Hennepin County Jail Public Safety Facility Inmate Lookup

Hennepin County Jail Public Safety Facility Overview

The Public Safety Facility at 401 South 4th Avenue, Suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55415 is one of the two official downtown jail buildings operated by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff's jail page identifies the Adult Detention Center as the county jail for adults accused of crimes before trial. The Public Safety Facility also functions as the key public address for bail posting, warrant handling, property pickup and drop-off, money deposits, and in-person jail business.

This is a county pretrial detention setting, not a state prison. People held here may be waiting for a first appearance, bail decision, court date, warrant resolution, transfer, or release. The companion downtown jail location is inside Minneapolis City Hall across the street. The sheriff's public roster covers the county jail system, so a person held in either downtown jail building should be checked through the same Hennepin County jail roster and jail information phone line.

The official sheriff jail page is the source for the roster, bail, visiting, money, phone, mail, property, and program rules. The Hennepin County jail inmate records page gives the wider county roster path, while this facility page focuses on the Public Safety Facility itself.

The sheriff's official jail page is available at hennepinsheriff.org/jail-warrants/jail.

Hennepin County Jail Public Safety Facility Capacity and Population

Official static sources reviewed did not publish a raw capacity number for the downtown jail or a separate Public Safety Facility bed count. The official jail population dashboard is the supported source for current adult jail population information. The sheriff's dashboard page says it shows the total number of people in Hennepin County jail custody, demographics, arresting agencies, offense levels, and other jail population information. It updates every three hours between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. daily.

Because the downtown jail has two buildings and the dashboard is an interactive Power BI display, no reliable static current figure is available to place beside this single building. The accurate approach is to treat the dashboard as the live population source and avoid estimating a number for the Public Safety Facility alone.

The sheriff dashboard source is hennepinsheriff.org/jail-warrants/data-dashboard.

How to Look Up an Inmate at the Public Safety Facility

Use the official Hennepin County Sheriff jail roster for adults in the downtown jail system. The sheriff says the roster is updated hourly and covers people in the county jail plus people released in the last seven days. It also shows charges, bail, and scheduled court dates. On June 18, 2026, static inspection of the roster application showed a server unavailable message, so phone and records-request fallbacks matter.

1. Open the official jail roster at jailroster.hennepin.us.
2. Search by the person's name when the application is available.
3. Confirm that the result is a Hennepin County jail record, not an Adult Corrections Facility, state prison, federal, or ICE record.
4. Review charges, bail, release coverage, and scheduled court dates as displayed by the roster.
5. If the roster is unavailable or the arrest is very recent, call jail information at 612-348-5112 with the full name and date of birth.

A person serving a short county sentence at the Adult Corrections Facility in Plymouth uses the ACF roster instead. A person committed to the Minnesota Department of Corrections uses the MNDOC Locator. Federal custody uses the BOP Inmate Locator. Immigration detention uses ICE ODLS. These systems do not merge into the sheriff jail roster.

Hennepin County Jail Public Safety Facility Address and Contact

The Public Safety Facility is the address the sheriff identifies for jail information, cash bail and bond, property room access, warrant turn-in, and in-person warrant checks. People entering the facility for bail, property, visiting, or warrant business should expect weapons screening.

Visiting Someone at the Public Safety Facility

On-site social visiting at the downtown jail uses video monitors on the second floor, room 235, and is scheduled through Securus. Visits are free, last 20 minutes, and must be scheduled 24 hours ahead after staff approval. Visitors should arrive 10 minutes early, bring accepted photo identification, and follow jail behavior and dress rules. Firearms, ammunition, explosives, alcohol, narcotics, controlled substances, smoking, vaping, food, beverages, and disruptive or sexually inappropriate behavior are prohibited.

Mail, Phone, Bail, and Money at the Public Safety Facility

Mail should use the detainee's full name and the Public Safety Facility address. Packages must come directly from a publisher, mail-order bookseller, attorney, or court official unless they are private-party necessary items required for court or release, such as clothing. Detainees can place outgoing calls, but the public cannot call directly into a detainee. Billing problems go through Securus or Correctional Billing Services.

Cash bail or bond can be posted 24 hours a day, seven days a week, at the Public Safety Facility. The person posting needs the case or warrant number and exact bail amount in cash. The jail does not make change, has no cash machine, and does not accept checks, debit cards, or credit cards for cash bail. The sheriff also warns that HCSO will never call demanding payment from families of people in custody or recently released people.

Booking and Intake at the Public Safety Facility

Hennepin jail booking begins after an arrest, warrant execution, citation into custody, or court order. The jail creates the intake record, verifies identity, records the booking information, and places the person into the county jail process. Minnesota law requires sheriffs to keep a permanent record of persons committed to jail. The roster becomes the public path after the person is entered and the hourly update cycle catches up.

Minnesota Rule of Criminal Procedure 4 requires an arrested person who is not released to be brought before a judge without unnecessary delay and no more than 36 hours after arrest, excluding the day of arrest, Sundays, and legal holidays, or as soon as a judge is available. The roster may show a scheduled court date, but court records in MCRO can differ after prosecutor review, so use the roster for custody and the court system for filed charges.

About the Public Safety Facility

The Public Safety Facility sits in the downtown Minneapolis government and court area, near the City Hall jail location, Hennepin County Government Center, and Government Plaza light rail station. The sheriff page states the two jail locations are just north of Government Plaza Station, which serves the METRO Blue and Green Lines. Downtown construction, events, and court security can affect access, so routes and entry rules should be checked before travel.

The jail offers education and support programs. The sheriff page describes volunteers who provide instruction and mentoring, chaplains who provide spiritual counseling on request, and classes or meetings such as Alcoholics Anonymous, parenting classes, drug-abuse prevention, support for battered women, and HOPE program education and training. PREA reporting is also documented; immediate threats should be reported to 612-348-8318 or 911.