The Detention Center
No jail - holding facility only
- Operated byBradley County Sheriff's Office (holding facility)
- JailBradley County has no jail, only a holding facility (Confirmed by phone with the Bradley County Sheriff's Office, 18 September 2026)
- Where prisoners goTo any county jail that will accept them (Confirmed by phone with the Bradley County Sheriff's Office, 18 September 2026)
- Courthouse100 E. Cedar St., Warren 71671 (Association of Arkansas Counties)
- What was triedOne search returned no county or sheriff's own site - only the Association of Arkansas Counties page (opened), Wikipedia and commercial inmate-lookup sites (arkansasprisons.org, jailexchange.com, arkansassheriffsassociation.com, arkansasinmates.org, arkansasinmateroster.org, cityofeurekasprings.org), which are not cited. The group's spare search had already been spent on Benton County
- Arkansas Sheriffs' Association directoryHolds: No Jail; also shows a capacity of 28, which is not used here. Checked 18 September 2026; an association directory, not a county source - https://arsheriffs.org/sheriffs/bradley-county-sheriff/
Source: Association of Arkansas Counties - Bradley · checked 2026-09-18
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Herschel Tillman
- Runs the jailNot established from a county page - no Bradley County or sheriff's website was found
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff, four-year term (Ark. Const. art. 7, § 46; Amendment 95)
- Statutory basisA.C.A. § 12-41-502 gives the county sheriff the custody, rule, and charge of the jail and all prisoners committed in the county
- Source of the nameName from the Association of Arkansas Counties directory, not a county page; checked 18 September 2026
- Office phone (directory)(870) 226-3491
- Also checkedAssociation of Arkansas Counties - Bradley — https://www.arcounties.org/counties/bradley/ (did not print the sheriff's name)
- Arkansas Sheriffs' Association directoryLists Herschel Tillman ('Elected in 2017'); office 101 East Cedar, Suite 108, Warren, AR 71671, phone (870) 226-3491. Checked 18 September 2026; an association directory, not a county source - https://arsheriffs.org/sheriffs/bradley-county-sheriff/
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Association of Arkansas Counties — Bradley County page (statewide directory, checked 18 September 2026) · checked 2026-09-18
The Judges
Arkansas circuit judges are elected on a nonpartisan ballot to six-year terms; the governor fills a mid-term vacancy by appointment until the next general election. They are state judicial officers, not county officials. Under Ark. R. Crim. P. 8.1 an arrested person goes before a judicial officer without unnecessary delay; depending on the court, that may be a circuit judge or a magistrate. Arkansas's "county judge" is the county's chief executive, not a judicial officer, and does not set bail. No page opened names the county's judicial circuit or a judge.
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-18
The County Judge and Quorum Court
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- County judgeKlay McKinney — the county’s chief executive, not a judicial officer; named in the Association of Arkansas Counties directory, checked 2026-09-18
- What they controlThe county judge and quorum court fund and build the jail: the detention budget, the building itself, and any dedicated jail sales tax.
- What they don'tCustody of the jail. Under A.C.A. § 12-41-502 the elected sheriff has “the custody, rule, and charge” of the jail and its prisoners.
- The quorum courtNo quorum court page was found on the county's own site
Notes on the record
- No Bradley County, Arkansas government website and no sheriff's own website was found, so the county's own publishing could not be examined at all. The ten checks are left empty because the county was not examined - this is not a finding that it publishes nothing.
- The county seat (Warren) and courthouse address come from the Association of Arkansas Counties, which is a state association source, not the county.
- The sheriff is recorded as Not found: the AAC page names Herschel Tillman but is undated, so it cannot confirm who holds the office now.
- No page opened says whether Bradley County operates its own jail or where its prisoners are held.
- Arkansas law requires each county jail to be inspected at least annually by a governor-appointed district criminal detention facility review committee (A.C.A. § 12-26-107), against mandatory state minimum standards. The written report goes to the district's administrative judge and to the county judge; state law does not require it to be published, and no public state repository of the reports was located.
- Arkansas form: an elected County Judge (chief executive) and a nine-member Quorum Court. The Association of Arkansas Counties page (undated, not a county publication) lists County Judge Klay McKinney and justices of the peace Gwendolyn S. Bullard, Mike Jolley, Pat Morman, Jimmy Sledge, Tony Cathey, Bobby L. Hargrave, Jim Anders, Alton R. Richard and Dana Harvey. No county website was found, so these could not be confirmed from the county itself and no minutes were examined.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Bradley County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the justices of the peace on the quorum court who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-09-18 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered