The Detention Center
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- Operated byFulton County Sheriff's Office
- JailThe county names no facility and publishes no address or bed count for it
- RosterCounty Inmate Roster page links a vendor-hosted (myr2m.com) current-inmates list; on 18 Sep 2026 it showed 25 in custody, with bond amounts for most
- What was triedfultoncountyar.gov inmate-roster, sheriff, sheriff's projects, press release, county-judge, quorum-court and elected-officials pages were opened; no jail name, beds, budget, minutes or bond guidance found
- Arkansas Sheriffs' Association directoryHolds: Male & Female; capacity 30; jail phone (870) 895-2602; jail administrator Mason Green. Checked 18 September 2026; an association directory, not a county source - https://arsheriffs.org/sheriffs/fulton-county-sheriff/
Source: Fulton County, AR - Inmate Roster · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✓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 — not published
- ✗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 Jake Smith
- Runs the jailThe county's own Inmate Roster page links a roster of the 'Fulton County Sheriffs Office' (Arkansas) listing people currently in custody
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff, four-year term (Ark. Const. art. 7, § 46; Amendment 95)
- Statutory basisA.C.A. § 12-41-502: the county sheriff has the custody, rule and charge of the jail within the county and all prisoners committed in the county.
- Office contact123 South Main Street, Salem, AR 72576; 870-895-3310
- Source of the nameName from the Association of Arkansas Counties directory, not a county page; checked 18 September 2026
- Office phone (directory)(870) 895-2601
- Also checkedFulton County, AR - Sheriff — https://www.fultoncountyar.gov/sheriff (did not print the sheriff's name)
- Arkansas Sheriffs' Association directoryLists Jake Smith ('Elected in 2023'); office 451 N. Main St, Salem, AR 72576, phone (870) 895-2601. Checked 18 September 2026; an association directory, not a county source - https://arsheriffs.org/sheriffs/fulton-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 — Fulton 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 circuit number was confirmed from a page that was opened.
- 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 judgeKenneth Crow — 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 courtQuorum court page →
Notes on the record
- The roster check is recorded as met: the county's own Inmate Roster page links a current-inmates list hosted by the jail-software vendor myr2m.com, which was opened and is labelled Fulton County Sheriffs Office, Arkansas, with per-person bond amounts. Bond amounts on a roster are not counted as bond guidance.
- The county names no jail on its own pages, so the named check is no; the roster shows people are held in the sheriff's custody but gives no facility name, and nothing opened says the county sends prisoners elsewhere.
- No sheriff name is published on any county page opened, so none is recorded.
- No quorum court minutes, agendas or budget are linked from the quorum court page, so no inspection report could be looked for there.
- Search results also included commercial inmate-lookup sites (jailexchange.com, arkansasprisons.org, arkansassheriffsassociation.com, arkansasinmaterosters.org, arkansasinmateroster.org) and a Wikipedia article on the Fulton County, Georgia jail; 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.
- A.C.A. § 12-12-315 requires anyone with knowledge of a death in jail custody to notify the county coroner, the prosecuting attorney and the sheriff; it is a notification duty to officials, not a public-reporting law, and no public Arkansas list or dataset of jail deaths was located.
- County Judge Kenneth Crow (chief executive), per the county's county-judge page, and a nine-district Quorum Court: D1 Cris Newberry, D2 Dennis Kinder, D3 Albert Roork, D4 Gary Phillips, D5 Scott Watkins, D6 Marjorie A. Rogers, D7 Gary Tanner, D8 Jimmy Marler, D9 Hank Burke. The court meets the third Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. upstairs in the Fulton County Courthouse, 123 South Main Street, Salem. The page links no minutes, agendas or budget.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Fulton 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