Coconino County

The Detention Center

Coconino County Jail, also published as the Coconino County Detention Facility

• Operated byCoconino County Sheriff's Office, Detention Facility division
• Jail addressMain facility 951 E. Sawmill Rd, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, phone 928-226-5200
• A second facility at Page'A temporary holding facility / jail is also located at 713 Tunnel Rd (mailing address of PO Box 7445), Page, AZ 86040', phone 928-645-8873. 'There also is a 24-bed, short term holding facility in Page. The facility in Page is used to temporarily house people arrested in the northern part of the state before transporting to the Flagstaff facility'
• Beds'The Flagstaff facility has an operating capacity of 477 beds (80% of the total 596 available beds is considered operating capacity due to classification requirements)'
• It is a regional facility'The Coconino County Jail is a regional holding facility in Flagstaff, which houses both sentenced and un-sentenced misdemeanor and felony adult offenders.' 'We provide inmate housing for local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies and courts in Northern Arizona'
• Detention commandCommander, Detention: Matt Figueroa. Lieutenant, Intake: Garrett Pugh. Lieutenant, Housing: Bill Glenn. Lieutenant, Support Operations: Tom Hover. Lieutenant, Page Facility: Seth Cutchen
• Visitation'The Coconino County Detention Facility recently upgraded its Video Visitation System in December 2019. Friends and family can now visit from anywhere using a smart phone, computer or tablet. We will no longer provide visitation kiosks at our lobby in Flagstaff and Page. Inmates now receive 60 minutes of free video visitation each week.' Lobby and video visitation windows at Flagstaff are 8:00-11:30 a.m., 1:00-4:30 p.m. and 7:00-8:30 p.m. seven days a week; at Page 7:00-9:00 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday
• Phone and commissaryRun through Telmate / GettingOut. The county publishes how to set up an account and how to put money on an inmate's account, and directs all questions about 'Bond, Commissary, Court, Employment, Exodus (Drug & Alcohol Treatment), Inmate Programs, Chaplain or Religious Services, Medical, and Work Furlough' to a single number, 928-226-5200, and its menu system. No price is published
• In-custody programmesThe county describes a 90-day EXODUS substance abuse programme, job training, life skills, mental health care, and adult and juvenile education inside the jail, supported by 'Pathways to Community, which interacts with local organizations to provide resources and support for individuals as they exit the jail system'. A detention academy and a volunteer programme are also published
• What was triedArchived captures of the Sheriff page, the Detention Facility page, the Jail / Inmates FAQ, Inmate Accounts, Inmate Mail, Inmate Commissary, the Sheriff's Office FAQs, the Jail District Sales Tax page, the Board of Supervisors page, the FY26 Budget Public Hearings and Truth in Taxation page, the Superior Court and Justice Court pages and the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council page. No inmate roster, no daily population, no death in custody, no PREA audit, no independent inspection result, no bail-posting guidance and no phone, video or commissary price list was found

Source: Coconino County Sheriff's Office - Detention Facility (Internet Archive capture of 30 January 2023) · checked 2026-08-23

• ✓The jail is named
• ✗Who is in custody — not published
• ✓Beds and daily population
• ✓What it costs taxpayers
• ✗Deaths in custody — not published
• ✗PREA audits — not published
• ✗Independent inspection — not published
• ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
• ✗How to post bond — not published
• ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Coconino County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-08-23. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

• Year builtNot found as a date. The county records that the 1996 jail district sales tax was used 'to repay loans to build the new County Jail', which places the present Flagstaff facility in the second half of the 1990s, but the county does not publish a completion year
• Original costNot found. The county publishes only that the 1996 tax repaid the construction loans and that estimated jail costs at that time were $13.3 million a year
• Paid for byA county jail district sales tax, twice approved by the voters. 'In 1996, Coconino County voters approved a 3/10 of a cent Jail District Sales Tax. Monies from the tax were used to repay loans to build the new County Jail and to fund the operations of the jail. Estimated costs were $13.3 million per year. The County General Fund also provided approximately $2.2 million each year to support the operations of the jail, as required by State law. This is called the County's Maintenance of Effort payment.' In 2006 the voters approved two further measures raising the tax to half a cent, effective 1 July 2007 and expiring 30 June 2027, funding in-custody drug and alcohol programmes as well as jail operations. Proposition 445, on the ballot of 8 November 2022, asked voters to extend the tax for a further twenty-five years
• BedsFlagstaff: 596 total available beds, of which 477 - eighty per cent - is the published operating capacity, 'due to classification requirements'. Page: 24 beds, short term holding

The Sheriff

Sheriff Bret Axlund

• Runs the jailYes. The Detention Facility is a division of the Sheriff's Office: 'In addition to the responsibility to preserve the peace, a major responsibility of the Sheriff's Office is to provide for the safe and humane housing of inmates.' ARS 31-101 and ARS 11-441(A)(5) make the sheriff the jailer in every Arizona county
• How the office is filledElected. Arizona county sheriffs are elected countywide to four-year terms
• There has been a change of sheriffThe county's Sheriff page as captured on 5 February 2026 gives the office holder as 'Bret Axlund, Sheriff'. Captures of the same site from 2023 to March 2025 give 'Jim Driscoll, Sheriff' in the same position, and the Jail District Sales Tax page still quotes 'Coconino County Sheriff Jim Driscoll' from October 2022. Both names are recorded here so the change is visible; Axlund is the later of the two
• Command staffGerrit Boeck, Chief Deputy; Matt Freshour, Administrative Services Director; Matthew Figueroa, Commander Detention Facility; James Steng, Commander Operations
• OfficesMain Office 911 E. Sawmill Rd., Flagstaff, AZ 86001. Detention Facility 951 E. Sawmill Rd., Flagstaff. Administration 928-226-5012, Records 928-214-2530, Flagstaff Jail 928-226-5200, Page Jail 928-645-8873
• Line of duty deaths the office publishesEscapulo Domingez, 17 July 1908; John B Jamison, 6 September 1982; James Michael Young, 25 May 1983
• A note on accessThe live county website could not be reached during this research: coconino.az.gov answers with a Cloudflare interstitial challenge and HTTP 403 ('Cf-Mitigated: challenge', 'Just a moment...'). Every county-published fact recorded here is taken from the Internet Archive's capture of the county's own pages, with the capture date given

Source: Coconino County Sheriff's Office (Internet Archive capture of 5 February 2026) · checked 2026-08-23

The Judges

Arizona Superior Court judges outside Maricopa and Pima Counties are elected countywide in nonpartisan elections to four-year terms; in Maricopa and Pima they are appointed by the Governor from a commission's nominees and then face retention votes. Coconino County elects its Superior Court judges, and Ted S. Reed is presiding judge. Coconino is nonetheless one of the counties the Arizona Commission on Judicial Performance Review covers, and the county's own site carries a page for the 'Commission on Trial Court Appointments' - worth noting because the county sits at the population threshold where Arizona's two systems for choosing judges meet. Justices of the peace are elected to four-year terms in their precinct. The county's own justice court pages are procedural - how to pay a fine, how to appear by telephone under Superior Court Administrative Order AO 2023-09 - and none of them names its judge, so the four justice court benches are recorded here by court rather than by name. All of these judges are state judicial officers, not county officials. The county also runs a Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, which is where the sheriff, the courts and the county administration meet on questions like who is held before trial.

Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-23

The County Commissioners

They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.

• What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
• What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
• The boardBoard of County Commissioners →
• Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →