Harding County Released Inmates is a private reference site, not a government office. It cannot confirm custody, release a person, post bond, or retrieve an official booking record. Contact the government office that created or controls the record for those services.
Official Harding Record Contacts
Harding County operates no detention center. The sheriff can identify the receiving jail for a local arrest, but the outside jail holds its own booking and physical-release record. State-prison records belong to New Mexico Corrections Department, while the court file documents the order or disposition.
Harding County Sheriff
Harding County Sheriff’s Office35 Pine Street
Mosquero, NM 87733
Office: 575-673-2231
Fax: 575-673-2233
Central Dispatch: 575-461-2280
Email: hcso@hardingcounty.org
The sheriff’s published page does not state office hours. Call before visiting. Ask this office to identify the facility that received a Harding detainee and for arrest, incident, transport, property-release, or transfer records held by the sheriff.
Lea Detention Records
Lea County Detention Center1401 South Commercial Street
Lovington, NM 88260
Administration: 575-396-8669
Adult Records fax: 575-396-8506
Records email: recordsrequest@leacounty.net
Lea County is a documented space-available option, not the certain holder for every Harding arrest. Confirm admission first. No public records-counter hours were documented in the research, so call before an in-person visit. The county records route is the place to request a confirmed Lea booking, final movement, release time, disposition, or destination.
New Mexico Corrections
New Mexico Corrections Department4337 NM 14
Santa Fe, NM 87508
Mailing: P.O. Box 27116, Santa Fe, NM 87502-0116
Offender-search help: 505-827-8710 or 505-231-4762
Inmate Records: 505-690-9790
Probation/Parole: 866-416-9867
Records Custodian: 505-629-2583
NMCD covers state imprisonment and state probation or parole, not a county-jail episode. Its public-record notice does not provide general counter hours. Submit an online records request through the agency’s regularly monitored NextRequest portal or call the appropriate number for the record type.
Harding Court Records
Harding County Magistrate Court355 Chicosa Street, Roy
P.O. Box 9
Phone: 575-485-2549
Fax: 575-485-2407
Email: roym-grp@nmcourts.gov
Use the statewide court file for a release order, bond action, dismissal, sentence, or probation entry. The New Mexico Courts HelpLine is 855-268-7804 and lists hours of Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; and Sunday closed. Court public-record requests use the judiciary’s IPRA portal.
Choose the route that matches the custody system and the record sought:
- For a released person or a final release record, begin with the full search and records-request path on the home page.
- For state community supervision, use Probation & Parole and verify the assigned NMCD field office.
- For recent activity, follow Jail Releases: 24 Hours; it explains why Harding has no county-run recent-release feed.
- For a calculated state date or custody alert, use Projected Release or VINELink Inmate Search.
- For a confirmed contract-jail episode, use the Lea County Detention Center facility page and the detention records contact above.
- For a sentenced state prisoner, use NMCD’s statewide offender search and Inmate Records channels.
- For federal or immigration custody, use the official BOP or ICE locator for that custodian.