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McLeod County Jail Roster

The McLeod County Sheriff's Office is the jail custodian and law-enforcement agency for the county. Sheriff Tim Langenfeld is listed as the 27th Sheriff of McLeod County, and the office has charge and custody of the McLeod County Jail. The jail is a 59-bed licensed Class III facility governed by Minnesota Department of Corrections standards. It holds sentenced and pre-sentenced prisoners, including pretrial detainees, straight-time sentenced inmates, work-release offenders, and STS or Sentence to Service offenders.

The public roster is a static HTML custody list. It is not a form search. No search boxes, dropdowns, or filter buttons were visible in the researched roster. Users browse the list, use the browser find feature, and verify identity with fields such as name, sex, age, booking number, intake date, and charge lines. The roster is current custody data, not a full court case file or a statewide criminal-history report.

The in-custody list landing page states that booking information is public data and points to the county roster.

This landing page is the county source for the public roster and its custody-data notice.

Use the McLeod Inmate Roster

The direct roster is best for people who may be held in the McLeod County Jail right now. It can help confirm a current booking, view public charge lines, check bail or bond fields, and identify release or hold notes. If no entry appears, the person may have been released, may be in another county, may be under Minnesota DOC custody, or may not be in a public local roster.

1. Open the direct McLeod custody list.
2. Browse the static roster or use the browser find function for a last name.
3. Compare name, sex, age, booking number, and intake date before assuming a match.
4. Read each charge line separately because one booking can list multiple statutes, levels, holds, and bail entries.
5. Call the jail at (320) 864-5191 if a custody status needs current confirmation.

For court outcomes, use MCRO or Court Administration. For active warrants, use the Sheriff active warrant list and dispatch. For a charge-focused view, the jail roster may be only the first clue before checking the court charge record.

McLeod Roster Field Inventory

The jail roster does not accept search fields. The useful inventory is the set of static fields displayed for each listed person. These fields are public booking data under the jail roster notice and Minn. Stat. 13.85, but additional public or private data may exist outside the roster.

What McLeod Inmate Records Show

Observed McLeod roster entries included multiple charge lines, statute numbers, offense levels or status labels, bail amounts, conditional and unconditional bail notes, bail received, bond received, release dates, and hold notes. Labels seen in the research included F - Sentenced, G - Bond/Bail Set, M - Court Order Hold, F - Warrant, Release to Another Authority, and RPR'd. The roster did not show a full physical description, housing location, arresting officer, full court date, or detailed sentence document.

Note: A charge line on the roster is not a conviction and should be checked against the District Court case record.

McLeod County Jail Contacts

The jail, Sheriff's Office, 911 Dispatch Center, and court campus are physically linked in Glencoe. The jail opened in 1982 on the second floor of the Law Enforcement Addition, and a 2018 addition added 19 detention beds, a larger intake area, video visitation, and new jail and sheriff office space. Use the jail line for custody questions and dispatch for urgent law-enforcement contact.

Booking and Release Timing

McLeod booking and court timing are closely connected because the jail, Sheriff, County Attorney, Court Administration, and courtrooms are on the same courthouse and law-enforcement campus. People booked early enough on a regular court day may have paperwork delivered to Court Administration for the daily jail calendar, but special court circumstances can affect appearances. For warrants, the county advises people turning themselves in to arrive by 9:00 a.m. if they want the Sheriff's Office to try to get them on that day's court docket.

Release timing is also local. After court, the jail may not receive updated release information from Court Administration until around 1:30 p.m. at the earliest. Once information is received, release processing can take one to four more hours. Sentenced inmates are generally released at 7:30 a.m. to the jail lobby. Released inmates can request bus-route information and may receive or purchase Trailblazer or Metro Transit bus tokens.

McLeod Jail Visitation

McLeod County Jail is video-visitation only. The county provides onsite video visitation and online video visitation through the commissary vendor. Visits must be scheduled by calling the jail at (320) 864-5191. All visitors must register online in advance with the vendor and provide names, addresses, relationship to the inmate, and nature of business. Visits are limited to 20 minutes per visitor, and visits may be denied for safety or rule violations.

The onsite video visitation entrance is on the east side lower entrance to the Law Enforcement Center, to the left of the main entrance and down the access ramp.

Mail, Phone, and Email

Mail is delivered Monday through Friday except holidays. All mail is opened and inspected before delivery, while legal mail is opened only in the addressee's presence. Use the format: inmate's full name, McLeod County Jail, 801 - 10th Street East, Glencoe, MN 55336. Mail for people no longer in custody is returned to sender, so a return address is required. Polaroids, glue, glitter, certain stickers, suspicious items, and pictures showing nudity or sexual innuendo are not accepted.

Inmates may make local, long-distance, and international outgoing calls subject to facility restrictions. Friends and family can buy phone cards through Team3/InmateCanteen. Correctional Billing Services handles call blocking, call problems, and collect-call billing at 1-800-844-6591. All non-privileged inmate calls are recorded. Email and SMS are through Team3/InmateCanteen or the Turnkey Corrections app, with listed fees of $0.25 per email sent or received and $0.13 per SMS message sent or received.

Money and Custody Fallbacks

All McLeod inmates have an account created at booking. Funding options include cash or money order by mail payable to "The McLeod County Jail for the account of (inmate's name)," the Sheriff's Office lobby kiosk during normal business hours, and Team3/InmateCanteen online. Upon release, remaining funds are refunded after deductions for booking fees, indigent supplies, and posted debts.

When the county roster does not show the person, use statewide and specialized fallbacks. The McLeod VINE page says VINE can report whether an offender is in custody of Minnesota DOC or a participating county jail and can provide release or transfer notice by phone at 866-277-7477. The Minnesota DOC public viewer covers adults committed to the Commissioner of Corrections who are in prison or on supervision, although newly sentenced people may take several business days to appear. DOC public registrant search and BCA non-compliant predatory offender search are separate tools for qualifying registrant information.

The Minnesota VINELink custody search is a statewide notification option for participating custody records.

VINELink is useful when local roster status is not enough or release notification is needed.

The Minnesota DOC public offender locator covers state prison and supervision custody rather than local jail bookings.

DOC records can explain why a person no longer appears in the McLeod County Jail roster after sentencing or transfer.

The DOC public registrant search is another state custody-related channel for qualifying registrants.

This registrant search is not a general jail roster, so it should be used only for the specific public-notification category it serves.

The Minnesota BCA non-compliant predatory offender search is separate from the county jail roster and DOC custody locator.

The BCA fallback is narrow, but it matters when the public question is about non-compliant registrant status rather than current jail custody.

McLeod Inmate Public Data Limits

The in-custody roster is public booking data, but it is not every jail, medical, court, or law-enforcement record connected to a person. Minn. Stat. 13.85 governs corrections and detention data, and the county roster notice says additional public data or private data may be available as authorized or required by the Data Practices Act. That means some information can be public on request, some can be private, and some can be held by the court rather than the jail.

Use the Sheriff's written public data request form when the needed jail or law-enforcement record is not posted online. The form asks for the date of request, the way the requester wants access, and a specific description of the data. Identifying information cannot be required, but the Sheriff's Office notes that without a way to reach the requester, staff cannot ask follow-up questions or notify when data is ready.

Use MCRO or McLeod Court Administration for court records, including criminal complaints filed in court, hearing entries, dispositions, sentencing records, and certified copies. The jail roster may show a charge or hold, but the court record decides the case outcome. Use the active warrant list or dispatch for warrant status, since a jail hold and a warrant list entry can change at different times.

For medical, property, court clothing, and personal-service questions, use the jail's own instruction pages or call the jail. Those operational topics are separate from the public roster because they involve facility rules, safety review, health privacy, and release handling rather than a simple custody lookup.