, PREA, deaths, contracts or budget found on the sheriff's site; the forms page lists no jail forms.
- County site not examined: https://tunicacountyms.com/ and https://www.tunicagov.com/ refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED); earlier guesses tunicacountyms.gov and tunicacounty.ms.gov were refused or returned nothing.
- Checks are scored from the sheriff's own site only; a county budget may exist on the county site that we could not open.
- 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 Tunica 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