The Detention Center
Redwood County Jail
- Operated byRedwood County Sheriff's Office
- Address303 East 3rd Street, Redwood Falls, MN — attached to the Redwood County Law Enforcement Center
- Licensed capacity (state DOC report)21 beds, Secure Coed, Local Adult Detention Facility class (Minn. Rule ch. 2911)
- Fee found on county site$25.00 booking fee charged when checking in to serve a sentence
- What was triedFetched redwoodcounty-mn.gov sheriff's-office page and co.redwood.mn.us/jail/custody.html (live roster); no capacity, budget, deaths, PREA, inspection, or contract information found published on the county's own site
Source: Redwood County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓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 — 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
- Beds21 (per state DOC inspection report, not published by the county itself)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Jason Jacobson
- Runs the jailYes — elected sheriff, Minn. Stat. 387.11 and 641.14
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term (Minn. Stat. 382.01)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Redwood 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.
Fifth Judicial District — District Court
- Chief judge not named on the district's public page; judge biographies linked at mncourts.gov/_/judicial-directory/county/redwood
- 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
- Fees check judged 'no' because the only published amount found on the county's own site is a $25 sentence-service booking fee, not phone/video-visit/commissary rates.
- Bond_info judged 'no': no dedicated bail-posting guidance page found on the county's own site.
- Board of County Commissioners governs the county under Minn. Stat. 641.01; day-to-day jail charge belongs to the elected sheriff.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Redwood 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