Locate Lyon County Jail Inmates

Lyon County Jail Overview

Lyon County Jail is operated by the Lyon County Sheriff's Office as a secure local adult detention facility. It is connected to the Lyon County Law Enforcement Center and sits next to the courthouse in Marshall, which keeps jail records, custody intake, court administration, and after-hours bail close to one another. Sheriff Eric Wallen's office operates the jail, and the county lists Jail Administrator Brad Marks, Administrative Sergeant Gabriel Figueroa, and Program Sergeant Michael Sumerfelt as jail leadership contacts.

The jail holds people arrested locally, pretrial detainees, people serving local jail sentences, people held up to one year, probation or parole violators, state prison transfer holds, other-jurisdiction holds, and court-ordered detainees. It is not a state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center. Once a person is committed to state prison and transferred, the correct search path changes from the county roster to the Minnesota Department of Corrections locator.

Lyon County Jail Capacity

The county's About the Jail page says the current jail began full operations in 2010 and has a designed maximum capacity of 87 beds. The Minnesota DOC 2024 inspection report lists a close but distinct regulatory capacity: 88 approved secure coed beds and 74.80 operational beds at an 85 percent operating capacity. Both figures are useful, but they describe different official views of capacity.

The facility uses an indirect podular style. County material describes that layout as a way to support accountability through constructive staff and inmate interaction. The 2024 DOC inspection was conducted under Minnesota Rule 2911 and included a facility walk-through, interviews, file review, document review, and video review.

Look Up Lyon County Jail Inmates

The correct lookup system for this facility is the county roster, not a DOC, BOP, or ICE locator. Start with the Lyon County Jail roster landing page, then open the current roster report. The county says the roster updates automatically every 12 hours. Tracy Police also links to the same roster and describes 4 a.m. and 4 p.m. updates.

The roster is a static report. It does not provide a public first-name field, last-name field, booking-number field, date filter, profile button, or export. Use browser Find to search a name, then compare the booking date, booking time, arresting agency, charge text, and status before relying on a match.

1. Open the county roster landing page and choose the current roster report.
2. Use browser Find for the person's last name, first name, or a partial spelling.
3. Review booking date, arresting agency, and status to confirm the right person.
4. Call the jail if the arrest is recent or the roster status is unclear.
5. Use MNDOC, BOP, or ICE only when the person is outside local county custody.

Lyon County Jail Contact

The jail direct line is the best starting point for current custody questions that the roster does not answer. Jail records, reception, deposits, after-hours bail contact, and facility arrival all route through the law-enforcement center address.

Visit Lyon County Jail Inmates

The Lyon County jail policies give detailed visiting rules. Personal visits are available six days a week, with no Monday visiting. Visits are about 30 minutes. Each inmate may receive two visits per day, with two people maximum per visit, and visitors may not switch during a visit. Adults must bring valid picture ID with current address. Children under 18 must be with a parent or legal guardian, and birth certificate or guardianship papers are required.

Last morning personal visits must start by 10:30 a.m. Last afternoon personal visits must start by 3:30 p.m. Visits can be denied or ended for intoxication, lack of ID, false ID, disruptive conduct, inappropriate attire, refusing search, disruptive children, or failure to follow jail rules.

Mail Phone and Money

Mail, phone, and commissary rules are local to the jail. The public policy page says jail staff will not relay family messages, and calls into the facility are not a substitute for the inmate phone system. The jail uses a message line and Reliance Telephone services for phone cards, collect calling, and texting setup.

After hours, county policy says depositors may need to use the beige phone in the first lobby if the exterior doors are secured. The research did not locate vendor fee amounts on the county page, so deposit fees should be confirmed with the kiosk or Inmate Canteen before payment.

Lyon County Jail Booking

Booking starts after an arrest or court commitment. The person is brought to the Lyon County Law Enforcement Center, where staff verify legal authority, record identity, secure property, conduct intake checks, and create the jail record. The public roster may then show name, booking number, booking date and time, arresting agency, charge text, status, sentence date, and completion date. It did not show a public mugshot in the inspected report.

The county jail policy material explains that jails receive people directly from the street, including people who may be angry, afraid, intoxicated, ill, or in crisis. That local framing matters because the jail cannot choose whom it accepts when lawful arrest, warrant, commitment, or hold paperwork requires detention. Classification, medical, mental-health, safety, and separation rules are handled inside the facility and are not published as roster fields.

Lyon County Jail Bond

Bail during business hours is posted at Court Administration on the third floor of the adjacent courthouse, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. After hours, people come to the jail front lobby and ask to speak with the on-duty sergeant or correctional officer so paperwork can begin. Personal checks are not accepted for bail. A bail bondsman may be used only if the court order allows a surety option.

Lyon County Jail Standards

Lyon County states that the jail operates under Minnesota DOC standards, Minnesota statutes, and constitutional requirements. The county's jail philosophy emphasizes safe, secure, and humane detention, staff training, individual accountability, basic human rights and dignity, positive behavior, and reintegration of responsible people returning to the community.

Work release, education release, and STS participants must meet with Administrative Sergeant Gabriel Figueroa before reporting for a sentence start. PREA reports may be made to the sheriff's office, New Horizons Crisis Center, staff, in writing, through the Turnkey kiosk, anonymously, or by a third party. Pay for Stay applies to convicted inmates at $20 per day, with invoice and waiver-request details handled after release under county policy.