Yellow Medicine County Jail Overview
Yellow Medicine County Jail is operated by the Yellow Medicine County Sheriff's Office. The jail is at the sheriff and county government complex in Granite Falls and is the only local public detention facility identified in the Facility Map. Research found no separate city jail, regional jail, work-release annex, state prison, BOP facility, or ICE detention center in Yellow Medicine County.
The jail holds adults arrested in Yellow Medicine County, people awaiting Yellow Medicine County District Court proceedings, people held on active warrants, local sentenced inmates, and accepted holds for other agencies. It is a Class III county jail subject to Minnesota DOC inspection and local adult detention standards. The public county jail page says the jail division provides housing for people arrested and held by law enforcement in Yellow Medicine County and provides 24-hour service.
Yellow Medicine County Jail Capacity
The most concrete official capacity number located for Yellow Medicine County Jail is 36 approved rated beds. Minnesota DOC inspection language also notes that operating capacity may not exceed 80 percent of approved capacity, or 28.8 inmates. The public roster showed 15 booking-number rows at the June 18, 2026 inspection, but that is a one-day current-custody snapshot, not an annual average daily population.
The DOC inspection report index is the official state oversight source for adult detention facility inspection. The screenshot below was captured from the Minnesota DOC adult facility inspection report index.
Minnesota Statutes section 241.021 and Minnesota Rules chapter 2911 explain the state inspection and local detention standards framework behind that oversight.
Lookup Yellow Medicine County Jail Inmates
Lookup for this facility uses the county's official in-custody roster. The roster is a public HTML table rather than a search portal. It displays current custody rows with booking photos where available, MNI, name, sex, age, booking number, intake date, charges, and bail or bond details. It does not show a separate search form, profile page, released-inmate archive, or facility dropdown.
- Open the Yellow Medicine County in-custody roster.
- Use browser find to search a name, booking number, statute, case number, offense term, or intake date.
- Read the full row and nested charge or bail tables.
- Call 320-564-2130 if the roster does not answer a current public custody question.
- Use Minnesota DOC, BOP, or ICE locators only if the person is no longer in county jail custody or is in a different system.
Yellow Medicine County Jail Contact
Use the jail and Sheriff's Office contact information for custody status questions, visitor-rule confirmation, public counter questions, and routing to the right records process. Official pages did not list a separate booking-desk number, public counter schedule, visitor parking map, public transit instruction, or ADA entrance detail, so call before traveling if timing or access matters.
Yellow Medicine County Jail
930 4th Street, Suite 1
Granite Falls, MN 56241
320-564-2130
24-hour jail service; call first for public counter and records availability.
Visit Yellow Medicine County Jail
The Yellow Medicine County Jail Handbook is the local source for visitation rules. The research did not locate a separate online visitation scheduler, public HTML visiting calendar, or remote video vendor. Visitors should expect to show identification, follow conduct and contraband rules, and comply with staff directions. Attorney visits are separate from social visiting.
| Topic | Rule Source | Facility Note |
|---|---|---|
| Schedule | Jail Handbook 2022 | Confirm current times with jail staff before travel. |
| Visitor ID | Jail Handbook 2022 | Bring valid identification and follow staff screening rules. |
| Visitor approval | Jail Handbook 2022 | Eligibility and conduct are controlled by jail staff. |
| Children | Jail Handbook 2022 | Follow handbook rules for minors; do not assume entry without confirmation. |
| Cancellations | Jail security discretion | Lockdown, staffing, discipline, weather, or emergency needs can cancel visits. |
Mail, Phone, and Money
Mail should include the inmate name and Yellow Medicine County Jail address unless the current handbook or jail staff gives a more specific format. Mail is subject to inspection and rejection under jail rules. Legal mail is treated separately from ordinary mail. Packages should not be sent unless the jail authorizes them.
| Service | Provider / Detail |
|---|---|
| Mail Address | Inmate name, Yellow Medicine County Jail, 930 4th Street, Suite 1, Granite Falls, MN 56241. |
| Phone Access | Jail handbook covers phone access; no public rate table or vendor page was located. |
| Money Deposit | Handbook covers inmate money; no public online deposit vendor was located. |
| Commissary | Handbook describes commissary access; confirm current order rules with jail staff. |
| Tablets / Video | No official public tablet or remote video provider was located. |
Booking at Yellow Medicine County Jail
Booking follows arrest and transport to the jail. The process includes identity confirmation, warrant checks, creation of a jail record, search and property inventory, booking photo, fingerprints, health and safety screening, classification, phone access, and housing assignment. The public roster does not show housing unit or classification details.
After booking, court dates and bond information are controlled by the court process and related orders. A person may be released, transferred, held for court, held for another agency, sentenced locally, or transferred to Minnesota DOC custody depending on case outcome. Once a person moves to DOC custody, the Yellow Medicine County Jail roster is no longer the correct lookup tool.
Yellow Medicine County Jail Records
The roster is the first source for current public custody records. For booking records, booking photos not online, incident data, or older jail data, use the county data-practices request process. Minnesota Statutes sections 13.03 and 13.82 guide public access and law-enforcement data classifications, and section 641.05 requires the sheriff to keep a jail register.
The county records-request screenshot comes from the Yellow Medicine County data practices page, the official page for request forms and policy.
Public inspection may be free, while copies may involve charges under county policy and actual-cost rules.
About Yellow Medicine County Jail
The jail handbook is the strongest public source for day-to-day facility rules. It covers inmate behavior, discipline, inmate requests, grievance procedure, property, medical care, hygiene, phone calls, mail, visitation, money, commissary, and program or religious access. The roster does not show medical or mental-health information, and those details should be treated as private.
No public source reviewed gave a floor plan, pod list, year built, construction history, medical contractor, program calendar, work-release annex, recent reform project, closure, consent decree, or major facility litigation notice. Keep those topics out unless a newer official source publishes them.
For sentenced prison custody, Yellow Medicine County Jail is no longer the lookup source. The Minnesota DOC Public Viewer covers state prison and supervision records, while BOP and ICE tools cover federal and immigration custody. That distinction prevents the common error of treating the county jail as a statewide or federal locator.
Note: Confirm custody, visiting rules, and records-counter availability with the jail before traveling to Granite Falls.