The Detention Center
Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility
- Operated byPulaski County Sheriff's Office
- Jail addressTwo addresses published: the detention page body says 3201 West Roosevelt Road, Little Rock, AR 72204; the site footer and the visitation and Professional Standards pages give 2900 South Woodrow, Little Rock, AR 72204
- Opened1994, per the sheriff's detention page
- Daily population'more than 1,200 detainees daily'; the page calls it the largest county detention facility in Arkansas
- Beds published by the countyNot published
- Agencies served'We support twelve law enforcement agencies and thirty-three state and local courts' - no housing agreement or rate published
- VisitationOne 30-minute visit per week, up to three visitors, scheduled 24 hours ahead at (501) 340-7001 option 1; video visitation through JailATM, no fees published
- CommissaryAccess Catalog; deposits by money order, lobby kiosk (cash or card) or online via csgpay.com; iCare gift packages; no prices or fees published
- RosterThe sheriff's site links its inmate roster to correctionsrecordssearch.com (off the sheriff's domain); that page returned no readable content
- OversightProfessional Standards Unit, an internal investigative unit covering the Enforcement and Detention Branches, 2900 S. Woodrow, (501) 340-6710
- What was triedpcso.org home, /detention/, /detention/visitation/, /detention/commissary/ and /detention/professional-standards-unit/ were opened. correctionsrecordssearch.com roster returned an empty shell. pulaskijail.com redirected in a loop and was not read; pulaskicountycourt.org was opened and states it is privately owned and not a government site, so nothing from it is used. Commercial lookup sites in the results (arkansascourtconnect.org, pulaskicountyarrests.org, pulaskicountydetentionar.org, pulaskijailroster.org, pulaskicountyjail.org, arkansassheriffsassociation.com) were not opened or cited.
- Arkansas Sheriffs' Association directoryHolds: Male, Female & Juvenile; capacity 1,210; jail phone (501) 340-7030; jail administrator Charles Hendricks. Checked 18 September 2026; an association directory, not a county source - https://arsheriffs.org/sheriffs/pulaski-county-sheriff/
Source: Pulaski County Sheriff's Office - Detention · 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 built1994 (opened)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Eric S. Higgins
- Runs the jailYes - the sheriff's office operates the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility through its Detention Branch
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff, four-year term (Ark. Const. art. 7, § 46; Amendment 95)
- Statutory basisA.C.A. § 12-41-502: the county sheriff shall have the custody, rule, and charge of the jail within the county and all prisoners committed in the county
- Office locationLittle Rock, Arkansas; non-emergency 501-340-7001, administrative 501-340-6963
- FOIAThe sheriff's site links a public-records request portal, pulaskicountysheriff.nextrequest.com (not opened)
- Arkansas Sheriffs' Association directoryLists Eric Higgins ('Elected in 2019'); office 2900 S. Woodrow, Little Rock, AR 72204, phone (501) 340-6930. Checked 18 September 2026; an association directory, not a county source - https://arsheriffs.org/sheriffs/pulaski-county-sheriff/
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Pulaski 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. No circuit number or judge was confirmed from a page that could be opened.
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 judgeBarry Hyde — 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's own domain, pcso.org, was read. The capacity check is recorded as met on the published daily population ('more than 1,200 detainees daily') alone; no bed count is published.
- The roster check is recorded as no: the sheriff links a roster, but it is hosted on correctionsrecordssearch.com, not the sheriff's or county's own domain, and it returned no readable content.
- Visitation and commissary channels are published (JailATM, Access Catalog, csgpay.com, iCare) but no phone, video or commissary prices, so fees is no.
- The sheriff's detention page says the facility supports twelve law enforcement agencies and thirty-three courts, but publishes no housing agreement or rate, so contracts is no.
- The sheriff's site publishes two different addresses for the detention facility; both are recorded as published.
- The county government's own site and its quorum court minutes were not reached, so budget and any inspection report in quorum court papers are unexamined rather than confirmed absent.
- Pulaski County, Missouri was researched last session; every page used here names Little Rock, Arkansas.
- 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 anyone with knowledge of a death in jail custody to notify 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.
- 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 form: an elected County Judge (chief executive) and a Quorum Court (legislative body). No Pulaski County government page was returned by search, so no names, minutes or budget are recorded.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Pulaski 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