The Detention Center
Clark County Detention Center (CCDC), with the North Valley Complex (NVC) as a second site
- Operated byLas Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Detention Services Division, under the elected Clark County Sheriff
- Jail address330 South Casino Center Blvd., Las Vegas, NV 89101. Inmate mail and funds go to PO Box 43059, Las Vegas, NV 89116. Information line (702) 671-3900
- Second facilityThe county's visitation page states that visitor registration at CCDC 'includes all visits for those inmates housed at the North Valley Complex.' The commissary delivery schedule lists 'North Tower', 'South Tower' and 'North Valley Complex'
- Who else holds prisoners in the countyThe county's own inmate-search page warns that people arrested in Clark County may be held elsewhere and links to the Las Vegas City Jail, the North Las Vegas Detention and Corrections Facility and the Henderson Detention Center - three city jails outside the sheriff's control
- MoneyClark County budgets the jail in Fund 2060, Detention Services. The FY2026-27 final budget shows Public Safety - Corrections expenditure of $372,021,345 final approved, against $316,469,933 estimated for the current year and $309,779,648 actual for the year ended 30 June 2025. The fund is filled by an operating transfer of $345,633,221 from the General Fund; it also transfers $13,945,000 out to long-term county bond debt service
- Video visit price'Effective April 6, 2026, the cost for the 25-minute remote video visit is $4.75, or $0.19 per minute.' All social onsite and remote video visits are 25 minutes
- Phone and tablet vendorViaPath Technologies. From 1 June friends and family can no longer deposit into an inmate PIN-debit phone account and must use a Touchpay commissary account, a GettingOut.com messaging account, or GettingOut AdvancePay. No per-minute call rate is published on the county's page
- Commissary vendorAramark, with ICARE gift bags through clarknv.icaregifts.com. Delivery is Monday and Thursday for the North Tower and the North Valley Complex, Tuesday and Friday for the South Tower. No price list is published
- BailThe Pre-Trial Services bail bond window is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week inside CCDC. A $50 filing fee is charged on all bail bonds. Cash, Visa and Mastercard are taken up to $10,000; cashier's cheques and money orders go to Las Vegas Justice Court, or to the Clerk of the Court at the Regional Justice Center for district court bail
- A published limit'John / Jane Doe's cannot post bail until properly identified through the Clark County Detention fingerprint process'
- What was triedThe detention centre landing page, About Us, Inmate Search, Pre-Trial Services/Bail, Visitation, Commissary, Inmate Funds, Inmate Telephone, Inmate Complaints and Grievances and the PREA sexual-misconduct page were read, along with the county's 4,398-URL sitemap, the FY2026-27 General Fund and Special Revenue Funds budget schedules, the Board of County Commissioners page and the justice courts index. The county's own site publishes no bed count, no daily population, no death in custody, no PREA audit result, no inspection result and no contract to hold another agency's prisoners
Source: Clark County - Clark County Detention Center · checked 2026-08-23
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓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
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found on the county's own site
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byOperating expenditure only is published. Fund 2060, Detention Services, is filled by a $345,633,221 transfer from the General Fund in FY2026-27 and pays $13,945,000 a year out to long-term county bond debt service
- BedsNot found on the county's own site
Since then
- The county's visitation and commissary pages show a second site, the North Valley Complex, in use alongside CCDC's North and South Towers, but no build date, cost or bed count is published
The Sheriff
Sheriff Kevin McMahill
- Runs the jailYes, though at one remove. The Clark County Detention Center is run by the Detention Services Division of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, and LVMPD is headed by the elected Sheriff of Clark County. The county's own detention centre pages carry LVMPD's mission statement and route inmate grievances to DSDRMA@LVMPD.com
- How the office is filledElected. The county's own elected-officials page cites NRS 248.010(2): 'The Sheriff takes office on the 1st Monday in January next following his or her election.' It records a four-year term expiring in 2026
- What the county's own page says'Kevin McMahill - 4-year term expires in 2026.' The page is stamped 'Last Updated January 11, 2023'
- Cross-checkThe Nevada Association of Counties 2026 county directory also lists Kevin McMahill as Sheriff of Clark County
- What could not be openedwww.lvmpd.com returns HTTP 403 to this researcher, so no LVMPD-hosted page - annual report, in-custody death release or Detention Services Division page - was read. Nothing from lvmpd.com is cited here
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Clark County - Elected Officials: Sheriff · checked 2026-08-23
The Judges
Nevada District Court judges are elected in nonpartisan district-wide races to six-year terms, and Justices of the Peace are elected to six-year terms in their township. Both are state judicial officers under Article 6 of the Nevada Constitution, not county officials, although the county pays for the Justice Court. At first appearance it is normally the Justice of the Peace who sets bail; the Justice Court also holds preliminary examinations in felony and gross misdemeanour cases. Mid-term vacancies are filled by appointment - by the Governor for a District Court seat, by the board of county commissioners for a Justice of the Peace - and the appointee then stands at the next election. NRS 211.030 makes the sheriff the custodian of the county jail and NRS 248.050 makes the sheriff responsible for the prisoners in it, so the judge who sets bail and the officer who holds the prisoner are answerable to different electorates. In Clark County the Eighth Judicial District Court bench elects its own chief judge by vote of the judges, and the Las Vegas Justice Court - the court sitting across the street from the Clark County Detention Center in the Regional Justice Center - is where bail is normally first set.
Eighth Judicial District Court (Clark County) - Chief Judge
- Tierra Jones - selected by unanimous vote of the Eighth Judicial District Court bench on 19 March 2026 to serve as chief judge effective 1 July, succeeding Chief Judge Jerry Wiese, who was term-limited after four years as chief. Judge Jones took the bench in Department 10 on 22 May 2017 after appointment by Governor Brian Sandoval, and was presiding criminal division judge with the homicide docket before her selection
Las Vegas Justice Court, Regional Justice Center, 200 Lewis Avenue - the court that normally sets bail at first appearance for people held at CCDC
- Melisa De La Garza - Chief Judge. Department 15; elected 6 November 2018, took office 7 January 2019, term expires 7 January 2031
- Court Administrator and Clerk of the Court: Charles A. Mapp, Sr.
Clark County Justice Courts - the eleven township courts the county lists
- Boulder City, Bunkerville, Goodsprings, Henderson, Las Vegas, Laughlin Township, Mesquite, Moapa, Moapa Valley, North Las Vegas and Searchlight townships. The Nevada Judicial Directory of 17 March 2026 names, among others, Christopher Tilman (Boulder Township), Darryll B. Dodenbier (Bunkerville), Larry Shupe (Goodsprings), Sandy DiGiacomo, Stephen L. George and Barbara Schifalacqua (Henderson), Gino Briscoe (Laughlin), Ryan Toone (Mesquite), Ruth Kolhoss (Moapa), Gregory Mills (Moapa Valley), Kalani Hoo, Jonathan Cooper and Belinda Harris (North Las Vegas) and Chris Jeter (Searchlight)
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
- Clark County is the exception that is not one. The Clark County Detention Center is a bureau of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, but LVMPD is headed by the elected Clark County Sheriff, so the jailer here is an elected sheriff exactly as NRS 211.030 provides. jail_administrator is therefore null.
- www.lvmpd.com returned HTTP 403 throughout this research. LVMPD publishes a Detention Services Division annual report and in-custody death releases on that domain, but none of it could be opened and none of it is cited. The checks below judge only what clarkcountynv.gov publishes, which is what the brief asks.
- capacity is marked no. Neither a rated bed count nor a daily population figure appears anywhere on the county's detention pages or in the FY2026-27 budget schedules.
- budget is marked yes and it is the clearest jail budget in this group: Fund 2060, Detention Services, shows Public Safety - Corrections at $372,021,345 final approved for the year ending 30 June 2027, broken down into $170,299,802 salaries, $103,857,536 benefits, $90,637,056 services and supplies and $7,226,951 capital outlay.
- fees is marked yes on the strength of one published price - the 25-minute remote video visit at $4.75, or $0.19 per minute, effective 6 April 2026. No per-minute telephone rate and no commissary price list is published; the phone page describes only which vendor account to fund.
- prea is marked no. The county publishes a full PREA sexual abuse and harassment page for people in custody - zero tolerance, reporting routes, what to do after an assault - but no PREA audit result.
- deaths is marked no. The Clark County Coroner/Medical Examiner publishes public dashboards for child deaths, homicide deaths, heat-related deaths, homeless deaths and deaths by age, race, gender and zip code, but there is no in-custody death dashboard or release on the county site.
- The county's own inmate-search page is unusually candid about the limits of the roster it publishes: people under 18, and people in protective custody, are not displayed.
- Board of County Commissioners, seven members elected from geographic districts on a partisan basis to staggered four-year terms, at 500 S. Grand Central Pkwy., Floor 6, Las Vegas, NV 89155. Michael Naft (District A) is Chairman and William McCurdy II (District D) Vice-Chairman; the other members are Marilyn Kirkpatrick (B), April Becker (C), Tick Segerblom (E), Justin Jones (F) and James Gibson (G). County Manager Kevin Schiller. There is no jail district and no dedicated jail tax: the Clark County Detention Center is paid for out of the General Fund through an operating transfer of $345,633,221 into Fund 2060, Detention Services, in FY2026-27. A separate transfer of $394,227,652 goes to Fund 2080 (LVMPD) for policing.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Clark 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).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.
The sheriff is on your ballot
The county clerk or registrar of voters runs the election in Clark County and prints the ballot the sheriff’s name is on. Links from USA.gov and vote.gov.
Names verified 2026-08-23 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered