Find Yellow Medicine Jail Releases

County Jail Release Paths

Yellow Medicine County Jail is the county’s adult detention facility. It holds people awaiting court action, serving local terms, or waiting for another authority. Leaving its custody can mean four quite different outcomes. A person may enter the community after bond, dismissal, time served, sentence expiration, or another court-authorized basis. A state prison commitment can send the person into Minnesota Department of Corrections custody. A warrant, writ, court trip, or bed arrangement may produce a transfer to another county. Federal or immigration authorities can also become the next custodian.

The jail movement entry is the key piece of evidence. It should state an out date and time, a movement or release code, the legal authority, and a receiving agency when there was a transfer. A court order explains what a judge directed, but it may not show when jail staff completed the move. Ask for both when the precise time matters. A departure from the local system does not by itself end the criminal case, a sentence, probation, or a hold in another jurisdiction.

Confirm County Jail Release

No county-operated public roster or recent-release feed was identified on the official Sheriff and jail pages. A name that is absent online cannot establish an exit time, reason, or destination. Minnesota VINE can supply a timely county custody event while an active record is available, yet release, transfer, escape, and death are distinct event types. Read the alert itself. Then obtain the source record that explains what happened.

Use a bounded sequence for a Yellow Medicine County Jail release search. It reduces mistaken identity and keeps a transfer from being described as freedom.

1. Identify the person with a full name, date of birth or age, booking range, and court file or booking number when known.
2. Check Minnesota VINE and save the event type and time. For urgent confirmation, call the jail rather than relying on a missing web result.
3. Request the admission time, out time, movement code and definition, legal authority, and receiving agency from the Sheriff.
4. Review the Yellow Medicine County court register for bail, warrants, disposition, sentence, and release orders.
5. If the record names DOC, another jail, BOP, USMS, or ICE, confirm current or released status with that custodian.

A broader named-person search and records path is available on the Yellow Medicine County released inmates home page. The jail’s own custody entry remains the best source for its physical exit.

County Jail Release Records

The Yellow Medicine County Sheriff’s Office handles requests for its existing jail data. The jail building and Sheriff administrative office have different addresses. The detention facility is at Fourth Street, while the administrative records contact is at Ninth Avenue. Confirm availability before traveling. The official office hours are weekdays during the day and exclude observed holidays.

Follow the county’s public-data guide. Ask for existing fields, not a new narrative. Useful fields include admission and booking time, release or out time, release or movement type, the code legend, legal authority, receiving agency, public bond fields, court file number, and booking photograph. Minnesota Statutes section 13.03 allows inspection of public data without an inspection fee. Copies may carry lawful actual-cost charges, so request an estimate before ordering.

The Sheriff gateway links the current data-request documents and fee schedule. It does not promise one flat fee or a set turnaround for a release record. Ask for segregable public data and the legal citation for any field withheld. Medical, victim, juvenile, active-investigation, and security information may be restricted even when the basic adult release time is public.

View the official county data-request gateway before filing. The captured county page shows where those request guides, fee materials, policy documents, and the jail handbook are grouped.

That official screen is a routing source, not a person-level release result. The written response or inspection supplies the actual jail data.

Note: inspection and copy delivery are different services, so state which one is requested and ask what current charge applies.

County Jail Record Fields

A useful release record connects one admission to one exit. Names alone are unsafe because similar names and aliases can point to different people. The booking number, date of birth, date range, arresting agency, and court file help isolate the right event. Movement codes also need definitions. Short labels such as REL, TRF, DOC, or OTH do not carry one universal meaning across agencies.

“Bond” means that required security or conditions were processed; it does not decide the case. “Time served” concerns the custodial term described by the record, though probation or another case may remain. A transfer means custody changed hands. A detainer is a request from another authority that can lead to such a handoff. Final discharge may occur well after a person walks out of the jail or prison building.

County Release Court Check

Minnesota Court Records Online can preserve the judge’s order, disposition, sentence, bail event, warrant, jail credit, amended order, probation entry, or later discharge. Search by the case number when available. Person-name searches can miss some criminal cases that did not result in conviction, and remote access can also be limited by expungement, retention, or document format. The courthouse counter remains a fallback.

The court record and jail record answer different questions. If a judge orders immediate release, that filing establishes authority. The Sheriff’s movement entry shows when custodial staff acted. Preserve both times instead of replacing one with the other. Yellow Medicine County District Court is at 415 Ninth Avenue in Granite Falls and uses a separate court contact from the jail.

VINE is most useful before the county record drops from active custody. It can send a status-change notice from a participating county feed. The data commonly refreshes in short intervals, but the notice is not a permanent county release archive. Keep the alert, confirm its event label, and pair it with the Sheriff record. Minnesota VINE does not cover state-prison custody, which uses the DOC’s own notification channel.

Note: a court order shows what was authorized; the jail out record shows when Yellow Medicine County completed the physical movement.

County Jail ICE Transfers

An ICE detainer handoff is not a community release. A detainer is an immigration agency request concerning custody after local authority would otherwise end. If ICE assumes custody, the county movement record should identify a transfer or receiving authority. The person has left Yellow Medicine County Jail, but remains in civil immigration detention. That difference matters to anyone arranging contact, transportation, or court follow-up.

Use the county record first to learn whether ICE actually took custody. Then search the ICE Online Detainee Locator with an A-number and country of birth, or exact name and country of birth. Current ICE guidance allows some recently released ICE records to remain within a limited window. A missing ODLS result still does not rewrite the county event. Contact ICE’s detention information line when identifiers are correct and the result is inconclusive.

No official material reviewed establishes Yellow Medicine County Jail as an ICE detention-contract facility. The issue here is a possible handoff from local to federal custody, not operation of an ICE center in Granite Falls. ICE states that a local agency must release the person if ICE does not assume custody within the applicable 48-hour detainer period. Case facts and dates must be checked in the actual records.

Verified County Jail Details

The county detainee handbook and Minnesota DOC’s inspection identify Yellow Medicine County Jail at 960 Fourth Street in Granite Falls. The Yellow Medicine County Sheriff’s Office operates it. Those sources verify place and operator, but they do not report a person’s current status or release. No capacity or licensing figure from a different county should be applied here.

The official Yellow Medicine County jail page identifies jail services but does not expose a verified released-person list, release-reason field, archive, or public schedule for release processing.

The image confirms the official local channel. It also shows why direct contact and a data request are central when the goal is a dated release record.

No official source reviewed publishes a standard gate, daily release time, weekend policy, waiting point, property procedure, ride rule, or local bond schedule. Call the jail before making plans. Asking staff is more reliable than guessing from another Minnesota facility’s practice.