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New Mexico
Updated on: February 2, 2024

The New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) oversees all correctional facilities in the state, including prisons, detention centers, and work release centers. The NMCD maintains an online database that allows individuals to search for inmates based on name and or prisoner number. The search results provide basic information about each inmate's current location, age, gender, and length of sentence. For more detailed information about an individual's status or charges against them that led to incarceration, contact information for the facility must be obtained separately.  

The NMCD also provides contact information for local jails throughout the state. These jails can hold inmates pending trial or awaiting transfer to a long-term prison facility. People searching for inmates who may be detained in a local jail should contact the sheriff's office in the county where they are believed to be held.  

For those seeking family members or friends who may have been arrested by border patrol agents or other federal law enforcement agencies in New Mexico, there are two main options: contacting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) directly or using an online detainee locator tool offered by ICE on its website. For detainees held at ICE facilities within New Mexico's borders—which include both short-term detention centers and larger processing centers—the detainee locator tool is often faster than attempting to reach ICE directly through phone calls or emails inquiring about a specific person's status and whereabouts. 

Finding someone held at more secure correctional facilities—such as those for juveniles—can be difficult without access to direct contact information from those organizations themselves due to privacy laws around juveniles' personal details being released publicly without written permission from their guardians or immediate family members authorized by law to do so on their behalf. However, with some research into individual facilities' policies regarding public inquiries related to juvenile inmates it can sometimes be possible to obtain limited background information on individuals held therein with prior authorization under certain conditions outlined by said policies as applicable in New Mexico specifically.  

Basic information

Department Name
New Mexico Corrections Department
Official Website
Currently Incarcerated Inmates
Location P.O. Box
4337 NM 14, Santa Fe NM 87508 P.O. Box 27116, Santa Fe NM
Phone Number
(505) 827-8645
Fax
(505) 827-8533

Types of Correctional Facilities in New Mexico

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