Search Mississippi Inmates on VINELink

Mississippi VINELink Release Coverage

The state program is the Office of Mississippi SAVIN, short for Statewide Automated Victim Information and Notification. It connects VINE services to Mississippi Department of Corrections records and to electronic records from participating county jails. That wording matters. Participation does not mean each county supplies the same fields, follows the same update schedule, or keeps old release events visible for the same period.

VINELink serves two related tasks. First, it can return the current status attached to a particular record. Second, it lets a user register for offered custody-event notices. The service is not a statewide archive of every Mississippi released inmate. A person may also be held by a county that does not participate, by a federal agency, or under immigration authority. The responsible agency remains the final source.

The official Mississippi SAVIN overview shows how the state describes this shared notification layer.

The overview ties MDOC and participating local custody records to one alert service without promising universal county coverage.

Run a Mississippi VINELink Search

Start with enough detail to separate people who share a name. An agency ID is best when available. Otherwise, use the full name and compare every returned identifier before relying on a status. VINELink may present different choices based on the state and agency feed. A missing match means only that the search did not return one. It does not establish release, discharge, or the absence of another hold.

1. Open VINELink and select Mississippi.
2. Choose the option to find an individual, then enter the available name or identifying data.
3. Review all possible matches and compare the custody agency, identifier, and other displayed details.
4. Open the matching record and read its current custody or release event before registering for notices.
5. If no match appears, ask the holding agency or use the correct state, county, federal, or ICE system.

The VINELink individual-search entry is the official starting point for this specific-person lookup.

Selecting Mississippi before entering details helps keep the lookup tied to the right participating agencies.

Mississippi Release Fields on VINELink

The fields available can vary by source record. Read them as a report from the listed agency, not as a complete account of every legal status. Custody status speaks to the record being viewed. A release event from one county does not rule out a transfer to MDOC, another county, federal custody, or ICE.

A scheduled date is not the same as a completed event. For an MDOC prisoner, the public offender profile calls its date the Tentative Release Date. The agency that owns the record should confirm any date used for travel, pickup, or a court matter.

Set Mississippi Release Notifications

Registration begins from the selected person record. Mississippi SAVIN says registration is anonymous and broadly available. Offered channels may include phone, text, or email, depending on the record and the service options shown. Follow the confirmation prompt and keep any PIN or registration details the service provides. Those details allow the alert registration to be checked or updated later.

1. Confirm that the open record belongs to the intended person and agency.
2. Select the custody events and notification channel offered on that record.
3. Enter the phone number or email address requested by the service.
4. Complete the PIN or confirmation step and retain the registration information.
5. Update the registration if contact information changes, and still verify the event with the agency.

The Mississippi SAVIN notification instructions describe release, transfer, supervision, and return-to-custody events.

The registration screen should follow a verified person record so that alerts do not attach to the wrong individual.

Mississippi SAVIN Transfer Link

Mississippi has a useful continuity feature called the Registration Link. When a person moves from a county jail into MDOC or another connected custody setting, the registration can follow that change instead of forcing the user to locate the person and start over. Several quick moves can still generate several notices. Each one reports a source-system event, so read the agency and event type before treating it as a community release.

The event menu can also include escape and abscond-supervision notices, followed by a return-to-custody notice. Abscond means the person stopped complying with supervision or could not be located by the supervising authority. This is not the same as an official warrant search. Mississippi has no verified standalone public statewide parole or probation warrant list, and a missing VINE alert cannot clear a warrant.

What a Mississippi Release Alert Means

A release alert means the participating agency changed the electronic custody record. It may mark the end of that jail stay. It does not, by itself, establish the end of an MDOC sentence, parole, probation, ERS, federal supervision, or another agency hold. ERS, or Earned Release Supervision, is a key Mississippi example. The person can leave a prison building while remaining an inmate under MDOC jurisdiction.

Release

Departure from the custody setting named in the record.

Transfer

Movement to another facility or authority, not release into the community.

ERS

Conditional community placement while inmate status and MDOC jurisdiction continue.

Discharge

Completion of the sentence or supervision status at issue, which needs confirmation from the responsible office.

For current state supervision, the MDOC parolee search can show the assigned county, officer, and Flat Time Date. There is no equivalent verified public statewide probationer search. Contact the assigned county office or sentencing court when probation is the likely status.

Limits on Mississippi Release Checks

VINELink does not cover federal Bureau of Prisons custody. It is also not the ICE detainee locator. For a federal sentence, use the BOP locator and read its release date and location fields. For immigration detention, use ICE's own system. A county release followed by a federal or immigration hold can remove a person from the county roster without placing that person in the community.

The federal locator accepts a BOP register number in the form five digits, a hyphen, and three digits. A name search can also use age, race, and sex to narrow results. Its result may say Released or Not in BOP Custody and can give a release date, but that wording addresses BOP custody alone. Federal supervised release or another authority's custody may continue. BOP says its public records generally cover federal inmates released after 1982 and update each day, so it is the proper alternative for a federal sentence rather than a VINELink search.

ICE uses another set of identifiers. Its Online Detainee Locator accepts a nine-digit A-number with country of birth, or an exact name with country and date of birth. Leading zeroes may be needed for a shorter A-number. ICE says the tool can locate people currently detained or released from ICE custody within the prior 60 days, along with certain people held by Customs and Border Protection for more than 48 hours. It excludes people under eighteen. That narrow recent-release window differs sharply from a historical record search.

Data timing is another limit. Alerts depend on the source agency entering or transmitting the event. A delay can occur between a physical move and the public update. Juvenile information can also be restricted. Historical releases may no longer be available because VINELink is a live notification service, not a records archive.

Mississippi SAVIN Release Help

Mississippi SAVIN assistance is available at 1-888-9-MSSAVIN. TTY service is listed at 866-847-1298, and the state office number is 601-359-5759. These contacts support notification use. They do not replace the custody agency as the source for a certified release record or sentence computation.

When VINELink does not settle the question, identify the record owner. A county jail event belongs with that sheriff or detention facility. The MDOC offender search and MDOC Records address state custody, sentence time, and supervision. BOP and ICE handle their own systems. Court records may show a sentence or later order but may not record the exact time physical custody ended.

A practical follow-up should name the person, supply the agency identifier when known, and ask about the exact event that needs proof. Useful questions include whether the person left the listed facility, whether the event was a community release or a transfer, which authority received custody next, and whether supervision remains active. For an MDOC matter, ask whether the person is in institutional custody, ERS, parole, or fully discharged. For a county matter, request the booking number, release date, release type, and destination or transfer agency if those fields are nonexempt. This focused approach helps reconcile a VINE alert with the source record without assuming that one status label answers every custody question.

Mississippi Electronic Courts and its PAMEC public-access registration can help locate a disposition, probation order, revocation, or later discharge-related order in courts that use the system. Coverage is court and district specific, and some documents are restricted. When a case does not appear online, contact the clerk that owns it. A court order can explain why custody or supervision changed, but it should not be substituted for the releasing agency's event record.

The official MDOC parolee search illustrates why a custody alert and present supervision are separate checks.

Use the county, officer, and Flat Time Date fields as current supervision clues, then confirm unresolved facts with MDOC or the assigned office.