The Detention Center
Greene County Detention Center
- Operated byGreene County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address1809 North Rockingchair, Paragould, AR 72450; 870-239-6334
- Capacity'capable of housing up to 456 inmates and maintains an average of 350 inmates'
- Jail administrator (sheriff's staff)Jacob White; jail supervisor Bryan Alspaugh
- RosterCurrent roster on greenesoar.gov showed 283 on 18 Sep 2026, with charges and bond amounts
- Visitation and phonesVideo visits via jailatm.com (TechFriends); phones via Correct Solutions Group; commissary by Keefe; no rates published
- PREAZero-tolerance statement and third-party reporting line; no audit published
- Arkansas Sheriffs' Association directoryHolds: Male & Female; capacity 450; jail phone (870) 239-6334; jail administrator Jacob White. Checked 18 September 2026; an association directory, not a county source - https://arsheriffs.org/sheriffs/greene-county-sheriff/
Source: Greene County AR Sheriff's Office - Detention Center · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✗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
- Beds456, as published by the sheriff (average 350 held)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Brad Snyder
- Runs the jailYes - the county describes the sheriff's department as providing county jail operation; the sheriff's site runs the Greene County Detention Center page
- 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.
- Named on both sitesSheriff Brad Snyder on greenesoar.gov and on the county's sheriff's department page
- Office address320 West Court St, Paragould, AR 72450; 870-239-6343
- Arkansas Sheriffs' Association directoryLists Brad Snyder ('Elected in 2023'); office 1809 N. Rockingchair Rd., Paragould, AR 72450, phone (870) 239-6343. Checked 18 September 2026; an association directory, not a county source - https://arsheriffs.org/sheriffs/greene-county-sheriff/
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Greene County AR Sheriff's Office · 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 judgeRusty McMillon — 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 →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The sheriff runs his own domain, greenesoar.gov; the county's is greenecounty.arkansas.gov. Both are first-party and both were read. The county page also lists greenecountyso.org as the sheriff's website; it was not opened.
- The budget check is recorded as no: the county posts annual budget ordinances, but the 2026 and 2025 budget PDFs opened are scanned images with no readable text, so no detention appropriation could be confirmed.
- Quorum court minutes for 2026 (the two linked PDFs) are also scanned images with no readable text, so no inspection report or jail item could be looked for in them.
- The bond_info check is recorded as no: the roster shows bond amounts per person and the detention page says bond amounts are on the Inmate tab, but no guidance on how to post bail was found. The fees check is no: vendors are named but no rates are published.
- No PREA audit, housing contract, inspection report or in-custody death was found.
- This is Greene County, Arkansas; Greene County, Missouri was researched separately and nothing from it is used. Commercial and look-alike results (arkansassheriffsassociation.com, cleburnecountysheriff.com, garlandcountysheriff.com, arkansasjailroster.com, govbackgroundchecks.com) are not 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 Rusty McMillon (chief executive), per the county's county-judge page, and an eleven-district Quorum Court: D1 Sherma Clark Dicus, D2 Robby Glasco, D3 Bill McCartney, D4 Jonathon Davis, D5 Michele Boling, D6 Phillip Keeling, D7 Allen Davis, D8 Dean Wooldridge, D9 Marc Reeves, D10 Ronnie Roberts, D11 Kirk Brinkley. The court meets the third Monday of each month (third Tuesday in January and February) at 6 p.m. in the Circuit Courtroom. Minutes and annual budget ordinances (2021-2026) are posted as scanned PDFs.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Greene 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