Lookup Roseau County Jail Inmates

Roseau County Jail Overview

Roseau County Jail is the primary and only confirmed detention facility physically in Roseau County from the official sources used for this build. It is operated by the Roseau County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff page lists Sheriff Steve Gust and links to the detention center, inmate list, and video visitation. The jail and sheriff's office are listed at 604 5th Avenue SW, Roseau, MN 56751, with the main phone number 218-463-1421.

The facility is a local adult county jail, not a state prison. It holds adult pretrial detainees, local arrests, sentenced local inmates, court and warrant holds, and limited delinquent juvenile holds under the rural exception described in the DOC inspection record. State-sentenced felony prisoners from Roseau County are searched through MNDOC after transfer. Federal and immigration custody use separate federal or ICE systems.

Roseau County Jail Capacity

The 2025 Minnesota DOC inspection report is the detailed official source for Roseau County Jail's building and capacity facts. It identifies the facility type as "Jail," gives an approved secure coed capacity of 52 beds, and states an operational capacity of 46.80 beds at the 90 percent operating calculation. It describes the design as remote podular design and lists the certificate holder as the Roseau County Sheriff's Office.

Roseau County Jail Inmate Lookup

Use the official county inmate list for people currently held at Roseau County Jail. The sheriff page publishes the inmate-list link, and the direct roster URL is inmates.co.roseau.mn.us. The portal did not load reliably during research, so the exact live search controls are not treated as confirmed. If the system displays a list, use browser find for the person's last name and review the custody fields shown.

1. Start with the official inmate list linked from the sheriff page.
2. Search or scan by last name if the portal loads as a list or report.
3. Check booking date, release date, arresting agency, charges, court, disposition, and total bail if listed.
4. Call 218-463-1421 if the person was just arrested or if the roster is not available.
5. Use MNDOC, BOP, ICE ODLS, MCRO, VINELink, or a county records request when local jail custody is not the right category.

The broader Roseau County jail roster workflow is covered on the Roseau County inmate records page.

Roseau County Jail Visits

The sheriff page links video visitation to InmateCanteen. No official Roseau-specific social visit schedule, visit length, dress code, child visitor rule, attorney visit rule, or fee table was located in the research. Because jail visit rules can change based on housing, discipline, staff schedule, and vendor settings, confirm before arriving or scheduling.

The InmateCanteen vendor site is the service linked from Roseau County for video visitation and canteen or deposit access.

Vendor access should be paired with jail confirmation because the research did not locate Roseau-specific visit fees or daily visit hours.

Roseau County Jail Mail Money

Mail and money rules were thin in official Roseau sources. The safe mailing position is to use the facility address and inmate name, then confirm current restrictions with the jail before sending anything. Do not mail cash, personal checks, contraband, Polaroids, stickers, or other restricted items unless jail staff gives current permission. Attorney mail and privileged mail may follow different procedures.

State prison mail and money rules are different. If a person has moved from Roseau County Jail to MNDOC custody, use state DOC visiting, mail, and money pages rather than Roseau jail vendor instructions.

Roseau County Jail Booking

Roseau County booking begins when a person is brought to the jail after arrest or a custody order. The county did not publish a full booking procedure in the official pages located, but the research supports the main flow: identity confirmation, property inventory, screening, fingerprints, booking photo, jail ID or SID entry, charge or hold entry, classification, and housing assignment. Classification is the jail's process for deciding housing and supervision needs.

A new booking may not appear online right away. The jail has to complete intake and enter data before the roster can show it. The first court event may appear on the Roseau County District Court calendar, and formal charges may differ from the booking text after the County Attorney reviews the law-enforcement report.

Booking

Administrative jail intake after arrest.

Detainer

A hold requested by another agency that may delay release.

Remand

A court order keeping a person in custody.

Classification

Housing and supervision review done by jail staff.

Roseau County Jail Inspection

The 2025 DOC inspection report states that the inspection was conducted under Minn. Stat. section 241.021 by the DOC Inspection and Enforcement Unit. The report lists Jail Administrator Matt Restad and Sheriff Steve Gust in the issuance context, with Inspector Lauren Bizzotto. It describes the inspection method as a facility walk-through, inmate and staff interviews, staff and inmate file reviews, and documentation review.

The report gave mandatory rules a 94.96 percent substantial-compliance rating, with six non-compliance findings, and essential rules a 100 percent rating. Findings concerned annual policy review documentation, missing daily inspection sheets, inmate-accessible chemicals, medication refrigerator log gaps, an electronic medication accounting discrepancy, and documenting medication sent with a person on release. The facility remains on annual inspections. This is a compliance record with corrective-action context, not a basis to invent broader claims about jail conditions.

Roseau County Jail Custody Context

Roseau County is a northern Minnesota border county, and local law enforcement coverage is not limited to the City of Roseau. The sheriff's office serves countywide public-safety needs, while Roseau Police provides full-time patrol within city limits and Badger's police page points residents to the Roseau County Sheriff phone for contact. That local mix explains why a jail entry can list different arresting agencies even though the person is held at Roseau County Jail.

The jail also sits next to the district court campus. The DOC research noted route-to-court-holding details in the juvenile sight-and-sound separation context, which is a local clue about how custody and court movement are connected. A person booked into the jail may have first appearance or Rule 8 activity at the courthouse next door, while the booking record remains a sheriff custody record.

Roseau County Jail Directions

Roseau County Jail is at 604 5th Avenue SW in Roseau. The courthouse is next door at 606 5th Avenue SW, and the official court page says free surface lot and on-street parking are available at the courthouse. From Minnesota Highway 11 in Roseau, use the city street grid toward 5th Avenue SW and the courthouse or sheriff's office campus.

Bring government photo ID for jail or court visits. Do not bring weapons, contraband, or unneeded property into a detention or public-safety building. Exact visitor entrance details, lockers, ADA visitor entrance details, transit routes, and parking rates were not located in official sources, so call ahead when those details matter.

Winter travel can affect arrival time in northern Roseau County, so verify visit eligibility, custody status, and lobby access before making the trip.