Covington County Jail Overview
Covington County Jail / Covington County Sheriff's Office Detention Facility is operated by the Covington County Sheriff's Office. The official county sheriff page lists Sheriff Darrell M. Perkins at 1107 Main St., Collins, MS 39428, with phone 601-765-8281 and fax 601-765-3200. The same county page describes the sheriff as both a peace officer and county jailer, and says the office keeps a jail docket.
The jail is a county jail and local detention facility, not a Mississippi Department of Corrections prison. People held here may include recent arrestees, pretrial detainees, people held on court orders, and people in short local custody where applicable. The public sources reviewed did not publish formal security levels, housing unit names, pod descriptions, accreditation status, work-release details, medical-unit details, or a current official capacity table.
The official sheriff page is the local source that ties the jail, Sheriff Darrell M. Perkins, the Collins address, phone number, fax number, and jailer role together. View the official Covington County sheriff page before relying on third-party jail listings.
That source supports the contact and records-routing details for the jail page, including the sheriff's jailer duties and the phone number used for custody questions.
Covington County Jail Capacity and Population
Current official Covington County Jail capacity and current population were not published on the active county sheriff page located in the research. The only specific bed count found was a WDAM 2015 report on the new Covington law complex, which said the complex opened with 100 beds. A separate historical Census correctional population row listed 21 people at Covington County Jail in a 2010 vintage table. Neither figure should be treated as a live daily count.
Because the current count is not published in the located official sources, call the Sheriff's Office for a current custody confirmation instead of estimating the population from old bed counts, news stories, or third-party directories.
Lookup at Covington County Jail
No current official online Covington County jail roster was located on the active county website. The current lookup method is a fallback chain: sheriff phone or counter first, written public-records request if a document is needed, then courts, MDOC, BOP, ICE, and VINELink depending on custody type. This distinction matters because MDOC is for sentenced state custody, while the county jail handles local custody.
- Call the Covington County Sheriff's Office at 601-765-8281 and ask for current jail custody, booking, bond, release, or hold information.
- Provide the person's full legal name, date of birth if known, approximate arrest date, arresting agency, and any warrant or court case number.
- Visit or write the Sheriff's Office at 1107 Main St., Collins, MS 39428 if staff direct you to a public-records request for a booking sheet, jail docket entry, or release record.
- Use the Covington County courts page, Circuit Clerk page, or Mississippi Electronic Courts gateway for filed charges and court dates after booking.
- Search MDOC if the person has been sentenced to state custody or transferred to a state facility.
- Use the BOP locator for federal prisoners, ICE ODLS for adult immigration custody, and VINELink as a notification supplement where available.
Covington County Jail Address and Contact
Use the sheriff's official address and phone for jail information unless the Sheriff's Office gives a different public entrance, jail lobby, or records-counter instruction. The research did not locate a separate jail division page, separate jail lobby number, online bond portal, or published visitation counter schedule.
Covington County Jail / Covington County Sheriff's Office Detention Facility
1107 Main St.
Collins, MS 39428
601-765-8281
Fax: 601-765-3200
Visiting Someone at Covington County Jail
No current official Covington County jail visitation schedule, video-visit provider, visitor application rule, visitor entrance instruction, or dress-code page was located in the active county sources. Call 601-765-8281 before traveling. Bring government photo ID, ask whether the person is eligible for visits, and confirm whether minors, attorneys, clergy, phones, bags, medication, paperwork, or money are allowed under current local rules.
| Visitation Topic | Published Local Detail | What to Do |
|---|---|---|
| In-person schedule | Not published on the active official county page | Call the sheriff before arrival. |
| Video visits | No Covington-specific provider found | Do not create a vendor account unless the jail confirms it. |
| Visitor ID | Not published locally | Bring government photo ID and ask about minor rules. |
| Entry and parking | Not published locally | Confirm the public entrance and parking before travel. |
| Attorney or professional visits | Not published locally | Attorneys should call the jail directly for current professional visit procedures. |
Covington Jail Mail and Money
The current county sources did not publish a Covington County jail mail format, banned-mail list, inmate phone vendor, video-visit provider, commissary vendor, deposit fee, online deposit link, or money-order rule. Do not send funds through a third-party jail page unless the Sheriff's Office confirms that vendor and the inmate's current custody. Call before mailing anything because local jails can reject items for format, content, packaging, sender, or policy reasons.
| Service | Covington County Official Detail Found | Instruction |
|---|---|---|
| Mail Address | Specific inmate-mail format not published | Ask the jail for the correct name, ID, housing, and mailing format before sending mail. |
| Phone or Video | Provider not published | Ask which service is active before creating an account or paying a vendor. |
| Money Deposit | Vendor and fees not published | Confirm with the sheriff before sending funds, money orders, or online deposits. |
| Attorney Mail | Local rule not published | Attorneys should confirm legal-mail procedures directly with jail staff. |
Covington Jail Booking and Bond
Covington County does not publish a jail-specific booking manual in the located official sources, so the process should be described through local routing and Mississippi jail-docket law. A person may be arrested by the Sheriff's Office, Collins Police, Mount Olive Police, Seminary Police, Mississippi Highway Patrol, or another agency. The person is then transported to local custody, identified, searched, booked, screened, and held until bond, first appearance, transfer, release, or a court order resolves the custody status.
Bond is not confirmed through an online Covington County bond portal in the research. Call the jail first to ask whether bond has been set, whether it is cash, surety, property, recognizance, or no-bond, and whether any other-agency hold remains. A hold from MDOC, another county, federal authorities, ICE, probation, or parole can prevent release even when local bond appears available. Ask where bond must be posted and what payment methods are accepted before sending money or using a bonding company.
Sheriff Records and Public-Records Requests
Mississippi Code Section 19-25-63 requires the sheriff to keep a jail docket with the warrant or mittimus, prisoner's name, date of arrest or commitment, cause of imprisonment, authority for confinement, length of imprisonment, and release or transfer authority. When no online roster is available, that jail docket is the reason a written request to the Sheriff's Office is the local records fallback.
For a booking or jail-docket request, include the person's full legal name, date of birth if known, approximate arrest date, arresting agency, and the specific records requested. Useful request terms include booking sheet, jail docket entry, charge or cause of imprisonment, bond or hold status, release date, transfer record, and booking photograph if available for release. If the question is about filed charges after release or transfer, use the official Covington County courts page and Circuit Clerk page for local court routing. Juvenile, sealed, expunged, active-investigation, medical, victim-sensitive, or security details may be withheld or redacted under Mississippi law and agency policy.
About Covington County Jail
WDAM reported that Covington County opened a new law complex in 2015 on Highway 84 west of Collins, replacing the decades-old downtown jail. That report said the project had 100 beds, more office space, and holding areas set aside for both male and female inmates. The current official sheriff page still lists the sheriff at 1107 Main St., Collins, so use the official county address for present-day contact and records routing unless the Sheriff's Office gives another instruction.
A 2020 WDAM report said Sheriff Darrell M. Perkins developed a new sheriff website that included an inmate roster and most-wanted information at that time. Current research did not locate an accessible active official roster on the county website, so the 2020 report is historical context, not a present online lookup promise. No official Covington County, Mississippi sheriff or major city police mobile app with inmate-roster, warrant-search, or records-request features was confirmed; do not use the Covington County Sheriff Alabama app for Mississippi jail information.
Note: Confirm custody, visitation, mail, money, and bond details with the Covington County Sheriff's Office before traveling or sending funds.