The Detention Center
Perry County Detention Center
- Operated byPerry County Sheriff's Office
- Beds, roster, visitation, bond, feesNot published on the page opened
- What was triedOpened perrycountysheriffar.org home. The search also returned perrycountysheriff.com/PerryCoSheriff_InmateList.html, but it redirected back to itself (http/https) and could not be read, and its state could not be confirmed. No county government domain was returned.
- Arkansas Sheriffs' Association directoryHolds: Male & Female; capacity 28; jail phone (501) 889-2333; jail administrator Ashley Johnson. Checked 18 September 2026; an association directory, not a county source - https://arsheriffs.org/sheriffs/perry-county-sheriff/
Source: The Perry County Sheriff's Office - Home · 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 Ricky Don Jones
- Runs the jailYes - the sheriff's site names the Perry County Detention Center
- 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 addressP.O. Box 146, 511 Aplin Avenue, Perryville, AR 72126
- Non-emergency line(501) 889-2333
- Admin office hoursMonday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm
- Arkansas Sheriffs' Association directoryLists Ricky Don Jones ('Elected in 2023'); office 106 North Oak Street, Perryville, AR 72126, phone (501) 889-3309. Checked 18 September 2026; an association directory, not a county source - https://arsheriffs.org/sheriffs/perry-county-sheriff/
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: The Perry County Sheriff's Office - Home · 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 judgeLarry Blackmon — 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
- Confirmed Arkansas: the sheriff's home page gives 511 Aplin Avenue, Perryville, AR 72126. This is not the Missouri county of the same name.
- The sheriff's home page names the Perry County Detention Center and the sheriff, Ricky Don Jones. It publishes no roster, beds, population, budget, bond guidance, fee schedule, PREA audit, housing contract or in-custody death.
- perrycountysheriff.com returned a redirect loop and was not read; it is not relied on and its state was not confirmed.
- Commercial lookup results (arkansassheriffsassociation.com, arkansasprisonroster.org, arkansasinmates.org, montcalm.org, gadsdensheriff.org, countyoffice.org, thepublicindex.org) were not used.
- The county seat is not recorded: the sheriff's address is in Perryville, AR, but no page opened states the seat.
- 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.
- County seat from CCCarto's Arkansas county-seat list (https://www.cccarto.com/countyseats/arkansas/), checked 18 September 2026; it names ten two-seat counties, including Franklin (Ozark and Charleston).
- Arkansas county government is a county judge (chief executive) and a quorum court (legislative body). No Perry County, Arkansas government site was returned by search, so neither the county judge nor quorum court members could be named from a first-party page.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Perry 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