The Detention Center
Walthall County Jail
- Operated byWalthall County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address807 Magnolia Ave, Tylertown, MS 39667
- WardenCherie Bailey
- Regional correctional facilityMarion/Walthall County Correctional Facility, 503 South Main Street, Columbia (Marion County) — holds state prisoners under an MDOC contract, shared with Marion County (per MDOC)
- Jail AdministratorCherie Bailey, Warden (sheriff's jail page)
Source: Walthall County Sheriff's Office — Jail · 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 Kyle Breland
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's own site has a Jail department page for the Walthall County Jail, headed by a warden
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Office address807 Magnolia Ave, Tylertown, MS 39667; 601-876-3481
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Walthall County Sheriff's Office — Message from 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 Walthall County
- Circuit Court: Mississippi's Fourteenth Circuit Court District, which also serves Lincoln and Pike. Circuit judges are elected district-wide to four-year terms and hear felony cases.
- Justice Court: Walthall 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.
- NoteNo county government website could be opened; board minutes and budget not found.
- The boardWalthall County Board of Supervisors
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- Examined: sheriff's site walthallsheriffsoffice.com home page link list, Jail page, Inmate Roster page, current-inmates roster (roster.php), Message from the Sheriff, Public Information, Links & Resources.
- The sheriff's site names the Walthall County Jail and its warden and hosts a live current-inmates roster that shows charges and bond status; no capacity, visitation, commissary, fee, PREA or bond-posting guidance is published.
- Roster showing individual bond amounts was not counted as bond_info, which asks for guidance on how to post bond.
- The Marion/Walthall regional facility is in Columbia, Marion County, and is not mentioned on the sheriff's site; its details come from MDOC's page, a fact source only.
- What was tried: walthallcountyms.com and co.walthall.ms.us refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED); no county government site was opened, so budget and board minutes could not be checked.
- The sheriff's office has a Facebook page; Facebook is not counted as the county publishing.
- 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 Walthall 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