List of Minnesota state prisons
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The Minnesota Department of Corrections is a state agency of Minnesota
that operates prisons. Its headquarters is in St. Paul.
Minnesota Correctional Facility - Red Wing in Red Wing
serves delinquent boys. It was built in 1889. Minnesota Correctional Facility - Togo in unincorporated
Itasca County
serves delinquent boys and girls. The Togo facility opened in 1955 as Youth Conservation Commission (YCC). For years it was known as Thisledew Camp. In 2006 the facility's name changed to MCF-Togo, and the Thisledew designation is used to refer to the juvenile programs.
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
that operates prisons. Its headquarters is in St. Paul.
Adult facilities
- Minnesota Correctional Facility - FaribaultMinnesota Correctional Facility - FaribaultThe Minnesota Correctional Facility – Faribault is a state prison located in Faribault, Minnesota. As of August, 2010, it had an adult inmate population of about 2,000 men, making it the largest prison in Minnesota by population....
- Minnesota Correctional Facility - Lino LakesMinnesota Correctional Facility - Lino LakesThe Minnesota Correctional Facility - Lino Lakes is a state prison located in Lino Lakes, Minnesota, USA.The facility was original built in 1963 as a juvenile facility housing both boys and girls. In 1978 it was remodeled to become a medium security facility for adult male inmates...
- Minnesota Correctional Facility - Oak Park HeightsMinnesota Correctional Facility - Oak Park HeightsMinnesota Correctional Facility – Oak Park Heights, located near the cities of Bayport and Stillwater, is Minnesota’s only level 5 maximum security facility. The prison is designed and employed with trained security officers to handle not only Minnesota’s high risk inmates but other states' as well...
- Minnesota Correctional Facility - Rush City
- Minnesota Correctional Facility - ShakopeeMinnesota Correctional Facility - ShakopeeThe Minnesota Correctional Facility - Shakopee is a women-only state prison in Minnesota, USA.Constructed in 1986 and located in Shakopee, Scott County, it is Minnesota's only facility for housing female offenders....
- Minnesota Correctional Facility - St. CloudMinnesota Correctional Facility - St. CloudMinnesota Correctional Facility – St. Cloud is a state prison located in St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States. Originally built in 1889, it is a level four, close-security institution with an inmate population of about 1,000 men.MCF-St...
- Minnesota Correctional Facility - StillwaterMinnesota Correctional Facility - StillwaterThe Minnesota Correction Facility - Stillwater is a close custody state prison for men in Minnesota, USA.Built in 1914 and located in Bayport, Washington County, it houses 1600 inmates in seven different living areas. Additionally, approximately 100 inmates are housed in a nearby minimum security...
- Minnesota Correctional Facility - Willow River/Moose Lake
Juvenile services
The department operates juvenile correctional facilities.Minnesota Correctional Facility - Red Wing in Red Wing
Red Wing, Minnesota
Red Wing is a city in Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States, on the Mississippi River. The population was 16,459 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Goodhue County....
serves delinquent boys. It was built in 1889. Minnesota Correctional Facility - Togo in unincorporated
Unincorporated area
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...
Itasca County
Itasca County, Minnesota
Itasca County is a county located in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is named after Lake Itasca, which is in turn a shortened version the Latin words veritas caput, meaning 'truth' and 'head', a reference to the source of the Mississippi River. As of 2010, the population was 45,058. Its county seat...
serves delinquent boys and girls. The Togo facility opened in 1955 as Youth Conservation Commission (YCC). For years it was known as Thisledew Camp. In 2006 the facility's name changed to MCF-Togo, and the Thisledew designation is used to refer to the juvenile programs.
See also
- List of law enforcement agencies in Minnesota
- List of United States state correction agencies
- List of U.S. state prisons
- PrisonPrisonA prison is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Imprisonment or incarceration is a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime...