The Detention Center
Prescott Detention Center and Camp Verde Detention Center
- Operated byYavapai County Sheriff's Office, Detention Services Division. Paid for through the Yavapai County Jail District, a separate taxing and financing body funded by a dedicated quarter-cent sales tax
- Two jails, not oneThe Sheriff's Office publishes a single 'Yavapai County Detention Centers' page naming both facilities. Booking records in the county inmate search identify housing as 'PJC' and 'CVDC'
- Prescott Detention Center address1200 Prescott Lakes Parkway, Prescott, AZ 86301. Phone (928) 771-3260
- Camp Verde Detention Center address2830 N Commonwealth Drive, Suite 105, Camp Verde, AZ 86322. Phone (928) 567-7734. This is also the address the Sheriff's Office gives for inmate mail at either facility
- Prescott beds and dates'The new Prescott Criminal Justice Center design started in 2016. The new facility opened for operations in 2023.' 'The new detention center is a 144-bed facility that replaced the old small facility located in the Sheriff's Office in downtown Prescott.' No bed count is published for Camp Verde
- What else is on the Prescott site'Operations for the CJC will include Yavapai County Courts, Yavapai County Attorney's Office, Yavapai County Sheriff's Office Detention, and Connections and Re-entry services.' The county says co-locating the court 'prevents the need for inmates to be brought to Courthouse Square on Gurley Street'
- Psychiatric unit'A 12-bed inpatient psychiatric unit allows service for individuals who may otherwise enter the criminal justice system or be deflected to the local emergency departments'
- Camp Verde remodel'Through the generous funding of the AZ Attorney General's Office, Yavapai Sherriff's Office's Camp Verde Detention Center has begun a remodel to incorporate a Reentry Center with the same model and goal to be available for individuals upon release in the Verde area.' No cost figure is published
- Meal charge'A daily charge of $2.00 for meals is charged in accordance with ARS 31-121'
- Telephones'Inmates are allowed to make telephone calls from their housing areas.' Calls run through Securus. 'Incoming calls for inmates are not allowed, except in verified emergency situations.' No per-minute rate is published
- VisitationOn-site video visits are free: 'There is no charge for on-site video visits.' Remote internet video visits are available 'for a small charge' through Securus, but no price is given. Visits run Monday to Friday 12:00-3:30 pm, 20 minutes per session, booked 1 to 14 days ahead
- Commissary'Yavapai County Sheriff's Office has recently partnered with Aramark Correctional Services as our new inmate commissary provider,' activated July 7, 2022, with iCare care packages. No price list is published
- ProgrammesReligious studies, high school equivalency and behavioral health programmes, delivered in person by volunteers and 'through tablets in which they may access self-help courses, guided course work, and literature'
- Re-entryThe Reach Out programme screens 'every inmate entering the facility within 36 hours', coordinates treatment, and links services on release. A separate Yavapai Reentry and Connections Center sits alongside the Prescott jail
- What was triedThe Sheriff's Office site ycsoaz.gov including the Detention Services Division, Yavapai County Detention Centers, Inmate Services, Contacting or Supporting an Inmate, Intake and Release Information, Re Entry Services, Prescott Criminal Justice Center, Executive Team and News Articles pages; the county site yavapaiaz.gov including Board of Supervisors, Budget Information, County History, Meetings, Law and Justice and Constable's Office; the county inmate search at apps.yavapaiaz.gov; courts.yavapaiaz.gov; and the adopted FY2026-27 county budget. The site search on both ycsoaz.gov and yavapaiaz.gov returns 'Access Denied' to this researcher, and both sitemap.xml files are blocked, so pages were reached by following navigation. No Camp Verde bed count, no daily population, no construction cost, no death in custody, no PREA audit, no inspection result, no prisoner-housing contract or rate, and no phone or commissary price list was found
Source: Yavapai County Sheriff's Office - Yavapai County Detention Centers · checked 2026-08-23
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗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
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtPrescott Detention Center: design started 2016, 'The new facility opened for operations in 2023.' Camp Verde Detention Center: Not found
- Original costNot found. No construction cost is published for either facility. The county does publish the debt it is carrying: the FY2027 budget shows a '0913 Jail District Revenue Obligation' debt service fund of $4,311,950 a year, funded by a transfer of the same amount from the general fund, which is the annual cost of the borrowing rather than the price of the building
- Paid for byThe Yavapai County Jail District pays for the jails. Its FY2027 revenue is $16,420,000, made up of a dedicated 1/4 cent sales tax of $16,300,000, miscellaneous charges for services of $100,000 and interest of $20,000. The district levies no property tax at all - it appears in neither the primary nor the secondary levy schedule. The general fund transfers a further $25,038,642 in, split into a maintenance-of-effort payment of $8,883,479, a debt service payment of $4,311,950 and an additional subsidy of $11,843,213. The Camp Verde reentry remodel is funded by a grant from the Arizona Attorney General's Office. Nothing was found about how the buildings themselves were originally paid for
- Beds144 at the Prescott Detention Center, which the county describes as 'a 144-bed facility that replaced the old small facility located in the Sheriff's Office in downtown Prescott'. A separate 12-bed inpatient psychiatric unit is part of the Criminal Justice Center. No bed count is published for the Camp Verde Detention Center and no daily population figure is published for either jail
Since then
- 2016-2023: the Prescott Criminal Justice Center was designed and built, replacing the old jail inside the Sheriff's Office in downtown Prescott and co-locating the Superior Court, the County Attorney and detention on one site
- The Yavapai Reentry and Connections Center opened alongside it, 'a new facility separate from, but in conjunction with, the new Yavapai Criminal Justice Center'
- Ongoing: the Camp Verde Detention Center 'has begun a remodel to incorporate a Reentry Center', funded by the Arizona Attorney General's Office
The Sheriff
Sheriff David Rhodes
- Runs the jailYes. The Sheriff's Office runs both county jails through its Detention Services Division, and the county budget books the entire Jail District appropriation under the department heading 'Sheriff'. ARS 31-101 and ARS 11-441(A)(5) make the sheriff the jailer in every Arizona county
- How the office is filledElected countywide to a four-year term. Article 12, Section 3 of the Arizona Constitution creates an elected sheriff in every organized county
- Career'Sheriff David Rhodes is a 28-year veteran of the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office. He began his career as a volunteer, making it official in 1994 and promoting through the ranks in positions of Sergeant, Lieutenant, Captain and Chief Deputy.' A graduate of FBI National Academy Session #244, he 'served as Commander in both the Law Enforcement Division and the Detention Division of the agency'
- AppointmentsAppointed by the Arizona Chief Justice to the Committee on Mental Health & the Justice System (August 2018) and to the Committee on Impact of Domestic Violence (January 2011)
- Who runs the jails day to dayCommander Eric Stumpf. The Executive Team page says he 'promoted through the ranks of Detention Services and managed the opening of the Prescott Detention Center. He now leads the Detention Services Division and is responsible for both jail facilities.' He is a graduate of the National Jail Leadership Command Academy, Class #40. Chief Deputy Jeff Newnum 'has commanded both the Law Enforcement Services Division and Detention Services Division'
- Contact255 E Gurley St, Prescott, AZ 86301; 928-771-3260; web.sheriff@yavapaiaz.gov
- Detention staffingThe FY2027 county budget funds 247.000 full-time equivalent positions in the Jail District fund, at $17,864,742 in employee salaries and hourly costs and $26,553,564 in total estimated personnel compensation
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Yavapai County Sheriff's Office - Sheriff David Rhodes · 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. Yavapai is an elective county, but its own division list shows how mixed the reality is: of the eight numbered divisions, four judges are marked 'Appointed' and four 'Elected', because a mid-term vacancy is filled by gubernatorial appointment and the appointee then stands at the next election. Justices of the peace are elected to four-year terms in their precinct; the Arizona Supreme Court states plainly that 'Each county has justice courts that are presided over by a justice of the peace, who is elected for a four year term.' Yavapai has five justice precincts - Bagdad-Yarnell, Mayer, Prescott, Seligman and Verde Valley - and the county courts site names only two of the five judges, and then only by surname. 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. All of these judges are state judicial officers, not county officials, even though the county pays for the justice courts and the county's quarter-cent jail tax pays for the building the Prescott court now shares with the jail.
Superior Court in Yavapai County - Presiding Judge
- John Napper. The Arizona Supreme Court's Presiding Judges list names 'Judge John Napper' for Yavapai County. The county courts site lists him as the Division 2 judge, appointed 2017
Superior Court in Yavapai County - Divisions
- Division 1 - Michael P. McGill (appointed 2020)
- Division 2 - John Napper (appointed 2017)
- Division 3 - Tina R. Ainley (elected 2008)
- Division 4 - Krista M. Carman (appointed 2019)
- Division 5 - Henry Edward Whitmer (elected 2024)
- Division 6 - Anna C. Young (elected 2012)
- Division 7 - Michael R. Bluff (elected 2008)
- Division 8 - Debra R. Phelan (appointed 2019)
- Division A Pro Tem - Kristen Sharifi (appointed 2025)
- Division B Judge Pro Tem - Linda Wallace (appointed 2021)
- Family Law Commissioner - Joseph P. Goldstein (appointed 2011)
- The court runs an Early Disposition Court on Tuesdays in Prescott at the Yavapai County Justice Center and on Thursdays at the Camp Verde Superior Courthouse, '8:00AM for in-custody, 1:00PM for out-of-custody'
Yavapai County Justice Courts - five precincts
- Bagdad-Yarnell Justice Court - surname only. The court's own page says 'Judge Dowling and the Court staff also pledge to deal with all matters consistent with the principals of due process'. 22591 Looka Way, Yarnell; (928) 771-3357
- Mayer Justice Court - surname only. 'Judge Richardson and the Court staff also pledge...'. The court 'handles about 8,500 cases per year'. 12840 Central Avenue, Mayer; (928) 771-3355
- Prescott Justice Court - Not found. The court publishes a mission statement and programme goals but does not name its justice of the peace. 120 South Cortez Street, Prescott; (928) 771-3300
- Seligman Justice Court - Not found. 54150 Floyd Street, Seligman; (928) 422-3281
- Verde Valley Justice Court - Not found. The judge writes in the first person, 'I am honored to have been elected as Justice of the Peace for the Verde Valley Judicial District', but is not named. 10 South 6th Street, Cottonwood; (928) 639-5820
Constables - one per justice precinct
- Donny Oen - Presiding Constable, Mayer Precinct, elected 2018
- Ron Williams - Associate Presider, Prescott Precinct, elected 2014
- Brandon Rumpf - Verde Valley Precinct, appointed 2024
- Bill Risen - Bagdad-Yarnell Precinct, appointed 2023
- Schylar Cloudt - Seligman Precinct, appointed 2026
- A constable is an elected peace officer who serves process for the justice court, not a judge. The county says 'The provisions of law relating to sheriffs, as far as applicable, govern the powers, duties and liabilities of constables'
Superior Court Administration
- Julie Malinowski, Court Administrator, appointed 2025. Yavapai County Courthouse, 120 South Cortez Street Room 410, Prescott, AZ 86303
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
- named is marked yes. The Sheriff's Office publishes a page headed 'Yavapai County Detention Centers' that names both the Camp Verde Detention Center and the Prescott Detention Center and gives the address and phone number of each.
- roster is marked yes, and it is a real roster rather than a notification service. The county runs its own Online Inmate Search at apps.yavapaiaz.gov/inmatesearch, hosted on county infrastructure and marked 'Copyright 2026 by Yavapai County Government'. It carries a timestamp - 'Information is accurate as of 8/23/2026 11:00:02 AM' - and returns inmate number, booking date, housing location and name for everyone in custody matching the search. Housing is shown to unit level, distinguishing 'PJC UNIT A' from 'CVDC UNIT 3', so the public can tell which of the two jails a person is in.
- capacity is marked no, and the reason is that the check asks for two things. Beds are published for one of the two jails: the county says the Prescott Detention Center is 'a 144-bed facility'. No bed count at all is published for Camp Verde, which from the inmate search housing codes appears to be the larger of the two, and no daily population figure is published for either. A reader can see who is in custody today but cannot learn how many that is against how many beds exist.
- budget is marked yes and the disclosure is strong. The county publishes final budgets back to 2013-2014, tentative budgets over the same span, annual reports, property tax rate worksheets and tax rate breakdowns, all as full Arizona Auditor General budget form sets with schedules A to G. Because the Jail District is a fund inside the county budget rather than a separate document, its revenue, expenditure, transfers, debt service and 247.000 FTE staffing all appear on the public record in schedules C, D, E and G.
- bond_info is marked yes. The Intake and Release Information page sets out how to post bail: bonds 'may be posted in person 24 hours a day at the Yavapai County Jails in Prescott and in Camp Verde, during business hours at the court of jurisdiction, or through GovPay', and the page gives the GovPayNet pay location code A001YN, the website www.GovPayNow.com and the phone number 1-877-392-2455.
- fees is marked no, though the county is closer than most. One price is published - the '$2.00 for meals' daily charge under ARS 31-121 - and one is published as free: 'There is no charge for on-site video visits.' But the check asks for phone, video visit and commissary rates, and none of those three is given. Remote video visits are described only as costing 'a small charge' through Securus, telephone calls are routed to a Securus account with no rate quoted, and commissary is handled by Aramark with no price list.
- contracts is marked no, and unlike some counties there is not even an indication in the budget that Yavapai earns much from holding other agencies' prisoners. The Jail District's only non-tax revenue line is 'Misc. Charges for Services' at $100,000 for FY2027. No intergovernmental agreement and no per-day rate is published.
- deaths, prea and inspections are marked no. The Sheriff's Office news archive runs to 366 items and was sampled rather than read end to end, because the site search on ycsoaz.gov returns 'Access Denied' to this researcher and sitemap.xml is blocked; nothing found on the detention pages, the county site or the sampled news reports a death in custody, a PREA audit result or an independent inspection result.
- A note on where the county lives online. Yavapai County runs four separate sites: yavapaiaz.gov for the county, ycsoaz.gov for the Sheriff's Office, courts.yavapaiaz.gov for the courts and apps.yavapaiaz.gov for the inmate search. All four are Granicus OpenCities sites behind an Akamai edge that returns 'Access Denied' to a plain request; pages here were reached with ordinary browser headers by following navigation links.
- The Sheriff's Office does not treat the jail as a closed institution in its writing. It publishes the Reach Out re-entry model at some length, describes the 36-hour behavioural health screen every person entering the facility receives, and explains that co-locating the court with the jail removed the need to drive prisoners across Prescott. What it does not publish is any number by which the public could measure the result.
- Board of Supervisors, five members elected to four-year terms from five districts, meeting the first and third Wednesday of every month. Brooks Compton is District 1 Supervisor and Chair (term began 2025), Nikki Check is District 3 Supervisor and Vice Chair (2025), Dee Jenkins is District 2 (2025), Chris Kuknyo is District 4 (2025) and Mary Mallory is District 5 (2019). The Board 'is responsible for the financing and administration of County government, has final approval over County department budgets, governs tax rates and calculates all other tax rates,' and also sits as the board of directors for the county's special districts. Yavapai County has a Jail District. Under ARS Title 48, Chapter 25 an Arizona county jail district is a taxing and financing body, not an operator, and Yavapai's is funded by a dedicated quarter-cent sales tax rather than a property tax: the FY2027 adopted budget shows Jail District revenue of $16,420,000, of which $16,300,000 is the 1/4 Cent Sales Tax, and the district appears nowhere in the county's primary or secondary property tax levy schedules. On top of the sales tax the general fund transfers $25,038,642 into the Jail District in FY2027 - itemised as 'To 0003 Jail District MOE' $8,883,479, 'To 0003 Jail District Debt Service' $4,311,950 and 'To 0003 Jail District Additional' $11,843,213. The Jail District fund (0003) is budgeted at $37,116,476 for FY2027, with a further $3,813,798 in Jail District special revenue funds and $4,311,950 in debt service on the '0913 Jail District Revenue Obligation' bonds that paid for the new Prescott facility. Counting all five lines, the Sheriff's FY2027 department total is $101,732,553, of which $63,941,419 is jail money. The board's Boards and Commissions include a Correctional Officers Retirement Plan local board, which is a pension board for jail staff, not an oversight body for the jail.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Yavapai 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