Quay County Detention Center

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The Quay County Detention Center is located at 300 South 3rd Street in Tucumcari, NM and is a medium security county jail operated by the Quay County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide will tell you all the information about anything you might need to know about the Quay County Detention Center, like how to find an inmate at the Quay County Detention Center, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, court information, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you information that you need to make getting locked up a lot easier. If you have specific questions, feel free to ask it, and any feedback or comments that might be a benefit to other people in the same situation would be much appreciated.

Quay County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Quay County Detention Center Inmate List is an online list of individuals currently in custody, which includes status, and visiting hours. You can get the same information for anyone arrested and processed or discharged in the last 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can locate their arrest information faster if you have your friend or family member’s full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Quay County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Quay 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 may not be processed immediately.

First you will have to answer some questions, like what is your full legal name, your address, date of birth and contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and psychological history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

You will get to use the telephone so you can call a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might get to keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you you will have to change into a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. This process may take anywhere between 30 minutes to many hours. Or, simply, the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you will get released. Also, it can depend on if you have a cash bond amount or if a judge needs to decide on the amount of bail to be set. For lesser charges, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served your sentence and are given a discharge date, you should expect to get discharged that morning.

Quay County Detention Center Visitation

To have visitors, you need to give information about each visitor to the Quay County Detention Center before you can visit. Your visitor’s names will go in a log of visitors for the requesting inmate. All visitors is required to provide identification. Visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

The Quay County Detention Center visitation procedures change often, so we suggest that you call the jail at (575) 461-4664 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Quay County Detention Center you must first be on this person’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Quay County Detention Center, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Anybody currently on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Usually is not normally approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 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 of age 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Quay County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Quay 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 Quay 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 Quay 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 might have a warrant out for your arrest, you can access arrest warrants online or you can call the court. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. Bear in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or check online. Records of arrests are public record and this is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a court case file that contains a docket and any documents and filings filed in your court case. You are able to access the court records on the website, or at the Quay County Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of people’s criminal background. These databases are linked together so you can track criminal convictions from any other state. You are able to go to courthouse and check in person, or check the website. It helps to know the county, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal history search you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for DUI, drug Possession, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to inmates are always changing, so it would be best to double check the Quay County Detention Center site before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Quay 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 Quay County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (575) 461-4664 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 Quay County Detention Center store. Inmates can purchase several different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will most likely want to use the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as personal 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

All phone calls from the Quay County Detention Center are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Phone calls made in jail are generally more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. Phone calls are restricted on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but you should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the rules and are disciplined, an inmate’s ability to use the phone could be reduced or forbidden completely.

The Quay County Detention Center phone number is: (575) 461-4664

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The money these phone service providers make from all of the phone calls that inmates make 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 Quay 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 factors 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 state prisons and local jails figuring out how to lower your inmates phone charges can be 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 how much it costs you to call 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 these cases, the jail has set their calling prices in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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