The Detention Center
Ramsey County Adult Detention Center (ADC / "Ramsey County Jail") and Ramsey County Correctional Facility (RCCF / "Workhouse")
- Operated byADC: Ramsey County Sheriff's Office. RCCF: Ramsey County Community Corrections (separate county department)
- Who runs itTimothy Vasquez — Superintendent, Ramsey County Correctional Facility (RCCF / Workhouse)
- Answers tothe Ramsey County Correctional Facility's own superintendent
- Why this is differentThe elected county sheriff does not run this jail.
- ADC address and basic facts425 Grove St., Saint Paul, MN 55101; "a 500-bed pre-trial facility" that opened in December 2003 and employs nearly 150 staff
- ADC licensed capacity per DOC460 beds (approved capacity), per the MN DOC inspection report dated 11/14/2024
- RCCF address297 South Century Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55119; "houses and provides programming for men and women sentenced up to one year in Ramsey County"
- RCCF/ACF licensed capacity per DOC556 beds (approved capacity), per the MN DOC inspection report dated 11/14/2024
- RosterBooking reports for the ADC and a resident-roster search for the Correctional Facility (Workhouse) are both linked from the county's own warrants/bookings page; the Workhouse roster tool itself displayed "performing systems maintenance and the resident roster is not currently available" when checked
- Bail/bondThe Sheriff's Office publishes bail/bond guidance: bail and bond are defined, payment is accepted only as exact-amount cash at the ADC's 24-hour lobby window (no cards, checks, or money orders), and the office does not endorse specific bonding agencies
- PREAThe county publishes a PREA policy page stating it "fully supports PREA" with "zero tolerance," but no audit results or compliance metrics are published on it
- FeesThe Correctional Facility's visiting page and the ADC's visit page both state video visiting is available; the ADC's on-site video visits are stated to be "free of charge" — no phone, remote video, or commissary rate schedule was found published
- Also sourced toMN DOC — Ramsey County ACF Facility Inspection Report (11/14/2024) — https://mn.gov/doc/assets/Ramsey%20County%20ACF%202024_tcm1089-653331.pdf
- Also sourced toRamsey County — Adult Detention Center (Jail) — https://www.ramseycountymn.gov/your-government/leadership/sheriffs-office/sheriffs-office-divisions/detention-services/adult-detention-center-jail
- Also sourced toRamsey County — Ramsey County Correctional Facility — https://www.ramseycountymn.gov/residents/public-safety-law/detention-correctional-facilities/ramsey-county-correctional-facility
Source: MN DOC — Ramsey County ADC Facility Inspection Report (11/14/2024) · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✗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
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtADC opened December 2003
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsADC: 500-bed pre-trial facility per the county's own site (460 approved-capacity beds per the 11/14/2024 DOC report); RCCF/ACF: 556 approved-capacity beds per the same DOC report
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Bob Fletcher
- Runs the jailYes, for the Adult Detention Center (ADC/"Ramsey County Jail") — the elected sheriff has charge and custody of the county jail under Minn. Stat. 387.11. A second facility, the Ramsey County Correctional Facility (RCCF, the county's "Workhouse"), is run instead by Ramsey County Community Corrections, a separate county department — see jail_administrator
- How the office is filledElected countywide to a four-year term under Minn. Stat. 382.01 (MN state layer)
- Took office"Took the oath of office as the 23rd Sheriff of Ramsey County on January 10, 2019"
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Ramsey 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 Ramsey County; Ramsey is understood to be its own single-county judicial district)
- Not found
Still needed
- 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
- Ramsey County runs two distinct facilities under two different chains of authority — the Sheriff's Office runs the Adult Detention Center (jail/pretrial), while Community Corrections, a separate county department, runs the Correctional Facility (RCCF/Workhouse) under an appointed Superintendent. Both are covered above.
- prea is scored 'no' because the county's PREA page is a zero-tolerance policy statement, not published audit results, matching the check's specific wording ('PREA audit results published?').
- This county's research used 2 of this group's 8 WebSearch calls (the extra one allotted to Ramsey), reflecting its larger, two-facility structure.
- Ramsey County is governed by an elected Board of County Commissioners, with day-to-day administration under a County Manager's Office.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Ramsey 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