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Mille Lacs County Jail Overview

Mille Lacs County Jail is the only mapped detention facility in the local detention source set. It is operated by the Mille Lacs County Sheriff's Office, led by Sheriff Kyle A. Burton, and serves as the local custody hub for adult male and female detainees. The jail houses both pretrial detainees and sentenced county inmates. No separate county work-release annex, regional jail, state prison, BOP prison, or ICE detention facility was located inside Mille Lacs County in the official source review. Countywide capacity and roster context is summarized in the Mille Lacs County inmate population hub.

The jail sits on the sheriff's campus at 640 3rd Street SE in Milaca. Booking, reception, jail contact, and the 24-hour east-side lobby all point back to that same jail complex. The west-side Sheriff's Office lobby is open for regular office business, while the jail lobby is the practical round-the-clock point for booking-related contact.

Mille Lacs County Jail Capacity

The county jail page says Mille Lacs County Jail is licensed by the State of Minnesota to house up to 120 inmates in two housing units. The same county source says the intake area can hold five additional people. The 2025 Minnesota DOC inspection report lists the facility type as Jail, the certificate holder as Mille Lacs Sheriff's Office, and the authority-to-operate period as July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026.

Capacity should be read in two ways. Approved secure coed capacity is 120 beds. Operational capacity is 102.00, which the 2025 inspection report identifies as 85 percent of approved capacity. The report also lists delinquent juvenile hold approval at 6 hours and the governing local adult detention rule as Minnesota Rule 2911.

The official Mille Lacs County Jail page gives the local facility overview and county capacity description.

That county source also lists facility features that help explain how the jail is used each day, including housing units, intake, programs, medical space, and control functions.

Mille Lacs County Jail Lookup

Current custody is searched through the official Mille Lacs County Inmate Locator. The public locator is free and does not require a login. It allows searches by last name, first name, gender, and a four-digit birth year. The result and detail panes can show booking number, SPN number, name, DOB, age, sex, race, height, weight, bail or fine amount, custody date, booking status, cell location, eligible release field, visitor information, court date, court branch information, charges, and holds.

The county jail locator is for people in Mille Lacs County Jail custody. Sentenced felons who have moved to the Minnesota Department of Corrections should be searched through the MNDOC public locator. Federal sentenced inmates are searched through the BOP locator, and immigration custody is searched through ICE ODLS. Minnesota VINE can provide custody or case notifications, but it is not a substitute for the county roster.

If the online locator does not answer the custody question, use the jail phone, the east-side jail lobby, or the county Data Requests process for public data held by the maintaining department. Official source research did not locate a Mille Lacs County sheriff or police mobile app for jail roster, warrants, or records access, so no app-only lookup channel should be expected.

1. Open the official county inmate locator and enter a last name, first name, gender, or four-digit birth year if known.
2. Use fewer fields if the search fails. Leaving gender at Unknown can avoid over-filtering.
3. Select the result row and review custody date, booking status, charge rows, bail fields, and hold rows.
4. Call the jail at 320-983-8244 or use the east-side lobby if the online roster does not answer a custody question.

The official inmate locator is the direct lookup source for people held at Mille Lacs County Jail.

For a field-by-field explanation of the roster, the broader Mille Lacs County jail inmate records page explains how booking records differ from court and DOC records.

Mille Lacs County Jail Visitation

Visitation uses Securus Video Connect for both onsite and remote personal visits. All video visits must be scheduled at least 24 hours in advance. The county also allows professional visits and calls in person or by Securus Video Connect. First-time professional users must register as professional or attorney users, and visits outside approved professional hours require prior jail-administrator approval.

Personal visits are limited to one visit per inmate per visiting day, and each session is no more than 20 minutes. A valid photo ID is required. Outerwear such as coats, hats, and zip-up sweatshirts must be removed. Shirts must cover the neck and shoulders, shorts must cover to mid-thigh, and bare stomachs are not allowed. Minors must be with an adult. Waiting-room lockers cost a quarter.

The Mille Lacs County inmate visitation page is the source for the Securus schedule, ID, dress, and visit rules.

The county can refuse or stop a visit when rules are not followed or the visit becomes disruptive.

Mille Lacs County Jail Mail and Money

All mail must go through the postal system. Mail may not be brought to the jail. The envelope should be addressed to Mille Lacs County Jail, the inmate's name, 640 3rd Street SE, Milaca, MN 56353. Nonprofessional letters are scanned into the inmate's account, and originals are placed into the inmate's personal belongings. The county does not allow pornographic materials, inappropriate photos, Polaroids, or books and magazines mailed from outside because inmates use the jail library.

Phone and eMessaging are handled by Securus Technologies. New inmates are allowed a local or collect long-distance phone call during admission. Later nonprofessional calls are fee-based, recorded, and limited to 20 minutes. Attorney calls are free. Three-way and toll-free calls cannot be made from housing-unit phones, and incoming calls are not forwarded except for verifiable emergencies or legal counsel messages.

The county contacting-inmates page documents Securus phone and eMessaging, scanned letters, kiosks, and Inmate Canteen deposits.

Money deposit rules are separate from bail. Cash bail must be handled through the jail's 24-hour door in the exact bail amount.

Mille Lacs County Jail Booking

The county does not publish a full booking manual, but official sources describe the services and key timing points. Jail services include booking inmates, fingerprinting, and housing inmates. Booking is listed at 640 3rd Street SE with phone 320-983-8244. Reception is listed at the same address with phone 320-983-8450. The intake area can hold five additional people beyond the two housing units.

A normal Mille Lacs County Jail intake begins after an arresting agency brings the person to the jail or booking area. Staff identify the person, accept custody, inventory property, complete booking steps, conduct screening, assign intake or housing, and create a public roster record if the person remains in custody. Newly admitted inmates are allowed a local or collect long-distance phone call during admission. The county jail page also says each inmate is issued a tablet during intake for phone calls, video visitation, law-library use, and program content.

First appearance is an important custody marker. The county inmate information page says court is held Monday through Friday except county-recognized holidays and that first appearance is at 11 a.m. Bail is set at that appearance. Jail roster charges can differ from the court charges the prosecutor files after review.

Mille Lacs County Jail Programs

Mille Lacs County Jail publishes a detailed program and conditions profile. The building includes a recreation room, two library and programming rooms, a medical unit, laundry, a fully staffed kitchen, and a master control center. Each housing unit has video visiting stations, telephones, basic television programming, dayroom space with a microwave, gaming tables, and a natural-light source.

Inmates are encouraged but not required to take part in activities. Published options include art contests, bingo, GED and ABE classes, gym, library, Narcotics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous, parenting classes, Teen Challenge, and church programs. A DOC report snippet described the programming as extensive and diverse, with community partners including ministerial, education, and Native American groups, while noting that program room space is limited.

Pretrial detainee

A person held before the case is finished, often while charges, bond, or a hold are pending.

Sentenced county inmate

A person serving a local sentence at the county jail rather than a state prison commitment.

Detainer or hold

A request or order from another court or agency that may keep a person in custody.

Note: Grievance instructions and medical request steps were not located in the public county pages reviewed for this build.

Mille Lacs County Jail Fingerprinting

Public fingerprinting is a useful local detail because it uses the jail's 24-hour east-side lobby. The county jail page says public fingerprinting is available Thursday 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Friday 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. The person uses the courtesy phone to call Booking at extension 8244 and pays $20 exact cash at the kiosk.

This fingerprinting detail does not mean the jail can answer every background, licensing, or court-record question. It is a public fingerprinting service at the jail. Custody questions should still use the inmate locator, jail phone, public records request process, or court records when the issue is a case filed after arrest.

Mille Lacs County Jail Inspection Context

Mille Lacs County Jail is subject to Minnesota DOC inspection and local adult detention standards. The 2025 inspection report lists 120 approved secure coed beds and 102 operational capacity, with authority to operate from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. The 2024 inspection listed the same capacity and described the inspection method as a walkthrough, staff and inmate interviews, file reviews, documentation review, and video footage review.

The county jail page also says Mille Lacs County recently completed a jail facility study to evaluate detention options, including housing inmates elsewhere, remodeling the existing jail, and constructing a new jail. The 2022 DOC inspection noted that the linear-style portion of the jail was not safe to house inmates without significant remodel. That supports why the county studied future facility options, but it does not by itself prove current overcrowding.

The MNDOC adult facility inspection report archive is the statewide source for jail inspection documents.

Those inspection records explain licensed capacity and operational capacity better than a live roster count, which changes as people are booked and released.