{"data":{"id":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-641.01","jurisdiction":"us-mn","citation":"Minn. Stat. § 641.01","heading":"JAIL CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE; PRISONER PLACEMENT.","body":"The county board of each county is authorized to construct, purchase, or lease, regulate and maintain, at the expense of the county, a jail for the safekeeping of prisoners, and also, adjoining and connected to it, a residence for the use of the sheriff.\nAny peace officer placing a prisoner in the jail shall report immediately to the officer's superior officer concerning the fact of that placement. No prisoner shall be detained without a jailer or custodian present in the jail, awake and alert at all times, capable of responding to the reasonable needs of the prisoner.","path":["LOCAL JAIL FACILITIES; LOCKUPS; WORKHOUSE; JUVENILE OFFENDER CARE; PARDONS; CLEMENCY REVIEW COMMISSION","CHAPTER 641. COUNTY AND REGIONAL JAILS","COUNTY JAILS"],"source_url":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/641.01","current_through":"2025 Minnesota Statutes","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T22:10:51Z","sha256":"da1ab8cb80dd0eda6ff9fad6f2328eda6ca9403d1037ec9498842a0e802c5b93","source_id":"us-mn","stale":false,"prev":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-640.56","next":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-641.015"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}