The Detention Center
Carroll County Detention Center
- Operated byCarroll County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address205 Hailey Rd, Berryville, AR 72616 (the sheriff's office address, given on the detention center page) - the jail is in Berryville, not Eureka Springs
- Jail line870-423-2901 (24-hour non-emergency)
- RosterCurrent inmates and 48-hour releases published by the sheriff
- BondCash or a surety bond from a licensed bail bonding company accepted on warrants with a bond amount; O/R and property bonds generally not accepted (sheriff's FAQ)
- Phone and video visitsSmart Communications / smartinmate.com; no rates published
- CommissaryTiger Commissary online, lobby kiosk, or cash/money order at the window; no prices published
- Beds and daily populationNot published
- What was triedSheriff's home, detention center, inmate roster, FAQ, administration, message-from-the-sheriff and press release pages were opened. The county site carrollcounty.us (Sheriff page) returned a redirect loop from https to http and could not be read, so no quorum court, minutes or budget page was examined
- Arkansas Sheriffs' Association directoryHolds: Male & Female; capacity 105; jail phone (870) 423-2901; jail administrator Keith Leopard. Checked 18 September 2026; an association directory, not a county source - https://arsheriffs.org/sheriffs/carroll-county-sheriff/
Source: Carroll County Sheriff's Office (Arkansas) - Detention Center · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✗PREA audits — not published
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✓How to post bond
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
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 Daniel Klatt
- Runs the jailYes - the sheriff's office operates the Carroll County Detention Center
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff, four-year term
- 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
- Office address205 Hailey Rd, Berryville, AR 72616
- Senior jail staffJail Administrator - Captain Keith Leopard; Jail Commander - Lieutenant Chad Goyette (sheriff's administration page)
- Arkansas Sheriffs' Association directoryLists Daniel Klatt ('Elected in 2023'); office 205 Hailey Road, Berryville, AR 72616, phone (870) 423-2901. Checked 18 September 2026; an association directory, not a county source - https://arsheriffs.org/sheriffs/carroll-county-sheriff/
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Carroll County Sheriff's Office (Arkansas) - Administration · 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 for this county names its circuit number or a circuit 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 judgeDavid Writer — 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
- Confirmed Carroll County, ARKANSAS on every page cited: the sheriff's own domain carrollcountysheriffar.gov gives a Berryville, AR address. Carroll County, Missouri is a different county and nothing from it is used.
- Carroll County has two county seats, Berryville and Eureka Springs, per the project's Arkansas state layer; no county page confirming both seats could be opened, so seat_source is blank. The sheriff's detention center page places the detention center at 205 Hailey Rd, Berryville.
- The sheriff's own site names the Carroll County Detention Center and publishes a live roster and basic bond guidance. It names the phone/visit and commissary vendors (Smart Communications, Tiger Commissary) but publishes no rates, so fees is no. No beds, population, PREA audit, housing contract, death in custody or budget was found.
- Jail Administrator Captain Keith Leopard and Jail Commander Lieutenant Chad Goyette are sheriff's staff; the elected sheriff remains the jailer, so jail_administrator is null.
- The county's own site carrollcounty.us could not be read (its https URL redirects to http, which the fetch tool upgrades back to https), so quorum court minutes and agenda packets - the likeliest place for a review-committee inspection report - were not examined. budget and inspections are no on the sheriff's site only.
- Search results were dominated by commercial inmate-lookup sites (including sites styled as a sheriffs' association or as another county's sheriff); none is cited or counted.
- 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.
- Two county seats. The Association of Arkansas Counties page for this county lists the Berryville courthouse first, as the main seat, and the Eureka Springs courthouse second (checked 18 September 2026).
- Arkansas form: an elected County Judge (the county's chief executive, not a judicial officer) and a Quorum Court (the legislative body), which hold the jail's funding and construction authority. The county's own site, carrollcounty.us, could not be read (redirect loop), so no County Judge or justice of the peace is named here and no quorum court minutes or agendas were examined.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Carroll 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