The Dallas County Detention Center is at 106 South Charlotte Street in Fordyce, AR 71742, a block off Main Street.

Dallas County Inmate Search lets you search by name. A person held here for another county may show up as well. Phone 870-352-2002 for bond.

Arkansas requires a judge to back a no-warrant arrest with a reasonable-cause finding in 48 hours, and then a first appearance in short order.

District court in Fordyce hears misdemeanors; circuit court hears felonies. See Dallas court process.

Pay the whole amount, returned after the case if all dates are kept, or pay a licensed bondsman's fee of up to ten percent. Call first. See bail.

Fordyce is a small court, and the public defender may meet the client for the first time on the day of the hearing. Low-income defendants can ask the judge to appoint the public defender.

The detention center uses video visits. Set up an account and schedule ahead. Call or check online for hours. See visits and from-home video.

The Fordyce jail lets inmates dial out only, billed to a balance you load in advance, and conversations are taped. They call out on prepaid funds. See phones, messages, tablets.

In Fordyce, money on account covers toothpaste, envelopes and snacks. Deposits cover commissary and calls. See deposits and commissary.

Fordyce deputies open incoming letters to look for contraband; plain paper in a plain envelope gets through fastest. Name, then the jail address. See mail rules.

Minors go to juvenile court and a regional detention center; ask the sheriff.

A small jail like Fordyce's relies on a contract doctor, so family calls about prescriptions matter. Call the jail so staff can tell the medical team.

Phone 870-352-2002 to confirm the person is still housed there and to book a video slot.

These cases come from officers from the Secret Service, the ATF, the Marshals Service and the DEA. Any federal charge is heard by the Central Division (Eastern District of Arkansas) in the courthouse in Little Rock: 500 West Capitol Avenue, Little Rock, AR 72201. Clerk staff there takes calls at 501-604-5351. The first hearing comes fast, before a magistrate judge. Before court, an officer from pretrial services looks into work, home life and past cases and shares that with the judge. There is no set bail price for federal charges. A short hearing decides whether they can leave, under the federal Bail Reform Act.

Some federal prisoners sit in the Fordyce jail rented by the U.S. Marshals until sentencing. Try the county inmate list; there the hold may show. The U.S. Marshals office covering the Eastern District is at 600 West Capitol Avenue, Suite A328, Little Rock, AR 72201. Dial 501-324-6256 to ask about someone in federal custody. Any prison term means a move to BOP custody. The BOP locator tracks where they are after that.

• During booking, their prints are checked by the FBI and Homeland Security. ICE can then issue a detainer.
• A paid bail won't clear an ICE hold.
• That paperwork lets the jailers hang on to the person for two days at most after the county is done with them. Saturday doesn't pause the count.
• Immigration officers usually collect them during the hold. Without an ICE pickup, this means release.
• ICE itself decides the detention center, and it can change.
• If the jail can't answer, reach ICE's regional office at 504-318-2360; it sits at 181 James Drive W, St. Rose, LA 70087.
• A free online tool, the detainee locator, shows which center holds them once you supply the A-number plus the birth country. Without the A-number? Type in birth country, birth date and the full legal name instead.

Prison sentences are served under the ADC. Before that, they wait in the Fordyce jail while the ADC has room. Reception comes first; papers, photos and a health check. There, staff look at gang connections, medical and mental health needs and security risk. The last stop is a unit that suits them.

Use the ADC online search to find them. Our state prison page covers visits and mail.

Yes. Mugshots taken at the Dallas jail post in the Dallas County inmate search. Some Dallas entries load the photo slowly.

Non-public mugshots come from the sheriff's office; reporters can phone 870-352-2002. Families and reporters can't get federal booking photos as a rule. Federal law enforcement holds booking pictures back; the Marshals step in only for someone who escaped, when sharing it helps make an arrest or alert neighbors or when the community need to be protected now. An ICE mugshot is only released through ICE's online FOIA request once ICE says yes.

• Fordyce Police: 870-352-2178
• Dallas County Sheriff's Office: 870-352-2002

Sparkman, Carthage and rural areas rely on deputies.