San Miguel County Detention Center Overview
San Miguel County Detention Center is operated by San Miguel County government and detention-center leadership. The county page identifies Antonio Padilla as Warden, Steven Garcia as Deputy Warden, Lynda Janssen as Administrative Assistant, Crystalrae Romero as Inmate Programs Officer, and Xavier Romero as Auditing & Staff Development Manager. The jail's mission statement says it protects the public, staff, and inmates by operating a secure institution and maintaining humane custody under New Mexico Adult Professional Detention Standards.
The facility holds the local jail population for San Miguel County. That includes people booked after arrest, people held on bench warrants or other court orders, local sentenced misdemeanants, and people waiting for court transport. A person sentenced to New Mexico prison should be searched through the New Mexico Corrections Department after transfer. A person in federal prison or immigration custody belongs in a separate BOP or ICE locator, not the San Miguel County Detention Center roster.
The county detention page is a useful source because it shows the facility contact block, the lookup-transition notice, the official visitation schedule, and staff names. The screenshot below comes from the county page listed in the project manifest.
The county page image supports the contact and visitation details on this facility page, but the live county page should still be checked before travel or a custody call.
San Miguel County Detention Capacity
The county page reviewed for this build does not publish a current capacity or live population total. The historical population source is the 2014 New Mexico County Detention Overview, which listed San Miguel at 150 capacity and 115 average daily population. Prisoners of the Census also listed San Miguel Co. Det. Ctr. with 115 prisoners in a 2013 local jail source. Those numbers should be read as historical benchmarks, not a current count.
The public roster may show recent bookings, release dates, and InCustody flags, but it is not an official population report. Do not convert recent rows into a jail census. For the current San Miguel County Detention Center population or a specific person's status, use the jail phone line or the county-linked lookup when it is available.
San Miguel County Detention Lookup
The correct lookup path for this county jail starts with the county detention page. That page says detainee lookup services are temporarily out of service while San Miguel County transitions to a new jail management service. It directs users needing detainee-lookup information to call (505) 454-7403. The same page also links a legacy Inmate Inquiry endpoint that responded during research. A different sheriff-linked legacy IP timed out and should not be treated as the reliable current tool.
- Open the official detention center page and read the current lookup notice.
- If the transition notice remains posted, call (505) 454-7403 with the person's full name and approximate booking date.
- If the legacy Inmate Inquiry is live, search by last name, first name, or booking number.
- Use the Include Archive Records checkbox when the person may have been released or booked earlier.
- Use Recent to review visible recent bookings, then confirm the InCustody flag before relying on the result.
- If the person was sentenced to prison, switch to NMCD Offender Search.
The legacy detail profile can show booking number, inmate ID, booking and release dates, name fields, physical-description fields, charge information, statute description, bond type, bond amount, case number, aliases, marks and tattoos, and booking history. A jail booking charge is not the final court record; formal case events are checked through New Mexico Case Lookup.
San Miguel Detention Address
Use the detention-center address and phone for custody questions, visitation scheduling, and local jail routing. The Sheriff's Office has a separate Railroad Avenue address, and the County Clerk has a separate National Avenue address, so users should not assume those offices are the jail lobby.
San Miguel County Detention Center
26 NM 283
Las Vegas, NM 87701
(505) 454-7403
Fax: (505) 454-7409
Office hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; open 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
San Miguel County Sheriff's Office
1224 Railroad Ave.
Las Vegas, NM 87701
(505) 425-7589
Fax: (505) 425-8799
Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; closed 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
San Miguel Jail Visitation
San Miguel County publishes a pod-based visitation schedule. Visits are scheduled Monday through Friday except holidays, and the county instructs visitors to call (505) 454-7403 to schedule. No online scheduler, dress code, visitor application, ID list, child rule, or visit-length rule was located on the county page, so those details should be confirmed by phone before arrival.
| Day | Time | Housing Group | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | Pod A & F | Male general population |
| Monday | 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | Pod A & F | Male general population |
| Tuesday | 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | Pod C, D, & E | Male general population |
| Tuesday | 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | Pod C, D, & E | Male general population |
| Wednesday | 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | Pod C, D, & E | Male general population |
| Wednesday | 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | Pod C, D, & E | Male general population |
| Thursday | 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | Medical Females | Medical housing |
| Thursday | 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | Medical Males | Medical housing |
| Friday | 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | Pod G Female | Female pod |
| Friday | 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | Pod H Annex Male | Annex male group |
San Miguel Mail and Money
The county detention page does not publish a mail-format rule, deposit kiosk instructions, commissary limits, phone vendor, tablet rule, or local money-deposit fee schedule. JPay lists the San Miguel County Detention Center at the same facility address and advertises Video Connect with a 30-minute fee of $12.50, but that vendor page also shows a placeholder phone number. Treat JPay as a vendor lead, not as a county-confirmed instruction.
| Service | Local Source Status | Practical Step |
|---|---|---|
| In-person visitation | Official county page | Call (505) 454-7403 to schedule by pod and day. |
| Video visits | Vendor source only found | Confirm JPay availability and fees with the jail before paying. |
| Money deposits | Not published by county | Ask the jail before using any kiosk, online vendor, or money order. |
| Not published by county | Confirm the exact mail format and permitted items before sending mail. | |
| Phone calls | Not published by county | Ask the facility for current phone-account vendor and rates. |
San Miguel Booking Intake
A San Miguel County arrest typically moves from arrest and transport to jail intake, booking, classification, court appearance, bond review, release, or continued custody. The county does not publish a full booking policy, but the roster fields show what the public booking record can contain: booking number, inmate ID, booking date, release date, name, DOB, sex, race, physical description, mugshot, charges, statute description, bond type, bond amount, and court case number.
Housing details are limited, but the visitation schedule confirms operational groups such as Pod A & F, Pod C/D/E, Pod G Female, Pod H Annex Male, Medical Females, and Medical Males. The mission statement adds that inmates are classified to the institution and supervised humanely under detention standards. The page does not publish booking time, update frequency, property-return rules, or a full classification policy.
San Miguel Bond and Court
Bond information can appear on the San Miguel County Detention Center detail profile when entered. Research found fields for Bond Type and Bond Amount, and observed local roster vocabulary such as cash-only, OR, BAIL, PERJUDGE, and 10PERCENT. A bond field on the jail profile should still be checked against the court record because the court or warrant authority controls release conditions.
For formal court records after jail arrest, use New Mexico Case Lookup or Odyssey Public Access. The Fourth Judicial District serves San Miguel, Mora, and Guadalupe Counties, and the Fourth Judicial District Attorney is the charging authority for San Miguel County criminal cases. Jail records show custody and booking information; court records show filed charges, hearings, amendments, dismissals, pleas, judgments, and sentences.
Note: A payment on one listed bond may not release a person if another warrant, hold, detainer, or court order remains active.
San Miguel Custody Transfers
San Miguel County Detention Center is not a state prison. NMCD's offender search says NMCD does not have jurisdiction over county or city detention facilities, but it is the correct system after a person is sentenced to state prison or is under probation or parole supervision. NMCD Adult Prison Division data is described as updated nightly, while probation and parole search data is described as real-time.
No BOP prison or ICE detention center was located in San Miguel County. Federal sentenced custody should be searched through the BOP inmate locator. Immigration custody should be searched through ICE ODLS. VINELink can help with custody notifications where available, but it is not a substitute for the county jail roster or the jail phone line.