The Detention Center
San Juan County Adult Detention Center
- Operated bySan Juan County
- Jail address871 Andrea Drive, Farmington, NM 87401
- Beds1,091 beds plus a 44-bed medical unit
- Average daily population 2025390
- Bookings 20257,587
- Staff151
- Per diem rate$124.29, rising to $152.26 on July 1, 2026
- Phone(505) 566-4500
Source: San Juan County Adult Detention Center · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
6/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✓How to post bond
- ✗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
- Beds1,091 beds plus a 44-bed medical unit
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Shane Ferrari
- OfficeSan Juan County Sheriff, term 2023-2026
- How the office is filledElected countywide
- Runs the jailNo separate elected role published; the county lists the Adult Detention Center as its own county department
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: San Juan County elected officials · 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 Eleventh Judicial District serves San Juan and McKinley counties. The district's own site names its courts but does not publish judge names; no judge roster page was reachable.
- 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
- The county publishes a Detainee Population Stats page with beds, average daily population, bookings, staffing and the per diem rate — unusually detailed for a New Mexico county.
- PREA audit final reports for 2017, 2022 and 2026 are posted in the county's PREA documents folder.
- The FY24 Final Detail Budget contains a Corrections Fund (Fund 201) section; department-level detention figures were not extracted from the summary pages read.
- No contract documents with other agencies for housing prisoners were found on the county site, though a per diem rate is published.
- New Mexico has no mandatory statewide jail inspection body. The NM Association of Counties runs a voluntary accreditation program; no accreditation status for San Juan 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.
- No death-in-custody disclosures were found on the county's own site.
- Five-member Board of County Commissioners elected by district: GloJean Todacheene (I), Gary McDaniel (II), Sandra Lanier (III), Terri Fortner (IV), Sam Gonzales (V). Meets the 1st and 3rd Tuesday at 4:00 PM at 100 South Oliver, Aztec.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in San Juan 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