Medium security (men) · State Prison · NMCD

Guadalupe County Correctional Facility

Santa Rosa, Guadalupe County, New Mexico

Visiting schedules change without notice. Always call before traveling.

Call Visiting Office: (575) 472-1002 Info last verified: June 2026

A medium-security state prison for men in Santa Rosa, New Mexico — built in 1997 and state-operated since 2021; despite its name, it is a state prison, not a county jail, and it houses male parole violators.

Statewide rules that apply at NMCD prisons

These rules are set by NMCD and apply at every unit. The full list — including all permitted and prohibited items and the approval process — is in Visiting in New Mexico.

Dress code

Dress modestly — New Mexico facilities enforce a visiting dress code that bars revealing, transparent, or provocative clothing, gang-related items, and anything resembling what incarcerated people or staff wear.
Each facility may turn away a visitor who is dressed out of code, and electronic devices are not allowed inside, so confirm the specific facility's rules before traveling.

ID: Every visitor must be on the inmate's approved visitor list before visiting (and before depositing money) — the incarcerated person initiates the list, and approval is handled by each facility. Bring a government-issued photo ID to each visit.
What to bring: Bring only what the facility allows — most personal items are not permitted in the visiting room. Money for an inmate's account is sent by U.S. postal money order to the person at their facility (the separate Securus Debit account covers calls and tablet services), never handed over at a visit.
Scheduling: New Mexico has no statewide online scheduler — visits are arranged with each facility by phone or email, and days, hours, and contact-versus-noncontact rules vary by facility and custody level. The privately operated Otero County Prison Facility sets its own visiting arrangements. Men enter the system through the Reception and Diagnostic Center at the Central New Mexico Correctional Facility (Los Lunas); women through the diagnostic center at the Western New Mexico Correctional Facility (Grants).

Full statewide rules: Visiting in New Mexico

Overview

Guadalupe County Correctional Facility (GCCF) is a state prison for men operated by the New Mexico Corrections Department. It is in Santa Rosa, the seat of Guadalupe County, in east-central New Mexico. The facility houses men at Level 3 (medium custody) and was built in 1997.

The New Mexico Corrections Department assigns a custody level based on factors that include sentence length, time remaining, and conduct, and a person’s custody level can change during incarceration. The custody class and housing unit held at a given prison determine whether visits are contact or non-contact, so families confirm the arrangement that applies to the specific person before a first visit.

What Makes the Guadalupe County Correctional Facility Different

Guadalupe County Correctional Facility has been state-operated since 2021. The building is owned by the GEO Group and leased to the state, but the prison is run by the New Mexico Corrections Department, not a private company. This was part of a broader shift in which New Mexico moved several prisons — in Santa Rosa, Clayton, and Grants — from private to state operation in 2021.

Despite the word “County” in its name, the facility is a state prison, not a county jail. It does not hold people for Guadalupe County or handle pretrial detention; it holds people sentenced to the custody of the New Mexico Corrections Department. Within the state system, the facility’s mission is to house male parole violators at Level 3.

Visiting

The statewide NMCD rules above — the approved visitor list, the dress code, ID, and item limits — apply at the Guadalupe County Correctional Facility. The facility’s own arrangements:

Getting There and Parking

Guadalupe County Correctional Facility is at 1039 Agua Negra Rd in Santa Rosa, in Guadalupe County in east-central New Mexico. Santa Rosa sits along Interstate 40 between Albuquerque to the west and Tucumcari to the east, and is also reached by way of US Highway 54 and US Highway 84. The nearest large commercial airport is in the Albuquerque area to the west.

Parking is on site. Visitors confirm current entry procedures, the visitor-processing location, and what may be brought onto the grounds with the facility before arriving, because electronic devices and personal items are generally not permitted inside — visitors may typically bring only identification, a car key, and coins for vending machines.

Nearby Services

Santa Rosa has limited lodging and dining, with several motels and restaurants clustered along the Interstate 40 corridor and the historic Route 66 business route through town. Emergency medical care is available locally, with larger hospitals in the Albuquerque area to the west. Visitors traveling a long distance generally find the most options for fuel, food, and overnight stays along Interstate 40, with a wider range in the Albuquerque area.

Mail

New Mexico does not deliver personal mail to the prison itself. Since February 2022, incoming personal mail for people in New Mexico Corrections Department facilities is sent to an off-site Securus processing center in Seminole, Florida, where it is opened, inspected, and scanned. The scanned mail is delivered electronically to the person’s Smart Communications tablet (the tablet program began July 1, 2024); the original paper is not forwarded to the facility.

Personal mail must be addressed with the incarcerated person’s full committed name and NMCD number, followed by the facility’s Seminole, Florida P.O. Box. For the Guadalupe County Correctional Facility, that box is PO Box 9188, Seminole, FL 33775-9189. The current box for each facility is listed on the New Mexico Corrections Department’s Inmate Mail Addresses page.

Legal mail, publications, and packages are handled differently and do not go to the Florida scanning box. Legal and privileged mail goes to the facility and is opened in the person’s presence under NMCD policy CD-151200; publications and books are subject to that policy’s approved-source rules. Confirm the current routing for legal mail, publications, and packages with the facility before sending.

Learn More

Visiting a New Mexico prison — approved visitor lists, scheduling with each facility, and what to expect at the visit.
Sending mail in New Mexico — the off-site scanning system, addressing, and how legal mail and publications are handled.
Phone, video, and messaging — Securus calls, Smart Communications tablets, and video visits.
Sending money — how to deposit funds to a trust account and to a Securus Debit account.
Medical care — who provides health care in New Mexico prisons and how to raise a concern.
Transfers and reception — how people enter the system through the Reception and Diagnostic Centers and how transfers work.

Sources

This page is compiled from the following publicly available sources. Policies change without notice — confirm current details with the facility before relying on them.