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Sharp County Detention Center Overview

Sharp County Detention Center is operated by the Sharp County Sheriff's Office as the county jail and local detention facility. The sheriff's jail page describes the detention center as directly behind the Sharp County Courthouse on Arnhart Street in Ash Flat. It is the local jail used for pretrial detainees, people serving short local sentences, warrant holds, weekenders, holds for other counties or the state, and people awaiting court action or transfer.

The official facility detail names Sheriff Shane Russell, Chief Deputy Kevin "Bart" Simpson, and Jail Administrator Edith Elliot. The jail page reports 10 full-time staff members, 4 part-time employees, and medical staff members who handle inmate medical needs. Roster records show bookings from the Sharp County Sheriff's Office and local police agencies such as Ash Flat Police Department and Cave City Police Department. No separate city jail, regional jail, work-release annex, state prison, BOP facility, or ICE facility was located inside Sharp County in the official sources reviewed.

The county jail should not be confused with Arkansas DOC custody. A newly arrested person is searched first through the Sharp County roster. A person sentenced to state prison or held in a DOC waiting-list status may later appear in the Arkansas DOC locator instead. Federal and immigration custody use separate BOP and ICE systems.

Sharp County Detention Center Population

The sheriff's jail page reports that approximately 1,100 people were processed through the Sharp County Detention Center last year and that the facility's average daily population is approximately 72 inmates. The public roster inspected on May 29, 2026 showed 86 current inmates. The sheriff page does not publish a rated bed count, but KAIT reporting from the 2021 opening and an Arkansas legislative exhibit identify the new jail as a 100-bed facility.

Jail Data Initiative profile data gives a roster-derived 85 average daily population for Jan. 1 through Apr. 30, 2026, with April 2026 also at 85 ADP. The same research notes a long-period maximum above 100, while the April 2026 monthly maximum and the May 29, 2026 roster snapshot were below the reported 100-bed capacity. For broader countywide figures, the Sharp County inmate population page separates roster snapshots, ADP, capacity, and longer trend sources. Those are population snapshots and roster-derived measures, not a published sheriff capacity audit.

Look Up Sharp County Detention Center Inmates

The correct lookup path for this county jail is the official Sharp County roster. The Sheriff's Office links to the roster wrapper at sharpcountysheriff.com/roster.php, which leads to the RPS/MyR2M Sharp County roster. The roster is free and public. It covers Current Inmates, New Inmates, and Recent Releases, with the release tab labeled for inmates released in the last 48 hours at inspection.

1. Open the sheriff roster page or the direct RPS/MyR2M Sharp County roster.
2. Choose Current Inmates for present jail custody, New Inmates for recent bookings, or Recent Releases for the short release list.
3. Use Sort By, Select Name, page size, and pagination to move through the roster because the page does not use a typed name-search box.
4. Read the entry for photo, name, race, sex, age, city/state line, arrested date, arresting agency, charges, bond, court date, and court name.
5. Call the jail if the arrest is very recent, the name is misspelled, or a hold or bond field is unclear.

For a fuller custody search path, use the Sharp County inmate records page after checking the facility roster. Sentenced state prisoners are searched through Arkansas DOC. Federal prisoners use the BOP inmate locator, immigration detainees use ICE ODLS, and custody notifications can be set through Arkansas VINELink.

Sharp County Detention Center Contact

The jail phone is the practical first contact for custody, booking, visitation scheduling, and call-ahead questions. The sheriff contact page also lists administrative and non-emergency numbers for the Sheriff's Office. For report copies or records that are not visible on the roster, the sheriff FAQ says accident and incident reports taken by county officers can be requested at the Sheriff's Office or jail front desk during weekday business hours.

The mailing address listed for the sheriff and jail mail route is P.O. Box 157, Ash Flat, AR 72513. The public email route is info@sharpcountysheriff.com, but the FAQ notes that email is forwarded to the proper person and is not monitored around the clock.

Sharp County Detention Center Visits

Sharp County publishes lobby kiosk visitation rather than an evening or weekend public visiting schedule. The sheriff's jail page says visitation is available at the Sheriff's Office lobby during regular weekday hours, excluding holidays. Visits must be scheduled 24 hours in advance. Each inmate receives one free kiosk visit per week, so the free visit is inmate-based and still requires scheduling.

Visitors and their vehicles are subject to search while on sheriff or jail premises. The jail page states that furnishing prohibited articles to inmates is a felony and will be prosecuted. The sources reviewed did not publish a full dress code, accepted ID list, child-visitor rule, or visitor-list approval rule, so call the facility before travel.

Sharp County Jail Mail and Money

Mail, phone, video, and commissary rules are published in separate pieces on the sheriff jail page. Ordinary inmate mail uses the jail mailing route rather than the street address. Money and commissary can involve both physical funds accepted by the jail and online purchases or add-ons through the named commissary vendor. Phone, video, messages, and movies are routed through the communications vendor named by the jail.

The sheriff page does not publish a postcard-only rule, scanned-mail policy, book-vendor rule, remote video price schedule, or full commissary fee table. Do not apply another county's restrictions to Sharp County Detention Center. Call the jail before mailing anything beyond ordinary correspondence.

Sharp County Detention Center Booking

Sharp County does not publish a full booking manual, but the roster, jail page, Arkansas detention standards, and local reporting support the intake path. A person arrested by the sheriff, city police, or another agency may be transported or lodged at the detention center. Intake creates the jail record, takes the booking photo, records demographic and charge data, and updates bond and court fields when available. The roster has a New Inmates tab for recent bookings, but no public refresh schedule was located.

Arkansas Criminal Detention Facility Standards require a jail log or detention record that accurately reflects intake and population records. Those standards help explain why a public roster can show arrest date, arresting agency, charge, bond, and release information while leaving internal fields out of public view. The standards also require classification procedures to reduce safety risk and separate detainees when appropriate.

KAIT reported in 2025 that the facility added a body scanner for new arrestee booking and contraband detection. The sheriff page says medical staff handle inmate medical needs and that current prescription medication must be in its original bottle with directions. Housing, property handling, fingerprint timing, and exact first-appearance timing were not published in the local sources reviewed.

About Sharp County Detention Center

The new Sharp County Detention Center opened in January 2021 after years of planning and prior space concerns in the old jail. KAIT described the facility as a 100-bed jail with security systems, nursing stations, a commercial kitchen, and sheriff's offices. The report placed the project budget originally at $10.2 million, with the jail coming in at $8.4 million. KAIT later reported that county officials expected the jail debt to be paid off years earlier than the original 2034 schedule.

Sharp County's local setting also matters for jail access. The sheriff homepage describes Ash Flat as the county seat and lists towns including Ash Flat, Cave City, Cherokee Village, Evening Shade, Hardy, Highland, Sidney, and Williford. With only one local detention center identified in official sources, the jail in Ash Flat is the central local custody point for bookings from across the county.

The official Sharp County jail page is the matching source for the facility contact, visitation, mail, commissary, phone, staffing, and population details used here.

The screenshot fits this facility page because it shows the official local jail source rather than a statewide or third-party detention listing.