This is a private reference site, not a Lafayette County office. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release a detainee, post bond, schedule a visit, or retrieve an official booking record. For those actions, use the government office or locator that controls the record.
Where to Start for Jail or Records Help
For current Lafayette County jail questions, the primary local contact is the Lafayette County Detention Center and Sheriff's Department. Sheriff Joey East's office and the jail are listed at 711 Jackson Ave. East, Oxford, MS 38655, with the main phone and jail information line at (662) 234-6421. The jail administrator named in county materials is Johnny McDonald.
Formal county public-records requests go through the County Administrator. Mail requests to County Administrator, P.O. Box 1240, Oxford, MS 38655, or submit them in person at the Chancery Courthouse, 300 N. Lamar Blvd., Oxford, MS 38655. County hours are Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; the county states it has seven days to respond. Fees are $0.25 per page plus the hourly rate of the employee who fills the request.
- For someone who may be in the county jail, start with jail inmate records and the Lafayette County Detention Center phone line.
- For booking-photo questions, review jail roster mugshots and use the county public-records process when a record is not available through routine inquiry.
- For charges filed after an arrest, use court records after a jail arrest and the Lafayette County court record channels described there.
- For facility-specific details, use the Lafayette County Detention Center page listed in the footer.
- For a sentenced state prisoner, search the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) inmate locator rather than the county jail.
- For federal or immigration custody, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator, since those systems are separate from Lafayette County.