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Swift County Jail Custody

Swift County Jail is operated by the Swift County Sheriff's Office from the Law Enforcement Center in Benson. The sheriff page lists Mike Hoffman as Interim Sheriff, and the office is the countywide law-enforcement agency responsible for jail administration, court security, prisoner transportation, dispatch, civil process, and arrest warrants issued by the court. That matters for custody searches because a person arrested by a Swift County deputy, or by contract law enforcement serving Kerkhoven or Murdock, may still be booked through the county jail rather than a city lockup.

The facility is a small local adult detention facility licensed and inspected by the Minnesota Department of Corrections. It holds pretrial detainees, local sentenced inmates, court holds, arrest and detention holds, and people awaiting transport. It is not a state prison, and it is not the correct search path for adults already committed to the Commissioner of Corrections. For those cases, the MNDOC Public Viewer is the better tool. For federal or immigration custody, the BOP and ICE systems are separate.

The Swift County LETG In Custody roster is the public current-custody list. It shows the people currently listed by the jail, with an on-page timestamp. It does not function like a searchable database with a name form. The practical search method is to open the list, check the timestamp, and use browser find to locate a name.

Swift County Jail Capacity

The 2025 Minnesota DOC inspection identifies Swift County Jail as a jail with secure coed bed space. The approved capacity is 12 secure coed beds, and the 80 percent operational capacity is 9.60 beds. The same inspection notes authority to operate from 10/01/2025 to 09/30/2027 and 24-hour delinquent juvenile hold approval excluding weekends and holidays. These are jail licensing figures, not a guarantee of the number of people held on any given day.

Older planning material gives useful context, but it should not be read as a completed construction record. A 2018 Swift County jail planning presentation discussed a proposed 30-bed program and projected average daily population figures for future years. The current official jail capacity for page purposes remains the 2025 DOC inspection capacity unless Swift County or MNDOC publishes a later inspection or construction update.

Look Up Swift County Jail Inmates

The Swift County Jail roster is list-only. It has no visible search boxes, filters, login prompt, export link, or separate inmate profile pages. A current Swift County Jail custody search therefore starts with the LETG roster, then moves to phone confirmation or a data request if the list does not answer the question. The roster is useful for active local custody because it displays the booking photo, MNI, name, sex, age, booking number, intake date, charge lines, and bail or bond values.

1. Open the Swift County In Custody roster and check the timestamp near the top before relying on the list.
2. Scan the current entries or use the browser find command for the person's last name, since the county does not provide a built-in roster search form.
3. Read the charge and bail or bond lines carefully. A hold, court-pending status, or arrest and detention hold can affect release even when a dollar value appears.
4. Call the jail through the sheriff's office if the roster is unclear, if a recent arrest is missing, or if bond, release, or visit rules must be confirmed.

The public roster should not be used as a final court-charge record. A roster charge is a booking snapshot. Filed charges, amended counts, hearing dates, dispositions, and certified copies belong with Swift County District Court and Minnesota Court Records Online. A current inmate record can point toward the court case, but the court system controls the official criminal case file.

The official roster screenshot in the LETG In Custody source shows the compact list format used for Swift County Jail inmates.

The image is useful because it shows why a Swift County Jail search is a roster scan rather than a database query.

Swift County Jail Contact

For current custody confirmation, the sheriff and jail phone line is the first offline channel. The same Law Enforcement Center address appears in county contact materials and sheriff materials. Public counter questions, visit approval, bond payment methods, property pickup, mail rules, and release timing should be confirmed before travel because Swift County did not publish a full jail visitor or commissary manual in the reviewed sources.

Swift County Jail Visits

Swift County did not publish a detailed jail visitation schedule in the sheriff source reviewed for this build. That means a page should not invent days, hours, video visit windows, visitor limits, dress rules, or fee amounts. The safer rule is simple: call the jail before planning a visit. Ask whether the person is still in custody, whether visits are approved for that housing or custody status, what identification is required, and whether any court, medical, disciplinary, or transport issue affects access.

Visitor information may be partly private under Minnesota corrections and detention data rules. Swift County's data-practices inventory identifies inmate visitor registration logs or jail visitor registers as records that include visitor name, relationship, date, time, and inmate name, with privacy limits under Minnesota law.

Swift County Jail Phone and Mail

Swift County did not post a complete mail-format rule or commissary deposit fee table in the reviewed sheriff materials. The facility address can help identify the jail, but mail should not be sent until the jail confirms the exact format, whether a booking number is needed, what items are rejected, and whether the person remains housed there. A local jail can release, transfer, or send a person to court or another agency before mail arrives.

Reliance Telephone lists Swift County Jail as a communication facility and gives a voicemail number of 320-365-1045. That source supports phone and voicemail context, but it does not create a public deposit-fee schedule or a confirmed video visit rule. For money, property, or commissary questions, call the jail and ask for current accepted methods.

Swift County Jail Booking

Swift County does not publish a step-by-step jail booking manual, so the process should be described from roster evidence, sheriff duties, and Minnesota jail standards. A typical local path begins with arrest, transport to the jail, identification, property handling, medical and safety screening, fingerprints, booking photo, booking number assignment, charge or warrant entry, and a bond or hold status entry. Minnesota jail licensing standards under Minn. Stat. 241.021 and Minn. R. 2911 frame the inspection and minimum-standards side of that process.

The LETG roster proves that the public side of intake includes an intake date and time, booking number, charge lines, and bail or bond fields. It does not show housing location, arresting agency, court date, release date, medical data, classification, home address, or complete physical descriptors. Those missing fields are not errors. They are either not part of the public roster or they fall under privacy and operational limits.

Booking number

A jail event number tied to the intake, not the same as a court case number.

MNI

A master name index number used in local justice systems to identify a person across records.

Hold

A custody reason that may block release, even when one charge has a bond amount.

First appearance

The first court hearing after arrest, where release conditions and charge status may be addressed.

Swift County Jail Records

For a public booking photo or older jail record not visible online, start with the roster and the jail phone, then use Swift County's Data Requests page if a formal public-records request is needed. Minnesota Government Data Practices Act rules presume government data is public unless a state or federal classification makes it nonpublic, private, or confidential. Swift County says public data may be inspected free before copies are requested, and copy charges may apply under state law.

Booking photographs are generally public under Minn. Stat. 13.82, but the law also allows temporary withholding when release would harm an active investigation. Inmate medical records, some visitor records, juvenile information, bail evaluations, adult case files, warrant-request records, and other corrections data may have privacy limits. For court charges after booking, use Minnesota Court Records Online or Swift County District Court rather than treating the jail roster as the full criminal case.

About Swift County Jail

Swift County Jail is part of a small county public-safety system centered in Benson, where the courthouse, sheriff's office, jail, and county government offices sit in the same general 14th Street North complex. The sheriff's office combines law enforcement, dispatch, jail, records, transport, court-security, and civil-process functions. That structure explains why the jail phone line may route questions about custody, records, bond, and public-safety triage through a compact local staff.

The facility should also be kept separate from Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton. Prairie is a CoreCivic, contract-dependent private correctional facility tied to federal and immigration procurement materials. Swift County Jail is the active county jail for current Swift County roster custody. When a person is on the county roster, use the Benson jail path. When a person is sentenced to state prison, use MNDOC. When federal or immigration custody is involved, use BOP or ICE channels.