De Baca County Detention Center Overview
De Baca County Detention Center is treated in the research as a county jail and local adult detention facility, not as a New Mexico Corrections Department prison. It serves the local jail role for people arrested in De Baca County, people awaiting first appearance or later court action, and people serving short local sentences that remain under jail authority. New Mexico State Police releases and the Legislature-hosted New Mexico county detention overview both support that local booking and detention function.
The operator is De Baca County, with local law-enforcement connection to the De Baca County Sheriff's Office. The research did not locate public housing-unit names, a classification manual, a jail handbook, a visitation vendor page, a commissary vendor page, or a county-hosted jail roster. That limits what can be stated with confidence. The facility should be described by its documented role, contact channels, capacity sources, and records-request pathway rather than by unverified jail-vendor details.
De Baca County Detention Contact
The main address issue is a source conflict. A newer state board-minutes source lists De Baca County Detention at 1000 N 2nd Street, Fort Sumner, NM 88119. An older New Mexico county detention overview hosted by the Legislature lists the facility at 248 East Avenue C / PO Box 240, Fort Sumner, NM 88119. Because the newer listing is later and names the detention facility, the current working address is 1000 N 2nd Street. The older Avenue C and PO Box address is preserved as an official detention-list conflict, not erased.
De Baca County Detention Center
1000 N 2nd Street
Fort Sumner, NM 88119
575-355-7870
Call to confirm custody, visitor entrance, and current records routing.
De Baca County Sheriff's Office
248 Avenue C
Fort Sumner, NM 88119
575-355-7433
Use the main line to identify the current records custodian.
Confirm the physical entrance, parking location, and accepted records-request method before travel. Located official sources did not publish lobby hours, visitor check-in hours, public transit access, locker rules, ADA entrance details, or a current detention division web page.
De Baca County Detention Population
The strongest facility capacity source is the July 2014 New Mexico County Detention Overview booklet hosted on the New Mexico Legislature website. It lists De Baca with 20 design beds, facility average daily population 13, and total average daily population 13. Vera Incarceration Trends later reports a De Baca County jail population of 20 for the 2023 row. Those numbers should be read carefully because De Baca is a small county, and a change of a few people can look large in percentage terms.
The Vera Incarceration Trends De Baca County page is the matched county image source for recent jail-population history.
The Vera figure helps show the county trend, but it is not a live jail head count. Current custody still needs confirmation from the detention center or sheriff.
Lookup at De Baca County Detention
No official De Baca County online jail roster, inmate lookup, booking report, or mugshot gallery was located. The search workflow therefore begins with direct confirmation. A caller should have the person's full legal name, date of birth if known, approximate arrest time, arresting agency if known, and any case or citation number. Staff may be able to confirm whether a person is in custody, whether a transfer occurred, and which court or custodian should be contacted next.
- Call the detention phone at 575-355-7870 for current custody and booking-status questions.
- Call the sheriff main office at 575-355-7433 if the jail line cannot route records or custodian questions.
- Search New Mexico Courts Case Lookup for filed charges and court events after a case is opened.
- Use NMCD Offender Search only if the person may be in state prison, probation, or parole custody.
- Use BOP or ICE tools only for federal sentenced prisoners or immigration custody, not routine county jail booking.
For a broader roster workflow, the county-level lookup page at De Baca County jail inmate records separates jail custody, court records, NMCD records, federal custody, ICE custody, and VINE notification.
De Baca County Custody Types
The most common mistake is using the wrong database. De Baca County Detention Center handles local detention. NMCD handles state prison, probation, and parole. BOP handles federal sentenced prison records. ICE ODLS handles immigration custody. VINE is a notification tool and should not be treated as a complete roster for every De Baca County detainee.
| Custody System | Where to Check | What It Means |
|---|---|---|
| County jail | Detention center or sheriff phone | Recent arrests, pretrial custody, local short sentences, and jail booking records. |
| New Mexico state prison | NMCD Offender Search | Sentenced felony custody, probation, or parole under NMCD jurisdiction. |
| Federal prison | BOP Inmate Locator | Federal inmates from 1982 to present; not a county roster. |
| Immigration custody | ICE ODLS | Current ICE custody or CBP custody longer than 48 hours. |
| Notifications | New Mexico VINELink | Release or custody-change notices when available and registered. |
De Baca County Detention Visits
No official De Baca County Detention Center visitation schedule, video-visit vendor, visitor application, dress code page, holiday schedule, or lobby rule page was located. That does not mean visits are unavailable. It means a visitor should not rely on invented hours or a vendor name. The safer public-record approach is to confirm each visit rule directly with the jail before travel.
| Visit Question | Confirm With Facility | Research Status |
|---|---|---|
| Visiting days and hours | Call 575-355-7870 | No official De Baca schedule located. |
| In-person or video visits | Ask the detention center | No official vendor or format located. |
| Required ID | Ask before travel and bring government photo ID | Local rules not published in located sources. |
| Minors and approval | Confirm current policy | No local visitor application found. |
| Dress code and property rules | Confirm during the call | No official local rule page located. |
NMCD prison visitation rules are separate. If a person has been transferred to state prison, use NMCD approval and facility-schedule rules instead of De Baca County jail assumptions.
De Baca County Mail and Money
No official De Baca County Detention Center mail format, commissary vendor, deposit vendor, fee schedule, phone provider, or tablet-service page was located. A family member should ask the jail to confirm the exact name format, booking number requirement if any, mailing address, money-deposit options, and restricted items before sending anything. The older official detention overview lists PO Box 240 with the Avenue C address, but the newer detention address conflict means mail instructions should be confirmed directly.
| Service | What to Ask | Why It Matters |
|---|---|---|
| Correct mailing address, inmate name format, booking number, and rejected-item rules. | No official county mail schedule or format was located. | |
| Phone calls | Whether calls require an approved list, account setup, or specific provider. | No De Baca phone vendor page was located. |
| Money deposits | Accepted payment types, fees, hours, and whether deposits can be mailed or made in person. | No official commissary or deposit vendor was located. |
| Books or publications | Whether direct-from-publisher rules or other limits apply. | No local inmate handbook was located. |
De Baca County Booking Records
New Mexico jail law supports the existence of core jail records, but De Baca County did not publish a verified public roster field inventory in the located sources. NMSA 33-3-7 requires a jail record or book showing each person committed to jail, residence, date of imprisonment, cause of confinement, committing authority, release authority, and escape information. The Criminal Record Expungement Act defines arrest records to include booking sheets, photographs, fingerprints, and official identification records.
For booking sheets, jail records, or booking photos, start with the sheriff or detention custodian. For court filings after charges are entered, use the New Mexico Courts IPRA portal or Case Lookup. Those are different record systems. A jail booking fact may exist before a court case is visible, and a court case can remain visible after a person is no longer held at De Baca County Detention Center.
Records point: A De Baca County jail record and a De Baca County court record may describe the same arrest, but they are kept by different custodians.
De Baca County Bond Routing
Bond and release questions can involve the jail, De Baca Magistrate Court, De Baca District Court, and the Tenth Judicial District Attorney. A jail may know whether a person is held, released, or subject to another hold. The court controls release conditions, recognizance release, unsecured appearance bond, secured bond, detention proceedings, and future hearing dates. New Mexico pretrial rules do not support treating money as the only question. Courts must consider release conditions and ability to pay, and prosecutors must use the detention process when they seek no release.
De Baca District Court is listed at 248 E. Ave. C in Fort Sumner, and De Baca County Magistrate Court is listed at 282 E. Ave. B in Fort Sumner. Court records and docket pages can show hearings, but they do not replace jail custody confirmation. Before trying to post money or attend a hearing, call the court or jail to confirm the current location, accepted payment method, and whether another warrant, detainer, probation matter, federal hold, or immigration hold affects release.
De Baca County State Transfers
De Baca County Detention Center should not be described as an NMCD prison. NMCD expressly says its offender search covers offenders incarcerated or on probation or parole supervision, and that NMCD does not have jurisdiction over county or city detention facilities. After a De Baca County felony sentence that requires prison, the search route changes from the local jail to NMCD Offender Search and the assigned state facility.
State-prison rules are also different. NMCD visitation uses approval and facility-specific schedules. NMCD mail rules changed with Smart Communications tablet implementation for personal mail, while legal mail remains distinct. NMCD money can be sent by money order or electronically through Correct Pay when the person is in NMCD custody. Those state-prison procedures should not be applied to De Baca County Detention Center unless the jail itself confirms a matching rule.
De Baca County Detention Gaps
The research did not locate an official De Baca County jail web page, roster, daily booking report, mugshot gallery, visitation schedule, inmate handbook, commissary vendor, mail rule page, program list, PREA audit, accreditation page, or recent local jail inspection report. That absence prevents false precision. It also explains why the best De Baca County Detention Center workflow is phone confirmation, court lookup for filed cases, IPRA for unavailable records, and state or federal locators only when custody has moved.
Note: Confirm custody, visiting, mail, money, and entrance details with the facility before travel or payment.