How an Inmate Search Works in Arizona

Arizona keeps two layers of custody. The Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, ADCRR, holds people sentenced to prison and publishes them in its Inmate Datasearch at corrections.az.gov; on October 14, 2026 that site, its visitation and mail pages and its datasearch application all answered SearchSystems' reading with a Cloudflare security verification page rather than content, so nothing from the state system is described here beyond its existence and address. The county sheriffs hold everyone arrested, awaiting trial or serving a county sentence, and each publishes its own lookup.

The county lookups are the live records. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, the largest, showed 6,248 people currently in custody when read and warns that persons may use false identification and that true identity can only be confirmed through fingerprint comparison, so a name match is a lead and not a legal fact; the Pima County Sheriff says the same of its roster, which contains people who have been sentenced, people held for another jurisdiction, and people who stand accused but not convicted.

  • Maricopa County: the Sheriff's Inmate Information search, by booking number, or by last name, first name and date of birth entered as year, month and day; the office says the information should not be relied on for any legal action.
  • Pima County: the Sheriff's Inmate Lookup, a last name search of everyone currently in the Pima County Adult Detention Center, updated regularly, with commercial use prohibited.
  • Yuma and Yavapai counties: the Yuma County Sheriff's inmate search linked from its Detention Bureau page, and the Yavapai County Sheriff's Online Inmate Search by last name, which was accurate to the minute on the day read.
  • Mohave County: the Sheriff has turned off its Inmate Search to comply with newly established legal requirements and recent court rulings, citing Houston v. Maricopa County, and posts its inmate list through its press releases instead.

Written by SearchSystems.net from Arizona's own systems: the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Inmate Information page, the Pima County Sheriff's Department Inmate Lookup, the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office Online Inmate Search, the Yuma County Sheriff's Office home page, the Mohave County Sheriff's Office Inmate Search page, the Mohave County Sheriff's Office Jail page, each read on October 14, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.

The state system: ADCRR's Inmate Datasearch

The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry runs the state prisons and the Inmate Datasearch that lists the people in them, at corrections.az.gov under inmate data search. When SearchSystems read Arizona's official sources on October 14, 2026, every page on that site, the datasearch application at inmatedatasearch.azcorrections.gov, the visitation portal, the inmate mail and digital mail pages and the victim services pages, returned a page headed Just a moment that said the website uses a security service to protect against malicious bots and was verifying the visitor, and no content came through, in a plain fetch or in a full browser.

The Arizona Board of Executive Clemency's site answered the same way. Because this guide prints only what an official page gave, the state search's fields, rules and fees are not described here; the county lookups below were read in full.

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Maricopa County: 6,248 in custody

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Inmate Information page showed a total of 6,248 people currently in custody when read. It offers two searches: a booking number, which goes directly to the inmate's information, or a last name, first name and date of birth in the form YYYYMMDD, which does the same. Twice on the page the office states that the information contained should not be relied upon for any type of legal action, that it cannot represent that the information is current, accurate or complete, that persons may use false identification information, and that true identity can only be confirmed through fingerprint comparison.

The same office runs an OffenderWatch registry map and email alerts for the unincorporated county and the Avondale, Buckeye, Glendale, Goodyear, Mesa, Peoria and Tempe police jurisdictions, and public records requests go by email to the office; its non emergency line is 602-876-1011.

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Pima County: the detention center roster

The Pima County Sheriff's Department describes its Inmate Lookup as a public view roster developed to help criminal justice agencies, the courts and individuals reach public record inmate information. It contains only people currently in the custody of the Pima County Adult Detention Center, including those sentenced, those held for another jurisdiction, and those who stand accused but not convicted of a crime, which the department notes to respect the rights of anyone wrongfully accused; it is updated regularly, searched by the inmate's last name, and any commercial use of the information is strictly prohibited.

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Yuma, Yavapai and Mohave counties

The Yuma County Sheriff's Office, whose Detention Bureau runs the Yuma County Detention Center, a maximum security facility that receives, processes and houses inmates awaiting trial and in other phases of the criminal justice system, links its inmate search and inmate visitation from its home page. The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office runs an online search by last name that stamps its accuracy to the second, 4:00:02 PM on October 14, 2026 when read, and carries a notice that a person booked as a John or Jane Doe cannot post bail until identified through the detention center's fingerprint process, so anyone holding legal identification for such a person calls the detention center information line.

The Mohave County Sheriff's Office has turned its inmate search tool off to ensure compliance with newly established legal requirements and recent court rulings, posting the ruling in Brian Houston v. Maricopa County on its page, and now publishes its inmate list through the press release page of the Sheriff's Office.

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The other counties

Arizona's fifteen sheriffs each decide how their jail population is published, and the Mohave example shows that a lookup can disappear when a court rules. Every sheriff's office is listed with its site on the Arizona county pages, the Arizona arrest records guide explains what a booking makes public, and the Pinal and Coconino county sites, like the state's, were behind a security check when read and are not described here.

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Reading an Arizona result

A county lookup result places a person in that county's jail on the day of the search, with the status the roster carries, sentenced, accused or held for another jurisdiction, and the sheriffs' own warnings apply: a name match is not an identification, and the record is not a basis for legal action. A person sentenced to prison leaves the county roster for the state system, whose datasearch is the next step once its site answers. Mohave County's lists now arrive as press releases rather than a search.

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Questions about finding an inmate in Arizona

Where do I find a state prisoner in Arizona?
In the Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry's Inmate Datasearch at corrections.az.gov. On October 14, 2026 the site answered every automated read with a security verification page, so its search is not described on this page.
How do I search the Maricopa County jail?
On the Sheriff's Inmate Information page, by booking number, or by last name, first name and date of birth entered as YYYYMMDD; the office counted 6,248 people in custody when read and says only fingerprint comparison confirms identity.
Who is on the Pima County jail roster?
Everyone currently in the Pima County Adult Detention Center: people sentenced, people held for another jurisdiction, and people accused but not convicted, searched by last name and updated regularly. Commercial use is prohibited.
Why can't I find the Mohave County inmate search?
The Sheriff's Office turned it off to comply with new legal requirements and recent court rulings, citing Houston v. Maricopa County, and now posts its inmate list through its press releases.
Can a John Doe post bail in Yavapai County?
Not until identified. The Sheriff's search notes that a person booked as a John or Jane Doe cannot post bail until properly identified through the detention center's fingerprint process.
Is a county jail lookup an official record?
No. Maricopa County says the information should not be relied on for any legal action and may be neither current nor accurate; a booking that ends in dismissal leaves no conviction, which only the court file shows.

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The sheriffs' lookups are among the Arizona records this site covers: the Arizona arrest records guide explains what a booking makes public, the court records guide covers the Judicial Branch's public access case lookup, the sex offender registry guide covers the Department of Public Safety registry, and the Arizona county pages list each sheriff and jail.