Alex Thornton

Alex Thornton appears in our public-records directory under DOC ID 79209, recorded at MDOC - South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville, Mississippi. The roster lists him as male, approximately 56 years old as of today. The release date carried on the record is 2019-11-08, and our data flags the entry as historical.

Because this entry is historical, treat the facility procedures below as context rather than instruction. Phone accounts, mail routing and visitor approvals attach to active custody and stop being a route to anyone the moment he leaves the institution. To reach Alex Thornton today, start with reentry after prison instead.

Alex Thornton was booked into MDOC - South Mississippi Correctional Institution. The charges, the court filings and how the case ended are highly classified records — they sit in court and law-enforcement records, which you can pull up in a Full record access. Our index currently matches 2 crime & traffic records to this name in Mississippi — charges, booking details, case history, earlier arrests, addresses and known aliases.

MDOC - South Mississippi Correctional Institution is listed as Adult, operating at the State - medium custody level, in Greene County, Mississippi. It is run by the Mississippi Department of Corrections. State systems set policy at department level and then vary it by institution and custody level, so the Mississippi DOC rules give the frame while MDOC - South Mississippi Correctional Institution fills in the detail.

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What medium custody means day to day

Where most sentenced people are held: controlled but unescorted movement, accessible work and education programming, and contact visits on a published schedule. Classification reviews matter most at this tier — conduct and programme completion move people down, incidents move them up.

The index above reads the published custody level. It describes the institution, not the person — it says nothing about Alex Thornton's conduct, charges or sentence.

Published capacity here is 3282 beds. Our directory holds 2,894 records tied to this facility — a count of everyone who has appeared on published rosters over time, not a live population. Browse the full listing on the MDOC - South Mississippi Correctional Institution facility page, or compare institutions in the Mississippi directory.

The procedures below apply during active custody. Because this record is historical, phone accounts, mail routing and visitor approvals at MDOC - South Mississippi Correctional Institution are almost certainly no longer a route to Alex Thornton — they are kept here as context. To reach Alex Thornton now, a public-records search is the realistic starting point.

Telephone — you cannot dial in

No number rings through to a housing unit. Calls are placed outward by the incarcerated person, through the telecom vendor holding the contract at this facility. Your number has to exist in that vendor's system with money behind it before he can reach you. An unregistered or unfunded number is blocked, and the call fails without explanation on either end.

1. Open an account with the approved vendor on the number you want calls to reach.
2. Add the DOC ID (79209) and MDOC - South Mississippi Correctional Institution.
3. Fund it before the first call. Per-minute rates are FCC-capped since 2026, but vendor fees still vary.
4. Expect published phone hours, a recorded announcement and a hard time limit on every call.

Ask the facility which vendor holds the phone contract before you pay anyone — our prison service provider directory compares the major carriers. See also how to call an inmate and funding a phone account.

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Mail — the address format is not optional

Mail is the cheapest reliable channel and where most avoidable mistakes happen. Mail rooms sort on the identifier, not the name: an envelope missing the DOC ID goes back unopened, and repeat violations get a correspondent flagged.

USPS only — couriers are not accepted. Send letters, plain photographs (no Polaroids, nothing laminated) and cards without glitter, glue or musical inserts. Never enclose cash, gift cards or stamps; they are confiscated and can cost Alex Thornton privileges. Detail in sending mail to an inmate.

Email and electronic messaging

Most institutions run monitored electronic messaging, here typically JPay email. It is not ordinary email: messages are screened, delivery takes hours or days, and in many systems the recipient must add you to an approved contact list first. Expect to buy message credits or stamps rather than a flat fee, with photo attachments costing extra. See how to email an inmate and how to set up a video visit.

Nobody walks in off the street. Every correctional facility in the country runs an approved visitor list, and you have to be on it before you arrive — not on the day, in advance. Mississippi requires a written visitor application and a background review before your first visit. Processing commonly takes two to six weeks, and an incomplete form is the usual reason for a rejection. Download the right paperwork from our state-by-state visitor application directory.

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What to expect on the day

1. Government-issued photo ID, every time — even if you were cleared last week.
2. Dress code is enforced at the door — nothing revealing, nothing resembling inmate or staff uniforms, no underwire where metal detectors are used.
3. Leave everything in the car. Phones, bags, food and tobacco are prohibited past the lobby; a clear ID holder and vending coin are the usual exceptions.
4. Arrive early. Late arrivals are turned away rather than squeezed in.
5. Confirm the schedule that week. Lockdowns, counts, staffing and weather all suspend visiting, rarely with notice.

Our visitation handbook covers approval, screening, contact versus non-contact visits and the common denial reasons. Whatever you read, call 601-394-5600 the day before you travel.

Trust-account deposits only work while someone is in custody, so they are not the right tool here. Support after release is a different problem: identification documents, healthcare, housing and income. Start with applying for SNAP, Medicaid and TANF after release, then finding work with a record and financial help for families, which lists benefits and nonprofits that often still apply after someone comes home.

These aggregates describe the directory, not any individual. They show the shape of the population recorded here alongside statewide figures — context for judging how typical a situation is, and nothing more.

Records associate Alex Thornton with MDOC - South Mississippi Correctional Institution, PO Box 1419 - 22689 Hwy 63 North, Leakesville, MS 39451. The map is reference only — he may no longer be at this address.

The first year after release is where most of the risk sits. Practical stability — an ID, an address, healthcare and an income — does more to prevent a return to custody than anything else. Our reentry roadmap covers the sequence, finding work with a record covers fair-chance hiring and how to handle the disclosure question, and building a better life after prison covers credit, housing and supervision compliance. If the conviction is now old enough, expungement or sealing may be worth pursuing.

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