Locate Minnesota Correctional Facility - Faribault Inmates

MCF-Faribault Prison Overview

The Minnesota Department of Corrections facility page for MCF-Faribault identifies Minnesota Correctional Facility - Faribault as a state prison at 1101 Linden Lane in Faribault. It is operated by the Minnesota Department of Corrections, not the Rice County Sheriff's Office. The facility page lists Tracy Beltz as warden, gives the main phone as 507-334-0700, and describes the prison as Level 2 minimum and Level 3 medium custody. The prison includes a medium-security facility and a minimum-security unit outside the secure perimeter.

MCF-Faribault should be separated from Rice County Jail in any inmate search. Rice County Jail is the local facility tied to the Rice County Sheriff's Office and Sheriff Jesse Thomas, while MCF-Faribault holds sentenced adult male state prisoners committed to the Commissioner of Corrections. A person arrested in Rice County may start in the county jail, appear in Rice County District Court, and later transfer into DOC custody after sentencing. Once that transfer happens, the correct search changes from the county roster to the DOC public viewer.

The capture from the official DOC Faribault facility source shows the prison's public facility page.

The DOC page is the main source for facility status, custody level, visiting, directions, and program information.

MCF-Faribault Population

The DOC facility page states that Minnesota Correctional Facility - Faribault has a combined population capacity of 2,000 adult males and is the largest facility in the Minnesota DOC system. The daily inmate profile dated May 25, 2026 gives the strongest current population figures in the research. It reports 1,969 adult offenders under case responsibility, 1,944 adult offenders on-site, 1,911 with active sentences, and 3,030 active sentences. That equals an average of 1.6 active sentences per offender with an active sentence.

The same daily profile shows that the prison population is not limited to Rice County convictions. Top commitment counties in the profile were Hennepin with 558, Ramsey with 242, Anoka with 78, Olmsted with 76, Dakota with 73, and Stearns with 70. Offense categories in the profile included homicide, criminal sexual conduct, robbery, assault, arson, DWI, drugs, burglary, escape or fugitive matters, crimes against administration of justice, theft, and other categories. These are prison population statistics, not a current jail roster.

MCF-Faribault DOC Lookup

The correct lookup for Minnesota Correctional Facility - Faribault is the Minnesota DOC public viewer. It searches adults committed to the Commissioner of Corrections who remain under DOC jurisdiction, including people in prison and people released from prison while still under supervision. It is not the Rice County Jail List. Newly sentenced people may take several business days to appear in the DOC system, so a recent sentence may still require court records or a call to the facility while transfer and intake are processed.

1. Open the Minnesota DOC public viewer and choose the search method.
2. Search by name if the MNDOC Offender ID is unknown.
3. Search by MNDOC Offender ID if that number appears in court or DOC paperwork.
4. Confirm that the current facility field lists Minnesota Correctional Facility - Faribault or another DOC facility.
5. Use court records, DOC central records, or the facility for sentence or release questions that the public viewer does not answer.

The DOC public viewer source is represented in the matched capture from the Minnesota DOC locator.

The search page separates sentenced state custody from the county roster used for Rice County Jail inmates.

MCF-Faribault Contact

Use the prison contact information for visiting, facility status, mail, program, and custody questions tied to MCF-Faribault. For a person still in local Rice County custody, use Rice County Jail instead. For filed criminal cases, use Minnesota Court Records Online or Rice County District Court. For victim notification and release alerts, VINELink may be useful, but the DOC public viewer and the facility remain the main state-prison channels.

MCF-Faribault Visiting

MCF-Faribault visiting follows Minnesota DOC prison rules, not county jail visiting rules. The research says all visitors must be on the approved visiting list and included on the scheduled visit. Visits must be scheduled at least 24 hours in advance, and four visitors are allowed on each visit. The DOC statewide visiting page states that all visits are limited to one hour. Phone scheduling is available at 507-332-4500 during listed scheduling periods, and the DOC also offers online scheduling.

The capture from the Minnesota DOC visiting information page shows the statewide visiting source used with the Faribault facility schedule.

Statewide visiting rules should be read with the facility-specific Faribault schedule before a visit is planned.

Restrictive housing visits are non-contact video visits on Saturday and Sunday in one-hour slots starting at 9:45 a.m., 10:45 a.m., 11:45 a.m., and 12:45 p.m., with a 24-hour advance call requirement. Professional visits are Thursdays from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and must be prescheduled at least four days in advance with the required professional visitor packet.

MCF-Faribault Mail and Money

MCF-Faribault mail, phone, and money rules are controlled by the Minnesota Department of Corrections. The DOC facility page links family and visitor contact resources and notes Hickory Farms ordering for MCF-Faribault. The research also found a vendor page listing JPay kiosks at MCF-Faribault and a JPay Video Connect fee, but that vendor detail should be treated as secondary and verified with DOC before use. Prison mail and money rules change more often than basic facility addresses, so the facility and DOC family resources should control.

Use the person's DOC identity information when mailing, sending money, or asking about visiting. A county jail booking date is not enough for state prison mail if the person has already been admitted to DOC custody.

MCF-Faribault Admission

Admission to MCF-Faribault is not the same as street-arrest booking at Rice County Jail. A state-prison admission follows conviction, sentencing, transfer into DOC custody, reception, classification, and facility assignment. Classification means the DOC process that evaluates custody level, housing, programming needs, medical or mental-health needs, and security factors. The Faribault facility is Level 2 minimum and Level 3 medium, so people assigned there are matched to a prison setting rather than a county jail pod.

A newly sentenced person may not appear in the DOC public viewer right away. The research states that newly sentenced people may take several business days to display. During that gap, the court record may show the sentence, the county jail may know whether transfer has occurred, and DOC records may later show the current facility. Once the person is in DOC custody, family and records questions should shift to the DOC public viewer, MCF-Faribault, DOC central records, and DOC visitor resources.

MCF-Faribault Programs

MCF-Faribault has a broad official program list. The DOC page and research describe MINNCOR industries, including wood furniture manufacturing, laundry, cleaning products, and subcontract work. The prison also has a 176-bed substance-use disorder treatment program, a geriatric and care-needs unit, adult basic education, GED preparation, ESL, adult diploma work, technical education, parenting education, Thinking for a Change, higher education, transition programming, and pre-release classes. These programs are part of the state-prison setting and should not be confused with county jail services.

Other listed services include behavioral-health assessment, individual and group therapy, crisis intervention, volunteer religious programming, AA, Alternatives to Violence, restorative justice, bereavement and loss work, Prison Fellowship, an apiary program, and boiler or special engineer licensure. DOC says the facility was originally a state hospital that closed in the 1980s and was authorized for correctional use in 1989. That history helps explain the large campus and the range of programs compared with the smaller Rice County Jail.

About MCF-Faribault

Minnesota Correctional Facility - Faribault is physically located in Rice County, but it is a statewide prison. It draws prisoners from many Minnesota counties and remains under Minnesota DOC control. The Rice County Attorney's Office prosecution page says the office may prosecute felony cases that occur inside the state correctional facility located in the county, which is a local court impact of having a large prison in Faribault. Still, routine custody lookup, prison visiting, and prison mail are DOC matters rather than sheriff's office matters.

Federal and immigration custody are separate again. No official source located a Bureau of Prisons facility or ICE detention facility physically in Rice County. Federal prisoners should be searched through the BOP inmate locator, and immigration detainees through ICE's Online Detainee Locator System when there is reason to believe immigration custody is involved. For most people sentenced to Minnesota prison from a Rice County case, the DOC public viewer is the better first stop than either federal tool.