The Detention Center
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- Operated byWarren County Sheriff
- Published nameThe county site refers only to 'the county jail'; no facility name, address or capacity is published
Source: Warren County — Duties of the Sheriff's Office · 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 Martin Pace
- Runs the jailYes — the county's own sheriff page lists serving as the county's jailor and having charge of the jail and its prisoners among the sheriff's duties
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Office address1000 Grove Street, Vicksburg, MS 39183-2539
- Chief DeputyBobby Stewart (named on the county's sheriff page)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Warren 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 Warren County
- Circuit Court: Mississippi's Ninth Circuit Court District, which also serves Issaquena and Sharkey. Circuit judges are elected district-wide to four-year terms and hear felony cases.
- Justice Court: Warren 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.
- NoteMeets the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month, 9:00 a.m., courthouse 3rd floor. Minutes are on a separate portal (boardminutes.co.warren.ms.us) that redirected to plain http and was not opened.
- The boardWarren County Board of Supervisors →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Examined: county site co.warren.ms.us home page link list, Sheriff page, Duties of the Sheriff's Office page, Board of Supervisors page, Chancery Clerk page, County Administrator page.
- The site has no jail, detention, inmate roster, bond, visitation or budget page; the sheriff's pages list statutory duties only.
- Sheriff Martin Pace named on the county's own sheriff page (the association directory lists 'Martin Pace Jr.').
- The sheriff's office has a Facebook page; Facebook is not counted as the county publishing.
- What was tried: boardminutes.co.warren.ms.us/DuProcessBoardMinutes redirected https to http and was not opened; so board minutes could not be checked for a budget.
- 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 Warren 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