This website is a private reference guide, not a government office. It cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release an inmate, post bond, schedule a visit, or retrieve an official booking record. Use the official Hidalgo County, court, state, or federal contact listed for the record you need.
Official Places to Start
For current local custody questions, start with the Hidalgo County Detention Center. For sheriff records or law-enforcement business, use the sheriff's office. For written public-records requests under New Mexico IPRA, the county notice names the county manager as records custodian.
- Hidalgo County Detention Center: 83 Old U.S. 70, Lordsburg, NM 88045; phone 575-542-3050.
- Hidalgo County Sheriff's Department: Sheriff William Chadborn, 720 E. 2nd Street, Lordsburg, NM 88045; phone 575-542-3833; fax 575-542-3143.
- Sheriff public hours: Monday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Friday, 8:00 a.m. to noon.
- County IPRA custodian: Tisha Green, County Manager, 305 Pyramid Street, Lordsburg, NM 88045; Tisha.green@hidalgocounty.org.
Use these pages to choose the right route before you call or write:
- For a person who may be held in the county jail, review jail inmate records and then call the detention center.
- For booking photos or a missing county mugshot gallery, see jail roster mugshots and the IPRA request path.
- For charges filed after a Lordsburg or Hidalgo County arrest, use court records after a jail arrest.
- For facility address and visitor cautions, use the Hidalgo County Detention Center page listed in the footer.
- For a sentenced state prisoner, use the New Mexico Corrections Department Offender Search rather than the county jail.
- For federal prison or immigration custody, use the BOP inmate locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator System.