The Detention Center
Logan County Sheriff's Office and Detention Center
- Operated byLogan County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address201 South Lowder Street, Paris, Arkansas 72855 - the jail is in Paris per the detention page
- Booneville office461 East Fifth Street, Booneville, AR 72927 (sheriff's office location)
- Jail line479-963-3271, ext. 1 (24-hour)
- Current population65 on the current roster when opened (18 Sept 2026); beds not published
- VisitationWednesdays and Sundays, 1:00-5:00 p.m.; video kiosk visits scheduled by inmates
- Commissary / accountsCity Tele Coin handles deposits and video visit accounts; no rates published
- MailPrescription medication and glasses only; contraband seized
- BondRoster shows bond amounts per inmate; the detention page says only that bonding out is processed at the rear entrance
- Arkansas Sheriffs' Association directoryHolds: Male & Female; capacity 100; jail phone (479) 963-3271; jail administrator Danna Duke. Checked 18 September 2026; an association directory, not a county source - https://arsheriffs.org/sheriffs/logan-county-sheriff/
Source: Logan County Sheriff's Office - Detention Center Inmate Information · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓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 — 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 Jason Massey
- Runs the jailYes - described on the sheriff's site as responsible for jail custody
- 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 county jail and all prisoners committed in the county
- Office phones479-963-3271 and 479-675-3718
- Arkansas Sheriffs' Association directoryLists Jason Massey ('Elected in 2019'); office 201 South Lowder Street, Paris, AR 72855, phone (479) 963-3271. Checked 18 September 2026; an association directory, not a county source - https://arsheriffs.org/sheriffs/logan-county-sheriff/
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Logan County Sheriff's Office - Logan County Government · 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.
- 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 judgeRay Gack — 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
- Two county seats, Paris and Booneville, per the sheriff's county-government page. The detention page places the jail at 201 South Lowder Street, Paris.
- The sheriff's domain loganso.com is first-party; no separate county government domain was found.
- Capacity is no: the roster gives a current count (65) but no bed count is published.
- Bond_info is no: bond amounts appear per inmate and the home page links online fine/fee payment sites, but no guidance on how to post bail was found.
- Fees is no: the commissary/video vendor is named but no rates are published.
- Search results were dominated by commercial inmate-lookup sites (for example arkansasprisonroster.org, arkansassheriffsassociation.com, arkansasinmateroster.org); none was opened as a source, 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 Paris courthouse first, as the main seat, and the Booneville courthouse second (checked 18 September 2026).
- Arkansas county judge and quorum court, as listed on the sheriff's county-government page: County Judge Ray Gack (chief executive); eleven justices of the peace - D1 Charles Sparks, D2 Gary Rhinehart, D3 Michael Schluterman, D4 Joyce Koch, D5 Bill Wright, D6 Jeff O'Neal, D7 Bobby Cobb, D8 Dalton Haller, D9 Sam Tabler, D10 Christopher Lofton, D11 Brenda Brewer. No minutes, agendas or budget linked.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Logan 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