The Detention Center
Not found — Grant County appears to operate no jail of its own
- Operated byNot applicable
- Evidence of no local jailGrant County has no facility listed on the MN DOC's statewide inspection-report index (https://mn.gov/doc/about/office-inspector-general/inspection-enforcement-licensing/adult-facilities/adult-facilities-inspection-reports/adultreports.jsp), and the Sheriff's Office's own page lists 'Prisoner Transport' as a duty rather than describing a jail
- Where prisoners actually goNot found — the county's own site does not say which facility holds its arrestees/pretrial detainees. This was searched for directly (Grant County Sheriff page, Departments page, and QuickLinks page) and not found within this session's search budget
- What was triedhttps://www.co.grant.mn.us/178/Sheriff (fetched twice), https://www.co.grant.mn.us/161/Departments (robots-blocked), https://www.co.grant.mn.us/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=25 (fetched, no jail info), https://www.co.grant.mn.us/368/History (robots-blocked), https://www.co.grant.mn.us/Directory.aspx?DID=22 (robots-blocked)
Source: MN DOC — Adult Facilities Inspection Reports index (Grant County absent) · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
0/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗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 — not published
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot applicable — no county-operated jail identified
- Original costNot applicable
- Paid for byNot applicable
- BedsNot applicable
Since then
- Not applicable
The Sheriff
Sheriff Troy C. Langlie
- Runs a jailNo — Grant County is not listed on the MN DOC's Adult Facilities Inspection Reports index, and the Sheriff's Office's own page lists its functions as 911/emergency calls, court security, PRISONER TRANSPORT, civil process, investigation, records, and water safety — with no jail or detention function named
- How the office is filledElected countywide to a four-year term under Minn. Stat. 382.01
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Grant County — Sheriff · 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 Grant 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
Notes on the record
- Grant County is not among the 80+ facilities listed on the MN DOC's Adult Facilities Inspection Reports index, which is consistent with running no county jail. Per the research brief, this is recorded as a finding rather than a gap, but the specific facility that now holds Grant County's arrestees and pretrial detainees could not be identified within this session's search and fetch budget — no page on the county's own site names a receiving facility or a boarding contract.
- All ten transparency checks are recorded 'no' because there is no county jail to publish information about, not because the county withheld anything.
- Governed by the Grant County Board of Commissioners. Not independently verified within this research's search budget.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Grant 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