Visitations: Minnesota State (DOC) Prisioners

Adult Visiting Information

Visiting maintains healthy family and community relationships.

Visiting can help offenders begin to build the support networks they will need after release. Research conducted by the Minnesota Department of Corrections has shown that positive interactions with friends and family can actually lower recidivism.

For these positive interactions to occur the visiting room must be a secure environment where offenders and families can feel safe. To maintain this environment, offenders and visitors are required to obey the rules of the visiting room. Failure to do so may result in warning, termination of visits, placement on non-contact visiting status or suspension or revocation of the visiting privilege.

Normal Visiting Schedules
Each facility has an established visiting schedule. Click below for visiting hours.

MCF-Faribault
MCF-Lino Lakes
MCF-Oak Park Heights
MCF-Red Wing (Adult)
MCF-Red Wing (Juvenile)
MCF-Rush City
MCF-St. Cloud
MCF-Shakopee
MCF-Stillwater
MCF-Willow River/Moose Lake
Challenge Incarceration Program (CIP) – Willow River
Challenge Incarceration Program (CIP) – MCF-Togo

There is no visiting on the following State recognized holidays*:

New Year’s Day
President’s Day
Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
Memorial Day
July 4 (Independence Day)
Labor Day
Veteran’s Day
Thanksgiving and the following Friday
Christmas Day

*Willow River and Togo Challenge Incarceration Program offenders may have visitors on holidays IF the holiday falls on a regularly-scheduled visiting day.

Public Transportation Options

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