Sierra County

The Detention Center

Sierra County Detention Facility

• Operated bySierra County
• Who runs itPatrick Flores — Detention Administrator, Sierra County Detention Facility. Reports to: County government (County Manager / Board of County Commissioners) - the Detention Facility is its own county department
• Jail address311 N. Date, Truth or Consequences, NM 87901
• Department structureIts own county department, listed separately from the Sheriff's Office
• What was triedhttps://www.sierraco.org/department/detention-facility/ ; https://www.sierraco.org/department/sheriff/ ; https://www.sierraco.org/department/finance/ ; https://www.sierraco.org/agendas/ - no capacity, beds, year built, fees, bond or contract information published

Source: Sierra County Government - Detention Facility · checked 2026-08-24

• ✓The jail is named
• ✗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 Sierra 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 Joshua Baker

• Runs the jailNo - the Sierra County Detention Facility is listed as a separate county department under a Detention Administrator
• How the office is filledElected county sheriff; elected 2022, took office January 1, 2023

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

The Judges

New Mexico judges are initially appointed by the Governor to fill a vacancy, then must run in a partisan election at the next general election, and thereafter face non-partisan retention elections. District and magistrate judges are state judicial officers, not county officials. Sierra County is in the Seventh Judicial District; a magistrate court also sits in the county, but no county-specific magistrate page was reachable.

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 →