Lawrence County Jail Inmate Lookup

Lawrence County Jail Overview

The Lawrence County Sheriff's Office operates the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office and Detention Center, also described in local materials as the Lawrence County Jail or Lawrence County Detention Center. The official sheriff website links to jail information, the inmate roster, warrants, tips, fines, and commissary services. Local government materials describe the sheriff as the county official responsible for jail operation, inmate housing and care, inmate transport, courtroom security, and criminal process service.

The Detention Division holds people committed to jail custody while they await trial or serve a sentence imposed by a court. That means the Lawrence County jail population can include recent arrestees, pretrial detainees, local sentenced inmates, people awaiting transfer, and some state-related county housing statuses when applicable. It is not an Arkansas state prison, a federal prison, or an ICE detention center. The jail is run by the sheriff's office, while long-term sentenced state prisoners are searched through Arkansas Department of Corrections systems.

Sheriff Tony Waldrupe heads the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff divisions page identifies Eric Cheatham as chief deputy, Debbie Burleson as jail administrator, Amanda Pickney as assistant jail administrator, and Brittney Lawson and Bethany Haines as administrative assistants. Those staff details are useful because jail questions often need the detention division, while open-records or agency questions may need the sheriff's office contact route.

Lawrence County Jail Population

Lawrence County has one facility in the local facility map: the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office and Detention Center in Walnut Ridge. The Arkansas legislative capacity exhibit reports that Lawrence County added 100 beds through a new jail during the 2015 to 2021 period. The Vera Institute county jail dataset also lists a 100-bed rated capacity for Lawrence County in 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023. The sheriff website did not publish a separate current bed rating, housing-unit layout, or daily population dashboard.

The Vera data gives useful year-to-year context, but it is not the same as the live public roster. Vera listed a total Lawrence County jail population of 98 in 2019, 43 in 2020, 54 in 2022, and 46 in 2023. A live count of the AceOne roster cards on May 29, 2026 found 51 cards across five roster pages. That web count is a point-in-time public roster count, not an official average daily population.

Lawrence County Roster Lookup

The official county route starts at the sheriff's inmate roster page, which embeds the AceOne current-inmate roster. The roster is a public card list. No first-name, last-name, booking-number, date, facility, or status search fields were visible during research. People who need to find a name can use the browser find function, then move through the roster pages with the pagination controls.

The roster cards inspected showed a booking photo, name, booking number, booking date and time, and charge list. They did not show bond amount, housing unit, arresting agency, court date, release status, date of birth, age, race, sex, address, warrant number, or court case number. For more detail on the current roster fields, the broader Lawrence County jail inmate records page separates roster data from court and DOC records.

1. Open the official sheriff roster page or the embedded AceOne roster frame.
2. Scan the current cards, or use the browser find function for a last name.
3. Use page-number and next controls because the roster is paginated.
4. Copy the booking number and booking date if the person appears.
5. Call the jail if the person is missing, recently arrested, released, or possibly transferred.

The sheriff page warns that roster information can change and may not reflect the most current custody status. That warning matters when a release, bond, transport, or first appearance is pending. Use the online Lawrence County jail roster for a first check, then confirm time-sensitive custody details by phone with the detention center.

The roster image source is the AceOne inmate roster frame used by the sheriff's site.

The screenshot shows why the Lawrence County inmate lookup process works like a roster review rather than a form search: the cards carry key booking fields, while pagination controls handle navigation.

Lawrence County Jail Contact

Use the detention center contact block for current custody, release, visitation, and roster-status questions. The same public address and main phone appear on sheriff and county materials for the sheriff's office and jail. No separate public lobby hours were posted on the sheriff pages reviewed, so visitors should call before traveling, especially for records, visitation scheduling, property, or bond questions.

The sheriff site footer lists Tony.Waldrupe@lawcoso.arkansas.gov as a public email channel. For a records request, identify the person's full name, booking number if known, date range, and the exact record sought. Arkansas FOIA may allow inspection or copying of jail records, but sealed records, juvenile records, active-investigation material, or court-restricted items may be withheld or redacted.

Lawrence County Jail Visitation

Visitation for the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office and Detention Center is posted as an in-person, scheduled visit process. The sheriff homepage states that visits are available on Tuesday and Wednesday, must be scheduled ahead of time, and are limited to one visit per week. Drop-in visits are not allowed. A late visitor does not restart the clock, since the scheduled start time controls the ten-minute period.

The reviewed sheriff pages did not publish a full ID rule, dress code, child visitor rule, locker policy, contraband list, attorney-visit policy, or video-visit vendor. Call the jail before travel to confirm the current visitor list, photo ID requirement, allowed items, and entrance instructions.

Lawrence County Jail Mail and Money

The sheriff homepage links commissary ordering through Tiger Commissary. The selected Lawrence County Jail page identifies the facility as Lawrence County Jail in Walnut Ridge and offers Web Deposits and Order Commissary services. Tiger describes web deposits as money placed on an inmate trust fund account and commissary orders as items packaged for delivery to the inmate.

Mail and phone rules were thinner in the official local sources. No sheriff page reviewed published a verified inmate-mail address format, scanned-mail vendor, book rule, banned-item list, money-order rule, phone vendor, video vendor, rate table, kiosk details, refund rule, or deposit fee schedule. Third-party snippets about mail handling were not verified from an official Lawrence County page, so they should not be treated as local rules.

Lawrence County Jail Booking

A Lawrence County booking usually begins after an arrest by a sheriff's deputy, municipal police officer, Arkansas State Police trooper, or another agency. The person is taken to the Lawrence County Detention Center, where intake creates the booking number and booking timestamp that later appear on the public roster. The roster also shows the booking photo and initial charge labels entered for the jail record.

Several important fields remain internal or belong in court records. The public roster did not show bond, housing unit, court date, court case number, arresting agency, release status, or physical identifiers. The charge text on a roster card is an arrest or booking charge, not a conviction. Court charges, hearings, amended counts, dismissals, and dispositions must be checked through Arkansas court channels after the prosecutor or court acts.

Booking

The jail intake event that creates a booking number, booking date, photo, and charge entry.

Charge

An alleged offense listed at booking or in court. It is not the same as a conviction.

Detainer

A hold or request from another agency that can affect release even when local bond is posted.

Classification

An internal jail review used for housing, security, medical, and management decisions.

Lawrence County Jail Directions

The jail and sheriff's office are on West Elm Street in Walnut Ridge, near the county government corridor around Main Street. Visitors coming from U.S. 63 should use the local Walnut Ridge street grid toward West Elm Street. Visitors coming from Hoxie, Black Rock, Powhatan, Imboden, or other Lawrence County communities should route into Walnut Ridge and confirm the entrance before arrival.

Official sheriff and county pages did not publish a dedicated visitor-parking map, parking fee rule, public-transit directions, or jail-specific ADA entrance instructions. The safest route is to call before travel, especially if the visit involves mobility access, property drop-off, scheduled visitation, or a records request.

Lawrence County Jail vs ADC

The county roster covers local jail custody. If a person no longer appears on the Lawrence County jail roster after sentencing, transfer, or state placement, search the Arkansas DOC inmate locator. The ADC locator includes fields for ADC number, name, county, facility, gender, offense category, age, and race. It also includes Lawrence-specific options such as Lawrence Co.309/Work and Lawrence County Waiting List, which can matter when a person is in a county-housed state status or waiting for state placement.

No Arkansas DOC prison, Federal Bureau of Prisons facility, ICE detention center, or dedicated federal detention facility was identified inside Lawrence County. Federal and immigration custody checks should follow custody type instead of county geography. Use the BOP inmate locator for sentenced federal prisoners and the ICE Online Detainee Locator for immigration custody. VINELink can be used for custody notifications when the relevant Arkansas agency participates.

The Lawrence County Sheriff's Android app also advertises inmate roster, recent intakes, charges, jail information, active warrants, tips, sex-offender rosters, alerts, news, and division contacts. It may be useful when the embedded website roster is hard to use on a phone. VINELink remains a separate notification tool, not a substitute for the jail or DOC record.