Lowndes County Adult Detention Center Overview
The Lowndes County Adult Detention Center is operated by the Lowndes County Sheriff's Office. Official contact data lists the detention center at 527 Dr. M.L.K. Drive South, Columbus, MS 39701, phone (662) 328-6788. The broader Sheriff's Office uses the same public safety campus with the address variant 527 S Martin Luther King Jr Dr. The official sheriff site and OCV manifest connect this facility to the county's current inmate roster, jail information menu, visitation route, mail information route, and canteen route.
The facility holds current local detainees and inmates booked into Lowndes County custody. Research found no separate county annex, work-release center, regional correctional facility, MDOC prison, BOP prison, or ICE detention center in Lowndes County. MDOC lists a Lowndes Probation & Parole Office in Columbus, but that is a supervision office, not a jail or prison.
Lowndes Detention Center Population
The official OCV/VINE feed inspected June 18-19, 2026 contained 92 current records, all marked with the holding facility code MSLOWNDESDC. The visible gender field count was 81 male and 11 female. Visible race codes were 60 B, 30 W, and 2 U. This is a live roster snapshot, not an annual average and not a rated-capacity figure.
Prisoners of the Census lists Lowndes County Jail with a local population count of 249 on 12/31/2013. The current rated bed capacity was not located in official county sources, and third-party capacity claims were not used. The 2026 feed count and the 2013 correctional-population count should not be treated as a clean trend line because they measure different things.
Search Lowndes Detention Center
Use the county roster for people in the Lowndes County Adult Detention Center. The official path is the Sheriff's Office Inmate Roster, with the underlying OCV/VINE feed. The roster is for local custody. If the person moved to a Mississippi prison after sentence, use the MDOC locator instead.
- Open the sheriff inmate roster.
- Search or sort the OCV list by name and booking timing.
- Open the record and confirm the holding facility code or reporting agency.
- Call (662) 328-6788 if the booking is too new, the person bonded out, or the record is missing.
- Use VINELink for custody notifications and MDOC, BOP, or ICE for non-county custody.
The official sheriff homepage screenshot was captured from the Lowndes County Sheriff's Office site.
Lowndes Detention Center Contact
Use the detention center contact for current custody, jail records routing, visitation confirmation, and booking questions. Official division contacts identify Captain Jerry Brauer as Jail Administrator, Farrah Robinson-Day as Chief of Administrative Operations, and Lt. Rhonda Sanders as Community Relations for the Adult Detention Center. Sheriff Eddie Hawkins and Chief Dick Spann are listed in the official division contact data.
Lowndes County Adult Detention Center
527 Dr. M.L.K. Drive South
Columbus, MS 39701
(662) 328-6788
Current custody, visitation, mail, and records routing.
Lowndes County Sheriff's Office
527 S Martin Luther King Jr Dr
Columbus, MS 39701
(662) 328-6788
Official operator of the county jail.
Visit Lowndes County Inmates
The official sheriff manifest routes Inmate Visitation Information to City Tele Coin. It did not publish a detailed local schedule in the retrieved data. Visitors should confirm whether visits are onsite, remote video, or both, and should ask about government ID, minor-child rules, dress code, arrival time, and prohibited items before travel.
| Item | Official Source Finding | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Visit schedule | Not published in retrieved official pages. | Call the jail before travel. |
| Video provider | City Tele Coin route in OCV manifest. | Check vendor account rules. |
| Visitor ID | No detailed local rule found. | Ask detention staff. |
| Attorney visits | No local published schedule located. | Coordinate directly with jail staff. |
Mail Money Phone Access
Mail Information and Facility Rules routes in the sheriff manifest pointed to coming-soon pages in the retrieved source. Canteen Information points to Inmate Canteen / Team3. Because detailed local mail rules, rates, and deposit limits were not published in official Lowndes pages reviewed, verify each step with the jail or vendor before sending anything.
| Service | Route | Important Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Sheriff mail route existed but retrieved page was coming soon. | Confirm format, ID, and allowed items by phone. | |
| Phone or video | City Tele Coin route. | Rates and visit length were not found in official local source. |
| Canteen | Inmate Canteen / Team3. | Use facility selection and confirm fees at transaction time. |
Booking at Lowndes Detention Center
Booking creates the public jail record. The visible steps include identity confirmation, local or VINE inmate ID assignment, property and account setup, booking photo, physical descriptor entry, custody status, booked date, holding facility, and reporting agency. Medical, mental-health, fingerprint, and classification steps may occur, but official Lowndes sources did not publish a complete intake manual.
After booking, the court path may involve Justice Court for felony preliminaries and certain misdemeanors, Circuit Court for felony cases, Municipal Court for municipal matters, and the District Attorney for felony prosecution. A jail record is a custody record. The court file controls the formal charge and outcome.
Directions to Lowndes Detention Center
Use 527 Dr. M.L.K. Drive South, Columbus, MS 39701 for maps and navigation. From U.S. Highway 82, route into Columbus toward Martin Luther King Jr Drive South. From U.S. Highway 45, route into central Columbus and then toward the public safety campus. From the Main Street government address, the jail is south or southeast of the courthouse area. Official sources did not publish parking rates, public-transit details, ADA entry notes, or visitor-door signage.
Note: Confirm parking, entry door, ID rules, and prohibited-property rules with the detention center before arriving.
Lowndes Detention Records
The Adult Detention Center is the facility behind the current Lowndes County roster records. A record can show a local or VINE inmate ID, booked date, custody status, custody status date, holding facility, reporting agency, physical descriptors, and booking photo image links. The feed also includes charge-array keys, but the inspected public snippets did not always render individual charge values. Use court records for the filed charge and final case status.
Older booking records, booking photos not visible online, jail docket entries, or custody confirmations may require a call or public-record request. Ask for the records custodian or administrative operations. Mississippi public-record law supports access to many public records, but confidential, sealed, juvenile, active-investigation, or expunged material may be withheld or redacted.
Transfers From Lowndes Jail
A person may leave the Lowndes County Adult Detention Center because of bond, release, transfer, sentence, detainer pickup, or movement to another agency. After a felony sentence, MDOC reception and classification may place the person in a state facility outside Lowndes County. The county roster can stop showing the person after transfer, while the MDOC locator becomes the right search path.
Federal and immigration custody also sit outside the county jail system unless a local hold is visible. Use BOP for sentenced federal inmates and ICE ODLS for immigration detainees. VINELink remains helpful for notifications because the county feed uses VINE fields, but it does not replace the official locator for each custody level.
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