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About This Site

McKinley County custody searches can involve more than one system. A local arrest may point to the McKinley County Adult Detention Center, a state sentence may move to the New Mexico Corrections Department, and federal or immigration custody uses separate locators. This site brings those public lookup paths, record-request basics, court links, and facility references into one private resource.

Why This Exists

New Mexico public-records law, including the Inspection of Public Records Act, gives the public a way to inspect many government records. The hard part is knowing where a McKinley County inmate record begins. MCADC custody, a Sheriff Records Division request, a New Mexico Courts case search, an NMCD offender search, a BOP lookup, an ICE locator search, and Navajo Nation custody can all answer different questions.

McKinley County Inmate Population is organized around those differences. It focuses on the county jail in Gallup, the Navajo Department of Corrections Crownpoint District Adult Facility, state corrections records, federal custody tools, and court records after arrest. It is meant to reduce confusion between current local custody, a court charge, a booking photo request, and a sentenced-prison search.

What Is Included

The site is built around practical lookup tasks that come up after an arrest or transfer in McKinley County.

  • Plain-language help for jail inmate records, jail roster mugshots, and court records after a jail arrest.
  • Facility pages for the McKinley County Adult Detention Center and the Navajo Department of Corrections Crownpoint District Adult Facility.
  • Context for county jail custody, NMCD sentenced-prison searches, VINE notifications, BOP federal inmate lookup, and ICE detainee lookup.
  • Guidance on when a booking record or booking photo may need a records request instead of an online roster search.

What We Cannot Do

This is a privately run reference site. It is not part of McKinley County, any sheriff's office, any jail, the New Mexico Corrections Department, the Navajo Nation Department of Corrections, the courts, BOP, ICE, or any other government agency.

  • We cannot release, hold, classify, transfer, or place anyone in custody.
  • We cannot post bond, schedule a visit, deposit money, or send mail for a family member.
  • We cannot provide legal advice or act as a lawyer, court clerk, jail employee, or records custodian.
  • We cannot make an official custody, charge, warrant, or court-record determination.

Any official action or confirmation must come from the office that maintains the record or controls the custody decision.

Search Partners

Some pages may include search boxes or links supplied by third-party research providers. Those providers may set their own prices, account rules, search limits, and result displays. If a visitor signs up for a paid partner tool after using a link from this site, McKinley County Inmate Population may receive a referral fee. That support helps keep the site available, but it does not give us control over partner pricing, data handling, or search results.