FCI Forrest City Low Overview
FCI Forrest City Low is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Forrest City. The facility is physically located in St. Francis County, but it is not operated by Sheriff Bobby May, the St. Francis County Sheriff's Office, or the county jail. It is a low-security federal correctional institution with an adjacent minimum-security satellite camp.
The people held here are sentenced male federal inmates. That means a person normally reaches FCI Forrest City Low after a federal criminal case, sentencing, and BOP designation. The county roster may have mattered earlier if the person was first booked into a local jail or held for federal extradition, but the BOP locator becomes the public lookup source once the person is in BOP custody.
Federal custody also has a pretrial bridge. The U.S. Marshals Service handles many federal defendants from court-ordered custody until acquittal, conviction, or delivery to BOP. If a person is not yet sentenced or not listed in BOP custody, the Marshals district or the detention facility holding the person may be the better route than the BOP facility page.
FCI Low Population
BOP public facility data dated May 21, 2026 listed 1,887 total inmates for FCI Forrest City Low and its satellite camp. The same BOP data separated that total into 1,629 at Forrest City FCI and 258 at Forrest City FCI-Camp. The current BOP facility page did not publish a rated capacity in the research materials.
That federal population is much larger than the county jail population, but it should not be counted as St. Francis County sheriff custody. It is a BOP population housed inside the county. The distinction matters for inmate search, public mugshots, mail, visits, phone rules, and release-date information.
FCI Forrest City Low Lookup
The correct public lookup channel is the BOP inmate locator. It covers federal inmates from 1982 to present. The locator is separate from the St. Francis County current inmate roster and the 48-hour release list. County jail mugshots and booking cards are not federal prison records, and the public BOP locator does not publish mugshots.
- Open the BOP inmate locator rather than the St. Francis County sheriff roster.
- Search by BOP Register Number, DCDC Number, FBI Number, INS Number, or by name.
- Review the result's location or status field to confirm FCI Forrest City Low or the camp.
- Treat release dates as subject to change, including changes tied to First Step Act recalculations.
| BOP Search Field | Use | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Register, DCDC, FBI, or INS number | Number search | BOP displays the number format as five digits, hyphen, three digits. |
| First, middle, last name | Name search | First and last name are the core name fields. |
| Race, age, sex | Narrowing fields | Useful when names are common. |
| Location or status | Result check | Confirms whether the person is in BOP custody and where. |
FCI Low Address and Contact
FCI Forrest City Low shares the Forrest City federal prison complex address with the medium-security institution, but the facilities have different phones, mail routing, and populations. Use the Low phone number for Low and camp questions. Use the separate FCI Forrest City Medium phone for the medium facility.
FCI Forrest City Low
1400 Dale Bumpers Road
Forrest City, AR 72335
870-630-6000
Federal Bureau of Prisons facility.
Facility Contact
Fax: 870-494-4496
Email: FOR-ExecAssistant-S@bop.gov
Confirm visit and mail rules through BOP before travel or mailing.
FCI Low Mail
FCI Forrest City Low has different mail addresses for the low-security institution and the adjacent camp. Do not use the St. Francis County jail P.O. Box for a BOP inmate. The county jail mail address is for St. Francis County Detention Center only, while BOP mail must follow the federal facility's routing.
| Custody Site | Mail Address | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| FCI Forrest City Low | P.O. Box 9000, Forrest City, AR 72336 | Use for inmates assigned to the low-security institution. |
| Forrest City FCI-Camp | P.O. Box 8000, Forrest City, AR 72336 | Use for inmates assigned to the adjacent camp. |
| County jail mail | Do not use for BOP inmates | County mail goes to a separate St. Francis County jail P.O. Box. |
FCI Forrest City Low Visits
BOP facilities use federal visitation rules, not the county jail's video-visitation window. The research file says the current local visiting schedule should be confirmed on the official BOP facility page before travel. That is the safest route because BOP visiting schedules and local procedures can change, and security rules differ between the low institution and the camp.
| Visit Topic | Facility Rule Source | Practical Check |
|---|---|---|
| Current visiting schedule | BOP facility page | Confirm before travel. |
| Visitor approval | BOP visiting process | Do not rely on county jail rules. |
| Low vs camp visits | Facility-specific BOP instructions | Confirm the inmate's assigned site first. |
| County video visits | Not applicable | That schedule belongs to St. Francis County Detention Center. |
FCI Low Phone and Money
BOP facilities have federal phone, commissary, and electronic messaging rules. The research materials name BOP and the Forrest City admission and orientation handbook as the federal sources to check. No county commissary deposit window, county phone vendor, or sheriff roster rule should be imported into this BOP page.
The BOP public locator provides custody and release information, but it does not provide a deposit fee table or public mugshot. Families and other contacts should use the official FCI Forrest City Low facility page and BOP inmate information pages for current deposit, phone, and communication rules.
Note: BOP mail, visiting, phone, and commissary rules are federal facility rules, not St. Francis County jail rules.
FCI Low Records and Mugshots
The public BOP locator can show federal register number, name, age, race, sex, release date, and location or status. It does not publish public mugshots. That is a major difference from the St. Francis County jail roster, which can display booking photos for current county jail inmates and recent releases.
If a person is listed as Released or Not in BOP Custody, that does not always prove the person has no custody issue. The person may be held by another criminal-justice agency, may be in state custody, or may have a separate local hold. For St. Francis County local custody, the sheriff roster and jail phone line remain the local check. For immigration custody, the ICE detainee locator is separate from both BOP and the county roster.
FCI Low Source Page
The official BOP facility page is the primary source for FCI Forrest City Low facility identity and local contact details. The image below was captured from the BOP page for FCI Forrest City Low.
The image is used for the federal facility page only because FCI Forrest City Low uses BOP records, not the St. Francis County jail roster.
FCI Low Programs
The Forrest City admission and orientation handbook says incoming inmates receive orientation and facility rules, and it describes that programs and services are available within the institution. BOP mental-health materials state that BOP provides psychologists and psychiatrists, formal counseling and treatment, informal housing-unit counseling, suicide-prevention education, and admission or orientation mental-health information.
Those details should be kept in the federal lane. They do not describe the county jail's misdemeanor work-release program, and they do not create a local St. Francis County public-record right to BOP program files. Facility questions should go through the BOP facility or the inmate's federal case channels.
FCI Low Custody Boundaries
FCI Forrest City Low sits inside St. Francis County, but its records are federal BOP records. That means the Arkansas FOIA routes and sheriff FAQ categories for local jail booking records do not control ordinary BOP locator results. A county booking photo, if one ever existed before federal transfer, is not the same thing as a federal prison photo, and the BOP public locator does not display a mugshot field.
Immigration custody is separate again. Research found no official ICE detention facility page for St. Francis County or Forrest City, but the ICE Online Detainee Locator System remains the right search path for immigration detention. A federal criminal sentence, a U.S. Marshals pretrial hold, and an ICE detainee record can involve different agencies even when the person has ties to the same county.
When a BOP search does not locate the person, the next step depends on the case stage. A recent federal arrest may still be with the U.S. Marshals Service or a contract holding facility. A completed state sentence should be checked through the Arkansas DOC locator. A local arrest, bond question, or 48-hour release question belongs with the St. Francis County Detention Center roster and the jail phone line.