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About This Site

A released Houston County inmate may no longer appear on the active jail roster. The proof may instead sit in a sheriff’s permanent release record, a Minnesota court case, a state corrections record, or a supervision system. This privately operated reference site organizes those paths in one place. It explains which source fits a county-jail release, a transfer to Minnesota DOC, or a later prison discharge, while pointing readers back to the public office or official locator that owns each record.

Why This Resource Exists

Minnesota law makes many law-enforcement and corrections data fields public, but no single search covers every kind of release. The Houston County Sheriff maintains the county jail record and publishes an active In Custody roster. Minnesota DOC operates a Public Viewer for people committed to the Commissioner who remain under state jurisdiction, including some people released from prison to supervision. Houston County probation services, court records, VINE, Minnesota Haven, and federal locators each have narrower roles.

We bring those distinctions together so a reader can follow the right record trail. The goal is practical: identify whether a person left Houston County Jail for the community, transferred to another agency, entered state custody, or remains under supervision. We also explain how to ask for the permanent liberation entry when the public roster no longer shows the booking.

What Readers Can Find

The site focuses on official release and custody channels tied to Houston County, Minnesota.

  • The home page provides the full named-person search path and the steps for requesting a Houston County jail release record.
  • Focused pages cover Projected Release, VINELink Inmate Search, and Probation & Parole.
  • The Houston County Jail page gives the official address, phone, active-roster route, and release-record method for the county’s jail.
  • Record guidance explains how to request a booking-specific jail entry or photograph and why response time and copy cost depend on the agency and request.

Limits of Our Role

Houston County Released Inmates is privately run. We have no connection to Houston County, the Houston County Sheriff’s Office, Houston County Jail, Minnesota DOC, a court, or any other government body. We cannot confirm a live custody status, order or carry out a release, transfer a person, or give legal advice.

  • We cannot post bond or change release conditions.
  • We cannot schedule visits or send funds for a visitor.
  • We cannot act as a lawyer or advise on a case.
  • We cannot promise that an address, fee, phone number, or agency process has not changed.

Only the office that maintains the record can confirm custody, charges, release, or transfer; this site only points toward the proper source.

Third-Party Search Partners

Some pages contain search tools supplied by independent providers. Those providers control their own results, terms, and prices. If a visitor follows a tool to a paid subscription or purchase, this site may receive a referral fee. That support helps keep the public reference pages available, but it does not give us control over a partner’s data, billing, or search outcome.