The Detention Center
Goodhue County Adult Detention Center (ADC)
- Operated byGoodhue County Sheriff's Office
- Capacity per county's own ADC page"The Goodhue County Adult Detention Center (ADC) can hold up to 90 men and women."
- Capacity per county's own 2025 communications-services RFPApproved bed capacity 155; current (2024) average daily population 52; historical peak (2017) average daily population 125; average length of stay 22 days (2024) — the RFP's 155-bed figure and the ADC webpage's 90-bed figure were both published by the county and are recorded here as found, without characterizing the discrepancy
- Jail Administrator named in state inspectionMark Bolster — a role under the sheriff, not a separate county department
- 2026 budgeted levy for Sheriff-ADC$6,170,661 (county 2026 Budget Details PDF, line 'Sheriff-ADC 207')
- Communications vendorTransitioning from Securus Technologies (14 phone units, 13 video-visitation stations) to Turnkey per the county's 2025 RFP
Source: Goodhue County — Adult Detention Center · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✗PREA audits — not published
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✓How to post bond
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byCounty levy (Sheriff-ADC budget line 207, $6,170,661 for 2026)
- Beds90 per the ADC webpage; 155 approved per the 2025 communications RFP
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Marty Kelly
- Runs the jailYes — elected sheriff has charge and custody of the county jail under Minn. Stat. 387.11 and 641.14; the Adult Detention Center is organized as 'Sheriff-ADC' (budget line 207) inside the Sheriff's Office
- How the office is filledElected countywide to a four-year term under Minn. Stat. 382.01
- Named inMN DOC inspection report dated 07/22/2026
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: MN DOC — Goodhue County 2026 inspection report · checked 2026-09-18
The Judges
Minnesota district judges are elected on a nonpartisan ballot to six-year terms, but most first reach the bench by gubernatorial appointment to a mid-term vacancy. Bail at first appearance is set by the court under Minn. R. Crim. P. 6.02.
Minnesota District Court — judicial district covering Goodhue County
- Not found
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-18
The County Commissioners
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
- The boardBoard of County Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The jail roster PDF (goodhuecountymn.gov/files/sheriff/jail_roster.pdf) was live and current as of 9/17/2026 (checked 9/18/2026), headed 'Current as of: 9/17/2026 7:00:32 AM' and sourced from www.GoodhueSheriff.com.
- Bail can be posted online through GovPayNow per the county's own ADC page, which also instructs anyone using that service to separately contact the court to establish a court date and current address/phone number.
- No numeric phone/video/commissary rate figures, PREA audit results, independent inspection results, or deaths-in-custody disclosures were found on the county's own site within this session's fetches; contracts to hold other agencies' prisoners (as opposed to a communications-services vendor contract) were not found.
- Governed by the Goodhue County Board of Commissioners.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Goodhue County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-09-18 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered