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Union County Detention Center Overview

The Union County Detention Center is a county-jail facility operated by the Union County Sheriff's Office at 250 American Road in El Dorado. Official Union County sources describe the detention center as the place charged with safely and humanely detaining people accused or convicted of crimes against Arkansas and Union County. In practical lookup terms, this is the facility to check for current Union County jail detainees after arrests by the sheriff, El Dorado Police Department, Arkansas State Police Troop F, or another local agency whose arrestees are booked into the county jail.

The facility holds men and women, including pretrial detainees, local sentenced detainees, and Act 309 Arkansas Department of Correction inmates who are housed locally under DOC rules. That distinction matters. A person can be physically held at the county jail while still connected to a state custody status, but a sentenced person who has transferred to a DOC prison should be searched through the Arkansas DOC inmate search, not treated as a county roster problem.

The official detention division content is the source for the jail's local operating details, including the capacity language, staff structure, visitation rules, mail policy, commissary process, attorney access, and clergy access.

Those detention division details are the best source for the facility rules below because they come from the Sheriff's Office's own public OCV content rather than a third-party jail listing.

Union County Detention Center Capacity and Population

The Sheriff's Office detention division says the center houses, feeds, and maintains approximately 213 male and female detainees year-round. Older official state and county jail cost reporting listed 215 beds, but the current facility copy uses the approximately 213 figure. The public roster feed inspected on May 29, 2026 returned 150 entries. That count is useful as a point-in-time public roster count, but it should not be treated as an official average daily population or a guaranteed exact headcount for every legal purpose.

The same inspection found race codes in the public feed of 93 B, 54 W, 2 H, and 1 O. Those figures describe the visible roster fields on one inspection date. They do not replace a formal sheriff, state, or jail standards report, and they should not be expanded into annual demographic conclusions.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Union County Detention Center

The correct starting point for this facility is the Union County Sheriff's Office inmate roster. The public roster interface is at apps.myocv.com/rtjb/a59871730/InmatesV2, and the official OCV feed behind the roster is documented at apps.myocv.com/feed/rtjb/a59871730/InmatesV2. The roster covers current public county-jail detainee entries and can show booking number, age, sex, race, booking date, mugshot, charge descriptions, charge status, bond amount, bond status, and arresting agency.

1. Open the official Union County Sheriff's Office web app and choose the Inmate Roster quick link, or open the roster interface directly.
2. Use any visible search, filter, sort, or browser-find tools in the OCV interface. The raw feed is list-based and the manifest indicates date-descending sorting.
3. Read the Information block first for the booking number, booking date, age, sex, and race fields.
4. Read each Charges block separately because bond amount, bond status, charge status, and arresting agency are attached to individual charge lines.
5. If the person is missing, call the Sheriff's Office at 870-864-1970, use dispatch at 870-864-1990 for after-hours routing, or make a document/file request in person, by phone, or by U.S. Mail.

The official roster interface is rendered for public use and is the better link for most readers who need to check current custody.

The roster should be treated as a custody and booking feed, not as a complete criminal-history report. Court case numbers, final dispositions, sealed information, and older records may require Search ARCourts, the Circuit Clerk, or a sheriff records request.

County Jail, DOC, Federal, and ICE Custody

Union County does not have a separate Arkansas DOC prison, BOP prison, ICE dedicated detention center, or regional jail identified in the official sources reviewed. The detention center is the local county jail. Use it for people booked into Union County custody, including local pretrial and sentenced detainees. Use Arkansas DOC Inmate Search when a person has been sentenced and moved into state custody, appears on a county waiting list, or is tied to an Act 309 or work status that the DOC locator displays.

Federal and immigration custody use separate systems. The BOP inmate locator is for sentenced federal prisoners and some released federal records from 1982 forward. Federal pretrial custody is routed through the U.S. Marshals Service and federal court rather than the BOP locator in many cases. Immigration detention is checked through ICE ODLS, which searches by A-number and country of birth or by biographical information. VINELink Arkansas is a custody-notification fallback, not a replacement for the sheriff roster.

Union County Detention Center Address and Contact

The Sheriff's Office and detention center share the American Road address. The county page names Sheriff Ricky Roberts and lists administrative office hours as Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., while the sheriff web app footer describes the law-enforcement and detention facility as open 24 hours. Treat that difference practically: detention operations continue around the clock, but public counter services and records help may follow business-hour limits.

Official contact data says all document or file requests must be made in person, by phone, or through U.S. Mail. The sheriff app includes tip and comment forms, but those are not described by the Sheriff's Office as public-records request forms.

Visiting Someone at Union County Detention Center

Union County visitation is video-based for regular detainee visits. The county page gives the summary schedule as every day from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. The detention division adds that visits must be set up by the inmate and use a video-chat style system either through the Sheriff's Office lobby kiosk or remotely by laptop or smartphone through City Tele Coin. The Sheriff's Office says it is not responsible for kiosk technical issues and visits will not be refunded because of technical errors.

The City Tele Coin Union County page is the remote video visitation channel linked for the detention center.

Because the inmate must set up regular video visits, families should first confirm the detainee is listed in custody and then wait for the detainee to create the visit through the facility's system.

Lock-Down Pod and Booking Schedule

Nurse's Station Schedule

Mail, Phone, and Money at Union County Detention Center

Detainee mail must be sent through the U.S. Postal Service or an equivalent commercial service. Hand-delivered mail, courier-delivered mail, and postage-due mail are not accepted. Incoming mail should use the detainee's name and 250 American Road, El Dorado, AR 71730, and the sender must include a full return address. Jail staff may open and inspect correspondence, and the policy allows restrictions for victims, witnesses, go-between mail, or other circumstances. The source notes that outgoing mail and legal mail are not affected by the incoming-mail policy.

Detainees cannot receive incoming calls or messages. They may call out collect, through the inmate phone company, or by purchasing commissary calling cards. City Tele Coin handles phone service questions and number blocking at 1-800-682-0707.

Cash should not be mailed. Personal checks, business checks, and two-party checks are not accepted for detainee accounts. Money orders, cashier's checks, and government checks must be payable only to the detainee. If a commissary deposit envelope is addressed incorrectly, the sender risks return or payment to a different account such as fines or ticket payment.

Booking and Intake at Union County Detention Center

Union County's official pages do not publish a full booking manual, but the roster fields and detention FAQ show the core path. After an arrest or warrant service, the person is transported to the detention center, searched and processed, assigned or tied to a booking number, photographed, and entered with visible demographic, booking-date, charge, bond, and arresting-agency fields. The public roster does not show date of birth, address, housing unit, court date, release date, or full physical descriptors.

Property release has a separate rule. The FAQ says property may be released to a specified person only with detainee authorization, and the person picking it up must bring a state-issued photo ID. Clothing and money are not released through that property process. The same FAQ says detainees are furnished basic hygiene items weekly, and other personal items generally come through commissary unless jail administration approves an exception.

The official detention center FAQ documents several practical questions about transport, contact visits, commissary, property, and phone access.

For people sentenced to state prison, the FAQ says transport timing depends on available bed space and waiting-list placement at the receiving facility. Specific transport dates and times are not disclosed for deputy safety.

Attorney, Clergy, and Special Access

Attorney access is broader than ordinary video visitation. Attorneys may visit at any reasonable time, though prior arrangements are encouraged for security. The detention division says an Arkansas Bar Card and a driver's license or other state-issued ID may be requested, and attorneys sign in at the front lobby. This access does not make the public roster a court file. Counsel still needs Search ARCourts, the Circuit Clerk, and case-specific discovery channels for filed charges and court documents.

Clergy visits are limited to business hours unless religious services are preapproved after hours at the jail administrator's discretion. Clergy must sign in at the front window, show official credentials, and sign a liability waiver before entering secure areas. The facility rules also state that a minister who is a detainee's family member cannot visit that detainee as clergy, and posing as clergy or an attorney to gain access may be prosecuted.

About Union County Detention Center Operations

The detention division identifies jail administration, shift supervisors, transportation staff, booking staff, maintenance, kitchen supervision, a nurse, and detention officers working rotating 12-hour shifts. The facility is smoke-free and tobacco-free. Anyone entering secure areas may be searched at any time. These local rules fit the facility's status as a working county jail rather than a courthouse records counter or a state prison.

The center also intersects with state custody through Act 309 and county waiting-list situations. That is why a person can be in Union County's physical jail population while also appearing in the Arkansas DOC search under a state-related status. For current local booking data, use the county roster. For state-sentenced custody after transfer, use DOC. For federal or immigration detention, use the federal systems described above.