The Detention Center
Roosevelt County Detention Center
- Operated byRoosevelt County — described by the county as 'a full-service county operated facility'
- Who runs itShayla Ramsey — Administrator, Roosevelt County Detention Center. Reports to: County Manager (not published explicitly; Detention Center is its own county department, not part of the Sheriff's Office)
- Jail address1700 N Boston, Portales, NM 88130
- Phone575-356-6871
- Sentence limitCourt commitments held no more than 364 days
- Who it servesAll law enforcement agencies and courts having jurisdiction
- Phone vendorSecurus Correctional Billing Services; no rate schedule published
- Commissary/depositsmycarepack.com or 1-866-394-0490
- BedsNot found
Source: Roosevelt County Detention · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗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
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
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Javier Sanchez
- OfficeRoosevelt County Sheriff; Bryan Holmes is Chief Deputy Sheriff
- How the office is filledElected countywide; listed under Elected Officials
- Sheriff's Office address1700 N. Boston, Portales, NM 88130
- Runs the jailNo. Detention is listed as a county department with its own Administrator, at the same 1700 N Boston address
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Roosevelt County Sheriff · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
New Mexico district and magistrate 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 Roosevelt and Curry counties; its own judges page does not designate a chief judge. Magistrate judges usually set conditions of release at first appearance.
Ninth Judicial District Court — Judges
- Benjamin S. Cross (Division I)
- Drew D. Tatum (Division II)
- Fred T. Van Soelen (Division III)
- Donna J. Mowrer (Division IV)
- David P. Reeb (Division V)
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
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 →
Notes on the record
- Roosevelt County publishes quarterly Restrictive Housing Reports for the detention center back to FY20, at https://www.rooseveltcounty.com/restrictive-housing-reports/. The county states these are filed with the New Mexico Legislative Council Service quarterly under NMSA 1978 Chapter 33 Article 16, Section 33-16-7. This is the only recurring public jail-operations reporting found anywhere in this group, though it is a legislative report rather than an inspection, so the inspections check is still recorded 'no'.
- The Finance page posts final budgets, but the most recent posted is FY21; no FY22-FY26 budget was found on the site.
- Detainee Phone Service and Detainee Commissary pages name Securus and mycarepack.com but publish no rates.
- No inmate roster, bed count, PREA material, bail guidance or inter-agency housing contract was found on the county's own site.
- New Mexico has no mandatory statewide jail inspection body. The NM Association of Counties runs a voluntary accreditation program; no accreditation status for Roosevelt County was found published.
- NMSA 1978 Section 33-15-3, the death-in-custody reporting statute, applies to private correctional facilities only. County jails in New Mexico have no state death-reporting requirement.
- Five-member Board of County Commissioners elected by district: Fabian Munoz (District 1), Malin Parker (District 2), Roy Lee Criswell (District 3), Tina Dixon (District 4), Paul Grider (District 5). No dedicated detention tax was found published; in July 2026 the board posted a Resolution Proposing Capital Improvements Tax Ballot Question, whose purpose was not read.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Roosevelt County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-08-24 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered