Yellow Medicine County Release Meanings
A person can leave the Yellow Medicine County Jail in several ways. Bond, a court order, dismissal, time served, or the end of a local sentence may return the person to the community. A different movement can send the person to another county, Minnesota DOC, federal custody, or immigration custody. Those outcomes are not interchangeable. The jail's dated movement entry is the clearest record of which one occurred.
Release also differs from discharge. A physical release ends confinement at one place. Discharge usually means an agency's legal authority over the person has ended. Someone released from a Minnesota prison can still be under supervised release, which is the community part of a prison sentence. Probation comes from the court and may continue after a short jail term. A transfer ends Yellow Medicine County custody but does not make the person free.
- Time served
- The court or jail records that the required jail portion is complete.
- Detainer
- Another authority asks the jail to hold or transfer a person when local custody ends.
- Discharge
- The end of an agency's sentence or supervision authority, often later than physical release.
- Expungement
- A court process that seals covered records from public view rather than proving an event never occurred.
Yellow Medicine County Release Types
The release type controls the next useful search. A county jail departure tied to bond or time served points back to the Sheriff's custody record and the court case. A prison commitment points forward to Minnesota DOC. Federal and immigration movements require their own locators. The term shown in a movement code should be read with its code legend because short labels have no safe meaning across all agencies.
| Release or movement | What it means | Where to verify next |
|---|---|---|
| Bond or court order | County custody ended after legal authority was processed | Sheriff release entry and court register |
| Time served or sentence end | The local custodial term was completed | Jail record, sentence, and any probation record |
| DOC transfer | Custody moved to the state prison system | Minnesota DOC Public Viewer |
| Other jail or agency | One custodian handed the person to another | Receiving agency named in the movement record |
| Federal or ICE transfer | County custody ended, but other custody may continue | BOP, ICE, federal court, or USMS channel |
A dismissal may end one charge while another hold remains. Likewise, a bond entry does not decide guilt. Match the release reason to all active cases and holds before drawing a conclusion.
Yellow Medicine County Release Fields
A useful request connects admission to exit. Ask for existing fields, not a new narrative. The person identifier, booking interval, and court file help prevent a same-name error. The out date and time establish when the Sheriff's custody ended, while the movement code and receiving agency show whether the person entered the community or remained confined elsewhere.
| Field | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Name, booking number, and MNI | Which custody record belongs to the person |
| Admission and booking time | When the county custody period began |
| Release date and actual out time | When Yellow Medicine County custody ended |
| Release authority, method, or code | Bond, order, time served, transfer, or another reason |
| Receiving authority | Where the person went if custody transferred |
| Court file and bond fields | The related case and any public bond transaction |
| Detainer disposition | How a public hold affected the movement, subject to lawful limits |
Charges shown at booking describe the basis then recorded. They do not replace the later court disposition. Ask for the code definition and any public correction history needed to interpret the fields.
Request Yellow Medicine County Release Records
Yellow Medicine County did not expose a public release-history search in the official channels reviewed. The direct path is a data request to the Yellow Medicine County Sheriff's Office at 415 Ninth Avenue, Suite 103, Granite Falls, MN 56241, by calling 320-564-2130 or following the county's fees and data-request gateway. The jail itself is at 960 Fourth Street. Confirm access arrangements before visiting.
- Identify the person with the least data needed, such as a booking number, approximate booking dates, birth date, or court file.
- Ask for the existing booking, custody, release, and transfer fields, including the actual out time and the movement-code definition.
- State whether inspection, an electronic copy, or both are requested. Ask for a cost estimate before copies are made.
- Request segregable public fields and the legal citation for any item withheld or redacted.
- Compare the response with the court register and any receiving-agency record.
A missing web row is not a release certificate. Obtain the dated out entry and movement reason from the holding agency.
Minnesota Statutes § 13.82 identifies public adult arrest data and defines public booking photographs, subject to its limits. Sections 13.84 and 13.85 separately classify court-services, corrections, detention, medical, safety, and investigative information. Lawful redaction does not make every release field private.
Yellow Medicine County Release Copy Fees
Yellow Medicine County posts its current fee schedule beside its data guides, but the correct charge depends on the form and work needed for the requested record. A jail service fee is not automatically a government-data copying fee. Under Minnesota Statutes § 13.03, inspection of public data is free. Permitted copy and electronic-delivery costs may apply, and up to one hundred black-and-white letter or legal pages are capped at twenty-five cents per page.
Ask whether the existing electronic record can be inspected or sent in that form. Request an estimate before staff reproduce a booking image or a large set of movement data. The county does not publish a promised turnaround for this exact record; public data not immediately available must be supplied as soon as reasonably possible.
Note: The current county schedule is the price source, while the Sheriff's Office must identify the charge that fits the actual request.
Correct Yellow Medicine County Release Data
The county provides separate guidance for a general public-data request and a request by a person seeking data about themself. That split matters when the person named in a Yellow Medicine County release record wants to inspect or dispute an entry. Subject access can require identity checks that do not apply to a general request.
Describe the exact field believed to be wrong. Attach a court order, custody entry, or other document that supports the correction, then ask how the responsible authority records changes. A request to correct inaccurate data differs from a demand to delete an accurate public event. Expungement under Minnesota chapter 609A can seal covered records, but it does not mean the underlying record was destroyed.
Why can a correct jail event disappear from a public search? Web visibility, record retention, expungement, and agency jurisdiction are separate. The office may still maintain data even when no public history page displays it.
Find Yellow Medicine County Released Inmates
Start with the likely custodian. A recent local arrest points to the county jail. A state prison sentence points to Minnesota DOC, while a federal sentence points to BOP. Immigration custody uses ICE. Federal pretrial custody may involve USMS and a contract jail. Searching one system does not resolve the others.
- Match the person by name plus a second identifier, such as birth date, booking interval, court file, or agency ID.
- Check Minnesota VINE for active county-jail status and call the jail when time matters. Record when the check occurred.
- Obtain the county release or transfer entry. Treat the named receiving agency as the next search lead.
- Review the Yellow Medicine County court register for bail, sentence, warrants, disposition, and later orders.
- Use Minnesota DOC, BOP, ICE, or the federal court path only when the facts point to that system.
VINE can send a custody-change event while a county record is active. A release, transfer, escape, and death notice are different events. Read the message before describing the change. For a named-person search that begins with a same-day event, the Yellow Medicine County 24-Hour Releases page explains the local no-feed fallback.
Minnesota DOC Release Search
The Minnesota DOC Public Viewer covers adults committed to the commissioner who remain under DOC jurisdiction, including some people released from prison and still supervised. Search by first and last name or a complete six-digit MNDOC Offender ID. Name searching is prefix based and includes DOC name history, so verify the birth date, aliases, offense, and court file.
| Search or detail field | How to use it |
|---|---|
| First and last name | Find candidate records, then resolve prefix and same-name matches |
| MNDOC Offender ID | Use the full six-digit identifier for a direct match |
| Current Status | Separate prison confinement from community supervision |
| Anticipated Release Date | Read the official forward-looking prison release label |
| Expiration Date | Read the displayed sentence or jurisdiction endpoint separately |
| Caseworker and court file | Connect the DOC record to staff and the sentencing case |
The official search screen shows how Minnesota frames the query. View the Minnesota DOC offender search source before using the captured interface below.
The screen is a state-custody tool, not a substitute for a brief county-only jail record. A final discharge can also fall outside the viewer's stated current scope.
Yellow Medicine County Recent Releases
The official Yellow Medicine County Sheriff and jail pages reviewed on July 24, 2026 did not expose a current roster, a released tab, a twenty-four-hour list, a seventy-two-hour list, an archive, or an online release field. No public county update interval or post-release retention period was published. The jail-information page must not be labeled as a roster.
For a time-sensitive event, use Minnesota VINE while the county record is active and call the jail at 320-564-2130. State materials say participating county feeds generally refresh every fifteen or thirty minutes, but that timing belongs to VINE, not a county web page. For a past event, request the exact out date, time, release basis, and transfer destination. A bounded list request should name start and end times and ask whether the Sheriff already maintains that data in an electronic form.
The official Sheriff page documents the available local links and the absence of a distinct recent-release control. The image below records that official access point.
Use the page for official contacts and VINE access, not as proof that a named person was released.
Yellow Medicine County Post-Release Supervision
6W Community Corrections serves Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift, and Yellow Medicine Counties. The Minnesota DOC directory lists the Yellow Medicine corrections office at 415 Ninth Avenue, Suite 104, Granite Falls, with phone 320-564-4924. It is a useful local contact, but there is no public 6W person-name lookup.
DOC Current Status can identify state jurisdiction. MCRO can show probation and court orders. Minnesota Statutes § 13.84 also identifies specific public adult court-services data, including whether a person is a probationer or parolee, supervision dates, conditions, and the legal basis for a supervision change. Other data remains restricted. The office may disclose only what law classifies as public.
The official directory image below shows the local office source. Open the 6W Yellow Medicine listing first.
The directory supplies navigation, not proof of any person's release or supervision status.
Yellow Medicine County ICE Transfers
An ICE detainer handoff is not a community release. The Yellow Medicine County movement record should show whether ICE actually assumed custody. Then the ICE Online Detainee Locator can be checked by A-number and country of birth, or by exact name and country of birth with an optional birth date.
Current ICE guidance says the locator covers current detention and can include people released from ICE custody within the prior sixty days. It does not show people under eighteen and is not a full historical release archive. If no match appears, use the ICE detention information line at 1-888-351-4024. A county departure followed by an ICE match describes a transfer between custodians.
Note: No reviewed official source established Yellow Medicine County Jail as an ICE contract detention facility.
Yellow Medicine County Jail Release Source
The county detainee handbook and Minnesota DOC's 2022 inspection both identify the Yellow Medicine County Jail at 960 Fourth Street in Granite Falls and the Sheriff's Office as operator. That verified facility detail anchors the records path. It does not state that any named person was held or released.
The jail has the physical custody movement. The Sheriff's administrative office at 415 Ninth Avenue handles the local contact and data-request route. When a movement says DOC, another county, federal custody, or ICE, follow the destination system. The dedicated Yellow Medicine County Jail release page keeps the facility-specific contact and confirmation path together.
Yellow Medicine County Court Release Proof
Yellow Medicine County District Court and the Sheriff's administrative office share the 415 Ninth Avenue address, while the jail is at 960 Fourth Street. The offices answer different questions. Court Administration supplies the judge's order, sentence, disposition, warrant, or discharge entry. The Sheriff supplies the minute and reason that custodial staff recorded the actual movement.
Search Minnesota Court Records Online by person, case, citation, or available identifier. A criminal case without a conviction may not appear in a person-name search, and remote access has other limits. Use the case number or courthouse access when needed. If an order directs immediate release and the jail records a later out time, preserve both facts. One is legal authority; the other is physical processing.
Does release mean the court case ended? No. A person can leave jail while charges, probation, hearings, or another case remain active.
Rides After Yellow Medicine County Release
Official jail sources did not publish a release gate, waiting area, standard release time, family pickup rule, or transportation service. Call 320-564-2130 before arranging a pickup and confirm the exit point, likely processing window, and whether the event is a community release. A transfer to another custodian does not create a pickup opportunity.
Prairie Five RIDES serves Yellow Medicine and four nearby counties as a general public transportation option. Its published service description prefers city reservations twenty-four hours ahead and regional reservations one week ahead, though those are not absolute rules. Dispatch is 877-757-4337. The service is not a guaranteed jail ride, so confirm the pickup place, operating time, fare, and eligibility directly.
Yellow Medicine County Custody Comparison
Each system has a narrow job. A no-result in one system says little about the others. Use the originating agency's record for its own custody, then connect the movement to the correct destination.
| System | Still in custody | After release or transfer |
|---|---|---|
| Yellow Medicine County | Call jail and check county VINE participation | Request the Sheriff's dated release or transfer entry |
| Minnesota DOC | Current Status can show prison custody | Status may show community supervision; records establish actual release and discharge |
| District Court | Orders may address bail, warrants, or commitment | Register preserves sentence, disposition, and later orders |
| BOP | Federal locator can show a facility | Many former federal records show Released and a date |
| ICE or USMS | ICE locator or agency contact may identify present custody | Limited history requires agency, facility, or court confirmation |
Yellow Medicine County Release Facilities
The facility map includes the local jail, temporary courthouse holding, the statewide DOC system, and three federal custody paths that can serve a person with Yellow Medicine County ties. These are distinct systems, not six jails located in the county. Their release records and locators follow the operator that held the person.
- Yellow Medicine County Jail records local custody exits and transfers.
- Minnesota state correctional facilities use the statewide DOC status and records system.
- Yellow Medicine County courthouse holding requires the sending custodian's movement and court order.
- Federal Bureau of Prisons facilities nationwide use the BOP locator and federal records.
- ICE detention system uses ODLS and ICE detention contacts.
- U.S. Marshals Service prisoner custody relies on the federal court, district office, and actual holding facility.