The Detention Center
Marshall County Jail
- Operated byMarshall County Sheriff's Office
- RosterThe Sheriff's Office page publishes an active jail roster; as fetched it showed four inmates as of September 17, 2026, with names, booking dates, charges and mugshots, and carries the disclaimer "The Marshall County Sheriff's Office cannot guarantee that the information on this website is accurate"
- Phone/commissary"The Marshall County Sheriff's Office provides an inmate phone system for OUTGOING calls only"; incoming messages may be left at 218-416-1140; funds can be added via Reliance Telephone Company or www.inmatecanteen.com — no specific rates published on the county's own page
- Sentence to ServeA community-work sentencing alternative for nonviolent offenders is mentioned, contact 218-683-7001
- Capacity, budget, deaths, PREA, inspections, contracts, bond/bail infoNot published on the pages opened (Sheriff's Office index, Board of Commissioners agenda/minutes listing)
- Also sourced toMN DOC Adult Facilities Inspection Reports index — https://mn.gov/doc/about/office-inspector-general/inspection-enforcement-licensing/adult-facilities/adult-facilities-inspection-reports/adultreports.jsp
Source: Marshall County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗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 found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Jason Boman
- Runs the jailYes, if the county operates one — the elected sheriff has charge and custody of the county jail under Minn. Stat. 387.11 and is responsible for its operation and condition under Minn. Stat. 641.14 (MN state layer)
- How the office is filledElected countywide to a four-year term under Minn. Stat. 382.01 (MN state layer)
- Contact208 E Colvin Ave. Suite 1, Warren, MN 56762; 218-745-5411; jason.boman@marshallcountymn.gov
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Marshall County Sheriff's Office · 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 Marshall 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
- Marshall County's own site (marshallcountymn.gov) publishes a live jail roster on the Sheriff's Office page, the basis for the 'roster' yes. The page does not explicitly name a distinct jail facility, so 'named' is scored 'no' rather than inferred. Capacity, budget, death, PREA, inspection, contract, bond, and specific fee/rate information were not found on the Sheriff's Office page or the commissioners' agenda/minutes listing.
- The MN DOC lists a Marshall County Jail with inspection reports dated 2023, 2022 and 2020; the 2023 PDF could not be opened with WebFetch in this session (refused with a provenance error on repeated attempts), so license class, population and any standard recorded as not met were not established from a source opened in this research.
- Marshall County has a Board of Commissioners; its agenda/minutes are published by year (2019–2026), but individual commissioner names were not shown on the page opened.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Marshall 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