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Dona Ana County Detention Center Information

Address

Dona Ana County Detention Center
1850 Copper Loop
Las Cruces, NM 88005

Phone Number

Phone Number: (575) 647-7600

The Dona Ana County Detention Center is located at 1850 Copper Loop in Las Cruces, NM and is a medium security county jail operated by the Dona Ana County Sheriff’s Department.

This site tells you information about anything related to the Dona Ana County Detention Center, such as how to locate an inmate, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find Dona Ana County court records, and much much more.

Introduction

The goal of this guide is to offer information and advice that you need to make getting locked up easier. If you have a question, just ask them, and also any comments or tips that would help other people in the same situation would be welcome.

Dona Ana County Detention Center Inmate Search

Do you know someone that has gone to jail and want to find out where they are? Do you know a friend or family member who’s been arrested and you don’t know how to find them?

To search who is in jail at the Dona Ana County Detention Center you have to use the search form.

Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Dona Ana County Detention Center Inmate Lookup is a list of individuals who were arrested and are now in jail, including status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you can get info for anybody booked or discharged within the past 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by last name. You will be able to get their arrest information quicker if you enter the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or arrest number.

Dona Ana County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Dona Ana County Detention Center includes each of these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

First, you must answer a bunch of questions, such as what is your full legal name, home address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and also, you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken from you and stored until you are released.

You will be allowed to make a phone call so you can contact family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might be allowed to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to change into a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will get released from jail. The discharge process can take between 15 minutes to all day. In other words the faster bail is posted, the quicker you will get let go. It also might depend on whether you’ve got a cash bond amount or if a magistrate has to figure out how much to set your bail at. For minor charges, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you get to the end of your sentence and know the date of your release, you should expect to get discharged between 9am and noon.

Dona Ana County Detention Center Visitation

Inmates must list each visitor’s full name to the Dona Ana County Detention Center in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s names will go in the log for the inmate. All visitors has to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Anyone arriving late or without a visiting order will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Jail visitation policies change often, so make sure that you call the facility at (575) 647-7600 before you try to visit an inmate.

Visiting Hours

Day	Visiting Hours
Monday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Tuesday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Wednesday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Thursday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Friday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday	9:00am – 5:00pm

Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Dona Ana County Detention Center you have to be on this person’s visitation list.

Be sure to take your up to date government issued ID or valid driver’s license with you to visitation because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No cellphones at Dona Ana County Detention Center, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody currently on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age is related to the inmate, they must be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate’s extended family. If the visitor is younger than 18 years old and is not a family member of the inmate, the minor visitor must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Sending Mail to Inmates

This is what you need to know about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Dona Ana County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Dona Ana County Detention Center is always searched and inspected for contraband that might threaten the security, safety or well-being of the facility, its staff, and inmates. Inmates can only receive metered, unstamped, plain white postcards no larger than 4″ x 6″ as mail. The writing on the postcard has to be in pencil or blue or black ink. If it has a stamp on it, it will get returned. If you write in green ink, then it will get returned. If you send any other kind of mail will be returned to the sender. If there is no return address on it, then the unauthorized mail will be stored in the inmate’s locker until the inmate gets release.

Do not include any of these things in the mail that you send to an inmate: any kind of threat to jail order, any description of the manufacture of weapons, bombs, incendiary devices, or tools for escape; do not encourage or advocate any kind of violence, hate speech, or racial or ethnic supremacy. Inmates are not allowed to write to other inmates.

Mailing Address

The mailing address for the Dona Ana County Detention Center is:

Dona Ana County Detention Center
1850 Copper Loop
Las Cruces, NM 88005

Here is how you should address the letter:

[INMATE’S FULL NAME]
[INMATE ID]
Dona Ana County Detention Center
1850 Copper Loop
Las Cruces, NM 88005

The inmate mail policy at the Dona Ana County Detention Center is always changing, so check the the Dona Ana County Detention Center website before send a letter to someone in jail there.

Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Dona Ana County Detention Center. This includes sending money for to spend in the commissary, sending regular mail or photos, sending money for phone calls, and even postcards.

This page covers everthing you need to know about the Dona Ana County Detention Center to help you follow these procedures and guidelines. If you have questions, or there is something that you were looking for, but did not find, please contact us using the contact link in the site menu.

Public Records

Warrant Inquiry

If you think you have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can check court records on the Dona Ana County court website or you can call the jail. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask one of the officers. Bear in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the Dona Ana County jail, by phone, in person, or you can check online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and the information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a case file that includes a docket sheet and any documents filed in your case. You are able to access the court records on the website, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal history. These state databases are all connected and you can track criminal convictions from any other state. Go to the Dona Ana County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. It helps to know the county, and in the event that it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more complete search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you are able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for DWI or DUI, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to someone in jail change frequently, so it would be best to check the Dona Ana County Detention Center site before you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Dona Ana County Detention Center

You will have your own ‘bank account’ while in jail. This money is used to purchase items from the Commissary. Family and friends can deposit money into this account for you, and any money you earn while in prison will also be deposited into your account. Outside money can be paid in to your account via a money order, cash or check. If someone sends a check or money order, make sure that they write your inmate ID on it. The maximum amount you are allowed in your account is $290 per month.

Guidelines For Sending Money To An Inmate

Before you send any money you should find out what online money transfer companies the jail your inmate is incarcerated in uses. The exact method that the Dona Ana County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (575) 647-7600 to get the current payment method.

You may be required to be on the inmate’s visitation list in order to send them money, and be aware that they may have a limit on how much you deposit at one time, like $200-300 at a time, or a limit on how much money may be in the inmate’s account at one time.

Some of the money transfer firms being used by various facilities include JPay, MoneyGram, AccessCorrections, OffenderConnect, Touchpayonline, JailATM, WU, smartdeposit, and tigercommissary.

If an inmate has fines or are required to pay restitution then they will be subject to garnishment of their commissary/trust account. If the inmate has a garnishment, then money to pay them will be taken from the inmateâ€™s bank account. In some cases it may be a percentage or the entire amount of the obligation, but the actual percentage depends on the circumstances. We recommend that inmates talk to the counselor at their facility and try to find out. You can also try to make an arrangement so that only a percentage of your commissary funds are taken, instead of all your funds take at one time.

Commissary

The commissary is the Dona Ana County Detention Center store. An inmate can buy several different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely need to use the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can buy if they have enough money in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as hygiene products including soap, shampoo, and disposable razors for shaving. The commissary also sells other things like books and magazines, televisions and radios, playing cards, headphones, MP3 players, and electronic tablets. They also sell everything need to write home to family, friends, and loved ones: paper, envelopes, and stamps. If an inmate is indigent and cannot afford paper and stamps, the jail will provide these things to an inmate who has not had any money in their commissary account for at least 30 days.

Phone Calls & Phone Usage Policy

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Dona Ana County Detention Center are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Phone calls made in jail are generally more costly than regular phone calls. Phone calls are restricted on when and how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, an inmate’s phone privileges might get cut back or eliminated altogether.

The Dona Ana County Detention Center phone number is: (575) 647-7600

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control the prices. The money these phone service providers make off of all of the phone calls that inmates make are shared with the facility, so there is no incentive for the jail or the counselors at the facility to show inmates or their family how to save money on inmate phone calls at the Dona Ana County Detention Center. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three factors will determine the cost of an inmate phone call: Where you are located; Where your inmate is located, What type of phone number you have.

For example, if your inmate is in federal prison, if you get a new local number then this will decrease your inmate’s phone call rate from $.21 per minute to only $.06 per minute.

For the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails learning how to lower your inmates phone charges is more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date with all of the changes that affect your inmate’s calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on calling your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we will not be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail or prison has set their phone call rates in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Dona Ana County Detention Center, click the link below.

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