Lamar County MS Jail

Lamar County MS Jail basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 601-794-3562

This facility is for adult inmates.

The Lamar County MS Jail is a medium-security detention center located at 201 Main St Purvis, MS which is operated locally by the Lamar County Sheriff's Office and holds inmates awaiting trial or sentencing or both. Most of the sentenced inmates are here for less than two years. Lamar County accepts inmates from surrounding towns, municipalities, the US Marshal's Service and the Purvis Police Department who do not have their own long-term lock-up.

http://sheriff.lamarcountyms.gov/documentation/2018_inmate_handbook.pdf

visitation Info

Lamar County MS Jail – Visitation

All inmates have a right to the following types of professional visits:

• A) Attorney – non-contact unless scheduled with administration
• B) Approved members of clergy – non-contact
• C) Bonding agent – (contact) only to write the actual bond
• D) D.H.S. – non-contact unless scheduled with administration

• All other visitations are a privilege that can be prohibited from the inmate and/or visitor if the inmate and or visitor do not follow the following; however, are not limited to

• A) If an inmate is involved in a violation of the rules.
• B) If the jail is on a lockdown status
• C) If a potential visitor fails a background check
• D) If a visitor acts disrespectful in any way
• E) If the dress code is not followed
• F) If a visitor appears to be or even acts to be impaired, due to alcohol; a prescription drug; or non-prescription drug.

• All inmates in the general population have non-contact visitation and are only allowed 3 visitors at one time. They are given the opportunity to visit for 30 minutes a week.

• All inmate worker visitations are contact visits (non-conjugal) and are only allowed 5 visitors at one time. They are given the opportunity to visit for 1 hour a week.

Visitation is held during the week and it will have to be scheduled by your family and or friends by contacting Smartjailmail (Visitation provider) @ 1-888-253-5178. The Lamar County Jail staff would not have your schedule of visitation time. This will be yours and your visitors’ responsibility to schedule.

Visitations will be video only and inmates will visit only from their assigned cell. If anyone has a question please write a request to Officer Guy or contact the Smartjailmail number. It is also recommended that anyone coming to the facility to visit an inmate arrive at least 15 minutes before the scheduled visitation time, to ensure no issues will occur that will hinder your time to visit with an inmate because all visits are scheduled with no lapse time.

• Items required at the time of each visitation:
• Government-issued identification with a picture
• If a juvenile is attending visitation they must have a legal adult with them, however, they do not have to be on the visitation list. The juvenile will not have to produce an I.D. and there is not an age limit of the juvenile, however, we ask that the adult in charge be respectful of other visitors.
• Items not allowed to be brought into the facility during visitation, but not limited to the following:
  • Heavy Coats; cell phones
  • Weapons of any type
  • Cameras, or any type of audio; picture; and/or video devices
  • Food items
  • Tobacco
  • All visitors that enter into the Lamar County Jail are subject to be searched.