Valencia County Detention Center

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The Valencia County Detention Center is located at 436 Courthouse Road in Los Lunas, NM and is a medium security county jail operated by the Valencia County Sheriff’s Department.

This site will tell you info about anything you might need to know about the Valencia County Detention Center, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, court information and records, and much, much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you all the information that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a lot easier. If you have questions, please feel free to ask them, and any comments or feedback that would help other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Valencia County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Valencia County Detention Center Inmate Locator is an online list of people who are in jail, which includes current status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can also find the same information on anyone arrested and booked or discharged in the last 24 hours. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to locate their inmate information faster if you’ve got your friend or family member’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Valencia County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

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

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

You will have to answer some basic questions, like what is your full name, address, birthdate and a contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will get to make a phone call in order to get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might get to keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you will be issued a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged from jail may take from 30 minutes to quite a few hours. So, the quicker bail is posted, the sooner you will get discharged. Also, it depends on if you’ve been given a bond amount or if the magistrate still needs to decide on the bail amount. For a minor charge, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and know the date of your release, expect to get released in the morning.

Valencia County Detention Center Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must list the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Valencia County Detention Center before anyone can visit them. This information will be entered in the log for the inmate that requested the visitor. All visitors will be required to provide identification. Visitors showing up late or without a visiting order will be turned away.

Visitation procedures frequently change, so call the facility at (505) 565-8900 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Valencia County Detention Center you must first have your name on this person’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Valencia County Detention Center, and you will be searched before entering. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain 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 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years old 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Valencia County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Valencia 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 Valencia 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 Valencia 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 are able to check the arrest warrants on the Valencia County court website or call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask them. Bear in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, as well as their arrest date, contact the Valencia County jail, by phone, go there in person, or look online. Records of arrests are public record and this information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. These records include a case file that includes a docket sheet and any documents filed in the case. You can access court records online, or at Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of people’s criminal past. These state databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from other states. You can go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It helps to know the county, and if it was in a completely different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal records search you can get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any crimes, which can include, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to Valencia County Detention Center inmates are always changing, so be sure to review the Valencia County Detention Center site before you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Valencia 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 Valencia County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (505) 565-8900 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 Valencia County Detention Center store. You can purchase several different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell a selection 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 like 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 Valencia County Detention Center are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Jail phone calls are much more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the rules, phone privileges could be reduced or forbidden completely.

The Valencia County Detention Center phone number is: (505) 565-8900

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they operate, which means that they get to set the prices. 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 Valencia 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 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 finding out how to decrease your inmates phone charges can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com is an expert in keeping up 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 inmate phone calls. There are some circumstances where we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, 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 Valencia County Detention Center, click the link below.

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