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Lac qui Parle County Jail Overview

Lac qui Parle County Jail is operated by the Lac qui Parle County Sheriff's Office. The Sheriff's Office page states that the office operates the county jail, dispatches emergency services, enforces laws, investigates crimes and accidents, serves civil process, enforces court orders, and enforces warrants. The current public address is the Government Center in Madison.

The jail is a local Minnesota detention facility, not a state prison. Its custody population is tied to booking, remand, short local sentences, release conditions, and transfer status. Sentenced state prisoners from Lac qui Parle County should be searched through the Minnesota DOC locator after transfer. Federal and immigration custody use BOP and ICE tools rather than the county roster.

Lac qui Parle Jail Capacity

The most recent capacity numbers located in official research came from the 2025 Minnesota DOC inspection for the then-inspected jail at 600 Sixth Street. That report listed the facility type as 90 Day Lockup, seven approved secure coed beds, and 5.25 operational capacity. The same report said the facility showed significant signs of aging and that the county was building a new facility planned for fall 2025.

The current sheriff page lists the Government Center address. A post-opening DOC capacity statement for the 911 8th Ave location was not located, so the older capacity figure should be used with care. The live roster observed on June 18, 2026 listed three people in custody.

Look Up Lac qui Parle Jail Inmates

The correct lookup channel for Lac qui Parle County Jail is the official In Custody List. It is a free public table with no login and no payment. It does not have a search form. Use the row fields to confirm identity and custody status, then use court or state systems when the row does not answer the question.

1. Open the county In Custody List directly or through the Sheriff's Office page.
2. Scan the current rows, or use browser find for a last name if the list is long.
3. Confirm the person by MNI, age, booking number, intake date, charge text, and bail or bond fields.
4. Use MCRO Case Search for formal charges, hearings, and court filings after booking.
5. Use the MNDOC Locator when the person has moved to state prison or supervised release.

The roster screenshot was captured from the official county custody page.

The roster layout shows why the booking number, MNI, and intake date are useful when two names are similar.

Lac qui Parle Jail Address

The Sheriff's Office and county jail share the public Government Center contact information in the research file. The office line is the local starting point for custody confirmation, visit questions, mail rules, money deposit questions, and records-routing questions that are not answered online.

Lac qui Parle Jail Visiting Hours

The official sheriff contact block publishes a jail visiting schedule, but it does not publish visit length, appointment rules, visitor-list approval, photo ID rules, dress code, child visitor rules, or a video-visitation vendor. Call the Sheriff's Office before traveling, especially because the county jail address and facility status changed during the 2024 to 2025 construction period.

Lac qui Parle Mail and Money

Official sources did not locate a jail handbook, mail format, commissary vendor, inmate phone provider, tablet program, deposit kiosk, online money link, or fee schedule for Lac qui Parle County Jail. That absence is important. Do not assume a statewide or neighboring-county vendor applies to this jail. Call the jail before sending mail, funds, books, packages, or money orders.

Booking at Lac qui Parle Jail

County-specific booking instructions were not published as a step-by-step page. The roster fields, sheriff duties, court pathway, and Minnesota jail rules still show the likely sequence. A person may arrive after an arrest, warrant, court remand, or short sentence. Intake creates the public custody row with photo, MNI, name, sex, age, booking number, intake date, charges, and bail or bond fields.

After booking, court records become important. Lac Qui Parle County District Court has original jurisdiction in criminal and traffic cases filed in the county. Prosecutor-filed charges, hearing dates, disposition, and sentencing are verified in court records, not only on the jail roster.

Remanded

A court has ordered the person held in custody.

Court/pending

The charge or case is awaiting court action.

MNI

A master name index used by the local records system.

Detainer

A hold or request from another authority that may affect release.

Lac qui Parle Juvenile Policy

The 2025 inspection said the jail had JJDPA rural exception authority for delinquent juvenile holds up to 24 hours, excluding weekends and holidays. County policy, however, is not to hold delinquent juveniles locally. The research says delinquent juveniles are brought to Prairie Lakes Juvenile Center in Willmar when needed, and the jail processed zero juveniles during federal fiscal year 2025.

Lac qui Parle Jail History

The official sheriff history gives unusually specific local jail history. The first county jail was built in 1891 as a two-story brick building that combined the sheriff residence and jail. Inspectors raised concerns as early as 1898. A 1964 bond vote led to the old jail being torn down, and the 1965 jail was finished on February 28, 1965.

The 1965 jail cost $98,466, with an attached residence costing $15,221. Up to 1983, the sheriff's wife provided cooking, cleaning, and laundry for prisoners. Later, the sheriff residence was converted to administrative office space, and the jail added secure visitation, booking rooms, recreation space, and a small library. The 2024 and 2025 DOC reports then documented aging and space concerns before the new facility project.