The Detention Center
Scott County Jail
- Operated byScott County Sheriff's Office
- OpenedDecember 2005, at the Scott County Law Enforcement Center, 200 Fourth Avenue West, Shakopee, MN 55379
- Licensed capacity (state DOC report)210 beds approved capacity, effective 2/1/2006, Local Adult Detention Facility class
- FeesCounty's Fees page states "Incarcerated persons may be required to pay fees as approved by the County Board" and links to a full fee schedule document (specific dollar figures in that linked schedule were not independently opened)
- Bail guidance publishedBail/bond payment procedures described for the jail lobby; release processing occurs 4–5 a.m. daily
- RosterLive public custody roster published, organized alphabetically, showing MNI number, name, sex, age, booking number/date, charges and custody status
Source: Scott County — Jail / Warrants · 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 — 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
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built2005
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds210 (per state DOC report; the county's own site describes the jail but was not found to publish a bed count itself)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Luke Hennen
- 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: Scott County — Message from the Scott 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.
First Judicial District — District Court
- Chief judge not named on the district's public page
- 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
- PREA judged 'no': the Jail/Warrants page references PREA generally but no specific audit result was found published.
- www.co.scott.mn.us (the county's older/canonical domain) blocked automated fetches with persistent robots.txt rate-limit errors throughout this research; the working domain was www.scottcountymn.gov, plus the roster subdomain www2.co.scott.mn.us which was reachable directly.
- Board of County Commissioners governs the county under Minn. Stat. 641.01; day-to-day jail charge belongs to the elected sheriff. Scott County publishes an approved annual county budget, though a corrections/detention-specific line was not independently confirmed within this page's search budget.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Scott 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