The Detention Center
Lyon County Jail (Lyon County Adult Detention Facility)
- Operated byLyon County Sheriff's Office
- Address611 West Main Street, Marshall, MN 56258
- Capacity'Designed maximum capacity for the facility is 87 beds,' per the county's own site
- Built2010; 'indirect podular design intended to promote individual accountability and responsibility,' per the county's own site
- Jail operations (title under the sheriff)Gabriel Figueroa, Administrative Sergeant, per the county's own site
- What was triedThe MN DOC's Lyon County report PDFs (the 2024 primary report and the 2024 corrective action plan response) were attempted repeatedly and each fetch was refused (provenance/permission errors); the index page confirms reports exist back to 2019
- Also sourced toLyon County Jail Policies page — https://www.lyoncountymn.gov/departments/sheriff/jail/jail-policies
Source: Lyon County Jail page · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗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 built2010, per the county's own site
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds87 (designed maximum capacity), per the county's own site
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Eric Wallen
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Office operates the Lyon County Jail, per the county's own site
- How the office is filledElected countywide under Minn. Stat. 382.01 (MN state layer)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Lyon County Sheriff page · 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 Lyon 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
- Lyon County's site is the most complete of this group: it names and describes the jail, publishes a live jail roster (auto-updated every 12 hours) with a link out to VINELink, and publishes a Jail Policies page listing a 'Bail' policy (posting procedures and accepted payment methods) and extensive PREA material — a zero-tolerance policy plus linked annual PREA statistics reports for 2017-2024 and final audit reports for 2020 and 2024.
- A 'Pay For Stay' policy (billing sentenced inmates $20/day for room and board, per Minnesota statute) and a phone-card/collect-call access policy are published, but neither gives the specific phone/video-visit/commissary rate figures the 'fees' check asks about, so 'fees' is recorded as 'no'. Beds (87) are published but no daily population figure was found, so 'capacity' is recorded as 'no'.
- MN DOC inspection report PDFs for this county could not be opened within this group's fetch budget despite repeated attempts; see state_inspection.
- Lyon County Board of Commissioners: Thomas Andries (Vice Chair, District 1), Todd Draper (Chair, District 2), Paul Graupmann (District 3), Gary Crowley (District 4), Rick Anderson (District 5). The board 'normally meets at 9am on the first and third Tuesdays of the month in the Commissioners room at the Government Center.'
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Lyon 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