The Detention Center
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- Operated byWashington County Sheriff
- Published nameThe county site does not name or describe the county jail
- Regional correctional facilityWashington County Regional Correctional Facility, 60 Stokes King Road, Greenville — holds state prisoners under an MDOC contract; the sheriff appoints the warden (per MDOC)
Source: MDOC — Washington County Regional Correctional Facility · 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 Milton M. Gaston
- Runs the jailYes — the county's sheriff page lists serving as the county's jailor and keeping a jail docket among the sheriff's duties
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Office addressP.O. Box 786, Greenville, MS 38702; 662-334-4523
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Washington 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 Washington County
- Circuit Court: Mississippi's Fourth Circuit Court District, which also serves Leflore and Sunflower. Circuit judges are elected district-wide to four-year terms and hear felony cases.
- Justice Court: Washington 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 minutes posted for 2012 through 2025 on the county site.
- The boardWashington County Board of Supervisors →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Examined: county site washingtoncounty.ms home page link list, Sheriff page, Directory, Chancery Clerk page, Board minutes page.
- Sheriff Milton M. Gaston is named on the county's own sheriff page (the association directory lists no name).
- The county site has no jail, detention, inmate roster, bond, visitation or budget page; the sheriff page lists statutory duties only.
- The Washington County Regional Correctional Facility (state prisoners, MDOC contract) is not mentioned on the county site; its details come from MDOC's page, which is a fact source only.
- Board minutes 2012–2025 are posted but individual minutes were not searched for a budget; no budget document is linked.
- What was tried: co.washington.ms.us refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED); official domain found via the county's Wikipedia entry.
- 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 Washington 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