The Graham County Detention Facility shares 600 West Graham Canal Road, Safford, AZ 85546 with the sheriff's office. Listings show different phone numbers for it, so the sheriff's main line, 928-428-3141, is the safest bet.

Graham County Inmate Search opens a statewide custody search rather than a county list. Pick Arizona, enter the name, and look for a Safford match. A phone call to 928-428-3141 (600 West Graham Canal Road, Safford, AZ 85546) is often quicker.

Booking takes a few hours. Statewide searches can lag further. Call the sheriff (600 West Graham Canal Road, Safford, AZ 85546, 928-428-3141) with the full name and birth date.

Arizona officers can release on a notice to appear for misdemeanors. Domestic violence arrests are the exception.

Safford Police, at 523 South 10th Avenue, Safford, AZ 85546, take calls on 928-432-4100.

Within 24 hours of arrest. The judge reads the allegations, asks about counsel and sets release terms.

The law presumes release on recognizance. A judge adds a bond or conditions only if needed; detention without bail needs a hearing and a serious charge. Our Graham bail guide explains more.

Call 928-428-3141 (600 West Graham Canal Road, Safford, AZ 85546) for the amount and payment rules. A bondsman can post for a fee.

Felonies go to Graham County Superior Court (800 West Main Street, Safford, AZ 85546, 928-428-3100) in Safford. Misdemeanors go to justice courts or the Safford, Thatcher or Pima town courts. See the Graham court steps.

The court appoints one for people who lack the means to pay for a lawyer. They should ask at the first hearing.

Ring the sheriff's office (600 West Graham Canal Road, Safford, AZ 85546) at 928-428-3141 about outside warrants or holds. The DPS warrant search covers statewide warrants, and the Public Access lookup shows cases in Greenlee, Cochise or elsewhere. A defense attorney can settle bond with that court so release is one step. The Superior Court clerk (800 West Main Street, Safford, AZ 85546) takes felony inquiries at 928-428-3100. Keep the birth date handy. Walk-in surrenders go to 600 West Graham Canal Road, Safford, AZ 85546; phone 928-428-2455 for the bond first.

Video visits from home or the jail (600 West Graham Canal Road, Safford, AZ 85546, 928-428-2455) lobby may be offered. Call the jail or check online for hours. See Graham visitation and remote visits.

Calls come from a number shown as 800-943-2189. Set up a prepaid account. Guides: Graham calls, messages, tablets, deposits, Graham commissary.

Include the name, booking number and return address. See Graham inmate mail.

Anything this guide leaves open is best put to the Graham County Adult Detention Facility, 600 West Graham Canal Road, Safford, AZ 85546, 928-428-3141.

Call 928-428-3141 and ask for medical to be told about medicines or suicide risk.

To double-check, reach the Graham County Adult Detention Facility on 928-428-3141; mail goes to 600 West Graham Canal Road, Safford, AZ 85546.

Kids go through juvenile court rather than the Safford jail (600 West Graham Canal Road, Safford, AZ 85546, 928-428-2455), and their names stay private. Ask the sheriff's line for the juvenile probation office.

Part of the San Carlos Apache reservation lies in Graham County. Its police and detention center, 928-475-4060, are separate from the county jail (600 West Graham Canal Road, Safford, AZ 85546, 928-428-2455).

Ignore callers who demand gift cards or wires. Safford jail (600 West Graham Canal Road, Safford, AZ 85546, 928-428-2455) staff and court clerks never ask for those payments by phone.

Ring the Graham County Sheriff's Office (600 West Graham Canal Road, Safford, AZ 85546) at 928-428-3141 so a deputy can verify custody, read you the bond and give the booking number.

Agents from groups such as the Postal Inspection Service, the IRS, or the Marshals Service handle federal arrests, often with local police. An exception: federal cases from the San Carlos Apache lands go to Phoenix instead. Safford is in Arizona's federal district, Tucson Division, so trials are held downtown in Tucson, 405 West Congress Street, Tucson, AZ 85701. Clerk staff there take calls at 520-205-4200. The judge reads a short report from a pretrial services officer. Often by the next weekday, the person meets a magistrate judge who reads the charges. Nobody uses a bail schedule in U.S. district court. A short hearing works out what conditions apply, under federal bail law.

Search the county jail (600 West Graham Canal Road, Safford, AZ 85546, 928-428-2455) list; there a federal hold may show. Before trial, the Marshals may place them in local jails under contract. Or call the Marshals Service for Arizona in Tucson at 520-879-6900 (405 West Congress Street, Suite 2300, Tucson, AZ 85701). Sentenced people leave the local jail for the BOP (320 First Street NW, Washington, DC 20534, 202-307-3198) after sentencing. Find their facility with the federal locator.

• During booking, fingerprints are sent to federal databases. Then ICE might issue a detainer.
• Instead of walking out, they may be held up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released so ICE can come.
• The hold stays in place after a bond is posted.
• Immigration officers can pick them up at the jail (600 West Graham Canal Road, Safford, AZ 85546, 928-428-2455) inside that 48-hour window. If ICE misses the deadline, the sheriff must free them on the local case.
• Need to reach ICE? Its Phoenix office handles Arizona and sits at 2035 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004; the number is 602-257-5900.
• The ICE locator looks up people using an A-number plus birth country. The locator also works by country of birth, birth date and the exact name if there's no A-number.
• Where they are sent depends on ICE.

The state's prison system, the ADCRR (701 East Jefferson Street, Phoenix, AZ 85034, 602-542-5497), takes people given state time. At first, most people wait in the Safford jail (600 West Graham Canal Road, Safford, AZ 85546, 928-428-2455) while the ADCRR sends for them. The transfer lands them at reception, where they get processed. There, the ADCRR look ats gang links, medical and mental care and custody score. Last, they move to a unit that matches their needs.

To follow the move, try the ADCRR online search. For prison details, see Arizona state prisons.

Immigration pictures become available only through ICE's FOIA form, though ICE decides on release. Newsrooms hoping for a jail photo can try the sheriff's office (600 West Graham Canal Road, Safford, AZ 85546) on 928-428-3141. The federal government does not share booking photos with the public or media. Federal agencies keep booking pictures back; the Marshals release one only to find a wanted person, when the community needs to be warned now or when posting it could help find them or warn people.

Safford Police operate from 523 South 10th Avenue, Safford, AZ 85546 and pick up at 928-432-4100; after hours the sheriff's dispatch at 928-428-3141 can relay a message. Thatcher's department shares Town Hall at 3700 West Main Street, Thatcher, AZ 85552, phone 928-428-2296. In Pima the police office is 126 West Center Street, Pima, AZ 85543, line 928-485-9454. Deputies report to the Graham County Sheriff's Office at 600 West Graham Canal Road, Safford, AZ 85546, on that same 928-428-3141 line.

Solomon, Fort Thomas, Bylas and Klondyke are served by deputies or tribal police.