San Miguel Jail Overview
San Miguel County Detention Center is an adult county detention facility in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Official Mora County commission materials show inmate-confinement contracts with San Miguel County in 2021 and 2022, making it the primary confinement partner for Mora County adult detainees. The Mora County Sheriff's Office lists law-enforcement contacts in Mora, but it does not publish a Mora County jail lobby, jail administrator, or local inmate roster. That makes San Miguel County Detention Center the practical starting point for a Mora County inmate lookup.
The facility is operated by San Miguel County and is not a New Mexico Corrections Department prison. It holds San Miguel County detainees and may hold Mora County detainees by agreement. The official detention page names a warden, deputy warden, administrative assistant, inmate programs officer, and staff-development manager. Its mission statement refers to custody and supervision in a secure institution under New Mexico Adult Professional Detention Standards. That language supports treating the facility as a county or regional jail, not as a state prison or federal detention center.
The official San Miguel detention page is shown in the project image set. The screenshot source is the San Miguel County Detention Center page, which lists the public address, phone, visitation blocks, and lookup notice.
The image matters because it documents the jail-specific details used here instead of relying on a generic Mora County jail listing.
San Miguel Inmate Population
Capacity and population figures require care. The official San Miguel detention page reviewed for Mora County research did not publish a rated capacity, bed count, average daily population, housing-unit design, or current population total. Mora County research also did not locate a separate count of Mora County inmates housed at San Miguel County Detention Center. The public roster can show whether a searched person is in custody, but it does not provide a public dashboard of total San Miguel jail population or a filter that cleanly separates Mora County detainees from San Miguel County detainees.
For that reason, the most accurate description is functional rather than numeric: San Miguel County Detention Center is the primary adult jail route for Mora County detainees when a person is not cited, released, moved to the Santa Fe backup facility, sentenced to NMCD, or placed in federal or immigration custody. Mora County inmate population counts, detention-cost records, and contract-housing records may need to be requested through the Mora County NextRequest portal or the Mora County Clerk public-records process.
San Miguel Inmate Lookup
The correct online route for a county jail search is the San Miguel County Inmate Inquiry, which is linked from the official detention center page as Detainee Lookup. The official page also warns that lookup services may be temporarily out of service during a jail-management transition and directs people to call the detention center when information is needed. During Mora County research on June 22, 2026, the linked inquiry page still returned a working HTML search interface, so the sound approach is to try the public search and keep the phone line ready as the fallback.
The roster search screen from the manifest comes from the San Miguel Inmate Inquiry search interface. It shows the name fields, booking-number field, archive checkbox, and Recent control that users will see.
The form is simple, but the archive checkbox and the phone fallback are important for Mora County searches because a person may have been released, transferred, or housed under a backup agreement.
- Open the official detention center page first, then use its Detainee Lookup link or the direct Inmate Inquiry page.
- Search by last name when possible. Add first name or booking number if there are several close matches.
- Use the archive checkbox only when looking for an older or possibly released booking.
- Confirm identity by booking date, date of birth, sex, race, release date, and in-custody flag.
- Click the linked booking number to review charges, bond entries, case numbers, mugshot, and booking history.
| Roster field | How it helps |
|---|---|
| Last Name | Main search field for current and archived jail records. |
| First Name | Narrows results when several people share a surname. |
| Booking # | Best direct route when a court, jail, or family member has the number. |
| Include Archive Records | Can include prior or released records that do not show in a current-only search. |
| InCustody | Shows whether the booking still appears active in the roster data. |
San Miguel Address Contact
For a Mora County inmate search, the detention center phone line is not just a general contact. It is the fallback when the online roster is down, when the jail-management system is changing, when a recent booking has not appeared, or when a person may have been transferred to the Santa Fe backup facility. Call before traveling for a visit, property issue, medication question, bond question, or new booking question. The Mora County Sheriff's Office remains the local arrest and records contact, but it is not the jail lobby for San Miguel County Detention Center.
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.
Mora County Sheriff's Office
7 Courthouse Drive
Mora, NM 87732
575-387-2222
Dispatch routing: 505-425-6771
San Miguel Visitation Schedule
San Miguel County Detention Center publishes a weekday visitation schedule and says visits are scheduled Monday through Friday except holidays. The facility instructs visitors to call (505) 454-7403 to schedule. The visible official page does not publish a dress code, child-visitor rule, visitor-approval process, locker rule, property limit, video visit vendor, or attorney-visit schedule. Because the roster does not show a housing pod publicly, visitors should not guess a slot from the booking profile. Confirm the person's housing group and visit window by phone before leaving Mora County.
| Day | Hours | Housing / group |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Thursday | 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | Medical Males |
| Friday | 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | Pod G Female |
| Friday | 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | Pod H Annex Male |
Bring government photo ID unless staff gives different instructions, arrive with enough time for screening, and avoid bringing extra property into the facility. The official page does not publish visitor parking, transit, locker, or accessibility details. Confirm those items by phone, especially when traveling from Mora to Las Vegas for a scheduled visit.
San Miguel Mail Money
The official San Miguel detention page reviewed for Mora County did not publish the current inmate mail format, phone provider, video vendor, commissary vendor, online deposit link, deposit fee, or property-release rules. That absence matters. NMCD prison deposit rules, including CorrectPay and Smart Communications mail rules, apply to state prisoners after transfer to New Mexico Corrections Department custody, not to a county jail booking at San Miguel County Detention Center unless San Miguel adopts and publishes the same process.
| Service | Provider / detail |
|---|---|
| Mail Address | Not published on the visible official detention page. Call (505) 454-7403 for the exact inmate-mail format before sending anything. |
| Phone Calls | Provider not located in official Mora or San Miguel public sources reviewed. |
| Video Visits | No video vendor was documented in the visible San Miguel page. |
| Money Deposits | Deposit vendor and fees were not located. Confirm the current method by phone. |
| Commissary | Vendor and ordering rules were not located in the reviewed public sources. |
If the person has been sentenced to state prison, switch from San Miguel jail procedures to the NMCD Offender Search and NMCD family resources. NMCD says its offender search covers state incarceration and probation or parole, and it also warns that it does not have jurisdiction over county or city detention facilities.
San Miguel Booking Intake
After a Mora County arrest, an adult who is not cited, released, or diverted may be transported to the contract facility for booking. The official San Miguel page does not publish a full intake handbook, but the public inmate profile confirms many steps that normally occur during booking: identification, booking number assignment, mugshot, physical descriptors, charge entry, bond entry, court case number entry, release-date tracking, and booking-history tracking. Intake can also involve search, property inventory, fingerprinting, medical or mental-health screening, classification, and housing assignment.
The sample public profile image in the manifest comes from a San Miguel inmate profile. It shows the type of booking, charge, bond, case, and history details that may appear after a user clicks a booking number.
The profile is also a reminder that a jail booking record is not the same thing as the later court case. Court records after a Mora County arrest are searched through New Mexico courts and the Fourth Judicial District.
- Booking
- The jail intake record tied to one arrest, warrant, or transfer into custody.
- Inmate ID
- A person-level identifier that can appear across more than one booking.
- Bond type
- The release condition attached to a charge or case, such as no bond or unsecured bond.
- Detainer
- A hold or request from another agency that can affect release even when a local charge has bond.
San Miguel Standards Programs
San Miguel County Detention Center's local program detail is limited in the public sources reviewed for Mora County. The official page names an Inmate Programs Officer, but it does not list specific GED, substance-use, religious, reentry, tablet, work-release, grievance, or medical-request programs. Its mission statement does say the facility operates under New Mexico Adult Professional Detention Standards and maintains custody and supervision of inmates classified to the institution in a humane manner.
Recent Mora County records also show why facility placement can change. The 2024 Mora County minutes describe Santa Fe County Adult Detention Center as a backup when the primary facility is full or unavailable. If San Miguel staff cannot locate a person, call the Mora County Sheriff's Office and ask whether the person was routed to Santa Fe, released, moved to NMCD, held for federal authorities, or placed in another agency's custody. For a broader custody route, see the Mora County inmate population page.
Note: Confirm custody, housing, and visit scheduling with San Miguel County Detention Center before traveling from Mora County.