Curry County

The Detention Center

Curry County Adult Detention Center

• Operated byCurry County
• Who runs itJoe Alaniz — Detention Center Administrator (the county's PREA policy page also names Captain Melissa Lujan as PREA Programme Coordinator). Reports to: County Manager
• Jail address801 Mitchell St., Clovis, NM 88101
• Phone(575) 762-3819
• Who it servesCounty's own wording: provides detention services for Curry County and City of Clovis law enforcement agencies
• Beds262 (main facility built 1993 to an original 208-bed plan; upgrades in 2020)
• LayoutTwo-storey linear building with masonry siding; 10 secure housing units; medical, booking, sally-port, kitchen, laundry, visitation, exercise and multipurpose areas; most detainees share a cell with three others
• PopulationFY2025 — 1,848 detainees processed, average daily population 170, majority pretrial
• Staff65 full-time county positions plus contract medical, mental health, kitchen and commissary personnel
• Juvenile detentionCurry County Commissioners voted in April 2020 to close the county Juvenile Detention Center; juveniles now go to contracted facilities in Lea, Doña Ana, San Juan and Bernalillo counties
• AccreditationFull accreditation from the New Mexico Adult Detention Professional Standards Council, 1 January 2018 through 31 December 2027; county also states it adheres to American Correctional Association Adult Local Detention Standards
• RosterSheriff's Office page links a Curry County Detention Center Inmate Inquiry lookup

Source: Curry County Adult Detention Center · checked 2026-08-24

• ✓The jail is named
• ✓Who is in custody
• ✓Beds and daily population
• ✓What it costs taxpayers
• ✗Deaths in custody — not published
• ✗PREA audits — not published
• ✓Independent inspection
• ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
• ✗How to post bond — not published
• ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Curry County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-08-24. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

• Year built1993 (main facility)
• Original costNot found
• Paid for byNot found — Curry County publishes annual Budget Documents back to FY2010-2011 in its Document Repository, but the individual budget PDFs returned HTTP 403 when opened, so no detention appropriation figure could be read.
• Beds262 (original 1993 design 208)

The Sheriff

Sheriff Michael Brockett

• Runs the jailNo — the Adult Detention Center is a county department with its own Administrator; the Sheriff's Office is a separate elected office
• How the office is filledElected county sheriff
• Sheriff's office700 North Main Street, Suite #4, Clovis, NM 88101; (575) 769-2335
• UndersheriffWesley Waller

Source: Curry County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-24

The Judges

New Mexico judges are initially appointed by the Governor to fill a vacancy, then stand in a partisan election at the next general election, and thereafter face non-partisan retention elections. They are state judicial officers, not county officials. The Ninth Judicial District serves Curry and Roosevelt counties. Magistrate judges normally set conditions of release at first appearance; both Curry County magistrate judges' court biographies record them as elected (2019 and 2022).

Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-24

The County Commissioners

They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.

• What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
• What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
• The boardBoard of County Commissioners →
• Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →