Stone County ICE Release Scope
ICE’s Online Detainee Locator System covers immigration detention, not every person booked at Stone County Correctional Facility. The research found no dedicated ICE facility and no current local ICE detention contract in Stone County’s reviewed official sources. The locator is therefore a transfer and destination route for a person whose county record mentions ICE, a detainer, or federal delivery. It should not replace the sheriff’s record for a purely local booking.
A county release can be followed at once by immigration custody. In that event, Stone County has ended its hold, but the person has not returned to the community. The sheriff’s jail docket should describe the manner of release or discharge and retain a receiving receipt when the person is transferred. ICE’s record can then show whether the destination system received or recently released the person.
| Source | Question answered | Key limit |
|---|---|---|
| Stone County roster | Does the vendor still classify the local booking as active? | Absence alone does not show destination. |
| Stone County jail docket | How did county custody end? | It does not replace destination intake. |
| ICE detainee locator | Does ICE show current or recent detention within its scope? | Delay, exclusions, and a short recent-release window apply. |
| ICE DRIL | Can ICE assist when the public locator is unclear? | Identity details are still required. |
Search Stone County ICE Transfers
The ICE Online Detainee Locator has two search modes. The strongest uses the nine-digit A-number and country of birth. The name route requires the exact name and country of birth, with date of birth available to narrow the result. The public locator excludes records for people under eighteen. Spellings and name order matter.
- Open the official ICE detainee locator.
- Use the nine-digit A-number and country of birth when available.
- If no A-number is known, enter the exact name and country of birth.
- Add date of birth to reduce same-name results when the form allows it.
- Read the current or recent custody result without changing its wording.
- If no result appears after a documented transfer, contact ICE’s Detention Reporting and Information Line.
ICE states that the locator covers current detainees and people released from ICE detention within a limited recent period. The Stone County research records that window as sixty days, subject to delay and exclusions. An older no-result is therefore not evidence that ICE never held the person. A newly transferred person may also take time to appear.
Search again only after checking the inputs. An A-number may be written with fewer than nine visible digits and require leading zeros in the locator, while exact-name searches can fail because of spacing or order. Use identity documents or the transfer record when available. Do not guess a country of birth merely to force a result.
Use the Stone County released-inmate search when the source of custody is not yet known. It separates the county roster and docket from MDOC, BOP, ICE, and court records.
Note: Preserve the exact A-number and country of birth used because small input changes can produce a different result.
Stone County ICE Locator Fields
The locator is built for identity and custody routing, not a full immigration case history. Its search fields and results should be used only for the custody question the system is designed to answer. An A-number is an immigration identifier, while a Stone County booking number identifies the county jail episode. Keep both when reconciling the transfer.
| Field | Use |
|---|---|
| A-number | A nine-digit immigration identifier and the best locator key when known. |
| Country of birth | Required with the A-number and exact-name search modes. |
| Exact name | An alternative search path when the A-number is unavailable. |
| Date of birth | An optional or supporting identity field for the name route. |
| Custody result | The locator’s current or recent ICE detention information within its scope. |
| Facility or contact direction | The next ICE route shown for a matching detainee record. |
A county booking number will not replace the A-number in ICE’s system. Conversely, the A-number does not prove what happened to the Stone County booking. Request the county release or transfer entry using the local identifiers, then search ICE using immigration identifiers. If the names or dates conflict, do not merge the records without custodian confirmation.
- A-number
- The immigration file number used to identify a person in Department of Homeland Security records.
- Detainer
- An agency request for notice and possible continued custody, not proof that transfer occurred.
- Transfer
- Delivery from one custodian to another, not release to the community.
- Removal
- An immigration process outcome that should not be inferred merely from jail or locator absence.
Stone County ICE Detainer Checks
An ICE detainer requests notice and can seek up to forty-eight additional hours for possible transfer. It does not prove that ICE arrived, accepted custody, or continues to hold the person. A detainer may be withdrawn, may not result in transfer, or may coexist with other legal events. The actual custody chain needs a sending record and a receiving record.
Ask Stone County Correctional Facility whether the identified booking ended through community release or delivery to ICE. Request the jail-docket entry required by Mississippi Code § 19-25-63, including confinement length, manner of release or discharge, and any receiving officer’s receipt. If the jail says ICE received the person, search the locator promptly because its recent-release coverage is time limited.
If the locator remains blank, call ICE’s Detention Reporting and Information Line at 888-351-4024. The research lists weekday service from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern. Have the A-number, full name, country of birth, date of birth, and transfer details ready. Do not ask Stone County to interpret immigration case status after ICE becomes the custodian.
Stone County Federal Transfer Authority
Stone County’s regional correctional facility has a U.S. Marshals Service agreement covering specified federal, BOP, and ICE detainees. Covered people may be awaiting trial, sentence, designation, transportation, immigration hearing, or deportation. Release is limited to the authorized federal officer or process. This makes the county facility a possible temporary custody point, not a dedicated ICE center.
The agreement explains why local roster disappearance can be misleading. Stone County may have completed its role by handing the person to an authorized officer. The vendor can then stop showing the county booking while immigration custody continues outside the county. The correct phrasing is “released from Stone County custody to ICE” when records support that chain, not simply “released.”
Use a two-step verification. First, obtain the county’s release or transfer record and identify the destination. Second, confirm ICE intake through the locator or DRIL. If ICE later shows a release, preserve that event separately from the earlier county transfer. Each custodian has its own start and end date, and neither event should be silently substituted for the other.
ICE Release Records and Contacts
No Stone County ICE facility contact card exists because no dedicated local site was verified. Use the national locator and information line for immigration custody, and use Stone County for the local relinquishment record. ICE detention information also explains the agency’s national detention-management framework without identifying a local Wiggins facility.
ICE custody routes
Online Detainee Locator
Search ICE detention records
A-number or exact-name search modes.
Detention Reporting and Information Line
888-351-4024
Weekdays, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern.
Stone County Correctional Facility
1420 Industrial Park Road
Wiggins, MS 39577
601-928-7042 ext. 0
The official ICE detention-management information supplies the federal system context.
The source confirms the distinct federal detention framework. It does not establish a local ICE facility or a particular person’s custody event.
For a written county inquiry, supply full name, date of birth if known, county booking number, booking date, and arresting agency. Ask for the manner of release, exact transfer date, receiving authority, and transfer receipt. For ICE, use the A-number and identity fields. The two identifiers keep the county episode and federal immigration record connected without confusing their purposes.
Note: Check ICE promptly after a reported transfer because the public locator’s released-person coverage is limited and may be delayed.