Pope County Detention Center Overview
Pope County Detention Center is operated by the Pope County Sheriff's Office as the county's local adult criminal detention facility. The official sheriff and county pages place the sheriff's office and detention center at the same Russellville location and use the detention center as a listed sheriff division. The jail is separate from the Pope County Courthouse on West Main Street, so court filings and jail visits should not be treated as the same trip unless an office gives that instruction.
The facility holds adult local detainees booked by the Pope County Sheriff's Office, Russellville Police Department, Pottsville Police Department, and other local or state agencies. Its population can include pretrial detainees, sentenced local inmates, people held on failure-to-appear, failure-to-pay, or failure-to-comply warrants, and state-sentenced people waiting for Arkansas DOC transfer when applicable. No official Pope County jail classification label, rated capacity, or current average daily population was published in the official sources reviewed.
The Pope County Sheriff's Office divisions page lists Detention Center and Chaplain among office divisions, but it does not publish a local program schedule. Arkansas minimum detention standards still govern basic jail records, classification, separation, security, sanitation, and intake logs for adult criminal detention facilities operated by political subdivisions.
Lookup Pope County Detention Center Inmates
The first lookup source for Pope County Detention Center custody is the official Pope County Sheriff's Office inmate roster. The roster is free, public, and does not require a login in the research record. It has a Type to Search box, paginated results, linked inmate names, booking photos when available, and profiles with booking fields. The direct OCV feed behind the roster confirms fields such as inmate ID, booking date, arresting agency, prior bookings, statutes, and charge descriptions.
- Open the sheriff inmate roster and use the Type to Search box.
- Enter the last name first when the name is known, because roster titles often use LAST, FIRST MIDDLE format.
- Browse pages if the name is common or if spacing differs from a court spelling.
- Open the profile and confirm the inmate ID, booking date, arresting agency, and charge descriptions.
- Call the detention center if the person should be in custody but does not appear.
The sheriff roster is a current or recent custody tool, not a complete criminal-history report. It does not clearly publish a release-retention window, and sample records did not show bond amounts, housing unit, court date, or release date. Once a person is sentenced to state prison or shown as a DOC waiting-list inmate, the Arkansas DOC locator becomes the better custody source. The fuller roster walkthrough appears on the Pope County jail inmate records page.
The official roster interface is shown in the Pope County inmate roster screenshot.
The visible public roster supports name-based lookup, but the jail should still be called for time-sensitive custody or release questions.
Pope County Detention Center Contact
Official county and sheriff sources list the Pope County Sheriff's Office and Detention Center at #3 Emergency Lane, Russellville, AR 72802. The county sheriff profile lists Sheriff Blake Wilson, Chief Deputy Shawn Harris, phone (479) 968-2558, fax (479) 968-6145, and administrative office hours of Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Custody operations may run outside office hours, but the research did not locate a separate booking desk line.
Pope County Detention Center
#3 Emergency Lane
Russellville, AR 72802
(479) 968-2558
Fax: (479) 968-6145
Administrative hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
The Pope County government sheriff profile provides the official office contact details and names current sheriff leadership.
Use those official contact details when the online roster does not answer a custody, warrant, visitation, or records question.
Pope County Jail Custody Types
Pope County Detention Center is a county jail, not a state prison. It can hold people just booked after arrest, defendants waiting for a first appearance or later court date, local sentenced inmates, and people held under court or warrant authority. The public warrant list shows examples such as failure to appear and contempt for failure to pay or comply. The court record should be checked when the goal is to learn what charge was filed or how a case ended.
| Custody Type | Where to Check | What It Means |
|---|---|---|
| Current county jail booking | Sheriff roster | Person is listed in the Pope County jail feed. |
| Warrant hold | Sheriff warrant list and court clerk | Missed court, payment, compliance, or other warrant may control release. |
| Sentenced state prisoner | Arkansas DOC locator | Person may be in DOC custody or on a Pope County waiting-list status. |
| Federal custody | BOP locator or U.S. Marshals | County roster may not show the person after transfer. |
| Immigration custody | ICE ODLS or ICE Contact Center | No official ICE facility in Pope County was located. |
Pope County Detention Search Fallbacks
A missing roster result does not prove the person is free. Name spelling, release, transfer, state waiting-list status, federal movement, or immigration custody can all move the search away from the Pope County Detention Center roster. Use a chain of official systems, starting local and moving outward.
- Pope County inmate roster for current county jail bookings.
- Pope County warrants for active public warrant entries.
- Arkansas VINE at 1-800-510-0415 for custody and court notifications.
- Arkansas DOC inmate search for sentenced prisoners and county waiting-list statuses.
- Search ARCourts for court charges, events, and dispositions.
- BOP inmate locator for federal inmates from 1982 to present.
- ICE ODLS or ICE Contact Center at 1-888-351-4024 for immigration detention.
The Pope County Sheriff's Office AR app is also promoted through the sheriff site and OCV. It is free through the App Store and Google Play. The web research confirms app access to sheriff tools such as inmate roster, warrants, most wanted, press releases, sex offenders, missing persons, tips, and alerts, but did not confirm any app-only inmate field.
Pope County Detention Center Visits
No official Pope County Detention Center visitation schedule, visitor sign-up rule, video-visit vendor, attorney-visit policy, or dress-code page was located in the harvested sheriff and county sources. That gap should not be filled with third-party schedules. Jail visits can change due to staffing, holidays, lockdowns, discipline, court transport, maintenance, and security needs, so call (479) 968-2558 before travel.
| Facility | Schedule | Source Status | Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pope County Detention Center | Not located in official sources | Research gap | Call the detention center before travel. |
| On-site video visits | Not located | Research gap | Ask whether video visitation exists and whether ID is required. |
| Remote video visits | Not located | Research gap | Ask for current vendor, fees, and scheduling rules. |
| Attorney visits | Not located | Research gap | Attorney access is usually separate from social visits, but local rules were not published. |
Note: Bring the inmate's exact roster name and inmate ID when calling about visits, mail, or deposits.
Pope County Jail Mail Money
The official sources reviewed did not publish a Pope County Detention Center mail format, phone provider, tablet provider, commissary vendor, online deposit path, kiosk detail, phone-deposit option, or fee schedule. Do not assume that a vendor used by another Arkansas jail applies here. Before sending mail or funds, call the detention center and ask for the current inmate-name format, whether the inmate ID must be included, what address to use, what items are rejected, and whether electronic messaging or deposits are available.
| Service | Published Detail | Recommended Check |
|---|---|---|
| Mail format | Not located in official sources | Ask if full roster name and inmate ID are required. |
| Mail restrictions | Not located | Ask about photos, books, cards, envelopes, and return address rules. |
| Phone or video provider | Not located | Ask for the current vendor and calling limits. |
| Commissary or deposit vendor | Not located | Ask about kiosk, online, phone, cash, card, and fee options. |
| Deposit fee schedule | Not located | Do not send money until the current method is confirmed. |
Pope County Booking Intake
Booking begins when a person is arrested or picked up on a warrant and brought into the county detention process. The roster shows the public parts of that process: name, inmate ID, booking date, age, physical descriptors, gender, race, arresting agency, prior bookings, mugshot or placeholder image, and charge statute or description. Arkansas detention standards require accurate jail logs or detention records with pertinent intake and population information on each detainee.
Intake is not the same as conviction. The jail may list booking charges before a prosecutor files the court case. The person may then be released, held for first appearance, held on a detainer, transferred, sentenced locally, or moved into Arkansas DOC custody. If a court sentence creates DOC custody, the DOC profile can show sentence history, case number, facility, parole or transfer eligibility, custody class, detainers, risk data, and program history, none of which are county roster fields.
- Booking
- The intake event that creates the jail custody record after arrest.
- Detainer
- A hold or request from another agency that can delay release.
- County waiting list
- An Arkansas DOC status showing a sentenced person still in county jail awaiting transfer.
- Personal recognizance
- Release based on a promise to appear and follow court conditions.
Pope County Detention Center Directions
Use #3 Emergency Lane in Russellville for jail and sheriff business. The courthouse and Circuit Clerk are at 100 W. Main, which is a different location. Visitors coming from downtown Russellville, I-40, Pottsville, Atkins, Dover, London, or rural Pope County should confirm lobby availability before driving. Official sources did not publish parking, public-transit, accessibility, or visitor-entry details for the jail.
| Travel Issue | Published Status | Practical Step |
|---|---|---|
| Parking | Not published in official jail instructions | Call before travel if parking access matters. |
| Public transit | Not published | Do not assume a bus route. |
| Accessible entry | Specific jail visitor guidance not located | Call the main number before arrival. |
| Visitor entry rules | Not located | Bring government-issued ID and avoid unnecessary bags. |
Pope County Detention Population
Pope County did not publish an official jail rated capacity, current average daily population, annual booking total, or demographic dashboard in the official sheriff, county, or DOC pages reviewed. The OCV roster configuration showed a page size of 15 and the observed roster had multiple pages at the time of research, but that is not a certified population count. It should not be described as the jail's average daily population.
State DOC records still show Pope County's interaction with Arkansas county-jail backup. The DOC county jail invoice report listed a Pope County Backup List with 908 total jail subtotal invoices generated for July 2023 through June 5, 2024, including 782 ADC inmate invoices generated. Those are invoice counts, not a capacity figure and not a daily inmate count. They are useful only to show that Pope County participates in the state backup and waiting-list context.
Note: Capacity and population numbers should come from official jail or DOC records, not third-party jail profile pages.