Union County Detention Center Inmate Lookup

Union County Detention Center Overview

Union County Detention Center is the primary local jail facility identified for Union County. It is tied to the Union County Sheriff's Office, the county department associated with public safety, law enforcement, corrections, and community programs. The official sheriff page and staff directory name Sheriff Curtis Skaggs and Executive Secretary Nikki Callis and give the sheriff's office phone number as 575-374-2583.

The most important practical point is that the official county pages reviewed did not publish a public online jail roster, current-inmate list, booking report, detention-center rules page, mugshot gallery, jail capacity, visitation schedule, inmate mail instructions, commissary vendor, or money-deposit process. That does not mean the detention center is unavailable for custody questions. It means the reliable path is phone verification with the sheriff's office, followed by court or state/federal custody checks when the person is not currently held locally.

The official Union County departments page shows the Sheriff's Office among county departments, and the official sheriff staff directory confirms the same sheriff contact structure. Because the county site is sparse, this facility page keeps the published facts separate from items that require a phone call before travel, mailing, visitation, or deposits.

The official Union County Sheriff's Office page is the source to confirm the local jail contact path before using third-party roster pages from other states.

The screenshot is useful because it shows the county's own sheriff page is contact-focused and does not present a searchable jail roster or booking-photo gallery.

Union County Detention Center Capacity and Population

No official county jail capacity or daily population figure was located for Union County Detention Center in the county materials reviewed on June 22, 2026. The research did not locate a county jail dashboard, jail annual report, average daily population figure, annual booking count, housing-unit count, gender breakdown, race or ethnicity breakdown, felony versus misdemeanor split, or hold-for-other-agencies count for the local jail.

That data gap should be handled directly. Do not estimate the Union County jail population from county size, commercial directory listings, or the state prison located near Clayton. Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility is a separate state prison in Union County; its historical prison count is not a Union County Detention Center jail population number.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Union County Detention Center

No official public Union County, New Mexico jail roster was found on the county website. The right first step is to use the Union County Sheriff's Office page as the official source and call the sheriff's office at 575-374-2583. Have the person's full name, date of birth if known, arrest date, and arresting agency ready. Ask whether the person is currently housed at Union County Detention Center and whether the office can confirm release, bond, transfer, or a different holding agency.

1. Start with the Union County Sheriff's Office, not a commercial "Union County jail roster" page from another state.
2. Call 575-374-2583 and ask for a current custody check for Union County Detention Center.
3. If the person is not held locally, ask whether the person was released, bonded out, transferred, sentenced to NMCD, or held for another agency.
4. For filed criminal charges, check New Mexico Case Lookup or the Eighth Judicial District court resources.
5. For sentenced state custody, use NMCD Offender Search or the search app at search.cd.nm.gov.
6. For federal sentenced custody, use the BOP inmate locator; for immigration custody, use ICE ODLS.

Union County Detention Center Address and Contact

The detention-center address most often tied to local detention research is 112 North Front Street in Clayton, but the official county sheriff page inspected did not verify that as the jail visitor entrance or mailing point. Confirm the address, lobby entrance, visitor parking, mail rules, and any appointment requirement by phone before traveling or sending anything. The county's general government contact block uses 200 Court Street and P.O. Box 430 in Clayton for county business, which is separate from the likely detention address.

Visiting Someone at Union County Detention Center

No official Union County Detention Center visitation schedule, video visitation vendor, visit length, visitor ID rule, child visitor rule, dress code, attorney-visit rule, property rule, or lobby hour was located in the county pages reviewed. The safest instruction is to call 575-374-2583 before traveling and ask whether the person is currently housed at the detention center, whether visits are allowed, what identification is required, whether visits are in person or video, whether children may visit, and what items are prohibited.

If the person has moved to Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility or another New Mexico Corrections Department prison, county jail visitation rules no longer apply. NMCD requires approved visitor status and facility-specific scheduling, while Union County jail visitation must be confirmed directly with the sheriff's office because no public county schedule was found.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Union County Detention Center

County jail mail rules, inmate telephone provider, video provider, commissary process, money-deposit vendor, deposit limits, and transaction fees were not published in the official Union County jail materials located. Do not mail letters, money orders, property, photographs, or documents until the Sheriff's Office confirms the correct mailing address and format. A person may be booked locally and then released or transferred before a mailed item arrives.

Use the phone fallback first. Ask whether the inmate is still housed at Union County Detention Center, whether mail must include a booking number, whether money is accepted in person or by a vendor, whether money orders are allowed, and whether property release requires prior approval. If the person is in NMCD custody, use NMCD Smart Communications mail and CorrectPay rules instead of Union County jail assumptions.

Booking and Intake at Union County Detention Center

Union County Detention Center should be understood as the local custody point for recent arrests and county-level detention, but the official county sources reviewed did not publish booking desk hours, intake procedures, classification rules, release times, or a booking report. A recent arrest may produce several different records: a jail custody record held by the sheriff, a court case record if charges are filed, a prosecutor record once the Eighth Judicial District Attorney reviews the case, and possibly a state or federal custody record if the person is transferred.

For immediate custody, call the sheriff's office. For court status, use New Mexico court systems rather than relying on a jail booking description. Booking charges are not always the final charges filed in court, and the court record may show arraignment, bond conditions, case events, warrants, dismissal, diversion, plea, or sentencing information that a jail phone check does not provide.

About Union County Detention Center

Union County Detention Center is part of a small rural custody environment where the local jail and the nearby state prison serve very different purposes. The detention center is the county-level facility connected to the Sheriff's Office. Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility is a New Mexico Corrections Department prison near Clayton and should not be used as the lookup source for a person newly arrested by local authorities unless the person has already been sentenced or transferred to NMCD custody.

No official county jail programming list, grievance procedure, medical request process, religious services list, work-release description, education program, reentry partnership, accreditation record, recent county jail reform story, consent decree, overcrowding litigation, or new jail construction plan was located in the official Union County pages reviewed. Program and condition questions should be routed to the sheriff's office until the county publishes more detailed detention materials.

Searchers should also watch the name conflict created by other Union County jail roster results. Many search results point to Union County agencies in Oregon, North Carolina, Arkansas, New Jersey, or commercial directories. For Union County, New Mexico, use the local sheriff's page, the New Mexico courts, NMCD, BOP, ICE, and VINELink only when each system fits the custody question.