Roosevelt County Detention Center

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The Roosevelt County Detention Center is located at 1700 North Boston in Portales, NM and is a medium security county jail operated by the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Department.

This site will tell you information about everything related to the Roosevelt County Detention Center, such as how to locate an inmate, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, how to find Roosevelt County court records, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to offer information and advice that you’ll need to make going to jail less stressfull. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any comments or tips that could help other people in the same situation would be appreciated.

Roosevelt County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Roosevelt County Detention Center Inmate Locator is a roster of individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, which includes status, and times you can visit. Also, you can find information about anyone who has been arrested or released in the past 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You can find their inmate information fast if you enter the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Roosevelt County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Roosevelt County Detention Center is made up of each of these steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

The first step is that you will answer a number of questions, like your legal name, home address, birth date and contact person, and they’ll also ask about your mental and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all of your personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you are released.

You will be allowed to make a telephone call in order to talk to family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, if not you you will have to change into a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged from jail may take anywhere between 10 minutes to all day. Or, simply, the faster you can post bail, the sooner you will get discharged from jail. How quickly you get discharged can depend on if you’ve been given a bond amount or if a judge needs to figure out how much your bail will be. For minor offenses, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and are given a discharge date, you should expect to be discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Roosevelt County Detention Center Visitation

The inmate have to provide each visitor’s full name to the Roosevelt County Detention Center in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s information will go into the log for the requesting inmate. Each visitor has to provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so call the official Roosevelt County Detention Center at (575) 356-6871 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Roosevelt County Detention Center you must first have your name on the inmate’s visitation list.

Be sure to bring your up to date government issued ID or driver’s license when you go to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

No cellphones at Roosevelt County Detention Center, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone under must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Usually is not normally approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is a family member of the inmate, they will have to be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate’s extended family. If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is not related to 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 Roosevelt County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Roosevelt 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.

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Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Roosevelt 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 Roosevelt 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 believe you have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can access court records on the Roosevelt County court website or call the jail directly. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask one of the officers. You should know 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 first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the Roosevelt County jail, either by phone, go there in person, or you can check online. An arrest is public record and this is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. These records include a case file that includes a court docket and all of the filings and documents filed in your case. You can access your court records online, or at the Roosevelt County Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of someone’s criminal past. These databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal histories from other states. Go to the Roosevelt County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if it was in a different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will be able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to people in jail is likely to change, so double check the Roosevelt County Detention Center site before you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Roosevelt 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 Roosevelt County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (575) 356-6871 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 inmate’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 Roosevelt County Detention Center store. You can purchase a number of things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have enough money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal hygiene products such as 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

The only phone calls that Roosevelt County Detention Center inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Phone calls made in jail are a lot more expensive than regular phone calls. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the jail rules, phone privileges could be reduced or forbidden.

Phone Number: (575) 356-6871

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make from all of the inmate phone calls are split 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 Roosevelt County Detention Center. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. These three things will determine how much an inmate phone call will cost: 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 decrease 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 significantly on inmate phone calls. In some cases, we won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison has set their inmate calling prices so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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