Ramsey County Correctional Facility

If ordered to report on your own to the Adult Corrections Facility, it is your responsibility to report on the date and time issued by the court. Only your sentencing judge may change the report date. All Ramsey County inmates are charged a $20 booking fee.

When turning yourself in, you must:

• Be on time.
• Be drug and alcohol free.
• Bring a copy of the commitment issued by the court.

Items you may bring:

• Tennis shoes.
• Letters.
• Money.
• Photographs (4x6 maximum size. No Polaroid photos).
• Your prescription medication and medical equipment.

Do not bring valuables, hygiene items, electronic devices, food, or extra clothing. These items will not be allowed with you in the facility. All inmates are given a hygiene bag after being admitted.

The Ramsey County Correctional Facility offers a variety of programs for inmates who want to get their GED, learn new skills, begin a recovery program, or explore their faith.

• Men’s and women’s learning centers: The centers provide adult basic education programs in reading, writing, math, and GED prep as well as classes on personal finance, job seeking and retention, career exploration, computer skills, and driver’s license preparation and testing.
• Library: The library is run by community-based volunteers and is updated weekly with new and used books.
• Health care: Health care professionals work with inmates onsite to provide access to medication, test for diseases, collect lab work, promote good health care habits, assist with evaluating suicidal tendencies and provide, dialysis, physical therapy, and OB/GYN services. Health and medical information about inmates is private and cannot be shared with anyone, not even the family.
• Religious services: Sunday morning services, values group, and one-on-one counseling is available in multiple denominations and faiths to all inmates. Inmates may have religious items, such as books, if authorized by the Ramsey County Correctional Facility Chaplain.
• Recovery programs: Alcoholics Anonymous, Avalon and Relapse Recovery are available for inmates dealing with alcohol, drug or other addictions.
• Work crew jobs: Most inmates are assigned to jobs in the kitchen, laundry room, golf course, nursery, or dorm cleaners.
• Workforce programs: The Ramsey County Correctional Facility and Century College work together to provide workforce development training. Inmates learn new skills both in the classroom and in a hands-on environment in the facility’s nursery, kitchen and laundry. The programs are certified by Century College and taught by the learning center school instructors and correctional officers.

The work/school release program allows inmates to continue their job or attend a college while at the facility. Inmates may drive themselves to and from work or school if they have proof of auto insurance and have a valid driver’s license. We do not provide transportation. The Ramsey County Correctional Facility is on Metro Transit bus route 70D.

Eligibility requirements

• Must be authorized by your judge
• Must be authorized by your probation officer, if you have one
• Be drug and alcohol free
• Have no warrants or detainers
• Provide proof of a job (W-2 forms, paycheck stubs, or tax records) for Work Release
• Provide your class schedule for School Release
• Have had the job for at least two weeks or already attending the school
• Your employer must agree

Call 651-266-1509 for men’s work release, and either 651-266-1433 or 651-266-1435 for women’s work release for additional information.

The electronic home monitoring program allows inmates to serve their time at home rather than at the Ramsey County Correctional Facility. Inmates may also be allowed to go to work or school as a part of this program.

Eligibility requirements

• Must be authorized by your judge
• Must be authorized by your probation officer, if you have one
• Be drug and alcohol free
• Have no warrants or detainers
• Must live in a home or apartment (no group homes or shelters)
• Have a landline touch tone phone
• Be drug and alcohol free
• Pass a criminal background check

Call 651-266-1432 for additional information.

Most inmates are released from the Ramsey County Correctional Facility at 7 a.m. If you are picking someone up, please wait in the parking lot. Some inmates are released later in the day due to discipline or by court order. Please make sure you know when the person you are picking up is being released.