Hempstead County AR Jail

County Jail

Last Updated: April 24, 2023
Address
312 Washington St, Hope, AR 71802
County
Hempstead
Phone
870-777-7850
Fax
870-777-1903

Hempstead Co Jail is for County Jail offenders sentenced up to twenty four months.

All prisons and jails have Security or Custody levels depending on the inmate’s classification, sentence, and criminal history. Please review the rules and regulations for County - medium facility.

The phone carrier is CityTeleCoin, to see their rates and best-calling plans for your inmate to call you.

If you are unsure of your inmate's location, you can search and locate your inmate by typing in their last name, first name or first initial, and/or the offender ID number to get their accurate information immediately Registered Offenders

Satellite View of Hempstead County AR Jail

You can support your loved ones at Hempstead Co Jail on InmateAid, if you have any immediate questions contact the facility directly at 870-777-7850.

When someone you care about gets locked up, it's tough to figure out all the ins and outs of jail life. From sending mail to visiting, there are a lot of things to sort out. And getting info about the arrest? Not always easy. That's where this webpage comes in handy. It's here to help you get a handle on how things work at Hempstead County AR Jail so you can stay connected and support your loved one behind bars.

The Hempstead Co Jail is a detention center located at 312 Washington St Hope, AR which is operated locally by the Hempstead County Sheriff's Office and holds inmates awaiting trial or sentencing or both. Most of the sentenced inmates are here for less than two years. Hempstead County accepts inmates from surrounding towns, Hope Police Department, and the US Marshal's Service.

New detainees arrive at the jail regularly, with some being released on bail, placed under pretrial services caseloads, supervised by probation agencies, or released on recognizance with a court appearance agreement. Those who are not released await their court appearances at the jail, receiving accommodations including bedding and meals. You can see all the arrest records for Arkansas here.

The county jail houses those charged and awaiting trial, those arrested on warrants, those serving sentences at the county jail, those placed on holds by Parole and Probation, those sentenced to and awaiting beds in the state prison system or Community Corrections, those sentenced by municipal courts in our county as well as others placed here on holds for other agencies.

The 100-bed jail can house subjects accused of all levels of charges. They are responsible for securely holding all of these individuals as well as providing a safe environment. Pretrial confinement is not for punishment purposes. It is merely to assure that the arrestee appears in court. Sentenced inmates, on the other hand, are here as punishment for their offense. It is the responsibility of the deputies and civilian staff to make productive use of the inmates time, but not to inflict further punishment upon them.

All persons who are arrested and taken into custody are transported to the Detention Center for booking and incarceration. The Detention Center is divided into separate housing areas for low/medium security risk males, high-security risk males, and female inmates, as well as isolation and temporary holding cells. The Detention Center houses both pre-trial detainees and post-conviction inmates who are serving sentences or awaiting transport to the Arkansas Department of Corrections.

The Detention Center has an in-house medical facility area used by the staff physician and nurse practitioner. In addition, there is a full kitchen where all meals are prepared for inmates. The kitchen is staffed by a Cook and by "Act 309" inmates, who are state prisoners assigned to work duties in local detention facilities.

Inmate Locator

To utilize the Inmate Search page on InmateAid, begin by selecting the relevant prison facility in Arkansas. This allows you to view the current list of inmates housed at Hempstead County AR Jail.

The second section features the InmateAid Inmate Search tool, providing a user-generated database of inmates. You can access this resource to utilize any of InmateAid's services. If you require assistance in creating an inmate profile to maintain communication, please contact us at aid@inmateaid.com, and we'll gladly help you locate your loved one.

As a last resort, you might have to pay for that information if we do not have it. The Arrest Record Search will cost you a small amount, but their data is the freshest available and for that reason, they charge to access it.

Visitation Information

Hempstead County Detention Center - Visitation

Inmate Video Visitation - With the recently installed video visitation kiosk in each pod in the detention center inmates and family members will be able to visit seven days a week from 8AM – 8PM remotely from home without ever having to come to the detention center.

To take advantage of the Video Visitation go to the following Web site and follow its instruction - hempsteadar.citytelecoin.com

Video visitation allows the inmate and visitor to communicate via analog or digital videoconferencing equipment. Under the old method of face-to-face visitation, inmates were transferred from their housing area to the visitation area requiring Detention Officers to get the inmates out of the cell and walk them to and from the visitation area.

With video visitation, inmates will use a video visitation station located in their cell or cell block, while visitors can use a corresponding station elsewhere—or even use their computers from home. This greatly reduces the amount of manpower needed to conduct visits by reducing the movement of inmates; reducing inmate movement also reduces contraband at the facility.

The family of an inmate will be able to have more visits at different times of the day. And family members living elsewhere in the state or nation can visit from their own homes via a home computer.

Some of the Benefits of Video Visitation will reduce offender movement within facility, reduce the flow of contraband, Increase safety and security while decreasing burden on staff, allows for greater flexibility in scheduling visits, provides better control over the visitation process and will allow those family members under 18 to visit with their family members who are incarcerated, current policy does not allow for anyone under the age of 18 to visit.

Another benefit is that inmates will be able to have the rules and regulations, Law Library, medical requests, grievance forms, and other inmate related request forms available electronically in their cell 24 hours a day, instead of waiting on paper forms that have to be given out by detention officers. All requests will be filed electronically directly to the jail administrator, or anyone else in the facility. This will also free up detention personnel to preform duties.

The video Visitation is being installed by CTC Communications Company from Bossier City, Louisiana the same company that furnishes the inmate telephone system for the jail. There will be no upfront costs to the county for installation or equipment. The video visitation will generate funds to pay for itself over a three year period and after that, the Detention Center will receive a monthly commission from the company as it does with the phone system.

As the date for installation nears further information on how to access the video visitation will be available.

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