Minnesota Correctional Facility - Red Wing Inmate Search

Minnesota Correctional Facility - Red Wing Overview

Minnesota Correctional Facility - Red Wing is operated by the Minnesota Department of Corrections. It is a state correctional facility in Red Wing, not a Goodhue County jail, city lockup, federal prison, or ICE detention center. For adult inmate lookup, that distinction controls the search path. A person held pretrial at the county ADC appears on the county roster if still in local custody; an adult committed to the Commissioner of Corrections is searched through the Minnesota DOC locator.

The Red Wing campus includes adult sentenced DOC operations and juvenile correctional operations, but the public adult lookup covered here concerns adults still under DOC jurisdiction. That can include prison custody and release supervision. The DOC locator can lag for new commitments, so someone sentenced from Goodhue County may disappear from the county roster before the state locator reflects the new DOC record.

The Minnesota DOC Red Wing facility page provides the facility address, phone, email, superintendent listing, and facility-specific DOC information.

That DOC page is the correct facility source for state-prison contact information, while Goodhue County's roster remains the source for current county jail custody.

Minnesota Correctional Facility - Red Wing Population Profile

The 2026 DOC facility profile for Red Wing listed 43 adult offenders with an active sentence on file. The profile excluded interim-order commitments and cases awaiting data entry, so it should be treated as a profile count rather than a full count of every person or operation on the campus. The same profile grouped adult offenses across categories such as homicide, assault, domestic assault, harassment or stalking or bias, weapons, DWI, drugs, burglary, escape or fugitive, and theft, with sentence statistics attached to those categories.

This population profile is different from a county jail average daily population. Goodhue County ADC figures track local jail use, new bookings, and boarders. Red Wing DOC figures track adults under state correctional jurisdiction at that facility. Mixing those counts can mislead a searcher, especially when a person was first arrested in Goodhue County but later sentenced to state custody.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Minnesota Correctional Facility - Red Wing

Use the Minnesota DOC public locator for adult Red Wing records. The locator covers adults committed to the Commissioner of Corrections who are still under DOC jurisdiction, including people in prison and people on supervision. It does not replace the Goodhue County roster for recent arrests, pretrial detention, short local sentences, or county warrants. Newly sentenced people may take several business days to appear in the DOC system.

1. Open the Minnesota DOC public locator.
2. Choose Name search or MNDOC Offender ID search.
3. For name search, enter a last name, first name, or both; the locator uses prefix matching for names.
4. For MNDOC Offender ID search, enter the six-digit DOC number exactly.
5. Review the matching profile and confirm whether the facility or supervision information points to Red Wing or another DOC status.

If the person was just arrested in Goodhue County, search the county ADC roster first. If the court imposed a sentence longer than one year and the county roster no longer lists the person, the DOC locator becomes the better path. For federal or immigration custody, use the BOP or ICE locator because there is no official source showing a federal or ICE detention facility physically in Goodhue County.

Minnesota Correctional Facility - Red Wing Address and Contact

Contact MCF-Red Wing for facility-specific DOC questions, adult visiting questions, and state custody routing. The main facility phone is distinct from the Goodhue ADC/Jail Division number. The DOC page also lists a facility email, a fax number, a superintendent, a visiting questions mailbox, a scheduling phone number, and intake-referral contacts.

Visiting Someone at Minnesota Correctional Facility - Red Wing

Adult in-person visiting at Red Wing is open according to the DOC adult visiting page, but it is not walk-in county jail visitation. Visits must be scheduled in advance online or by calling the facility's scheduling number. A maximum of four visitors are allowed per incarcerated person, and visitors must be on the approved visitor list before the visit. The DOC page links to a visiting privilege application and a Spanish version of the application. It also notes that family and friends informational meetings are not video visits with incarcerated loved ones.

The DOC Red Wing adult visiting page shows the approval and scheduling path for adult visits.

Because DOC visiting rules can change by facility status, visitors should verify approval, identification needs, dress requirements, and schedule availability before travel.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Minnesota Correctional Facility - Red Wing

The research materials for this page identified the facility contact details and adult visiting rules, but they did not provide a Red Wing-specific mail format, phone-account fee table, commissary deposit fee table, or money-transfer limit. Do not use Goodhue County ADC vendor details for Red Wing, because the county jail and state DOC facility are separate systems. Confirm current DOC mail, phone, and money instructions with MCF-Red Wing or the Minnesota DOC before sending anything.

DOC Reception and County Transfer Distinction

MCF-Red Wing does not perform the same street-arrest booking function as the county jail. After a Goodhue County arrest, the person is normally routed to the Goodhue County Adult Detention Center for booking, identification, court processing, local custody, or a county sentence. If the criminal case leads to a sentence greater than one year, county materials say the person typically transfers to a state facility. At that point, the county roster may stop listing the person because the custody record has moved into the Minnesota DOC system.

DOC reception and classification are state correctional steps. The adult DOC locator may not show a newly sentenced person immediately because new commitments can take several business days to enter the public viewer. For a same-day custody question after a Goodhue arrest, start with the ADC. For an adult sentenced and committed to the Commissioner of Corrections, use the DOC locator. For an intake referral question, DOC Red Wing materials list referral contacts at kyle.prall@state.mn.us and anita.kendall@state.mn.us.

About Minnesota Correctional Facility - Red Wing

MCF-Red Wing has a long correctional history in Goodhue County. Local GIS and National Register material identify the Minnesota State Training School and MCF-Red Wing property at 1079 Highway 292, describing it as a National Register property constructed in 1891 as a reform school that later became a state correctional facility. That history makes Red Wing different from a short-term county jail page. The facility's present lookup, visiting, and custody questions still route through the Minnesota Department of Corrections, not through the Goodhue County Sheriff's Office.

Red Wing also sits in a county where searchers often need to separate several custody systems. The county ADC handles local arrests, current jail roster records, warrants, and short local custody. MCF-Red Wing handles state correctional jurisdiction. Federal BOP and ICE locator tools handle federal and immigration custody, and the assigned research did not find a BOP prison, ICE detention facility, or federal detention center physically in Goodhue County.

The DOC locator screen itself separates name search from MNDOC Offender ID search and includes a reset option and search help. Name fields are optional within name search, which means a last-name-only or prefix-based search can be useful when a full first name is uncertain. The ID search is stricter because the MNDOC Offender ID must be six digits.