Yell County

The Detention Center

Yell County Jail

• Operated byYell County Sheriff's Department
• Jail address101 Deluth St., Danville, AR (location confirmed 18 September 2026)
• FacilitiesThe county's sheriff page refers to "the county jail" and "the Juvenile Detention Center" without naming or locating either; the jail's name and Danville address above were confirmed separately on 18 September 2026
• What was triedCounty home, government, sheriff, county judge, financials and three circuit judge pages were opened. The sheriff's own site, yellcountysheriff.org, was named on another page but refused with PROVENANCE_REQUIRED and was not retried. The 2025 Annual Financial Report PDF contains no machine-readable text.
• Arkansas Sheriffs' Association directoryHolds: Male & Female; capacity 82; jail phone (479) 495-4880; jail administrator Brian Belvins. Checked 18 September 2026; an association directory, not a county source - https://arsheriffs.org/sheriffs/yell-county-sheriff/

Source: Yell County AR - Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-18

• ✗The jail is named — not published
• ✗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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Yell County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-18. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

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

The Sheriff

Sheriff Nick Gault

• Runs the jailYes - the county's sheriff page says the department operates the county jail and the Juvenile 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 locations101 E. 5th St., Danville, AR 72833 and 106 Union St., Dardanelle, AR 72834
• Office line(479) 495-4881
• Arkansas Sheriffs' Association directoryLists Nick Gault ('Elected in 2023'); office 201 East 5th Street, Danville, AR 72833, phone (479) 495-4881. Checked 18 September 2026; an association directory, not a county source - https://arsheriffs.org/sheriffs/yell-county-sheriff/

Source: Yell County AR - Sheriff's Office · 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 describe a district covering Yell, Logan, Scott and Conway Counties but give no circuit number, so none is recorded.

Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-18

The County Judge and Quorum Court

They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.

• County judgeJeff Gilkey — 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 →