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McLeod County Jail Overview

The McLeod County Jail is operated by the McLeod County Sheriff's Office. The county describes it as a licensed Minnesota Class III secure local adult detention facility. It houses adult men and women, including pretrial detainees, sentenced local inmates, work release participants, Sentence to Service participants, and holds for other agencies when accepted. Sheriff Tim Langenfeld is listed as the county sheriff, and Jail Administrator Will Feltmann is named in the 2025 state inspection materials.

The jail is inside the McLeod County Law Enforcement Center in Glencoe. County pages use 801 10th Street East for jail-specific contact and the broader courthouse and law-enforcement complex for court offices nearby. That distinction matters because jail questions, court file questions, and prosecutor questions route to different offices even though they are part of the same local justice hub.

The official McLeod County Jail information page is the source for the facility's county description, jail history, programs, and PREA notice.

Use the county jail page for facility-level facts, then use the custody list or jail phone line for a person's current status.

McLeod County Jail Capacity

McLeod County's official jail page lists the facility as a 59-bed licensed Class III jail. The 2025 Minnesota Department of Corrections inspection report also lists Secure Coed approved capacity as 59, effective May 21, 2018. The same inspection states an 85 percent operating-capacity calculation, giving the facility an operational capacity of 50.15 beds, with no conditions noted. The inspection took place on February 5, 2025 under Minnesota Rule Chapter 2911 for local adult detention facilities.

The county's facility history says the jail opened in 1982 and that a 2018 addition added detention beds, a larger intake area, video visitation, and jail or sheriff office space. Current roster counts are not average daily population figures. They are point-in-time custody records and should not be treated as annual booking totals or long-term trends.

Look Up McLeod County Jail Inmates

The facility's public lookup is the McLeod County Jail custody list. It is a public HTML list rather than a form with filters. There is no dedicated roster search box, so the practical method is to open the list and use browser find for a last name, first name, MNI number, booking number, or statute text. The list shows booking photos, MNI, name, sex, age, booking number, intake date, charges, bail or bond, release dates, and hold notes when present.

1. Open the county custody list and check the timestamp at the top of the list.
2. Use browser find for the person's name, booking number, MNI, or charge text.
3. Compare age, sex, intake date, and charge rows before assuming a match.
4. Read bail, bond, release, warrant, DOC warrant, and hold notes below the charges.
5. If no match appears, call the jail at 320-864-5191 or dispatch at 320-864-3134.

The access chain does not stop with the online list. For a newly booked person, a recent release, a transfer, or public data not shown online, use the jail information phone line, dispatch, in-person contact, or the Sheriff's Office written records request process. For formal charges after booking, search MCRO and the County Attorney complaint database. For sentenced state prisoners, use the Minnesota DOC locator. Federal and immigration custody use BOP, USMS, or ICE systems, not the McLeod County Jail roster.

McLeod County Jail Contact

Use the jail-specific phone for custody, visiting, and facility questions. Use court administration for court files, bond matters during court hours, and hearing questions. Use dispatch for after-hours jail and warrant routing when the county says dispatch accepts bail and bonds or answers warrant questions. Written public data requests go through the Sheriff's Office records request options.

McLeod County Jail Visits

McLeod County Jail is equipped for video visitation. Onsite visits must be scheduled by calling the jail at 320-864-5191. Remote video visitation is through Team3/InmateCanteen, and the county lists daily remote windows. Visitors register online in advance with names, addresses, relationship to the inmate, and nature of business. Visitors except the inmate's children must be adults and may need photo identification.

The McLeod County Jail visitation page is the source for the posted onsite and remote video visiting schedules.

The county also gives a local entrance detail: onsite video visitors use the east side lower entrance to the Law Enforcement Center.

Mail and Money at McLeod County Jail

Mail delivery occurs Monday through Friday except holidays. The jail says all inmate mail is opened and inspected before delivery. Legal mail is opened only in the presence of the inmate or addressee. The jail does not forward mail for inmates who have transferred or been released, so returned mail is possible. All inmate mail must include a return address.

Inmate money can be sent by mail, deposited in the sheriff lobby kiosk during normal business hours, or placed online through InmateCanteen. The county's email and text information names Team3/InmateCanteen and the Turnkey Corrections app for messaging. Those tools are for communication and deposits, not a sheriff app for inmate search.

The McLeod County inmate money page lists the deposit options for jail accounts.

Confirm vendor rules before sending money, because posted fees and accepted payment methods can change outside the jail roster.

McLeod County Jail Programs

McLeod County Jail programs include GED preparation, educational opportunities, chemical-abuse counseling, A.A. and N.A. groups when available, library access, religious guidance, referrals, work release, Sentence to Service, electronic home monitoring, and volunteer programming. Participation can be voluntary, court ordered, required by law, or tied to jail work assignments. Program access can depend on classification, court order, conduct, and staff approval.

Huber or work release requires court-authorized release status and program approval. Sentenced participants work or attend school while spending nights in jail. Research notes include employment and transportation verification, a 55-hour weekly work limit excluding travel, required paperwork before entry, and a $25 per day custody expense paid one week in advance. Maximum-classified inmates are not eligible for Work Release or Sentence to Service, and some offense categories are excluded from STS.

The McLeod County jail programs page describes work release, STS, EHM, counseling, library, religious services, and volunteer requirements.

Program information is useful for sentenced local inmates, but it does not change whether a person is listed on the current custody roster.

McLeod County Jail Conditions

The facility is governed by Minnesota DOC standards for local adult detention facilities. The 2025 inspection used Minnesota Rule Chapter 2911 and identified the jail as a local adult detention facility with secure coed capacity. County jail information also lists PREA zero-tolerance reporting and accommodations for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, including interpreters, video remote interpreting, texting, TTYs, and auxiliary services.

For PREA concerns, the county says anonymous reports may be made in person, in writing, or through the Sheriff's Office confidential line at 320-864-4524. Social Services staff may discuss day-to-day personal problems and refer mental health concerns to the jail medical unit. Religious services, chaplain visits, and personal clergy visits depend on approval and scheduling rules.

When McLeod Jail Is Not Enough

McLeod County Jail is the local custody point, but not every person with a McLeod County case stays there. A defendant may be released, transferred to another county, held on a DOC warrant, sentenced to state prison, or moved through federal or immigration custody. The county roster covers current local custody only. MCRO covers court events. The Sheriff's Office records request process covers public jail or law-enforcement data not posted on the roster.

For sentenced state-prison custody, search the Minnesota Department of Corrections public viewer, which covers adults committed to the Commissioner of Corrections who remain under DOC jurisdiction. For federal custody, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons locator or U.S. Marshals Service District of Minnesota channels. For immigration detention, use ICE ODLS. Victim or public release notifications for DOC custody route through Minnesota Haven links on MNDOC pages.