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Union County Detention Center Overview

Union County's official OCV page and the Mississippi Sheriffs' Association directory place the Union County Detention Center with the Union County Sheriff's Office in New Albany. The facility is the county's documented local jail, not a state prison and not a federal detention site. Sheriff Jimmy Edwards is listed for Union County by the sheriff association at the same Carter Avenue office. The county site did not publish a dedicated jail policy page, a public inmate search form, a public visitation calendar, or a jail capacity statement in the static source material.

The Union County Detention Center population is broader than a simple recent-arrest list. Public jail population reports show arrests and holds from the Union County Sheriff's Department, New Albany Police Department, Blue Springs Police Department, Mississippi Highway Patrol, MDOC, Probation and Parole, Drug Court, Circuit Court, Justice Court, and Municipal Court. That mix means a person may be held on a new arrest, a local sentence, an alias capias, a probation or parole matter, a Drug Court hold, or a detainer from another agency.

The 2023 public jail-population PDF was printed on June 5, 2023, and the research snapshot reports 71 total inmates. Treat that as a dated count, not a live head count. Capacity, average daily population, annual bookings, and average length of stay were not found in official Union County sources.

Union County Jail Lookup Chain

No confirmed live Union County Sheriff's Office roster was located on the county site. The public material that was found consists of Mississippi Jail Records PDF snapshots, including a 2023 Union County current inmate population report and older reports. Those PDFs are useful for field names, housing labels, and historical custody context, but they should not be used as proof that a person is still held today. Current custody questions should start with the Sheriff's Office phone line or in-person records counter.

1. Call the Union County Sheriff's Office or jail at 662-534-1941 and ask whether the person is in current custody.
2. Have the full name, approximate booking date, arresting agency, and date of birth if available, because the PDF records use name, FileId, agency, court, and book-in date.
3. Ask whether all charges have bond and whether an MDOC, probation, parole, capias, court, ICE, federal, or other-agency hold blocks release.
4. For older booking records, request the record from the Sheriff's Office under the Mississippi Public Records Act with enough detail to identify the person and date.
5. For sentenced state custody, search the Mississippi Department of Corrections inmate search or the MS.gov MDOC search interface.
6. For notification rather than a one-time lookup, use Mississippi VINE.
7. For federal or immigration custody, use the BOP inmate locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator System.

The county app is a communication channel, not a confirmed inmate roster. The Union County app landing page and the store listings describe public-safety information, crime reporting, tips, and sheriff communication. No app-only jail roster, warrant search, booking-photo gallery, or records portal was confirmed in the static research.

Union County Detention Center Contact

The Carter Avenue number is the first contact point for Union County Detention Center custody checks, jail records, visitation questions, and bond verification. The county government office number is useful for general county business, but jail-specific questions should be routed to the Sheriff's Office because the jail reports and sheriff directory connect detention operations to that office.

Use clear questions when calling. Ask whether the person is housed at the Union County Detention Center, whether the booking is active, which court or agency is listed, whether bond is set, and whether a hold prevents release. If staff cannot release details by phone, ask what identification or written request is needed.

Union County Jail Record Fields

The public Union County population PDFs show the kind of fields a reader may hear from staff or see in a records response. They do not function like a live web roster. They show a printed snapshot with report filters and roster rows, so the same person may have several charge or bond lines under one booking context.

Housing labels in the research are unusually specific. Union County reports include POD 1 through POD 6, Holding 1 through Holding 6, and Trustee Building rack labels. Examples include POD 6 > 605 > 05B and Trustee Building > Rack 08 > 8A. Those labels describe jail location data, not a public map of who may visit or where a visitor should go inside the building.

Detainer

A request or hold from another agency that can keep a person in custody after local bond is addressed.

Alias capias

A court order or warrant often tied to failure to appear or another court compliance issue.

PR bond

A personal recognizance bond that allows release based on a promise to appear when ordered.

Classification

The jail's process for assigning housing and supervision level after intake screening.

Union County Jail Visits

Union County did not publish an official detention-center visitation schedule in the reviewed county material. Do not rely on a third-party schedule for travel, dress code, age limits, or visit type. Call before leaving for the jail, confirm that the person is still housed there, and ask whether the inmate has any disciplinary, medical, court, or classification restriction that affects visits.

Professional visits should be treated separately from public family visits. The research did not locate an attorney-visit policy, a video-visit vendor, a lobby schedule, or a list of prohibited items. Bring government identification, carry as little as possible, and do not assume phones, bags, tobacco, vape products, weapons, cash, or packages can enter the facility.

Note: Confirm custody and visit eligibility with the Union County Detention Center before driving to New Albany.

Union County Commissary and Mail

Union County did not publish a full jail mail format in the static county sources. Ask the jail for the exact inmate name format and whether a FileId or booking number should be placed on the envelope. Avoid cash, staples, Polaroids, explicit material, contraband, and packages unless jail staff approve them. A missing mail policy is not permission to send unrestricted items.

The Tiger Commissary page for Union Co Detention Center identifies the New Albany facility for commissary services.

The vendor page says web deposits place money on an inmate trust fund account, and commissary orders can be sent to an inmate. Fees were not located in the county research. Confirm costs at checkout or by phone before sending money.

Union County Booking and Bond

Booking at Union County Detention Center begins when an arresting agency brings a person to the jail. The jail creates or updates the local FileId, records the name and A/S/R field, enters the book-in date and time, links the person to the court or hold source, lists charges, and assigns a housing location. The PDFs show both new bookings with a small number of custody days and longer-held detainees with far more days in jail.

A booking record is not the same as a conviction. It documents the jail intake event and the custody basis known at that point. Court charges may later be amended, dismissed, indicted, reduced, or resolved. For court filings after a jail arrest, Union County Circuit Court and the Third Circuit MEC system handle Circuit Court records, while Justice Court and Municipal Court matters may follow a different local path.

Call the jail before posting money. Ask whether every charge has a bond amount, whether separate courts are involved, and whether any detainer must be cleared first. A $0.00 entry in a Union County report should not be read as release without cost.

Union County Custody Systems

The Union County Detention Center is for local jail custody. The Union County jail inmate records page covers the roster and records path in more detail, while the home page gives countywide inmate population context. State, federal, and immigration systems use separate locators because they are run by different agencies.

No MDOC prison, BOP prison, ICE detention center, regional correctional facility, or community work center was found physically inside Union County. A person arrested in Union County can still move to one of those systems after sentencing, detainer review, or federal action.

Union County Jail Records Requests

The Mississippi Public Records Act is the general access framework for records held by Mississippi public bodies, unless an exemption applies. In Union County, the right office depends on the record. Booking records, jail population snapshots, mugshots if retained and releasable, incident reports, and arrest reports should start with the Sheriff's Office or the arresting municipal agency. Formal charges, indictments, dispositions, and court dates belong with the court system or clerk.

Public-records requests work best when they are narrow. Include the person's name, approximate booking date, arresting agency, requested record type, and a way to contact the requester. Ask whether copy fees, redactions, or a written request form apply. The research did not locate a Union County jail fee schedule, so fee and timing questions should be asked before ordering copies.

The Union County official page shows the county's OCV contact format and app link.

Records may be incomplete, exempt, sealed, expunged, juvenile-restricted, or part of an active investigation. A jail record also does not prove guilt. It identifies a custody event, court label, charge line, or hold known to the jail at the time the record was made.

About Union County Detention Center

No official construction history, accreditation statement, program list, or jail-condition report was located in the county sources reviewed. The strongest local detail comes from the inmate population PDFs. Those reports show a multi-part housing layout with numbered pods, holding areas, and a trustee building. They also show local court and agency labels that help explain why someone may remain in custody after arrest.