The Arkansas Department of Corrections' Division of Correction publishes an Inmate Search of its population, searchable by any combination of ADC number, county, last name, first name, facility, gender, offense category, age and race, behind a disclaimer the searcher must accept. The same page offers the full inmate database for download, and the division's online services page describes the search as an Inmate Population Information Search tool for locating an inmate within the state, with help pages on searching, offense descriptions, the assessment level and time computation.
The search covers people in the Division of Correction, the state prison system; a person in a county jail is found through that county's sheriff. The search page itself warns that inmates whose offense was committed before age 18 may be eligible for release earlier than the website indicates, with questions to ADC.Public.Information@doc.arkansas.gov.
- Search: the Inmate Search by ADC number, name, county, facility, gender, offense category, age and race; the whole database downloads through a Tyler Arkansas subscriber account, updated and posted each Monday, at an enhanced access fee of $0.10 a record.
- Also published: the Arkansas Escapee List, a walk off list of residential center residents, a death row page and an executions page on the Inmates section.
- Mail: since September 15, 2025 every piece of non legal mail goes to the inmate's name and ADC number, ARDOC, P.O. Box 25918, Tampa, FL 33622, where it is scanned to the inmate's tablet; legal mail, publications and packages go to the facility.
- Visits and calls: visits only by people on the inmate's approved list, requested online at telegov.egov.com/docrequest; calls through Securus to an approved phone list, 30 minutes each and recorded, with the Director's Office at 6814 Princeton Pike, Pine Bluff, Arkansas 71602, 870-267-6200, hearing appeals.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Arkansas's own systems: the Arkansas Department of Corrections Inmate Search, the Division of Correction Online Services page, the Division of Correction Mail and Money page, the Division of Correction Inmate Information page, the Division of Correction Visitation page, the Division of Correction Inmates section, the Division of Correction Inmate Commissary Lists page, each read on October 14, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
The search and the database download
The search form takes an ADC number, a county, a last and first name, a facility, a gender choice of male, female or both, an offense category, an age and a race, in any combination, and the result is the division's population record for the inmate; the help links on the page explain the offense descriptions, the assessment level and how the division computes time. Anyone who wants the whole file rather than one name takes the Inmate Database Download through a Tyler Arkansas subscriber account, where the file is updated and posted each Monday and Tyler Arkansas charges a $0.10 per record enhanced access fee. The division also keeps an Arkansas Escapee List and a Walk Off List of residential center residents who have left, each on its own page.
Finding someone in a county jail
The division's search holds state inmates. Someone arrested and held before trial, or serving a county sentence, is in the custody of the county sheriff and found through that office; the Arkansas county pages list each sheriff, and the Arkansas arrest records guide explains what a booking makes public. The division separately offers Tiger Online deposits for the Phillips County Detention Center, the one county facility its online services list names.
Mail: the Tampa digital mail center
Effective September 15, 2025, all non legal mail for people housed in the Division of Correction stopped being delivered in physical form to a facility. It goes instead to the inmate's name and ADC number, ARDOC, P.O. Box 25918, Tampa, FL 33622, with the sender's full name and street or box address as the return address, and the Mail and Money page describes what happens next: the envelope and its contents are scanned front and back in color, handwriting and drawings included, and delivered to the inmate's tablet; for an inmate without a tablet, Securus staff email the scan to the facility, where a staff member prints and hands it over. Pictures and drawings are scanned if they fit 8.5 by 11 inches, non paper items and anything larger are refused, mail that cannot be scanned is returned, and scanned originals are returned only with a self addressed stamped envelope, otherwise discarded 90 days after scanning. Packages, certified mail, checks and money orders are returned to the sender; publications from a publisher, distributor or authorized retailer, books, magazines and media mail go to the facility, as does all legal and privileged correspondence, which the center would otherwise open and process like ordinary mail. Letters should be written in dark blue or black ink, since pencil and yellow marker scan badly, and visitation forms must never go to the Florida box: they are returned to the inmate's unit visitation clerk. No food or care packages may be mailed, and all incoming and outgoing mail may be read except privileged correspondence with an attorney, court officials, division and board administrators and the news media, which is opened, if at all, in front of the inmate.
Money: online banking, limits and the apps to avoid
The division warns families against sending money through Cash App, Chime, Google Pay, PayPal, Venmo, Zelle or any transfer app it does not provide, quoting Division Director Dexter Payne that the practice is illegal and a scam, that people who do it could be charged, and that inmates will be disciplined. The sanctioned route is the online inmate banking service, by Visa, MasterCard or Discover credit card with a small processing fee, or the automated phone line at (501) 474-6460, with limits the division sets to keep its banking system from furthering crime: a $10.00 minimum for a trust account deposit and $25.00 for a prepaid phone account, no more than two payments per card a week and $100 per card a day, no more than four payments and $100 per inmate a day, no payroll, prepaid or reloadable cards, two business days to post, and the sender's name on the inmate's trust statement; suspected criminal deposits go to Internal Affairs at (870) 267-6218. On money orders the page says two things: that effective January 1, 2025 money order deposits are no longer offered, and that a money order for a phone account, payable to the inmate's name and ADC number with the Inmate Prepaid Telephone Deposit Slip, is mailed to Trust Fund Centralized Banking, P.O. Box 8908, Pine Bluff, Arkansas 71611. Commissary purchases come from the trust account, and an inmate whose balance is under $10.00 and who received under $10.00 in the past thirty days qualifies for the indigent items list.
Calls, messages and the package program
Phone calls run on the Prepaid Phone Service to people on the inmate's approved telephone list. Getting on it takes the Visitation/Telephone Contact Request and Authorization Form, which must come from the inmate and never from staff; an immediate family member with a past felony conviction waits sixty days after release to apply, an applicant on community supervision needs the supervising officer's written approval sent to the unit, and every approval also needs the Warden's. Calls are limited to 30 minutes except to the inmate's attorney, all but attorney calls are recorded, and three way calling or call forwarding counts as abuse that can cost the privilege; a denial at the unit is appealed to the Director's Office. Securus funds the calls through an AdvanceConnect prepaid account, up to $50.00 a transaction, reachable on several numbers including cell phones, or an Inmate Debit account that lets the inmate pay for calls to anyone on the list, both at 1-800-844-6591. Securus eMessaging carries email style messages and photos, paid by MasterCard or Visa, every message reviewed by the facility and stamps not refunded on rejection, and the division does not offer the VideoGram option. Twice a year the Inmate Package Program lets families buy a food and hygiene package through the approved vendors, with the division setting a dollar limit that usually runs $100 to $150.
Visiting
The division's policy permits visits with family, friends, attorneys and spiritual advisors under conditions consistent with security, and limits them for space, staffing and scheduling. Appointment requests are taken online from a phone or computer at telegov.egov.com/docrequest, every request pending review and approval, and the visitation page states in capitals that anyone not on an inmate's approved visitation list will not be allowed to visit. The visitation application is returned to the inmate's assigned unit, to the unit visitation clerk, never to the inmate and never to the Tampa box. Inmates receive the written visiting procedures on arrival, and the page covers special visits, the dress code, the tobacco policy, video visitation at the prisons and residential centers and the Phillips County video visits.
Classification, discipline and transfers
The Inmate Information page explains the system behind the record. Every inmate arrives in Class II and stays there for the first sixty days at the parent unit, after which a supervisor's recommendation brings a classification committee review for job or unit reassignment; there are four classes, I through IV, plus a custody classification and a medical classification, reviewed periodically. A disciplinary is an accusation of breaking a rule, heard by a disciplinary hearing officer, and a guilty finding can cost privileges, class, a job assignment or earned release credit and bring punitive isolation, with appeals under the Inmate Handbook. The division transfers inmates between units for institutional needs, bed space, programs, work, health care or security, an inmate may request a transfer without any guarantee, and the warden, superintendent or center supervisor decides. Hospital visits need the warden's approval after consulting the health services administrator, and emergency furloughs for a critical illness or death in the immediate family are granted to eligible inmates, with anyone outside Class I-A or I-B released only to a certified Arkansas law enforcement officer at the family's expense.
Reading an Arkansas result
A result from the division's search is the record of a person in state custody, with the facility and the computed dates the help pages explain, and its absence means the person is not a state inmate, which leaves the county jails and the escapee and walk off lists to check. The ADC number on the result is what every later step needs, from the Tampa mailing line to the deposit slip and the phone list application. The dates carry the search page's own caveat for offenders who were under 18 at the offense, who may leave earlier than shown.
Questions about finding an inmate in Arkansas
Related Arkansas records
The division's search is one of the Arkansas records this site covers: the Arkansas arrest records guide explains what a booking makes public, the court records guide covers CourtConnect and the clerks' files, the sex offender registry guide covers the Arkansas Crime Information Center registry, and the Arkansas county pages list each sheriff and jail.