The Detention Center
Miller County Detention Center
- Operated byMiller County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address2300 East Street, Texarkana, AR 71854-8023
- Jail line870-779-3611
- Beds'300+ bed facility', as published by the sheriff's office
- Detention commandWarden Jeffie Walker, Major Golden Adams, Captain Alice Miller (sheriff's Our Team page); they answer to the sheriff
- ExpansionThe sheriff's home page states an expansion is being added to the facility, with start and completion dates not yet known
- Video visitation and messagingSmart Communications via CorrectPay.com; no rates published
- CommissaryCSGPay.com / CorrectCommissary.com; money orders in person or by mail; no prices published
- PhonesOutgoing collect calls only; no rates published
- BondThe sheriff's FAQ says only to call 870-774-3001 for bond amounts
- FOIAThe sheriff's site publishes an FOIA request form (MCSO-FOIA-REQUEST.pdf); not opened
- Daily populationNot published
- What was triedSheriff's home, Jail Info, Important Info and Our Team pages; county home, Sheriff, County Judge, Quorum Court, Minutes, Transparency and three circuit-judge pages; the clerk's minutes index (millercountyclerkar.com/minutes); the 2024 budget detail PDF. The 2025 annual budget PDF exceeded the fetch size limit and could not be read. Commercial inmate-lookup sites (millerjailroster.org, millercountyjailar.org, millercountyjail.org, arkansasjailroster.com, arkansassheriffsassociation.com) were not used
- Arkansas Sheriffs' Association directoryHolds: Male & Female; capacity 300; jail phone (870) 774-3001; jail administrator Warden Jeffie Walker. Checked 18 September 2026; an association directory, not a county source - https://arsheriffs.org/sheriffs/miller-county-sheriff/
Source: Miller County Sheriff's Office - Jail Info · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓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
- Beds300+ (as published)
Since then
- An expansion is being added; start and completion dates not published (sheriff's home page)
The Sheriff
Sheriff Wayne Easley
- Runs the jailYes - the county's sheriff page lists the County Jail as operated by Miller County through the Sheriff's Office, and the sheriff's own Jail Info page describes the Miller County Detention Center; no joint, bi-state or private operator is named on any page opened
- 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 address2300 East Street, Texarkana, AR 71854
- Office line870-774-3001
- Named onBoth the county's Sheriff page and the sheriff's own site (millercountyso.us)
- Arkansas Sheriffs' Association directoryLists David Wayne Easley ('Elected in 2023'); office 2300 E. Street, Texarkana, AR 71854, phone (870) 774-3001 ext 113. Checked 18 September 2026; an association directory, not a county source - https://arsheriffs.org/sheriffs/miller-county-sheriff/
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Miller County, Arkansas - Sheriff · 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 own circuit-judge pages place Miller County in the Eighth Judicial District South and name Carlton D. Jones (Division 1), Brent Haltom (Division 2) and Wren Autrey (Division 3). None of those pages says which judicial officer sets bail at first appearance.
Circuit Court, Eighth Judicial District South - Division 1
- Carlton D. Jones
Still needed
- 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 judgeCathy Hardin Harrison — 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
- Operator confirmed from pages opened: the county's Sheriff page and the sheriff's own Jail Info page both place the Miller County Detention Center under the Miller County Sheriff's Office. No page opened mentions a joint facility with Bowie County, Texas, or a private operator.
- Arkansas confirmed on every page (Texarkana, AR addresses; 'Miller County, Arkansas'). Miller County, Missouri was set aside.
- Capacity is recorded as met on beds alone ('300+ bed facility'); no daily population is published.
- Budget is recorded as no: the county publishes its budgets, but the readable portion of the 2024 budget detail shows only a Sheriff Department appropriation ($2,379,393.00 in Fund 1000, Department 0400) with no separate jail or detention line, and the 2025 budget PDF was too large to open.
- Fees is recorded as no: phone, video and commissary vendors are named but no rates are published. Bond_info is no: the FAQ only gives a phone number.
- The clerk's minutes index lists Quorum Court minutes from 22 December 2025 to 12 August 2026, but the individual minute PDFs were not opened, so no inspection report could be looked for in them. No roster, PREA audit, boarding contract or death in custody was found.
- 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: County Judge Cathy Hardin Harrison is the county's chief executive (not a judicial officer) and presides over the Quorum Court without a vote but with veto power. The eleven-member Quorum Court: District 1 Judy Wilson, 2 Adger Smith, 3 Ethan Eppinete, 4 Carl Standridge, 5 Ernest Keck, 6 Ernest Pender, 7 Larry East, 8 Robbie Hines, 9 Howdy Smith, 10 Jimmy Cowart, 11 Rodney Watkins. It meets the second Monday of each month at 6:00 pm on the courthouse third floor, and has a 'Correctional Facilities - Jail' committee chaired by Ernest Keck. Minutes are posted on the County Clerk's site (most recent listed: 12 August 2026). The county's Transparency page publishes 2024 and 2025 budgets and 2018-2022 state audit reports.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Miller 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