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Yuma County Detention Center Overview

The Yuma County Sheriff's Office Detention Bureau operates the Yuma County Detention Center as the main adult jail in the county. The facility receives, processes, classifies, and houses people arrested by county, city, and partner agencies. YCSO describes it as a maximum-security county detention center, but the jail population is not one single type of inmate. It includes pretrial detainees who have not been convicted, people held while court action is pending, and people sentenced by county and city courts.

That local role matters when using the Yuma County Detention Center inmate roster. The roster is for county jail custody. A person sentenced to Arizona prison is searched through ADCRR, an immigration detainee is searched through ICE, and a sentenced federal prisoner is searched through the BOP locator. Border Patrol and U.S. Marshals cases can pass through local or contract custody, so YCSO says family members may need to contact the U.S. Marshals Office or federal court when Border Patrol made the arrest.

The official Detention Bureau page is a useful starting point because it links to the jail divisions that families most often need: admitting, classification, bonds, visitation, mail, inmate accounts, commissary, medical services, programs, property, and grievances. Those pages are more reliable than third-party summaries when rules change.

The YCSO Detention Bureau page shows the local capacity and population context for the jail:

The official Detention Bureau page identifies the county jail, its capacity, and recent average daily population figures.

Yuma County Jail Capacity

YCSO reports a rated capacity of 756 beds for the Yuma County Detention Center. The same official 2025 detention page reports a 2025 average daily population of 424, up from 412 in 2024. Those numbers show the county jail count as a daily operating figure, not a full-year arrest total. The annual admitting figures are separate: YCSO reported 5,249 bookings and 5,227 releases for 2025, for 10,476 total in-and-out processing events.

The 2025 inmate composition report listed adult males at 83.25 percent and adult females at 16.75 percent, with juveniles at 0.00 percent in the adult jail composition. Yuma County also has a separate juvenile detention program, so juvenile custody questions should not be treated as adult roster searches.

Yuma County Detention Center Roster

The correct online lookup for this facility is the Yuma County Detention Center Inmate Web Portal. It is a Tyler/NewWorld public inquiry system. YCSO says the data updates periodically and includes an accuracy disclaimer, so the roster should be read as a current public custody index rather than as a court judgment or full criminal-history report.

1. Open the official Yuma County Detention Center Inmate Web Portal.
2. Search by name when only a partial name is known, or use subject number or booking number to narrow the result.
3. Check the in-custody option when the search is only for people currently jailed.
4. Use booking date fields or the housing facility field when searching recent or older booking records.
5. Open the linked name in the results grid and compare the booking, charge, bond, and housing details with court records.

If the roster does not show the person, call the detention center and ask for the Admitting Clerk. YCSO says to provide the person's full name and date of birth if known. The admitting clerk may be able to answer custody status, charges, bond eligibility, court of record, and initial appearance information where available. VINELink is also documented as available for Arizona and Yuma custody notifications, but it should be treated as a notification channel and verified against the jail, court, or corrections agency that controls the record.

Yuma County Jail Contact

The detention center's main public phone line is the first phone fallback for an adult custody question. Public records copies are handled by the YCSO Records Department, not by guessing from the public roster. Records requests may require the official form, picture identification, and processing time.

Yuma County Jail Visits

Public social visitation at the Yuma County Detention Center is video-only through Combined Public Communications and InmateSales. YCSO says public in-person visitation changed in 2020 to video visitation exclusively. Professional visits are handled through the Visitation Office and have a different schedule, identity rules, and credential rules.

The YCSO visitation page should be checked before a visit is scheduled.

YCSO publishes the video and professional visitation rules on its detention visitation page.

Yuma County Inmate Mail and Money

Personal inmate mail is processed through TextBehind. YCSO says personal mail sent to other addresses will be returned. Incoming mail is scanned and then made viewable on tablets, while original mail and photos are destroyed after scanning. Books and magazines may have different rules when sent from reputable publishers, and legal mail has separate handling rules.

Access Corrections fees vary by channel and deposit size. The YCSO fee schedule effective September 1, 2025 lists web and mobile credit/debit fees from $4.95 to $11.95 for the published deposit bands, phone fees from $6.95 to $13.95, lobby kiosk cash fees at $4.00, and walk-in retail cash fees at $5.95.

Yuma County Booking and Classification

YCSO admitting staff process bookings and releases, while classification staff decide housing based on risk and available information. The classification page says officers use an objective system adapted from National Institute of Corrections guidelines. They review criminal history, psychological reports, institutional behavior, and interview information, then assign high, medium, or low-risk housing. Classification can change when behavior, sanctions, or charge amendments change.

Booking data on the roster can point to charges and bond, but it does not replace the court case record. Initial appearance, bond, and charging decisions may involve the court, the prosecutor, and, for federal cases, federal agencies. For the custody search process across county, state, and federal systems, the broader Yuma County jail inmate records page explains how the roster fits with other official locators.

Yuma County Detention Programs

The YCSO Programs Department provides services in English and Spanish for inmates at the Detention Center. Listed services include religious material for most faiths, religious diets, video visitation with religious providers, self-help and life-skills information, legal material, law library resources, reading material, recreation, haircuts, substance-abuse information, and notary services. Volunteers may provide one-on-one religious video visits and substance-abuse assistance after screening and background checks.

Medical services are also part of the local jail operation. YCSO's medical page lists county employees and contracted providers and gives 2025 figures for intake assessments, medication administrations, sick calls, psychiatric visits, provider visits, chronic-care visits, wound care, MAT doses, and withdrawal protocols. Those numbers describe jail operations, not an individual inmate's private medical record.