The Detention Center
Marion County Detention Center
- Operated byMarion County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address221 Randolph Road, Yellville, Arkansas 72687
- Jail line870-449-4236 (non-emergency, 24 hours)
- Also calledMarion County Law Enforcement Center (sheriff's home page)
- VisitationCells A and B Tuesdays, cells C and D Thursdays, 8-11 AM and 1-4 PM; 15 minutes per inmate per visitation day; photo ID and background check
- Phone, video, commissaryCalls billed to the recipient; video visitation available; commissary through TigerSnack.com; no rates published
- TrainingDetention officers must complete Arkansas Jail Standards training (sheriff's page)
- RosterThe sheriff's roster page offers current inmates and 48-hour releases, but the roster itself read 'Roster Offline for Maintenance' on 18 September 2026; the menu also links a vendor roster on myr2m.com
- Beds and populationNot published
- What was triedSheriff's home, detention-and-dispatch, roster-choose and roster.php pages opened. No Marion County government domain or quorum court page appeared in search. Commercial lookup sites (countyjailroster.net, arkansassheriffsassociation.com, govbackgroundchecks.com) and marionsoal.com (an Alabama sheriff) were not used
- Arkansas Sheriffs' Association directoryHolds: Male & Female; capacity 93; jail phone (870) 449-4236 ext 608; jail administrator Cassie Foster. Checked 18 September 2026; an association directory, not a county source - https://arsheriffs.org/sheriffs/marion-county-sheriff/
Source: Marion County Sheriff AR - Detention Center · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗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 Gregg L. Alexander
- Runs the jailYes - the sheriff's office operates the Marion County Detention Center, with a Lieutenant serving as jail administrator
- 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
- Office address221 Randolph, Yellville, Arkansas 72687
- Arkansas Sheriffs' Association directoryLists Gregg Alexander ('Elected in 2023'); office 221 Randolph Rd, Yellville, AR 72687, phone (870) 449-4236. Checked 18 September 2026; an association directory, not a county source - https://arsheriffs.org/sheriffs/marion-county-sheriff/
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Marion County Sheriff AR - home page · 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 the circuit number 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 judgeJason Stumph — 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
- The sheriff runs his own domain, marioncountysheriffar.gov, which identifies Yellville, Arkansas throughout; it is first-party. Marion County, Missouri and marionsoal.com (Alabama) were set aside.
- Named is met from the sheriff's Detention Center page. Roster is recorded as no: the sheriff's own roster page was offline for maintenance when opened, and the working roster sits on the vendor platform myr2m.com, which is not the sheriff's domain.
- Fees is recorded as no: the commissary vendor and billing method are named but no phone, video or commissary rates are published.
- No bond guidance, bed count, population, PREA audit, housing contract, budget or death in custody was found on the sheriff's site. No county government site was found, so quorum court minutes could not be searched for an inspection report.
- 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 notice of a death in jail custody to 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.
- Arkansas form: an elected County Judge (the chief executive, not a judicial officer) and a Quorum Court (the legislative body), which hold funding and construction authority for the jail. No Marion County government page appeared in search, so no County Judge or justice of the peace is named.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Marion 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