Yellow Medicine County Jail Roster Overview
The official Yellow Medicine County in-custody roster is hosted on a county subdomain and linked from the Sheriff's Office page and county jail page. It is free, public, and focused on people currently held at Yellow Medicine County Jail. The inspected roster displayed the heading "YMC Sheriff - In Custody 06-18-2026 10:30," but the page did not post a general refresh schedule or a promise about how long released people remain visible.
Use the county roster for local pretrial custody, short local sentences, warrants, and accepted agency holds. It is not the right tool for a sentenced state prisoner, a federal prisoner, or an immigration detainee. Those paths use the Minnesota DOC Public Viewer, the BOP locator, and ICE ODLS. If a person is missing from the roster, the reason may be timing, release, transfer, another county, state prison, federal custody, immigration custody, or confidential data limits.
Use the Yellow Medicine County Roster
The county roster has no visible search box, filter, sort control, pagination, export control, or profile links. The practical search is browser find. Search values must be words or numbers that appear in the table, so a misspelled name or missing case number can lead to a false miss.
- Open the Yellow Medicine County in-custody roster from the sheriff or jail page.
- Confirm the heading shows the county sheriff's in-custody report, not a third-party site.
- Use Ctrl+F or the browser find tool to search a last name, first name, booking number, statute, case number, offense term, or intake date.
- Read the full row, including any nested charge and bail or bond table.
- Call 320-564-2130 or use a data-practices request if the roster does not answer a public custody-record question.
- Check the Minnesota DOC, VINELink, BOP, or ICE locator if the person is no longer in local county jail custody.
Yellow Medicine County Roster Search Fields
The field table below reflects the local roster design. Yellow Medicine County publishes a simple HTML custody report, so the available "search" path is the browser's text search rather than a roster form.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| None visible | Not applicable | Not applicable | No roster search form, filter, reset button, or dropdown was visible. |
| Browser Find | Browser text search | Optional | Search last name, first name, booking number, statute, case number, offense, or intake date. |
The roster screenshot captured from the official Yellow Medicine County roster shows the table-based layout used for current inmate records.
Because all public data appears in one table view, careful reading of the charge and bail cells matters as much as finding the name.
Yellow Medicine County Inmate Profile Fields
A Yellow Medicine County inmate record on the public roster is a row, not a separate profile page. It can still contain useful detail. The charge area may include a severity or degree letter, custody wording such as sentenced or boarder, a Minnesota statute number, a court file number, and a plain-English offense description. The bond area is also structured, so read each column instead of looking only for one dollar amount.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Booking Photo | Thumbnail image when Yellow Medicine County displays one for the current roster entry. |
| MNI | Master-name index number tied to the person's record. |
| Name, Sex, Age | Basic identifying fields visible on the public roster. |
| Booking Number | Jail booking identifier, with inspected entries using four-digit numbers. |
| Intake Date | Date and time in MM-DD-YYYY HH:MM style. |
| Charges | Nested charge details with status, statute, case number, and offense text where shown. |
| Bail / Bond | Amount with conditions, bail received, and bond received columns. |
The public roster did not show housing unit, arresting agency, court date as a separate column, height, weight, eye color, hair color, race, date of birth, medical information, classification notes, or detailed identifiers.
Find County, State, and Federal Inmates
The local jail roster and statewide locators answer different questions. A person arrested in Yellow Medicine County may start on the county roster, appear later in Minnesota Court Records Online after formal charges are filed, and move to the Minnesota DOC Public Viewer if sentenced to state prison. Federal and immigration locators are fallback channels, not county jail tools.
| Custody Question | Where to Look | Best Use |
|---|---|---|
| Current local jail custody | Yellow Medicine County roster | Pretrial detainees, local sentences, warrants, accepted holds. |
| Sentenced state custody | Minnesota DOC Public Viewer | DOC prison custody or DOC supervision after sentence. |
| Release notification | VINELink Minnesota | Notification where participating custody feeds send data. |
| Federal sentenced custody | BOP Inmate Locator | Federal prisoners and some former federal inmates. |
| Immigration detention | ICE ODLS | Many adult immigration detainees by A-number or biographical search. |
Yellow Medicine County Jail Facility
Research identified one public local detention facility in Yellow Medicine County. The Sheriff's Office operates the Yellow Medicine County Jail in Granite Falls. No separate city jail, work-release annex, regional jail, state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention facility was found in the county. The jail provides 24-hour service, but official pages reviewed did not list a separate booking desk phone or detailed records-counter hours.
Yellow Medicine County Jail
930 4th Street, Suite 1
Granite Falls, MN 56241
320-564-2130
County jail service is described as 24-hour service. Call first for public counter and records availability.
Booking Process in Yellow Medicine County
The public county pages do not publish a minute-by-minute booking timeline. The local path is arrest, transport to Yellow Medicine County Jail, identity confirmation, warrant checks, property inventory, booking photo, fingerprints, medical or mental-health screening, classification, phone access, and housing assignment. The jail handbook supplies the clearest local rules for property, medical requests, discipline, phone access, mail, visitation, commissary, and grievances.
The roster may show booking information before the formal court record is complete. Court charges begin when the prosecutor files a complaint or other charging document, and the court case is tracked through Minnesota Court Records Online. For court filings after booking, use court records after a jail arrest rather than treating the jail roster as the final charge record.
Request Yellow Medicine County Booking Records
For current public custody information, start with the roster. For older booking records, incident data, or booking photos not visible online, use the Yellow Medicine County data practices page and public data request forms. Minnesota Statutes section 13.03 gives the general public-access rule for government data, while section 13.82 governs law-enforcement data such as arrest and booking records.
The county data-practices screenshot comes from the official records-request page and shows the county source for public data request materials.
Public inspection is free under county policy, but copies may be charged under the county fee schedule and actual-cost rules.
A request should be narrow enough for staff to identify the record. Give the full name, date of arrest, booking number if known, incident number if known, and whether the request is for inspection, copies, a booking photo, or another jail record. Court files should not be requested from the jail unless the sheriff actually holds the data. For formal complaints, dispositions, and certified court copies, use Minnesota Court Records Online or Yellow Medicine County District Court.
Yellow Medicine County Jail Visits
The Yellow Medicine County Jail Handbook is the controlling source for local visitation rules. Official research did not locate a separate public HTML schedule, remote-video vendor, or online scheduler. Visitors should expect identification requirements, jail approval or eligibility rules, conduct limits, contraband screening, and cancellation by jail staff for security, discipline, weather, staffing, or emergencies.
| Topic | Source | Local Note |
|---|---|---|
| Schedule | Jail Handbook 2022 | Confirm current visiting times with jail staff before travel. |
| Visitor ID | Jail Handbook 2022 | Bring valid identification and follow staff directions. |
| Children | Jail Handbook 2022 | Use handbook rules; no minimum age was found in the research summary. |
| Attorney visits | Jail handbook and jail staff | Legal visits are separate from social visiting. |
| Cancellations | Jail security discretion | Lockdown, staffing, discipline, weather, or emergencies can affect visits. |
Contact a Yellow Medicine County Inmate
Mail should use the inmate name and Yellow Medicine County Jail mailing address unless the current handbook or jail staff gives a more specific format. Mail is subject to inspection and rejection under jail rules, with legal mail treated separately. Do not send packages, cash, or personal checks unless the jail specifically allows them.
The handbook covers phone access, inmate money, and commissary, but no public online deposit vendor, phone-rate table, tablet provider, or remote-video provider was located in the county pages reviewed. Confirm custody status and the current rule before sending funds or arranging contact.
VINELink Minnesota can also help with notification where participating custody feeds send data, but it is not a substitute for the county roster or jail phone line. No dedicated Yellow Medicine County Sheriff inmate-search app was found, and no app-only roster, warrant lookup, or booking-photo feature was located in official sources. Use the web roster and county contact channels first.
For safety, confirm the person is still housed at Yellow Medicine County Jail before mailing property, sending funds, or planning travel.
Note: Call the jail before sending money or planning a visit because custody status and facility rules can change quickly.