Find Colfax County Inmates

Colfax County Inmate Search

No official online Colfax County jail roster or inmate-name search was located on the county site. The official detention page identifies Vigil-Maldonado Detention Center as the local facility and gives direct phone, fax, office hours, administrator information, PREA policy, and safety reporting channels. It includes a lead-in that says "To speak to a detainee please visit here," but the inspected official text did not expose a usable URL. Because official sources control, Colfax County inmate records should be checked through the detention center rather than third-party jail roster domains.

County custody and court case information are related, but separate. The jail can confirm custody details that are publicly releasable. Court systems can show filed charges, hearings, case numbers, and some status details. For an arrest-to-charge path, use Colfax County arrest records and court charges. For the full criminal case file, use court records, re:SearchNM, or the court clerk where the case is filed.

The Colfax County Sheriff's Office page is one assigned source for inmate records.

The sheriff source supports the law-enforcement side of custody questions, including office contact and non-emergency reporting access.

Vigil-Maldonado Detention Center

Vigil-Maldonado Detention Center is the official Colfax County jail facility. The detention page names Regina Slade as administrator, lists the facility at 444 Hereford Street in Raton, and gives phone 575-445-3691 and fax 575-445-3692. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The county states that the facility was built in 1989 as a 42-bed facility and named after two long-serving Colfax County Sheriffs, Joe Vigil and former Colfax County Commission Chairman Jim Maldonado.

The Colfax County detention page is assigned to this inmate page's images.

This source is the controlling local page for Colfax County jail contact, facility capacity, administrator, and PREA information.

How to Find a Colfax County Inmate

Because the research did not find an official county inmate roster, the search steps are contact-based. Before calling, gather the person's full legal name, date of birth if known, booking date or arrest date, arresting agency, court case number, and any citation or warrant information. The detention center may limit what it can release, and staff may direct court-record questions to the court that owns the filed case.

1. Call Vigil-Maldonado Detention Center at 575-445-3691 during posted office hours to ask whether the person is in county custody.
2. If the person is not in county custody, ask whether they were released, transferred, or never booked into the facility.
3. Search New Mexico Case Lookup for filed charges, hearing dates, bond orders, and court location.
4. Use NMCD Offender Search if the person may be in state prison or on probation or parole.
5. Contact the issuing court for bond, next appearance, active warrant, or case-document questions.

For online non-emergency law-enforcement reporting, the sheriff page links the official Colfax County Sheriff's Office non-emergency reporting portal.

That portal is useful for sheriff reporting, but it should not be described as an inmate lookup or jail roster.

Colfax County Inmate Lookup Fields

The official county site did not provide a public roster search screen, so there is no county roster field table to copy. The contact workflow still uses a consistent set of identifiers. NMCD, by contrast, publishes a state offender search that requires first and/or last name or an NMCD number. Use the right field set for the custody level.

Colfax County Inmate Record Fields

No official sample Colfax County inmate profile was available. The research identified expected official fields to request or confirm by phone or in person, subject to what the detention center may release. These fields should be treated as a request checklist, not proof that a public online profile exists.

Colfax County Booking to Court

The local booking path begins with arrest by the sheriff, Raton Police, Springer Police, State Police, or another agency. If held in county custody, the person is transported to Vigil-Maldonado Detention Center for intake. Booking records and property inventory are created, and medical or security screening occurs. Charges may start from arrest paperwork, warrants, complaints, citations, or later court filings.

First appearance, arraignment, and bond setting may occur in Magistrate or District Court depending on the case type. Felony preliminary hearings may occur in Magistrate Court, and felony case files move to District Court if bound over or charged. Misdemeanor, DWI, and traffic cases may remain in Magistrate or Municipal Court. Sentenced state-prison custody moves from the county facility to NMCD systems.

For filed charges and hearings, use New Mexico Case Lookup, the Colfax District and Magistrate docket pages, or the court clerk. Case Lookup may show court, case number, party name, hearing date, and case status, but documents are not available there. Registered re:SearchNM access or a court request may be needed for documents.

Colfax County Jail vs NMCD

NMCD Offender Search is for state custody and supervision, not county jail custody. NMCD states that users must know an offender's first and/or last name or NMCD number. It also states that the department does not have jurisdiction over county or city detention facilities, so it will not reliably find someone newly booked into Vigil-Maldonado Detention Center. Adult Prison Division offender information updates nightly, while Probation and Parole information updates in real time. Allow 24 hours for APD information to appear.

The New Mexico Corrections Department offender search is an assigned image source for this page.

NMCD is useful after transfer to state custody, but the agency itself says county and city detention facilities are outside its jurisdiction.

Colfax County Jail Visits

The official Colfax County detention page did not publish a full visitation schedule, mail rules, commissary vendor, money-deposit vendor, video-visitation link, inmate-phone vendor, tablet program, dress code, child-visitor rules, or remote-visit pricing in the inspected text. Because the build uses official sources only, those rules should be confirmed directly with Vigil-Maldonado Detention Center before travel, payment, or mail.

Note: Lack of a posted schedule is not the same as no visitation; it means official confirmation is required.

Colfax County Inmate Safety

Vigil-Maldonado Detention Center states a zero-tolerance policy for sexual misconduct involving detainees. The policy covers sexual abuse, misconduct, harassment, and retaliation. Prohibited conduct includes staff-detainee, volunteer or contractor-detainee, and detainee-detainee misconduct. Criminal investigations are referred to the Colfax County Sheriff's Office.

Colfax County Inmate Records Requests

Use the custodian tied to the record. Jail custody information belongs with the detention center or sheriff. Court records for charges, hearings, bond orders, and case documents belong with the court where the case was filed. State criminal-history records belong with DPS. State custody and supervision information belongs with NMCD. An IPRA request may be appropriate for court records when the online system does not provide the needed public record, but AOC notes that case records are kept by the court where the case was filed.

• For county custody, call Vigil-Maldonado Detention Center at 575-445-3691.
• For sheriff law-enforcement questions, call 575-445-5561.
• For District Court case records, use the Eighth Judicial District Court in Raton.
• For Magistrate Court matters, use Raton Magistrate Court or Springer Magistrate Court.
• For state prison or supervision, use NMCD Offender Search and NMCD contacts.
• For criminal-history repository records, use DPS Law Enforcement Records Bureau channels.