Marion County Detention Center Inmate Lookup

Marion County Detention Center Overview

The Marion County Detention Center is the only official local detention facility identified in the Marion County facility map. It is a county jail and adult criminal detention facility operated by the Marion County Sheriff's Office, led by Sheriff Gregg L. Alexander. The sheriff's detention page says arrested persons taken into custody are transported to this jail for booking and incarceration. The facility sits with the sheriff's department in Yellville and serves local arrests from across Marion County communities, including Yellville, Flippin, Bull Shoals, Pyatt, Summit, and surrounding areas.

The jail population is local-jail specific. The official detention page says the Marion County Detention Center holds pretrial detainees and post-conviction inmates, including people waiting for transport to the Arkansas Department of Corrections. No official source located a separate sheriff annex, city jail, regional jail, state prison, federal BOP prison, or ICE detention center physically in Marion County. That makes this jail the first lookup point for most recent local arrests, while sentenced or transferred inmates may move to Arkansas DOC or another system.

The official detention center page screenshot in the manifest shows the jail description, visitation rules, commissary route, and phone-call details.

The screenshot matches the facility page subject and supports the local custody, visitation, commissary, and phone information below.

Marion County Detention Population

Official Marion County sources did not publish a rated bed capacity, construction year, average daily population, or annual booking count for the detention center. The public roster did show 38 current inmates when inspected on May 29, 2026, with 10 cards shown by default and page-size options for 10, 20, or 30. That is a roster snapshot, not a facility capacity number or an annual average.

The detention page says inmates are separated based on gender, previous convictions, and safety considerations. It also says medical issues are addressed at the jail, meals are created and approved by a qualified dietitian, and detention officers complete Arkansas Jail Standards training. Those facts describe local operations without inventing a bed count or program list that the sheriff did not publish.

Look Up Detention Center Inmates

Use the sheriff-linked MyR2M Marion County roster for people believed to be in local custody at the Marion County Detention Center. The roster is not a normal search form where a user types a last name and clicks search. It is a browsable list with tabs for current inmates, new inmates, and recent releases. A user can sort, jump to a selected displayed name, change page size, and use pagination. The same roster vendor links the RPS-Inmate Info iOS app and RPS-Inmate Info Android app, but the research did not find a Marion-only sheriff app.

1. Open the sheriff's roster landing page or the direct MyR2M current roster.
2. Use Current Inmates for people held at Marion County Detention Center now.
3. Check New Inmates after a recent arrest and Recent Releases if the person was just released.
4. Use Sort By, Select Name, Select Page Size, and pagination to move through the cards.
5. Review the card for photo, name, arrest date, arresting agency, charges, bond, and court date.
6. Call 870-449-4236 if the person does not appear or if bond, release, or transport status must be confirmed.

A person who has been sentenced or transferred may no longer appear in the county roster. The Arkansas DOC inmate locator covers sentenced state prisoners and Marion-linked DOC statuses such as Marion Co.309/Work or Marion County Waiting List. VINE can provide release and custody notifications, while BOP and ICE tools cover federal or immigration custody.

Marion County Jail Contact

The jail and sheriff's office share the same physical address and main phone. The detention center operates continuously, while administrative office hours are listed separately. For live custody, visitation, lockdown, bond, or mail questions, call before traveling because roster and visitation details can change.

Visiting Marion County Inmates

Visitation at the Marion County Detention Center is organized by housing cell group. The jail tells visitors to call ahead to see whether the inmate is on 23/1 lockdown and to receive a time frame for visitation. Each inmate gets 15 total minutes per visitation day, regardless of how many visitors attend. Visitors must show valid picture identification, are subject to ACIC/NCIC checks, and may not bring contraband.

Visitors with felony convictions are not allowed unless they are immediate family. The jail defines that exception as parents, children, brothers, sisters, and spouses. Remote video visitation is available, but the detention page does not name the vendor or publish a full setup guide. Call the jail to confirm the current visit route.

Mail Phone and Money

Marion County has a specific scanned-mail rule. Since March 1, 2024, ordinary inmate mail goes to a processing address in Longview, Texas, where it is scanned for electronic delivery. Legal mail is different and stays routed to the Marion County Detention Center mailing address in Yellville. Do not send legal or medical mail to the Texas scanning address.

Mail must include the inmate name, inmate number, facility name, and return address. The sheriff mail policy says magazines, bulk mail, newspapers, and books are not accepted at the Texas scanning address. It also says the sheriff will not print paper copies of messages, pictures, or documents sent through NCIC.

Booking at Marion County Jail

Official Marion County material does not publish a full intake manual. The local custody sequence is still clear from the detention page and roster: arrest, transport to the detention center, booking and incarceration, public roster entry, classification, court or bond action, and then release, continued local custody, or transfer to Arkansas DOC when applicable. The roster card is the public result of that booking path.

Roster entries can show a mugshot, name, race, sex, age, address or city, arrest date and time, arresting agency, charges, bond amounts, and court date or court name if posted. Some entries may include hold language such as HOLD FOR DOC, HOLD FOR COURT, HOLD FOR OTHER AGENCY, ACT 570 HOLD, or 309 STATE INMATE. Treat those as roster terms and confirm release eligibility with the jail or court before assuming bond can be posted.

About Marion County Detention Center

The detention center is part of the Marion County Sheriff's Office under Sheriff Gregg L. Alexander. The sheriff homepage places Marion County in north-central Arkansas in the Ozark Mountains and notes that the county's nearly 17,000 population grows during the April-through-October tourism season. That local geography can affect travel planning, but no official source published public transit service, visitor parking rates, or an ADA entrance description for the jail.

The jail's published operations are practical: detention officers handle jail and inmate security, medical issues are addressed at the facility, meals are dietitian-approved, inmates are separated for safety, visitation is cell-based, commissary is available, and mail is scanned through a dedicated processing system. Arkansas minimum jail standards also apply to adult criminal detention facilities, including records, classification, separation, medical care, communications, visitation, and safety.