The Detention Center
Gila County Jail - two facilities, at Globe and at Payson
- Operated byGila County Sheriff's Office, Jail Bureau
- Jail addresses'There are two Gila County Jail facilities, one located in Globe and one in Payson.' Globe: 1100 South Street, P.O. Box 311, Globe, Arizona 85502, (928) 402-8666. Payson Substation: 108 West Main Street, Ste. A, Payson, Arizona 85541, (928) 468-2835. Inmate mail goes to Gila County Jail, P.O. Box 311, Globe, AZ 85502
- What the Jail Bureau covers'The mission of the Gila County Jail Bureau is to provide for the secure detention of all individuals arrested, convicted, and sentenced for crimes within the jurisdiction of Gila County.' Its departments are Booking, Inmate Accounts/Commissary, Classification, External Inmate Transportation, Food Services, Grievance Procedure and Due Process, Inmate Educational Programs, Laundry Services and Medical Services
- ThroughputThe Sheriff's 2024 annual report publishes Detention bookings of 2,213, releases of 2,319 and 190,184 transport miles, against total arrests of 2,415 (409 felony, 660 misdemeanor, 1,184 civil, 162 non-custody) and 82 DUIs. Detention Bureau training in 2024 was 2,088 hours
- What it costsThe same report publishes an adopted budget summary: Detention Bureau expenses $4,592,488 against revenues $144,772, a net of $4,447,716; Detention Medical $846,367 against $6,000, a net of $840,367. The Sheriff's Office grand total is $14,096,545 expenses, $946,121 revenues, $13,150,424 net, plus special revenues of $1,166,153
- A published price for holding someone'There is a housing fee of $175.00 for the first day and $90.00 each day thereafter for serving an out-of-county sentence at the Gila County Jail Facilities. The entire amount for the length of the sentence is due upon arrival'
- Visitation'All visits are made through an electronic platform called Getting Out. There is no in-person visitation, you can choose to visit electronically from home or there are stations available at the Globe facility to use. All eligible inmates are offered 1 hour of free visits a week and any additional visits they receive are charged through the Getting Out app.' Visiting hours Tuesday to Sunday, 09:30-11:30, 13:00-16:30 and 18:30-20:30; Mondays closed. 'Inmates are eligible for visitation after their initial appearance before a Judge or Magistrate'
- Commissary'The Gila County Sheriff's Office Jail operates and manages its own Inmate Commissary Store. The profits from commissary sales and telephone use are used to purchase items used by the inmates.' Deposits at the Jail Visitation Lobby Window are accepted 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, by money order or cashier's check only, with no fee and no limit; cash, personal cheques and cards are refused
- Where to look for someoneThe Sheriff's Office FAQ answers 'How do I find out if my family member/friend is in jail?' with 'Please contact either the Globe Jail Facility at (928)402-8666 or the P[ayson facility]' - there is no online lookup
- What was triedThe Sheriff index, About Us, Command Staff, Jail Bureau, Inmate Information, Inmate Mail, Inmate Visitation, FAQ and Reports pages; the Sheriff's annual reports for 2014 to 2024; the Courts, Superior Court, Globe Regional Justice Court, Payson Regional Justice Court and Magistrate Courts pages; the Board of Supervisors and Finance pages; and the county budget archive back to FY2007-08 including the adopted FY2025-26 budget. No bed count, no daily population, no inmate roster, no death in custody, no PREA audit, no independent inspection result, no bail-posting guidance and no phone, video visit or commissary price list was found
Source: Gila County - Jail Bureau · checked 2026-08-23
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓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
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found for either facility
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byGeneral fund. Department 300, Sheriff, budgeted at $16,201,283 for FY2025-26 with $4,450,000 of separate Sheriff's Department capital. Within that, the Sheriff's 2024 annual report breaks out a Detention Bureau of $4,592,488 and Detention Medical of $846,367. Gila County has no jail district and no dedicated jail tax
- BedsNot found for either the Globe or the Payson facility
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff J. Adam Shepherd
- Runs the jailYes. The Jail Bureau is one of the Sheriff's Office bureaux, alongside Field Services, Patrol, Criminal Investigations and Administration. 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
- CareerThe county publishes that Sheriff Shepherd 'resided in Gila County for over 47 years and is an Arizona Native. He has nearly 40 years of progressively responsible law enforcement experience in Gila County. He advanced in Command through the ranks as field deputy, detective, narcotics officer, field sergeant, lieutenant-district commander and finally as the Undersheriff'
- CommandMike Johnson, Chief Deputy (Field Services); Dennis Newman, Undersheriff (Patrol); Raymond Fulton, Major (Detention); Sarah White, Chief Administrative Officer
- Size of the office152 budgeted positions in the 2024 annual report: 16 administration, 48 patrol, 19 communications, 61 detention and 8 detention medical. Detention and detention medical together are 45 per cent of the office
- OfficesAdministration Bureau, 1425 E. South St, Globe. The county's main addresses are 1400 E. Ash St., Globe, AZ 85501 and 707 S. Colcord Road, Payson, AZ 85541
- Volunteers17 members of the Sheriff's Reserve Posse - Globe worked 1,194 details and 2,639 hours in 2024; 19 Search and Rescue members worked six searches and 895 hours. Total volunteer hours 17,508.25, which the office values at $797,325
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Gila County - Sheriff · 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. Gila County elects its Superior Court judges, and Timothy Wright is presiding judge - a fact that had to be taken from the Arizona Supreme Court's list, because the county's own Superior Court page names no judge at all and its /government/courts/judges.php page returns nothing. Justices of the peace are elected to four-year terms in their precinct. Gila County has two justice court precincts, Globe Regional and Payson Regional, and in both the justice of the peace also sits as a town magistrate - Jordan Reardon for Globe and Winkelman, Donny Garvin for Payson and Star Valley - so the same person hears the town's cases and the county's. In Arizona it is normally the justice of the peace or a magistrate who sets release conditions at the initial appearance, and the county's own jail page confirms the sequence: 'Inmates are eligible for visitation after their initial appearance before a Judge or Magistrate.' These are state judicial officers, not county officials, although the county funds them: the FY2025-26 budget carries Globe Justice Court at $857,908 and Payson Justice Court at $785,435, plus two elected constables.
Gila County Superior Court - Presiding Judge
- Timothy Wright - named by the Arizona Supreme Court as presiding judge of Gila County. The county's own Superior Court page gives only the two locations, 1400 E. Ash Street, Globe and 714 S. Beeline Highway, Payson, and names no judge
Gila County Superior Court - divisions funded in the FY2025-26 budget
- Superior Court Div I - 3.00 full-time equivalents, $280,704
- Superior Court Div II - 2.00 full-time equivalents, $196,121
- Superior Court General - 11.69 full-time equivalents, $1,213,136. The county does not name the judges of either division on its website
Globe Regional Justice Court - the southern bench
- Jordan Reardon - Justice of the Peace. He is also magistrate of the Globe Municipal Court and of the Winkelman Municipal Court
- Rebecca Baeza - Miami Magistrate and Judge Pro Tempore of the justice court
Payson Regional Justice Court - the northern bench
- Donald ('Donny') Garvin - Justice of the Peace for Northern Gila County and Town Magistrate for Payson and Star Valley. The county records that he served as a justice of the peace pro tempore from 2019 to 2022, was appointed in October 2022 to finish the term of the Honorable Judge Dorothy Little, and was elected in the 2022 general election, taking office on 1 January 2023. A retired Payson Police lieutenant
Still needed
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
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 →
Notes on the record
- Gila County is the only county in this group that runs two jail facilities in two towns eighty miles apart, at Globe and at Payson, and it publishes both addresses and both phone numbers on the same page. What it does not publish is how many beds either one has.
- budget is marked yes, and the county's record here is long: adopted and tentative budgets on its own website for every year from FY2007-08 to FY2026-27, plus an audits page. The Sheriff's annual reports for 2014 to 2024 go further than the budget documents by breaking the Detention Bureau and Detention Medical out as separate cost centres with their own revenue lines and headcounts.
- roster is marked no, and the county says so itself: its FAQ answers 'How do I find out if my family member/friend is in jail?' by telling the public to telephone the Globe or Payson facility. There is no online lookup.
- capacity is marked no. The 2024 annual report publishes 2,213 bookings and 2,319 releases, which is throughput, not population, and no bed count or average daily population appears anywhere on the county site.
- fees is marked no, but not for want of information about money. The county publishes that the first hour of visits each week is free and additional visits 'are charged through the Getting Out app' without saying what they cost; it publishes that commissary and telephone profits are spent on the inmates without publishing a single price; and it publishes that deposits at the lobby window carry no fee. The budget shows the Sheriff's Commissary Fund taking $199,716 in a year against a $50,000 budget.
- contracts is marked no, with one qualification worth recording. The county does publish a per-day price for holding a person - $175 for the first day and $90 a day thereafter for someone serving an out-of-county sentence at a Gila County facility - and the FY2025-26 budget carries a revenue line 'Sheriff - Correctional Housing' at $120,000 budgeted and $135,291 actual. But that is a charge to individuals and a revenue total, not an agreement with another agency at a stated rate, so the check fails on its terms.
- deaths, prea, inspections and bond_info are marked no. Nothing on the county site records a death in custody, a PREA audit, an independent inspection, or how a member of the public posts bail for someone in the jail.
- Board of Supervisors, three members elected by district: Steve Christensen (District 1, office at the Gila County Tommie Cline Martin Complex, 707 S. Colcord Road, Payson), Tim R. Humphrey (District 2) and Woody Cline (District 3), both at the Gila County Courthouse, 1400 E. Ash Street, Globe. 'The Gila County Board of Supervisors is responsible for the financing and administration of County government, has final approval over County department budgets, governs tax rates, and calculates all other rates.' The Board also sits as the Board of Directors for the Gila County Library District, Flood Control District, Board of Equalization, Board of Deposit and all County Improvement Districts. Regular meetings are the first and third Tuesday of the month, work sessions the last Tuesday. Gila County has no jail district and no dedicated jail tax: the jail is funded inside Department 300, Sheriff, of the general fund, budgeted at $16,201,283 for FY2025-26 with a further $4,450,000 of Sheriff's Department capital. There are however several jail-related special funds - 3055 Sheriff's Commissary Fund ($199,716 actual against a $50,000 budget), 3011 Sheriff's Justice Enhancement ($203,172 actual) and 3061 Sheriff BLESF Program.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Gila County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
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Names verified 2026-08-23 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered