The Detention Center
Pinal County Adult Detention Center, also published as the Pinal County Jail
- Operated byPinal County Sheriff's Office, Adult Detention Division, under Deputy Chief of Adult Detention Gilberto Hoyos
- Jail addressFlorence, AZ 85132, on the Sheriff's Office campus at 971 N Jason Lopez Circle. Mail for prisoners goes two ways: legal mail, money orders and publications to 'Inmate Full Name - Inmate ID, C/O Pinal County Sheriff's Office, P.O. Box 2610, Florence, AZ 85132', and, since 11 January 2026, all personal mail to 'Incarcerated Name & ID #, Pinal County Adult Detention Center, P.O. Box 20366, Tampa, Florida 33622'. The county flags the change itself: '*(please note that the state is FLORIDA)'
- Size'The Pinal County Jail is the third largest County Jail in the state of Arizona, having a rated capacity of 1,503. This places the Pinal County Jail into the Large Jail Category as defined by the National Institute of Corrections'
- Population'The Pinal County Detention Center houses on average 600 inmates a day'
- When it was built and expanded'The existing Jail was opened April 1st, 1996, with a bed capacity of 472. Due to the explosive population growth within Pinal County it became necessary to expand the County Jail once again. In July 2006 a 1,031-bed expansion was opened. This expansion provides the appropriate conditions of confinement for the increased inmate population'
- National accreditation'The Pinal County Jail was selected as a pilot site by the Nationals Sheriffs' Association for Jail Operations for Accreditation. The accreditation is governed by legal-based standards established through case law. The Pinal County Jail received its first accreditation in June 2011 and was reaccredited in December 2013, receiving a "Level 1" rating which is the highest score possible. The Pinal County Sheriff's Office Jail is the first Arizona Jail to receive its National Accreditation'
- Who it holds'The Pinal County Jail confines individuals who have been arrested, charged with criminal offenses, and are awaiting disposition of their cases within the criminal justice system. The Jail also houses those individuals who have been sentenced to serve their respective sentences in the county jail'
- Food'Food services and inmate commissary are provided through a contract provider that assures the daily meals are nutritionally balanced and contain 2,800 calories daily.' The FAQ adds: 'Three meals are fed each day in the facility, with a calorie count of approximately 2,800 calories per day'
- Medical'Medical services are provided by Pinal County Jail Health, a division of Pinal County Health and Human Services. Health care services include an initial medical screening by medical staff, 24/7 medical staffing, daily sick call, and the availability of a full-time nurse practitioner.' The county also states 'Pinal County has a moral and legal obligation to provide health care for those people whom it incarcerates', and explains medical charges as a way to 'do away with frivolous requests for medical attention'
- Religion'Religious services are provided under contract with Good News, Jail and Prison Ministry'
- Video visits and their price'Video visitations on-site is at no cost, remote video visit cost from home or office is $6 for 20 minutes.' Public visitation hours are Saturday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., booked 24 hours ahead, limited to two 20-minute on-site visits per prisoner per week; 'There is no limit to the number of remote (off-site) video visits.' On-site public video visitation was closed at the time of reading 'until further notice, due to construction'
- How to post a bond, in the county's own words'Use the Touch Pay Kiosk located in the Lobby; Pay the Bail at the court jurisdiction (Justice Court, Superior Court); Use a Bail Bond Service; Contact TouchPay by telephone at 866-232-1899 or access their TouchPay's website. After paying your deposit, please go to the admission window and confirm that the bail was paid.' It adds: 'Immigration Bonds are not accepted at this facility. You must pay them at the Immigration Facility'
- MoneyTouchPay funds 'Commissary, Telephone, and Self-Bail - Funds are available within 24 hours', by phone on 866-232-1899, online, or at a kiosk in the jail lobby. 'Pinal County Adult Detention Center - Facility Locator Number 285132'. Money orders and cashier's cheques go to Pinal County Jail, P.O. Box 2610, Florence
- Telephones and messagesSecurus Technologies runs calls, eMessaging and video visitation. The county publishes Securus's own AdvanceConnect and eMessaging leaflets in English and Spanish, which describe 'a prepaid account to fund calls from your loved one' and promise 'economical rates', but give no rate
- Contract prisonersThe county's budget carries a dedicated fund, '00027 - SHERIFF/CONTRACT PRISONER FEES', and a 'SHERIFF/JAIL ENHANCEMENT' fund budgeted at $607,660 for FY2026-27 with intergovernmental revenue of $240,000. No agreement and no per-day rate is published
- What was triedThe county's Sheriff, Adult Detention, About Us, Frequently Asked Questions, Visitation, Inmate Search, Inmate Marriage Process, Reentry Program and TouchPay pages; the Sheriff's Office staff directory; the Board of Supervisors, Agendas & Minutes and Meeting Schedule pages; the Office of Budget & Finance and Budget pages and the adopted FY2026-27 Final Budget Schedules; the Courts, Justice Courts and Superior Court pages; and the Securus AdvanceConnect and eMessaging documents in the county's own document centre. No death in custody, no PREA audit result, no telephone rate, no commissary price list and no name for any sitting justice of the peace was found on the county's own site
Source: Pinal County - Adult Detention, About Us · checked 2026-08-23
Transparency rating
7/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✗PREA audits — not published
- ✓Independent inspection
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✓How to post bond
- ✓Phone, video and commissary rates
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built1996. 'The existing Jail was opened April 1st, 1996, with a bed capacity of 472'
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byGeneral fund. Pinal County has no jail district. The Sheriff's Office is budgeted at $68,466,204 for FY2026-27, with special revenue funds for Jail Enhancement ($607,660, of which $240,000 is intergovernmental revenue), Sheriff/Inmate Services ($1,041,650) and Sheriff/Contract Prisoner Fees. Nothing was found about how the 1996 building or the 2006 expansion was financed
- BedsRated capacity 1,503, in the National Institute of Corrections' 'Large Jail Category', with an average daily population of about 600. The building opened with 472 beds
Since then
- July 2006: 'a 1,031-bed expansion was opened', taking the jail from 472 beds to its present rated capacity of 1,503
- A further construction project was under way at the time of reading: on-site public video visitation was 'closed until further notice, due to construction', and the county separately announced 'Major Construction Work to Begin on Florence Admin Campus in January' for a new Administration building from 5 January 2026
The Sheriff
Sheriff Ross Teeple
- Runs the jailYes, and the county says so in one sentence: 'The Pinal County Jail operates under the management and supervision of the Pinal County Sheriff.' 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
- Office971 N Jason Lopez Circle, Building C, Florence, AZ 85132; mailing address P.O. Box 867, Florence, AZ 85132. Non-emergency 520-866-5111; the Sheriff's own line is 520-866-5133
- Command staffBryan Harrell, Undersheriff; Jason Villegas, Deputy Chief of Patrol; Gilberto Hoyos, Deputy Chief of Adult Detention; Stephanie Swafford, Lieutenant, Adult Detention; Samuel Salzwedel, Public Information Officer
- Adult Detention is his divisionThe Adult Detention Division sits under the Sheriff, headed by a Deputy Chief of Adult Detention, with the Detention Center's own line at 520-509-7957
- A federal immigration agreement'The Detention Center participates in the Federal Government's 287g program. Right now we have six detention officers who have 287(g) authority. Through our 287g program in our jail, we have a 48 hour hold to allow ICE agents to take custody of those who have been identified as being in the country illegally'
- A recent contract decisionThe county published a news item headed 'PCSO Not Renewing Flock Safety Camera Contract', reporting that 'At Wednesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, Pinal County Sheriff Ross Teeple' addressed the decision
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Pinal County - Adult Detention, About Us · 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 nominating commission's list and then stand for retention. Pinal County therefore elects its Superior Court judges, and Judge Joseph Georgini is the presiding judge. Justices of the peace are elected to four-year terms in their precinct, and Pinal has six precincts. In Arizona it is normally the justice of the peace or a municipal magistrate who sets release conditions at the initial appearance, so the officer who holds the prisoner - the elected sheriff - and the judge who decides whether the prisoner stays answer to different electorates. Pinal's own jail FAQ makes the split visible from the inside: a family posting bail is told they may 'Pay the Bail at the court jurisdiction (Justice Court, Superior Court)' or use the jail's own kiosk, because the money is the jail's business but the amount is the court's. All of these judges are state judicial officers, not county officials.
Pinal County Superior Court - Presiding Judge
- Joseph Georgini. The Arizona Supreme Court's Presiding Judges list names 'Judge Joseph Georgini, Pinal County'. The county's own Superior Court pages at pinal.gov carry no list of divisions or judges that this researcher could read
Justice Courts - six precincts
- Not found. Pinal County publishes the six justice precincts by name - 'JP1 - Pioneer (San Tan Valley)', 'JP2 - Casa Grande', 'JP3 - Central Pinal (Florence/Coolidge/Eloy)', 'JP4 - Western Pinal (Maricopa)', 'JP5 - Copper Corridor (Superior/Mammoth/Oracle)' and 'JP6 - Apache Junction' - but the individual court pages the county links to (/340 through /346) all return its 'Custom404' page, so no justice of the peace is named. The county does publish what these courts do to people in custody: 'Misdemeanors, Petty Offenses and Criminal Traffic cases. Learn more about the process from Arrests and Arraignment to the Initial Appearance, Trial and Bonds'
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
- Pinal passes more of these checks than any other county in this group, and it does so with plain numbers rather than vendor links: a rated capacity, an average daily population, an opening date, the size of its one expansion, an accreditation result, a live roster and a step-by-step answer to how a family posts a bond.
- roster is marked yes. The Sheriff's Office runs its own inmate search at app1.pinal.gov, which states: 'The search engine lists individuals who are currently incarcerated in the Pinal County Jail. Inclusion in this search does not indicate guilt, only that the individual is or has been incarcerated.' The county also publishes how stale it can be: 'This information is updated every 60 minutes.'
- inspections is marked yes on the strength of a national accreditation rather than a government inspection, and the distinction matters. Arizona has no state jail inspector, so the only external review of this jail is the National Sheriffs' Association's Jail Operations accreditation, which the county publishes a result for - first accredited June 2011, reaccredited December 2013 with a 'Level 1' rating, 'the highest score possible', and described as the first Arizona jail to be nationally accredited. No accreditation later than 2013 is published, so what is on the record is now more than a decade old.
- bond_info is marked yes, and it is the clearest bail guidance found in this group. The jail FAQ answers 'How do I post a bond for someone?' with four concrete routes - the TouchPay kiosk in the lobby, paying the court directly, a bail bond service, or TouchPay by phone - tells the payer to 'go to the admission window and confirm that the bail was paid', and warns that immigration bonds cannot be paid at the jail at all.
- fees is marked yes because the county publishes an actual price for a visit: 'Video visitations on-site is at no cost, remote video visit cost from home or office is $6 for 20 minutes.' What is not published is a telephone rate or a commissary price list. Calls and messages run through Securus, whose own leaflets the county hosts; those leaflets promise 'economical rates' but state none.
- contracts is marked no. The budget shows the county takes money for holding other agencies' prisoners - there is a fund literally named 'SHERIFF/CONTRACT PRISONER FEES', and the jail's 287(g) agreement means it holds people for ICE for up to 48 hours - but neither the agreements nor any per-day rate is published.
- deaths and prea are marked no. Nothing was found on the county's own pages recording a death in custody or a PREA audit result.
- Two operational changes worth recording because they change what a family must do. From 11 January 2026 all personal mail to a prisoner must be sent to a contractor's address in Tampa, Florida, not to the jail in Florence, Arizona - the county highlights this itself - and 'All mail will be scanned into the system for incarcerated individuals to view on various kiosks and tablets'. Separately, on-site video visitation was suspended for construction at the time of reading, leaving the $6 remote visit as the only route for most families.
- The county's own Justice Court pages are broken. Links to all six justice precinct pages return Pinal's 'Custom404' error page, so the county names its six justice courts but names none of the judges who sit in them - the judges who, in Arizona, set release conditions at the initial appearance for people held in this jail.
- Board of Supervisors, five members: Rich Vitiello (District 1), Mike Goodman (District 2), Stephen Q. Miller (District 3), Jeffrey McClure (District 4, Chairman) and Jeff Serdy (District 5, Vice-Chairman). Meetings at 9:30 a.m. on selected Wednesdays in the Board of Supervisors Hearing Room, Administrative Complex, 135 North Pinal Street, Florence. In the county's own words: 'Every year, the Pinal County Board of Supervisors, as required by law, crafts a budget providing revenue for individual departments and elected offices. One of the primary jobs of the Board is to establish the county property tax rate and the budget for the coming year... The Board of Supervisors also has the authority to fill vacancies in the county and legislative offices, other boards and commissions, pass resolutions, and enact ordinances and regulations as authorized by state law.' Pinal County has no jail district; the jail is funded through the Sheriff's Office, budgeted at $68,466,204 for FY2026-27, with separate special revenue funds for Jail Enhancement ($607,660), Sheriff/Inmate Services ($1,041,650) and Sheriff/Contract Prisoner Fees. Juvenile Probation & Detention is budgeted separately at $8,070,860. The board also maintains a 'Corps Local Detention Officers Retirement Board' among its boards and commissions - a pension board for detention staff, not an oversight body for the jail. Board minutes run back a long way: the county notes 'For Board of Supervisors Minutes from 1875 to July 23, 2025, please see the Archives'.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Pinal 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