Olmsted County Adult Detention Center

The facilities are operated by a Director, two Captains and 80 detention staff. In addition, there are approximately 100 community volunteers that provide education, counseling, library and religious services. Food service, vending, detainee phones, and health care are contracted services.

A mental health team manages detainees presenting with mental health illness or emotional distress. The Rochester Public School System provides teachers through a grant to offer classes in Adult Basic Education, GED, and English As a Second Language.  The ADC offers educational, recreational and religious programming for detainees.

The ADC also houses detainees for the U.S. Marshals Service, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and other county and state organizations.

Mission Statement: To provide quality services that promote and protect the well-being, safety and security of all people in our community.

History: Prior to the construction of the maximum security facility at 101 4th St. SE in the government center opening in 1993 with 100 beds, the county jail was located in the current Mayo Clinic Ozmun Building along 2nd St. SW. In 1994 the ADC expanded to 112 beds; in 1996 to 126; in 1999 to 138; 2001 to 148; and in 2005 to 202 beds to accommodate increases in population.

The minimum security Work Release Facility annex located at 140 4th St SE opened in 2003, and can house up to 60 male and 30 female detainees that have work release privileges and Sentenced to Service (STS) detainees who are classififed as minimum security.

The Midwest Monitoring's Office has been relocated to the lobby of the Adult Detention Center at 101 SE 4th Street, within the Government Center below Law Enforcement.