San Juan County Inmate Population
San Juan County's local custody system is anchored by the San Juan County Adult Detention Center in Farmington. The county describes that facility as the public source for detainee booking information, charges, bond details, and mugshots that appear through the official online inquiry. The local count is not the same as the full state prison count. It mainly covers adults held before trial, people serving local jail sentences, court holds, bond holds, and detainees assigned to the housing facilities shown in the Tyler Detainee Inquiry.
The San Juan County inmate population rises and falls as arrests, court remands, bond decisions, sentence entries, and transfers occur. A person may begin in the county jail after a local arrest, move to an alternative sentencing program if a court authorizes that placement, or leave the local roster after a state prison sentence. That is why the county roster, New Mexico Corrections Department locator, Federal Bureau of Prisons locator, ICE locator, courts, and public-records channels all matter for a complete custody search.
San Juan County Inmate Population Statistics
The county's strongest local data source is the official 2025 Detainee Population Profile. It reported the San Juan County Adult Detention Center as a 194,000 square-foot facility with 1,091 beds, a 44-bed medical unit, 151 staff, a 2025 average daily population of 390, and 7,587 detainees booked during 2025. The profile also reported a per diem rate of $124.29, with a new figure of $152.26 effective July 1, 2026.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Year |
|---|---|---|
| Average daily population | 390 | San Juan County Detainee Population Profile, 2025 |
| Physical bed count | 1,091 beds | San Juan County Detainee Population Profile, 2025 |
| Medical unit | 44 beds | San Juan County Detainee Population Profile, 2025 |
| Annual bookings | 7,587 detainees | San Juan County Detainee Population Profile, 2025 |
| Staff count | 151 | San Juan County Detainee Population Profile, 2025 |
San Juan County Custody Trends
The available San Juan County inmate population figures point to a lower recent average than older snapshots, but the sources measure different things. The county's 2025 profile is the best current local figure. Older high-authority data from the Prison Policy Initiative listed a 2013 count for the local detention center, while a 2023 Tri-City Record report described about 450 detainees on a given day. Those figures should not be treated as a precise trend line because one is a dated count, one is local reporting, and one is an annual county average.
| Year or Date | ADP or Count | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2013 | 607 | Prison Policy Initiative dataset entry for San Juan Co. Adult Det. Ctr. |
| 2023 | About 450 | Tri-City Record local report on the ADC staff training and wellness center. |
| 2025 | 390 ADP | San Juan County official Detainee Population Profile. |
Using the county's 2025 average daily population and its published bed count, the average was about 35.7 percent of the physical bed count. That math does not prove that every housing area had open operating capacity. Classification, medical needs, staffing, separation needs, and maintenance can limit usable space even when the total bed count is higher than the daily average.
San Juan County Booking Demographics
The 2025 county profile reports booking demographics, not a single-day profile of everyone in jail. During 2025, male bookings were 5,576, or 73 percent, and female bookings were 2,011, or 27 percent. The race and ethnic-origin table listed American Indian bookings as the largest category, followed by Hispanic/White, African American, and Asian/Pacific Islander. The research did not locate a county table for pretrial versus sentenced status, felony versus misdemeanor status, age bands, average length of stay, or other-agency hold counts.
| Booking Category | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Male bookings | 5,576 | 73% |
| Female bookings | 2,011 | 27% |
| American Indian bookings | 4,998 | 65.88% |
| Hispanic/White bookings | 2,437 | 32.12% |
| African American bookings | 143 | 1.88% |
| Asian/Pacific Islander bookings | 9 | 0.12% |
San Juan County Jail Capacity
The San Juan County Adult Detention Center's published scale is unusually detailed for a local jail. The county reported 1,091 beds, a 44-bed medical unit, and 194,000 square feet in the 2025 profile. It did not publish a separate daily operational capacity by pod, classification, or staffing level in the captured sources. For that reason, the safest reading is narrow: the official 2025 average daily population was well below the physical bed count, but the public data does not prove how many beds were open for each security, medical, or separation group on a given day.
Capacity note: Bed count and usable daily capacity can differ when classification, medical care, staffing, or separation rules limit placement options.
San Juan County Inmate Population Laws
New Mexico law affects which jail records can be inspected and which details may be withheld. The Inspection of Public Records Act starts with a public right to inspect records, but law-enforcement, medical, confidential-source, and protected-identity limits can apply. San Juan County also relies on its official Detainee Inquiry as the local posting for booking, charges, bond, and mugshot information.
Key Statutes:
NMSA 14-2-1 gives the public a right to inspect public records unless a listed exception applies.
NMSA 14-2-1.2 sets access and confidentiality rules for certain law-enforcement records.
NMSA 33-3-4 requires annual inspection of state and county jail facilities.
NMSA 29-10-4 protects arrest-record information in specific confidential situations.
Search San Juan County Inmates
The official county inmate search is the San Juan County Adult Detention Center Detainee Inquiry. The county states that detainee information is only available through the online lookup system. The form can be used for current and past detainees, and it includes a housing facility filter that separates the Adult Detention Center from the Alternative Sentencing Division.
The official Detainee Inquiry search form shows the fields readers need before starting a San Juan County inmate population lookup.
The county Detainee Inquiry form is shown below as the starting point for a local custody search.
The form supports broad name searches, exact booking identifiers, custody filtering, booking-date ranges, and the facility dropdown used to separate the main jail from alternative sentencing placements.
- Open the official Detainee Inquiry rather than a social media arrest page or commercial mugshot site.
- Search by name first when the subject number or booking number is unknown.
- Leave In Custody checked for a current San Juan County jail population search.
- Use booking-date fields when the person was released or booked during a known period.
- Use Housing Facility to check the Adult Detention Center and Alternative Sentencing Division separately.
- Open the result profile for photos, booking history, bond rows, charge fields, and court-room labels.
San Juan County Roster Fields
The Detainee Inquiry exposes enough fields to support both a narrow search and a broad released-detainee search. The default current-custody filter helps when the question is who is in jail now. Date fields help when the person has already left the current jail population. The county does not publish a refresh schedule or exact retention window, so recently booked people may not appear until intake and data entry are complete.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Text | Unspecified | Result names display in Last, First Middle format. |
| Subject Number | Text | Unspecified | Optional identifier when known. |
| Booking Number | Text | Unspecified | Optional booking identifier. |
| In Custody | Checkbox | Default checked | Use for current jail population searches. |
| Booking From Date | Date text | Unspecified | Use MM/DD/YYYY style date ranges. |
| Booking To Date | Date text | Unspecified | Useful for released or past detainees. |
| Housing Facility | Dropdown | Optional | Options include the ADC and Alternative Sentencing Division. |
San Juan County Inmate Record Details
A result row can show a photo, name, in-custody status, scheduled release date, race, gender, date of birth, multiple-booking flag, and housing facility. The inspected detail profile also showed demographics, timestamped photo links, booking history, total bond and bail amounts, per-row bond type, charge descriptions, offense dates, docket numbers, disposition fields, sentence date, crime class, and arresting agency. Those fields make the roster useful, but the formal court case still belongs in the New Mexico court system.
The sample public detainee profile shows how San Juan County presents booking, bond, photo, charge, and court-related fields in one record view.
The visible profile fields support a practical search, but they should be verified against the court clerk or custody office before money is posted, travel is planned, or a court deadline is assumed.
County Jail vs State Prison Search
A person in the San Juan County Adult Detention Center is searched through the county roster. A sentenced person in the New Mexico prison system is searched through the New Mexico Corrections Department Offender Search. NMCD warns that it does not have jurisdiction over county or city detention facilities. Federal and immigration custody use separate tools, so a missing county roster result may mean transfer, sentence status, federal custody, immigration custody, release, or a narrow search filter.
| Custody Type | Lookup Channel | What It Covers |
|---|---|---|
| County pretrial or local jail custody | San Juan County Detainee Inquiry | ADC and Alternative Sentencing records posted by the county. |
| Sentenced state prison, probation, or parole | NMCD Offender Search | State prison and supervision records, not county jail records. |
| Federal sentenced prisoner | BOP Inmate Locator | Federal inmates from 1982 to present. |
| Immigration detention | ICE Online Detainee Locator System | Current ICE custody and CBP custody over 48 hours. |
| Custody notification | VINELink | Notification service where participating agencies provide custody updates. |
San Juan County Detention Facilities
The Facility Map contains two San Juan County custody-related facilities. The Adult Detention Center is the main adult jail. The Alternative Sentencing Division is a treatment and court-compliance system that appears as a housing-facility option in the county Detainee Inquiry. No New Mexico Corrections Department state prison, Federal Bureau of Prisons facility, or ICE detention facility was located in San Juan County through the official sources used for the research.
- San Juan County Adult Detention Center holds adult male and female detainees, including pretrial defendants, local sentenced detainees, bond holds, court holds, and people posted in the county roster.
- San Juan County Alternative Sentencing Division / DWI and Axis Detention Facility serves misdemeanor DWI, Axis, Nexus, reentry, and court-compliance populations authorized through the local court system.
San Juan County Records Requests
If the roster does not answer a records question, San Juan County routes public-records requests through the JustFOIA public portal or the sheriff contact page's IPRA request form. IPRA requests may be needed for documents, video, policy records, or older records not visible in the roster. The county did not publish a San Juan County sheriff booking-record fee schedule in the captured text, so fees and copying rules should be confirmed through the records custodian.
The county's own warning is important for mugshot and roster searches. San Juan County says a Facebook arrest page and a public jail-records site named in its notice are not affiliated with, endorsed by, condoned by, or approved by the county or the Adult Detention Center. The county also says it cannot remove images or information after they are posted outside the official Detainee Inquiry.
San Juan County Custody Terms
Roster fields use legal and jail terms that can be easy to misread. A $0.00 bond, a blank release date, or a pending disposition does not always mean release is available or that the court case is over. The meanings below come from the way San Juan County roster fields and New Mexico custody systems are described in the research.
- Booking
- The jail intake record created after arrest, court remand, or another custody order.
- Housing facility
- The roster field that distinguishes the Adult Detention Center from the Alternative Sentencing Division.
- Hold pending
- A bond-type wording observed in the sample profile that signals a pending hold or release condition.
- Disposition
- A court-status field such as pending, dismissed, or sentenced, when populated in the jail profile.
- Detainer
- A request or hold from another agency that may affect release even when local bond appears.
San Juan County Inmate Population FAQ
How large is the San Juan County inmate population? The county's official 2025 Detainee Population Profile reported a 2025 average daily population of 390 at the Adult Detention Center and 7,587 detainees booked during the year.
Where does a San Juan County inmate search start? Start with the official Tyler Detainee Inquiry for county jail and Alternative Sentencing records. Use NMCD, BOP, or ICE tools only when the person is outside local county custody.
Does the county roster show past detainees? The county says current and past detainee booking, charge, bond, and mugshot information is available through the online lookup, but it does not publish an exact retention window.
Is there a public sheriff inmate-search app? No public San Juan County sheriff inmate-search app was located. New Mexico courts do offer Case Lookup mobile apps for court records, not jail custody search.