Phillips County Sheriff & Jailed Inmates Family & Friends Information

Phillips County Sheriff & Jailed Inmates

Phillips County Sheriff & Jailed Inmates
201 Perry Street
Helena, AR 72342

870-338-5555

The Phillips County Sheriff & Jailed Inmates is the main jail in Phillips County Arkansas. While the police in the cities and towns in Phillips County can arrest and detain offenders, the Phillips County Sheriff & Jailed Inmates is the facility that is accredited by Arkansas to hold inmates for more than 72 hours.

The Phillips County Sheriff & Jailed Inmates, located at:
201 Perry Street
Helena, AR 72342 
can be reached 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at 870-338-5555.

The main reason that people call 870-338-5555 is to find out if a particular person is in custody, although you can look up an inmate online by going here. You can also get answers to whatever questions about an inmate, and the services for Phillips County Sheriff & Jailed Inmates that you may have by clicking on any of the questions below:

How to search for an inmate?
Can you look up an inmate’s mugshot?
How do you look up an offender’s criminal charges, bond or inmate number?
How do you visit an inmate?
What are the visitation hours?
Can you visit inmates in Phillips County by video from home?
How do you get phone calls from an inmate?
Can you send mail, books, or newspapers to an inmate?
How do you send an inmate money?
Does Phillips County Sheriff & Jailed Inmates have inmate commissary?
Can an inmate receive and/or send email or text messages?
Do inmates in Phillips County have access to computers or tablets?
How do you pay an inmate’s bail or bond?

Every year the Phillips County Sheriff & Jailed Inmates has approximately 1 bookings, with a daily average of 0 inmates and maintains control of the facility with a staff of 1.

Inmates in this jail range from low level misdemeanor offenders to those being held and awaiting trial for violent crimes like robbery, rape, and murder. Therefore, given the mix of potentially dangerous inmates, the security level is very high. 

The Phillips County Sheriff & Jailed Inmates is equipped with a state-of-the-art locking system, closed circuit cameras covering every area where inmates are located, and jail staff that utilize a communication system that keeps each of the guards and civilian staff in constant contact. 

Guards that circulate in the same general area of the inmates are armed with eye-blinding mace that will turn an inmate having a violent outburst into a weeping child. They also carry stun weapons, short clubs, flashlights that have dual use as both a light source and as a weapon, and handcuffs. Guards at entrances and in areas not frequented by inmates are armed with various firearms. The goal of such tight security is to keep both the staff and the inmates safe.

• Jailed Inmates: 870-338-5555
• Court: 870-338-5515
• Helena Police: 870-338-7484
• Sheriff: 870-338-5555

For other jails in Phillips County, jails in neighboring counties, and local police jails and juvenile detention centers for young offenders under age 18 in this county, click here.

Unlike the Arkansas Department of Corrections, where inmates are sent once convicted of a crime and sentenced to a period of more than a year, the Phillips County Jail System is populated by short-term offenders; those who have just been arrested and awaiting to be bonded out by friends or family, those who cannot afford or get bailed and are awaiting trial, or those who have already been convicted of a crime and sentenced to a term of less than one year. Many of the latter inmates become ‘workers’, who can reduce their sentence by performing jail maintenance or working in the kitchen. An upside to being a worker is they also get paid a small stipend so when they get released, they have a few dollars in their pocket.

When an inmate is convicted and sentenced to a year or more, they are transferred to the Arkansas Department of Corrections or the Federal Bureau of Prisons.  

Inmates that are convicted of a misdemeanor and/or sentenced to less than one year of a state crime serve their time in the Phillips County Sheriff & Jailed Inmates. 

Illegal immigrants convicted of a state or federal crime will first do their time, then may be transferred into ICE custody for deportation.

Third Party Jail Inmate Services for Phillips County Sheriff & Jailed Inmates

Communication and Monetary Services for Family and Friends of Inmates

Gone are the days where Phillips County Sheriff & Jailed Inmates supervised their own phone system, mail system, visitation, commissary and inmate money deposit systems. Jails throughout the United States are now partnering with high tech companies to provide and manage these servives for them and the jail in Phillips County is no different.

Everything from video calls, to messages to visitation, and even digital mail and money deposits can be done from your home computer or personal device. Inmates in Phillips County Sheriff & Jailed Inmates, if they don't already, will soon have their own personal tablets for watching movies, TV shows, access to educational and and legal information, and more.

As Phillips County Sheriff & Jailed Inmates adds these services, JAILEXCHANGE will add them to our pages, helping you access the services and answering your questions about how to use them and what they cost.

You can check out this information now by going to the: Family Info page, Visit Inmate page, Inmate Mail page, Inmate Phone page, Send Money page, Inmate Bail page, Mugshots page, Text/Email an Inmate page, Commissary page, Remote Visits page, or the Tablet Rental page.