Grant County Detention Center Inmate Search

Grant County Detention Center Overview

Grant County Detention Center is listed by the county at 320 South Ridge Road in Silver City, New Mexico. It is operated as a county adult detention center under Grant County corrections and the county public-safety structure associated with the Sheriff's Office, where Sheriff Raul Villanueva is the elected sheriff. The county's Corrections page presents the facility as more than a booking desk: its mission language refers to a safe, secure, and professional detention operation that uses correctional practices, health care, offender programs, policy, and community partnerships.

The jail holds adults booked in Grant County for pretrial detention, local sentences, warrants, and temporary holds pending court, release, transfer, or transport. It is not a New Mexico Corrections Department state prison. A person sentenced to long-term state-prison custody may remain here briefly while transfer paperwork or transport is pending, but once NMCD receives the person, the county jail roster is no longer the right primary lookup. Public visitation categories identify Male Unit, Female, Booking, and Infirmary groups, which are useful public labels but not a complete housing map.

The county does not publish a full floor plan, complete pod list, medical unit description, booking-desk schedule, or accreditation certificate on the public jail pages. That means practical questions about a person's current housing, release processing, attorney visits, property, or medical access should be confirmed with the Detention Center rather than assumed from the website.

The official county Corrections page is the source for the jail's contact block and its Prisoner In Custody link. The screenshot below comes from that county page and shows why the Grant County facility page should be treated as the local starting point before switching to state or federal systems.

Open the Grant County Corrections page used for the jail contact and PIC link.

Use the Corrections page when you need the county's own jail contact point, then use the linked PIC/JailTracker roster for current custody lookup.

Grant County Detention Center Capacity and Population

Capacity should be handled carefully because the county's public Corrections page does not publish a current rated capacity. The strongest sourced figure in the research is a Silver City Daily Press report dated October 8, 2025, quoting Detention Administrator Joseph Andazola. That report gave the jail an official capacity of 95 and said the September 2025 population ranged from 88 to 113, with an average daily population of 105.

Those figures place the September 2025 average above the reported official capacity. The same local report said 20 inmates were being housed in Hidalgo County to relieve overflow. It also attributed some jail pressure to delayed transfers of sentenced inmates to NMCD, staffing shortages, many new officers, paperwork and case-tracking issues, and coordination with courts and the District Attorney's Office.

Older federal jail data listed a 2013 local jail average daily population of 73 for the Grant County Detention Center. An older county infrastructure planning document referred to a 150-bed detention-center project, but that material is historical planning context and should not be treated as the current rated capacity without a newer confirmation.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Grant County Detention Center

The current local custody source is the Grant County Prisoner In Custody list, hosted through JailTracker/OMS at https://omsweb.public-safety-cloud.com/jtclientweb/jailtracker/index/Grant_County_NM. Use it for people physically booked into Grant County Detention Center. If the person has moved to a sentenced state-prison placement, use NMCD Offender Search instead. If the matter involves federal or immigration custody, use the BOP Inmate Locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator System.

1. Open the official Grant County PIC/JailTracker roster from the county Corrections page or the direct JailTracker/OMS link.
2. Search by the person's name and compare possible matches carefully, especially when names are common or spellings vary.
3. Confirm that the listed facility or custody status points to Grant County Detention Center rather than another agency.
4. Review the available profile details for booking, charges, bond, court status, or housing information, then call the jail if travel, release, or visitation depends on current status.
5. If the person was sentenced to prison or transferred out, switch to the NMCD, BOP, or ICE locator that matches the receiving system.

The lookup distinction matters in Grant County because there is no NMCD prison in the county and no public research finding of a BOP or ICE detention facility in Grant County. Western New Mexico Correctional Facility is in Grants, New Mexico, in Cibola County, not in Grant County. A name match in a state or federal system does not prove the person is currently in the Silver City jail.

Grant County Detention Center Address and Contact

For time-sensitive questions, use the facility phone before relying on a past roster entry or an older court date. The jail can confirm current procedures for visits, mail, professional access, trust-fund questions, and whether an emergency condition has interrupted visitation. The Detention Administrator contact is also published in the county staff directory.

For older records or records not visible through the live custody roster, Grant County also uses the NextRequest public-records portal. A records request is different from a live custody lookup, and it may be the better route for historical booking material, correspondence about a record, or a formal Inspection of Public Records Act request.

Visiting Someone at Grant County Detention Center

Grant County publishes a specific weekend visitation structure on the official Detention Center visitation page. Each inmate receives one 30-minute visit per week. A new schedule is created each Friday for each new inmate, and the inmate may call out with the assigned time. Visitors may also call the facility to check a visit time before traveling.

Visitors must have a current picture ID showing full name and date of birth and must be at least eighteen years old. Visits can be canceled or ended early during emergency conditions in the jail. No-contact orders or restraining orders involving the inmate block visits. Pets are not allowed in the visiting area except service animals. Inmates and visitors must remain fully clothed, and rule violations can result in loss of visiting privileges.

Review the official Grant County visitation schedule and visitor rules.

The county page is especially important because the visit time is assigned weekly and emergency jail conditions can change access on short notice.

Mail, Legal Mail, Phone, and Money at Grant County Detention Center

The county's Detention Center mail page is detailed, but it does not publish a commissary vendor, phone vendor, tablet provider, remote video-visit provider, kiosk fee table, online deposit link, or phone-call pricing. Do not assume a national vendor applies. The only confirmed money-related rules in the researched official jail pages concern funds and money orders that arrive through the mail process.

Legal material through USPS is accepted. Legal mail from attorneys and courts is opened and inspected in the inmate's presence. General incoming mail is not delivered on weekends or holidays, is distributed within 24 hours after receipt, and is opened and inspected for money or contraband. The jail may scan mail for content. There is no limit on the amount of mail received, but an inmate may keep only twelve pieces in the cell or bunk.

Mail with stickers, tape, sparkles, foreign substances, pornography, or nude photographs is restricted and may be returned or stored in property depending on the item. Inmate-to-inmate mail is generally prohibited across federal, state, local, and juvenile institutions, although blood-related or married inmates may be considered case by case after verification.

Open the Grant County Detention Center mail rules page.

The published mail rules are more specific than the public commissary information, so money and vendor questions should be confirmed by calling 575-534-3803.

Booking and Intake at Grant County Detention Center

Booking at Grant County Detention Center is the local intake point after an arrest, warrant hold, remand, or other court-related detention decision. The public research did not locate a county-published step-by-step booking manual, booking desk hour list, medical screening form, or property inventory form. The safest public description is that the jail receives adults booked by Grant County law enforcement and courts, places them into local custody, and then manages release, court holds, local sentences, or transfer to another agency as the case develops.

For a person who has just been arrested, the PIC/JailTracker roster is the main online custody check once the record appears. For a person sentenced to state prison, the county jail may only be a temporary pre-transfer location. The 2025 population reporting specifically connected high local counts with delays in transferring sentenced inmates to NMCD. That is why a person can be in the county jail after sentencing but later disappear from the county roster when state custody begins.

Programs, Religious Services, and PREA Reporting

Grant County publishes local program and religious-service lists for the Detention Center. The programs page lists Parenting Class through Literacy Links, Western New Mexico University Education Class/Inmate Support Program, WNMU Addictive Thinking and The Addictive Process, NA/AA, Silver Sexual Assault Services group and one-on-one support, and Literacy Links Fathers and Readers.

The religious services page lists Catholic Jail Ministry, non-denominational Bible Study, The Door Bible Study/Church Services, and Jehovah's Witness Religious Services/Bible Study. These listings make the jail page more specific than a generic county-jail profile, but they should not be read as a guarantee that every class or service is available to every housing unit on every date.

View the Grant County Detention Center programs list.

The programs list supports the county's own description of the facility as a detention operation with education, support, and community partnerships, not only confinement.

The county's PREA page states a zero-tolerance policy for sexual harassment, sexual misconduct, assault, and rape involving inmates by individuals or groups, including other offenders, volunteers, contractors, jail staff, and other agency personnel. Reports may be verbal or written to any volunteer, contractor, jail employee, or law-enforcement member. Inmates may also report verbally, in writing, or confidentially by phone. Silver Regional Sexual Assault Support Services is listed at 866-750-6474, and PREA Coordinator Joseph Andazola is listed at 575-388-1265.

About Grant County Detention Center

The available public record paints Grant County Detention Center as a small county adult detention center under recent capacity pressure rather than a large regional prison. The most concrete 2025 reporting described a September average daily population above the reported official capacity, overflow housing in Hidalgo County, staffing challenges, and delays tied partly to state-prison transfers. No DOJ consent decree, active jail-conditions class action, official 2024-2026 jail-construction announcement, or Grant County-specific death-in-custody report was located in the reviewed research.

Some older items are useful only as background. A 2014 report described two inmates escaping after removing a ceiling panel and exiting through a maintenance door, but that is older history, not current operating guidance. An older planning document referred to a 150-bed detention-center project, but that number should not replace the later 95-capacity figure attributed to Detention Administrator Andazola in the 2025 local report.