The Detention Center
Mississippi County Detention Center
- Operated byMississippi County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address685 North County Road 599, Luxora, Arkansas 72358 - in Luxora, which is neither county seat
- Jail lines870-658-2242 or 870-762-2243 (24 hours)
- Also calledMississippi County Jail (detention page)
- Jail administrator (staff)Capt. Bo McCollum, answering to the sheriff
- Population published2018: high count 162, low count 106, average 130; the live roster showed 164 on 18 September 2026
- Beds published by the countyNot published
- StaffingFully staffed: four sergeants and twenty jailers on four 12-hour shifts
- ServicesTV, phones, church service, visitation, law library, yard call; contracted medical with weekly doctor visits
- StandardsThe page states the jail operates within Jail Standards guidelines and is routinely inspected; no report is published
- What was triedSheriff's home, detention-center, roster-choose, roster.php and press pages opened. No Mississippi County government domain or quorum court page appeared in search. Commercial lookup sites (mississippicountyjailar.org, mississippicountyjail.org, mississippicountyarrests.org, arkansassheriffsassociation.com) were not used
- Arkansas Sheriffs' Association directoryHolds: Male, Female & Juvenile; capacity 250; jail phone (870) 658-2243; jail administrator Bo McCollum. Checked 18 September 2026; an association directory, not a county source - https://arsheriffs.org/sheriffs/mississippi-county-sheriff/
Source: Mississippi County AR Sheriff - 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
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Dale Cook
- Runs the jailYes - the sheriff's office site runs the Detention Center and its roster; jail administrator Capt. Bo McCollum
- 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 address685 North County Road 599, Luxora, Arkansas 72358
- Source of the nameName from the Association of Arkansas Counties directory, not a county page; checked 18 September 2026
- Also checkedMississippi County AR Sheriff - home page — https://www.mississippicountysheriffar.org/ (did not print the sheriff's name)
- Arkansas Sheriffs' Association directoryLists Dale Cook ('Elected in 2010'); office 685 North C.R. 599, Luxora, AR 72538, phone (870) 658-2243. Checked 18 September 2026; an association directory, not a county source - https://arsheriffs.org/sheriffs/mississippi-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 — Mississippi 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 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 judgeJohn Alan Nelson — 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
- Two county seats, Blytheville and Osceola, as recorded in the Arkansas state layer; no county page opened states the seats, so seat_source is blank. The jail is at Luxora, not in either seat, per the sheriff's own detention page.
- Arkansas confirmed on every page (Luxora, Arkansas address; 'Mississippi County AR Sheriff'). Mississippi County, Missouri was set aside.
- The sheriff's own domain, mississippicountysheriffar.org, is first-party. Its roster lists current inmates with booking dates and bond amounts (164 on 18 September 2026).
- Capacity is recorded as met on population: the detention page publishes 2018 high, low and average counts and the live roster gives a current count; no bed number is published.
- Bond_info is no: bond amounts appear per inmate, but no guidance on how to post bond was found. Fees is no: no phone, video or commissary rates.
- The sheriff's name is recorded as Not found because no page opened names the current officeholder.
- No county government site was found, so quorum court minutes could not be searched for an inspection report. No PREA audit, boarding contract, budget or death in custody was found on the sheriff's site.
- 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.
- Two county seats. The Association of Arkansas Counties page for this county lists the Blytheville courthouse first, as the main seat, and the Osceola courthouse second (checked 18 September 2026).
- 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 Mississippi 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 Mississippi 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