Arizona keeps two layers of custody. The Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, ADCRR, holds people sentenced to prison and lists them in its Inmate Datasearch, which opens on a number search and a name search: the number is the six digit ADC number, and the name form takes a last name of up to twenty letters, a first initial, a gender and a current status of active or inactive, returning five people a page with the ADC number, a photo link, the name with middle initial and the admission date. The county sheriffs hold everyone arrested, awaiting trial or serving a county sentence, and each publishes its own lookup.
What this guide says about the state system comes from the datasearch application itself and from the statute that governs the department's files. The county lookups are the live records of the jails, and the largest of them, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, showed 6,248 people in custody when read.
- State prisons: the ADCRR Inmate Datasearch, by six digit ADC number or by last name, first initial, gender and status; a record carries the complex and unit, the custody class, the commitment and sentence, and a projected release date the department calls subject to change.
- 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.
- Yavapai and Mohave counties: the Yavapai County Sheriff's Online Inmate Search by last name, accurate to the minute on the day read; the Mohave County Sheriff has turned off its Inmate Search after the Houston v. Maricopa County ruling and posts its inmate list through press releases instead.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Arizona's own systems: the ADCRR Inmate Datasearch application, Arizona Revised Statutes section 31-221, the master record file, 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: what an ADCRR record shows
The datasearch record is the fullest public document the state prison system publishes. Its head carries the ADC number, the last name, first name and middle initial, age, gender, height in inches, weight, hair and eye color, ethnic origin, a custody class such as Minimum/Low, and the admission date; below it come the projected eligible release date with a prison release date and a release type code, the most recent location by complex and unit, the Douglas complex's Gila unit for one, with the date of the last movement and a status of Active, and the inmate mailing address, which the record says to confirm on the department's inmate mail page.
Three notices follow. The earned credit release date is provided for guidance and confirmed by contacting the ADCRR; every release date is projected and subject to change, to be confirmed with the ADCRR Time Computation Unit or the Offender Information Unit at the prison where the inmate is housed; and a victim of crime reaches the Office of Victim Services at 602-542-1853 or azvictims@azadc.gov. The record then lists, in tables, the commitment and sentence information, with the commit number, the sentence length written as years, months and days, the sentencing county, the court cause number, the offense date, the sentence date, the sentence status and the crime; the disciplinary infractions and the disciplinary appeals with their outcomes and dates; the profile classification history with each classification type, custody risk and internal risk; the parole actions; the work program with assignment and completion dates; and the notification requests, detainers and warrants with the detainer type, charges, authority and agreement date.
Details of the offenses themselves, the record says, are read in the case file at the Office of the Clerk of the Court where the case was adjudicated. Behind the public record stands the master record file that Arizona Revised Statutes section 31-221 requires the department to keep on every person committed to it, holding the committing court's information, the reception and diagnostic center reports, evaluation and assignment reports, disciplinary infractions and their disposition, progress reports for the Board of Executive Clemency, parole and community supervision reports and the date and circumstances of final discharge; all records of prisoner care and custody are public under the state's public records law except those revealing a confidential informant, endangering a person's safety or jeopardizing an ongoing investigation, and a prisoner may view only the automated summary of their own file, once a year unless more than one clemency hearing falls in the year.
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.
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.
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.
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 department's own informational pages, were behind a security check when read and are not described here.
Reading an Arizona result
A datasearch record places a person in a named ADCRR complex and unit with a custody class and a projected release date the department itself calls subject to change; the ADC number on it is what the mailing address and every later inquiry carry, and the Time Computation Unit or the Offender Information Unit at the prison confirms a date. 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 datasearch, and Mohave County's lists now arrive as press releases rather than a search.
Questions about finding an inmate in Arizona
Related Arizona records
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.