Arizona

The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR) runs the state’s prison system — nine state prison complexes (Douglas, Eyman, Lewis, Perryville, Phoenix, Safford, Tucson, Winslow, and Yuma), each made up of several units with different security levels, plus privately operated prisons (run by the GEO Group and CoreCivic) that hold ADCRR-sentenced men under contract. Together the system holds roughly 35,000 people. ADCRR’s materials generally use the word inmate; this site uses neutral terms. Because each complex contains multiple units, visiting days, hours, and rules are organized at the unit level — so confirm details for the specific unit where the person is held.

Where a person is held turns first on the sentence. A person sentenced to state prison is held in an ADCRR complex (or a contracted private prison); people awaiting trial or serving jail sentences are held in a county jail run by one of Arizona’s 15 county sheriffs, which sets its own rules and is not in the ADCRR inmate search.

Newly committed people are processed at a reception unit first — men at the Alhambra unit of ASPC-Phoenix and women at ASPC-Perryville — before assignment and transfer to a permanent unit. Arizona has an active death penalty and resumed executions in 2025: men under a death sentence are held at ASPC-Eyman (Browning Unit) and ASPC-Tucson (Rincon Unit), the execution chamber is at ASPC-Florence (Central Unit), and women under a death sentence are held at ASPC-Perryville (Lumley Unit).

To find where someone is held, use the ADCRR Inmate Data Search by name or ADCRR number; it covers people in ADCRR custody, including those in the contracted private prisons, not county-jail detainees. Since December 2025, incoming personal mail no longer goes to the prison — Arizona routes it to an off-site Securus digital-mail center in Dallas, Texas, that scans it to the person’s tablet, while legal mail, publications, and parcels still go to the facility (see the mail guide). Use the guides below for the statewide rules at Arizona prisons, or go straight to a specific complex.