New Mexico Inmate Search

New Mexico holds state prisoners under the New Mexico Corrections Department at the Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe, the Central New Mexico Correctional Facility in Los Lunas, the Western New Mexico facility in Grants, the Southern New Mexico facility in Las Cruces, the Springer and Roswell centers and private prisons under contract at Lea County in Hobbs, Otero County in Chaparral and Guadalupe County in Santa Rosa. County detention centers hold pretrial detainees and sentences of up to a year, and the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque is the largest by a wide margin.

The NMCD Offender Search is the state lookup. It covers people in custody and people supervised by the Probation and Parole Division, keyed to the NMCD number or the name.

Official sources on this page were checked on September 25, 2026.

The New Mexico Offender Search returns the NMCD number, name, photograph, date of birth, the current facility or the supervising probation and parole office, the status, each offense with the county and case number, the sentence and the projected release date. Because the Probation and Parole Division is part of the Corrections Department, probationers and parolees appear in the same search with their office listed as the location.

• NMCD Offender SearchSearch New Mexico prisoners, probationers and parolees by NMCD number or name, checked September 25, 2026
• New Mexico Corrections DepartmentFacilities, visiting, mail, phone and money deposits, checked September 25, 2026
• VINELink New MexicoCustody alerts for New Mexico detention centers and state prisons, checked September 25, 2026

The Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center posts a custody list with booking dates, charges and the next court date. The Dona Ana County Detention Center in Las Cruces, the Santa Fe County Adult Detention Facility, the San Juan County Adult Detention Center in Farmington, the Sandoval County Detention Center in Bernalillo, the Lea County Detention Center in Lovington and the Chaves County Detention Center in Roswell publish rosters as well. Albuquerque Police and the New Mexico State Police book into the county detention center of the arrest.

• New Mexico County Sheriff DirectorySheriff offices and detention center rosters for all 33 counties
• New Mexico Police DepartmentsCity police and state police records
• New Mexico Criminal RecordsCriminal history through the Department of Public Safety
• New Mexico Most WantedFugitives and outstanding warrants

The New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act, NMSA 14-2-1 and following, makes the custody record public, and the Offender Search posts photographs, offenses, sentences and projected release dates. Detention centers publish booking information. Medical and mental health records, the pre-sentence report, classification and disciplinary files and Parole Board case files are exempt. Criminal history from the Department of Public Safety requires fingerprints and is limited to the subject and authorized employers; the public uses the New Mexico Courts case lookup, which is free and covers district, magistrate and metropolitan courts statewide.

New Mexico attaches a fixed parole term of one or two years to most felony sentences, so nearly every prisoner leaves to parole supervised by the Probation and Parole Division, and the Adult Parole Board sets conditions and hears violations and the release of people serving life. Probation is imposed by the district court and supervised by the same division, which is why both groups appear in the Offender Search. The judgment sits with the clerk of the district court of the convicting county.

• New Mexico Court RecordsNew Mexico Courts case lookup for all trial courts
• New Mexico ExpungementsExpungement under the Criminal Record Expungement Act

If the NMCD search returns nothing, check the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center custody list for an Albuquerque arrest or the detention center roster for Dona Ana, Santa Fe, San Juan or Sandoval county, since pending cases and sentences of up to a year stay in the jail. Check the free New Mexico Courts case lookup for the case, the federal Bureau of Prisons locator for a federal case and VINELink for a recent release.

These federal and national sources complement New Mexico's state-level records. They are the authoritative sources you should cross-check when New Mexico state records are incomplete or out-of-state activity matters.

Federal BOP, Inmate Locator The Federal Bureau of Prisons locator returns federal inmates held since 1982 in any BOP facility, contract facility, or community corrections center.

VINELink, Victim Notification Operated by Appriss for the U.S. Department of Justice's victim-notification program. Free, anonymous registration for custody-change alerts across participating states.

U.S. Marshals, Prisoner Tracking The USMS Prisoner Tracking System is the authoritative source for federal detainees in pre-trial custody (before BOP designation).