Catron County Detention Center

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The Catron County Detention Center is located at 101 Main Street in Reserve, NM and is a medium security county jail operated by the Catron County Sheriff’s Department.

This page will tell you info about everything you might need to know about the Catron County Detention Center, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, how to find Catron County court records, and much, much more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give information you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail easier. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask them, and please leave any comments or feedback that might be beneficial to others will be welcome.

Catron County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Catron County Detention Center Inmate Lookup is a roster of people who have been arrested and are in custody, including current status, and times you can visit. Also, you are able to get information about anyone arrested and booked or released within the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to find their arrest information quicker if you’ve got your friend or family member’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Catron County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Catron County Detention Center takes you through each of these steps:

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

First you must answer some basic questions, such as what is your full name, your address, birthdate and a contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your mental and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you are released.

They will let you use the phone to contact a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might be able to keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you will be issued a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. This process will take anywhere between 10 minutes to all day. In simple terms, the quicker bail is posted, the sooner you will be released. How quickly you get discharged depends on whether or not you have a bond amount or if a magistrate has to figure out how much your bail will be. For minor charges, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served your sentence and know the discharge date, you should expect to be released in the morning.

Catron County Detention Center Visitation

To have visitors, you must give each visitor’s name to the Catron County Detention Center in advance of any visit. Your visitors will be entered into a Visiting log as an authorized visitor. Each and every visitor has to provide acceptable photo identification. Any visitors arriving late or that is not an approved visitor will be turned away.

Visitation procedures change often, so make sure that you call the facility at (505) 533-6222 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Catron County Detention Center you have to first have your name on this person’s approved visitation list.

Make sure to take your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

No phones are allowed at Catron County Detention Center, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. This kind of visitation is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age is related to 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 old and is not a family member of the inmate, this 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 magazines to an inmate at the Catron County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Catron 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 Catron 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 Catron 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 have a warrant out for your arrest, you can check the arrest warrants inquiry online or you are able to call the court directly. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. You should be clear that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, go there in person, or look online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and these records are available to anyone.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of a person’s criminal history. These state databases are linked together and you can track criminal histories from any other state. You can go to courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if it was in a completely different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

A criminal records search you are able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug crimes, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to someone in jail is likely to change, so be sure to double check the Catron County Detention Center site when you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Catron 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 Catron County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (505) 533-6222 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 Catron County Detention Center store. An inmate can buy different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably want to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that the inmate can buy if they have sufficient funds in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Catron County Detention Center are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are usually more expensive than regular phone calls. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates should keep 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, phone privileges might get reduced or eliminated completely.

The Catron County Detention Center phone number is: (505) 533-6222

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits these phone service providers make from all inmate phone calls 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 Catron County Detention Center. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers 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 state prisons and local 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 rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances where 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 has set their phone rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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