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Pine County Jail Overview

Pine County Jail, also described in state inspection material as the Pine County Detention Center, is operated by the Pine County Sheriff's Office. The jail holds adult male and female inmates who are awaiting court, serving local sentences, reporting for jail time, or being held for another agency. Pine City contracts with the sheriff for police services, so a person searching for a Pine City jail should use the Pine County jail roster and the sheriff contact channels rather than looking for a separate city lockup.

The jail is a secure coed Minnesota local adult detention facility. Pine County describes a direct-supervision design with three housing units, an intake area, court holding, master control, medical space, laundry, kitchen, recreation, and programming rooms. Housing units include video visiting stations, inmate phones, basic television, dayroom space, gaming tables, natural light, and a common kitchen area. Those details matter because visits, calls, jail programs, and intake all run through a facility built for continuous local custody rather than a courthouse holding cell.

The Pine County jail about page shows the local capacity and housing description used for this facility page.

The source image supports the facility-specific capacity, housing, intake, and direct-supervision details used throughout the Pine County Jail record summary.

Pine County Jail Capacity

The strongest sourced jail population facts are capacity and inspection figures, not a live average daily population. The county says the jail is licensed to house up to 131 inmates. The 2026 Minnesota Department of Corrections inspection also lists 131 approved secure coed beds and calculates operational capacity at 111.35 based on an 85 percent operating measure. Current average daily population and annual booking totals were not located in official county or DOC sources, so they should not be inferred from the roster count on any single day.

Look Up Pine County Jail Inmates

Current local custody is checked through the Pine County Jail roster page. The county does not publish a name-search form with fields. It links to a current roster PDF and states that the roster is updated every hour. The practical search method is to open the PDF, use the browser or PDF find command for a last name, compare matching entries, and call the jail if the person is missing, newly booked, released, or listed under a name variation.

1. Open the official Pine County Jail roster page and use the link for the current inmate roster PDF.
2. Use the PDF find tool to search by last name, then read every close match because there is no county search box.
3. Check the held-for agency, arrest date, charges, bond or bail, and arresting agency before assuming the entry is the right person.
4. Call Pine County Jail inmate information at 320-629-8400 when a recent booking, release, hold, or roster entry needs confirmation.

Sentenced state prisoners are not searched on this county roster after transfer to the Minnesota Department of Corrections. Federal inmates at FCI Sandstone are not searched here either. A person can move from Pine County Jail to state custody after sentencing, or to another county, state, federal, or tribal agency if the held-for entry shows a separate authority. The broader Pine County jail inmate records page explains how the roster fits with DOC, BOP, ICE, court, and records-request channels.

Pine County Jail Contact

The jail and sheriff campus is on Northridge Drive in Pine City. Jail custody operations run all day, every day. Jail administration has weekday office hours for administrative contact, but custody status, booking, and release questions should be verified with the inmate information line when timing matters. The sheriff's Records Unit is in Suite 100 on the same campus and handles records requests that are not answered by the roster PDF.

Pine County Jail Visitation

Pine County publishes scheduled on-site visitation hours and also links to Reliance resources for phone, texting, and video calling. Visits are scheduled only. Walk-in visits are not accepted. Visitors need a valid driver's license or state photo ID, must meet age rules, and may be checked for warrants. Cell phones, food, drinks, and personal items are not allowed in the visiting area, and visits are monitored or recorded. The jail FAQ contains an older video-visit time notice, so the more specific contact-page schedule should be confirmed before travel.

The Pine County jail contact page is the source for the scheduled visitation block and current jail contact numbers.

That contact source is useful for confirming scheduled visiting hours, administrator contacts, and the inmate message line before a visit is planned.

Pine County Jail Mail and Money

Mail to a Pine County Jail inmate should use the person's full name and the jail mailing address. The county FAQ says inmates receive basic hygiene items, writing materials, uniforms, and footwear, and they may buy postage-paid envelopes, snacks, and other needs through canteen. It also says a person may possess no more than three appropriate photographs and no Polaroids. Money can be handled through JailATM online, by money order payable to the inmate, or through the sheriff's office lobby drop box for currency only.

Pine County Jail Booking

Local booking begins after arrest by the sheriff, a contract city officer, tribal police, another Minnesota agency, or a transfer authority. Intake includes admission screening, property inventory, orientation, medical or medication review, classification, housing, and roster posting. The roster page gives the only official update timing: the PDF is updated hourly. A booking that just occurred may not show until the next update, and a person who has posted bond, been released, or transferred may disappear from the current roster without being searchable in an archive.

For people ordered to report to serve jail time, Pine County gives a specific route. The person should report to the northwest side of the Law Enforcement Center, use the lobby phone, and notify jail staff. Jail report dates are scheduled through Jail Programming during weekday business hours. Cash bail for Pine County charges is handled by Court Administration during court business hours, while exact cash bail may be accepted at the jail lobby after hours, weekends, and holidays for Pine County charges only.

About Pine County Jail

Pine County Jail opened in February 2008 after construction began in fall 2006, replacing a 1983 jail. Its direct-supervision model is presented by the county as safer for staff and inmates because staff supervise housing areas more directly. Programs include GED preparation and testing, work release or Huber, Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, anger management, cognitive skills, chemical freedom, spiritual groups, library access, a computer lab with no internet use, and recreation. Canteen and vending proceeds are used for recreation, programming equipment, and reference materials.

The 2026 DOC inspection placed the jail on biennial status, gave authority to operate from May 1, 2026 through April 30, 2028, and found substantial compliance. It also noted no JJDPA violations. Corrective items included documentation and facility-operation issues such as orientation records, property receipts, lock testing, fire inspections, sanitation checks, and medication-record practices. PREA reports can be made to jail staff, by kite to jail administration, through the offender helpline in each unit, to listed victim services contacts, or to the Pine County Jail PREA Coordinator.