Guadalupe County

The Detention Center

Not found — Guadalupe County names no jail of its own

• Operated byNot found
• FindingGuadalupe County's departments page lists Administration, Assessor, Clerk & Probate, Treasurer, Sheriff, Veteran's Center, DWI Council, two senior centres and the Pecos Theatre. There is no detention centre, jail or corrections department.
• Not the county jailThe Guadalupe County Correctional Facility on South Highway 54 in Santa Rosa is a 600-bed medium-security STATE prison — owned by The GEO Group and managed and operated by the New Mexico Corrections Department under a lease agreement. Its operator's page describes additional housing units for county detention, but no county source confirms that Guadalupe County's own prisoners are held there.
• Where prisoners goNot found from any county or state source opened
• What was triedhttps://www.guadalupecountynm.org/departments ; https://www.guadalupecountynm.org/sheriff-s-dept ; https://www.guadalupecountynm.org/administration ; https://www.guadalupecountynm.org/contact ; https://www.guadalupecountynm.org/public-notices ; https://www.guadalupecountynm.org/meeting-agendas ; https://www.guadalupecountynm.org/commissioners ; https://www.guadalupecountynm.org/file-share ; the full page list at https://www.guadalupecountynm.org/pages-sitemap.xml (25 pages, none about detention); and both commission meeting notices published as PDFs. Commercial inmate-lookup sites were excluded as sources.

Source: Guadalupe County departments listing · checked 2026-08-24

• ✗The jail is named — not published
• ✗Who is in custody — not published
• ✗Beds and daily population — not published
• ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
• ✗Deaths in custody — not published
• ✗PREA audits — not published
• ✗Independent inspection — not published
• ✗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 Guadalupe 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 builtNot found
• Original costNot found
• Paid for byNot found
• BedsNot found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Lorenzo Mata

• Runs the jailNot established — Guadalupe County's own website lists no detention centre or jail among its departments
• Office address565 River Rd. #1, Santa Rosa, NM 88435 (county website); 117 5th, Santa Rosa (sheriffs' association listing)
• Phone575-472-3711
• How the office is filledElected county sheriff
• Source noteThe county's own website has a Sheriff's Dept page but publishes no officeholder name; the name comes from the New Mexico Sheriffs' Association county sheriff directory

Source: New Mexico Sheriffs' Association — New Mexico County Sheriffs · checked 2026-08-24

The Judges

New Mexico district and magistrate judges are state judicial officers, not county officials. A judge is initially appointed by the Governor from a judicial nominating commission list, then stands in the next partisan general election, and thereafter faces non-partisan retention elections. The Fourth Judicial District covers Guadalupe, Mora and San Miguel counties; all three district judge divisions sit at 496 W. National Ave., Las Vegas, New Mexico.

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 →