The Detention Center
Washington County Jail
- Operated byWashington County Sheriff's Office
- Address15015 62nd St. N., Stillwater, MN 55082; phone 651-430-7900
- Jail administrator (staff title, not a separate county department)Roger Heinen, named in the MN DOC's April 2025 inspection report; the county's own main site could not be opened to confirm whether detention is described as a separate department, so jail_administrator is recorded null per the sheriff-is-jailer default
- CapacityMN DOC's April 2025 inspection report lists an approved capacity of 240 beds (secure, coed), 95% operational capacity (about 228 beds) — the largest facility in this group by far
- Public rosterhttps://web1.co.washington.mn.us/WCInmateRoster/InmateRosterReport.pdf, a live multi-page inmate roster by last name with JID number, booking date, booking number, estimated release date and days remaining; showed "Inmate Count: 111" as of September 17, 2026, 8:00:10 PM
- Daily booking loghttps://web1.co.washington.mn.us/WCBookings/Friday.pdf, a rolling 24-hour adult book-in report; the version opened covered bookings from 9/10/2026 7:00 AM to 9/11/2026 7:00 AM, listing 24 individuals by offense category and hold period
- Warrant search toolhttps://web1.co.washington.mn.us/WarrantSearch/public/frmSearch.aspx (title only; not independently opened)
- PREA and public-data pages found but not openedThe domain-scoped search located a dedicated PREA page (co.washington.mn.us/3218/PREA) and a "Law Enforcement Public Data | Requests" page (co.washington.mn.us/2979/Law-Enforcement-Public-Data-Requests), but every WebFetch attempt on the co.washington.mn.us / www.co.washington.mn.us apex domain — including the Sheriff's Office page (/304/County-Sheriff), the jail appointment page (/jailappointment), the PREA page, the public-data page, and a staff directory page — was refused, consistently with a robots.txt fetch failure ("Failed to fetch or parse robots.txt" / ConnectTimeout), across multiple retries. Only the separate web1.co.washington.mn.us subdomain (hosting the roster and booking PDFs) was reachable.
- Also sourced toWashington County Jail — Daily Booking Report (web1 subdomain) — https://web1.co.washington.mn.us/WCBookings/Friday.pdf
- Also sourced toMN DOC Adult Facilities Inspection Report — Washington County Jail, April 15, 2025 — https://mn.gov/doc/assets/Washington%20County%202025_tcm1089-681913.pdf
Source: Washington County Jail — Inmate Roster (web1 subdomain) · 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
- Beds240 (secure, coed approved capacity) per the MN DOC's April 2025 inspection report; not independently confirmed on a county-run page within this session
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Dan Starry
- Runs the jailYes — 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)
- SourceNamed as sheriff in the MN DOC's April 2025 inspection report of the Washington County Jail; the county's own main site (co.washington.mn.us) refused every WebFetch attempt within this session (see jail.facts), so this could not be independently confirmed on a county-run page
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: MN DOC Adult Facilities Inspection Report — Washington County Jail, April 15, 2025 · 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 Washington County)
- 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
- Washington County's own web1.co.washington.mn.us subdomain publishes a live, detailed inmate roster and a rolling daily booking report, naming the facility and its address — the basis for the two 'yes' checks. Its main apex domain (co.washington.mn.us and www.co.washington.mn.us), which the domain-scoped search shows carries dedicated PREA and public-data-request pages, could not be opened at all within this session — every attempt failed with a robots.txt-level error rather than a content refusal, so capacity, budget, PREA, inspections, contracts, bond guidance and fees are recorded 'no' for want of a page this research could actually open, not as confirmed non-publication. This is Minnesota's Washington County (Stillwater, Twin Cities east metro), confirmed by the jail's own address on the roster PDF, not any other state's Washington County.
- Not found — Washington County's main apex domain (co.washington.mn.us / www.co.washington.mn.us) refused every WebFetch attempt within this session (robots.txt fetch failures on repeated retries). Minnesota counties are generally governed by an elected Board of County Commissioners.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Washington 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