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Faribault County Jail Overview

Faribault County Jail is operated by the Faribault County Sheriff's Office. Official county materials place the jail inside the Law Enforcement Center at 320 Dr. H. Russ Street in Blue Earth, Minnesota. The same public-safety building also includes a hearing room, which matters because a person may be booked into the jail and then have a local court event tied to the same complex or to Faribault County District Court. Sheriff Scott Adams is identified in official-current references as the Faribault County sheriff, and the sheriff's office is the local custody source for the jail roster, jail phone line, visitation rules, commissary information, and public data requests.

The facility is a secure county jail, not the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Faribault. That state prison is in Rice County, not Faribault County. Faribault County Jail holds adult pretrial detainees, local sentenced jail inmates, people arrested on warrants, people awaiting court appearance, and people who may qualify for Huber work release or Sentence to Service. A person sentenced to state prison after a Faribault County case moves to Minnesota Department of Corrections custody and is searched through the state locator, not the county jail roster.

The county buildings page identifies the Law Enforcement Center as the home of the jail and hearing room. The research image below was captured from that official county facility source.

That local building source helps separate the Faribault County Jail in Blue Earth from other facilities with similar names elsewhere in Minnesota.

Faribault County Jail Capacity

The strongest official population figures found for Faribault County Jail are capacity figures, not daily population counts. Minnesota Department of Corrections inspection materials for 2024 and 2026 list the facility as a secure coed jail with 62 approved beds and 52.70 operational capacity, which is the DOC-calculated 85 percent operating level. The 2026 biennial inspection gives authority to operate from April 1, 2026 through March 31, 2028, and it notes delinquent juvenile hold approval for 24 hours, excluding weekends and holidays.

No official average daily population, annual booking count, average length of stay, or demographic breakdown was located in the research file. The roster is a current custody snapshot, so the live count can change after arrests, releases, court orders, bonds, transfers, and DOC commitments. Use the capacity figures as official facility measurements and use the roster or jail phone line for current custody.

Look Up Faribault County Jail Inmates

The official custody channel is the Faribault County Jail in-custody list, a vendor-hosted report linked from the county jail pages. Research found that the report appears to be a static public list rather than a form-based search. If the page opens as a full report, use browser find by last name. Confirm the report date and time because a jail roster can change after a new booking, release, bond, court order, transport, or transfer.

1. Open the official Faribault County Jail custody list linked from the sheriff and jail information pages.
2. Use browser find, such as Ctrl+F on desktop or page find on mobile, to search for a last name.
3. Read the report date, arresting agency, charge text, status, and any visible booking or hold details.
4. Call 507-526-5148 if the person is not listed, was just arrested, was released, or may be in intake.
5. Use MCRO for court charges and the Minnesota DOC locator for sentenced state-prison custody.

The official Jail Information page also links the jail roster, phone system, visiting rules, commissary, Huber, Sentence to Service, PREA, and other custody services.

That county page is the best starting point when the roster report fails to load or a family member needs a jail service link instead of a court record.

Faribault County Jail Contact

The jail and sheriff's office share the Law Enforcement Center address and main phone. Official sheriff materials say the building is open to the public and give a local direction cue: enter between Farmers Daughter Restaurant and Shell Gas Station on Giant Drive. Business office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., closed legal holidays. Jail custody operations are not limited to those office hours, but records-counter access and routine business should be confirmed before travel.

Visit Faribault County Jail

Faribault County publishes specific visiting rules. Video visiting can be completed through Turnkey and Reliance Telephone over the internet. All visitors must be preapproved, and incomplete or illegible applications are denied. Applications may take up to one week. Each inmate may have only two visits per day if time allows, and each visitor is allowed two visits per scheduled visiting period. Inmates awaiting initial court appearance are not allowed visits. U.S. government or state identification is required each time, other IDs are not accepted, and contact visits are not allowed.

The official visiting-hours page is the source for the schedule and approval rules.

Because visits can be canceled and approval can take time, confirm status before relying on the posted schedule.

Faribault County Jail Mail And Money

Faribault County did not publish a detailed inmate mail page in the research file. Do not assume postcard-only rules, book rules, photo limits, scanning rules, or a special mail vendor. Use the jail address as a starting point and call 507-526-5148 before sending mail, books, photos, money orders, legal mail, or property. The county did publish clear commissary, account, and phone information.

Inmates may buy snack foods, hygiene products, playing cards, puzzle books, phone cards, writing and drawing products, and personal medical products through commissary. Inmates fill out order forms, staff fill requests at night as time permits, and purchases are handed out once per day. Limits apply, full stock is not assured each day, and there are no returns. Money goes into an inmate account that works like a debit account. Deposits may be made at the sheriff's office lobby kiosk or through InmateCanteen. Negative balances are allowed only for medical needs, and future deposits apply first to that balance.

Faribault County Jail Booking

A typical Faribault County Jail intake begins after an arrest by the Sheriff's Office, Blue Earth Police Department, Wells Police Department, Winnebago Department of Public Safety, Minnesota State Patrol, DNR, or another agency. The person is brought to the Law Enforcement Center, where jail staff identify the person, check warrants and holds, record the legal authority for custody, take fingerprints or photographs when applicable, inventory property, screen medical and mental-health risks, assign classification, and place the person in custody or hold them for court.

Minnesota Statutes section 641.05 requires sheriffs to keep a permanent jail record for people committed to jail. Minnesota Rule 2911 governs jail facility standards, capacity, staffing, classification, inspection, and operation. The online roster is only the public snapshot. The sheriff's permanent records and county data-practices process are the fallback when a booking record, photo, or older custody detail is not visible online.

Faribault County Jail Programs

Faribault County publishes Huber work-release and Sentence to Service information. Huber requires judge approval, verified employment, drug testing before the first day of work and at random during confinement, weekly time cards, payment of the Huber fee one week in advance, and no active warrants or holds. Work release can end if the account balance reaches zero. Inmates may have to stay in from work for jail, probation, or court needs, cannot work seven days a week, and need prior approval for overtime.

Sentence to Service is court-imposed work that can help pay fines. The county says the program is run by probation, with information at 507-526-6281. Requirements include court approval, no unresolved court files with detention ordered, drug and alcohol testing, probation referral to the STS Crew Leader before release, and final approval by the crew leader. Not all eligible people are approved, including for offense status, prior STS discipline, or sex-offender status.

Faribault County Jail vs DOC

Faribault County Jail is for local county custody. The Minnesota Department of Corrections Locator is for adults committed to the Commissioner of Corrections and still under DOC jurisdiction, including prison and post-release supervision. A newly sentenced person may take several business days to appear in the DOC locator after transfer. Federal sentenced inmates are searched through the BOP inmate locator. ICE detainees are searched through the ICE Online Detainee Locator System. No BOP prison, ICE detention center, regional jail, city jail, or state prison was found in Faribault County.

County Jail

Current local custody before trial, after local sentence, on warrants, or on short-term holds.

DOC Locator

Sentenced adults under Minnesota Department of Corrections jurisdiction.

Federal Locator

BOP or ICE tools for federal prison or immigration detention, not the county roster.

VINE

Custody notification service for victims and the public when available.

About Faribault County Jail

Faribault County Jail has local jail-service pages for visitation, phone service, commissary, Huber, Sentence to Service, PREA information, and the roster. The PREA page states a zero-tolerance policy toward sexual abuse and sexual harassment. Reports are investigated by the jail and the Sheriff's Office Investigative Division. During regular business hours, reports can be made through jail administration at 507-526-4876 or 507-526-4877, or by calling the jail and asking for an on-duty correctional officer.

No official jail litigation, consent decree, DOJ investigation, jail death report, new jail construction project, closure, or capacity-reduction order was located in the research file. The official operating picture is therefore the county jail pages plus the Minnesota DOC inspection reports. That matters for accuracy. The page should not describe overcrowding, an annex, a separate work-release center, or a state-prison role unless a later official source documents one.