Minimum and low-medium security (men) · State Prison · NMCD

Roswell Correctional Center

Hagerman, Chaves County, New Mexico

Visiting schedules change without notice. Always call before traveling.

Call Visiting Office: 575-888-3838 Info last verified: June 2026

A minimum and low-medium security state prison for men in Hagerman, New Mexico — just south of Roswell, despite the name. Opened in 1978; offers education and a welding certification program.

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

The Roswell Correctional Center is a state prison for men operated by the New Mexico Corrections Department. Despite its name, the facility is in Hagerman, a community in Chaves County roughly 20 miles south of the city of Roswell. It houses men in minimum and low-medium custody, classified by the department as Level 1 and Level 2.

The New Mexico Corrections Department assigns 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 affect 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 Roswell Correctional Center Different

The Roswell Correctional Center is one of New Mexico’s lower-custody men’s prisons, holding people classified at Level 1 and Level 2. It opened in 1978. Although it carries the name of the city of Roswell, the prison is physically located in Hagerman, just to the south — a detail worth confirming when planning a route, since navigation to “Roswell” alone will not reach the facility. The center operates education programs and a welding program through which people can earn a certification.

Visiting

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

Getting There and Parking

The Roswell Correctional Center is at 578 W Chickasaw Road in Hagerman, in Chaves County in southeastern New Mexico. Hagerman is about 20 miles south of Roswell along US Highway 285. Because the prison is in Hagerman rather than the city of Roswell, plan the route to the Hagerman address specifically. The nearest commercial airport is in Roswell to the north, with larger airports farther away in the Albuquerque and El Paso areas.

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.

Nearby Services

Hagerman is a small community with limited lodging and dining, so visitors generally find a wider range of hotels, restaurants, and fuel in Roswell about 20 miles to the north. Emergency medical care is available in the Roswell area, which has the region’s larger hospitals. Visitors traveling a long distance most often stay in Roswell and drive south to the facility.

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. The Roswell Correctional Center uses PO Box 9191, 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.