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Clearwater County Jail Overview

The official Clearwater County Jail page describes the facility as the county detention site for adult males and females, both pretrial and sentenced, plus limited juvenile detention authority. The jail is operated by the Clearwater County Sheriff's Office in Bagley. It is also described in official sources as the Clearwater County Correctional Facility or Clearwater County Detention Center, but the local roster and jail contact information point back to the same sheriff-operated county jail.

Clearwater County Jail is a county-jail facility, not a state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center. The local jail population includes people newly booked after arrest, people waiting for court, people serving short local sentences, and people held for local or other legal hold reasons. The official jail page says inmates are classified by behavior as minimum, medium, and maximum security risks. That means custody level, housing, movement, and visit rules may differ even when two people are held in the same building.

The county jail screenshot from Clearwater County's jail page shows the public-facing visitation, mail, phone-card, voicemail, and money-deposit guidance used for this facility.

Those posted rules are the best source for routine family contact steps, while custody status still needs confirmation through the roster or jail phone line.

Clearwater County Jail Capacity

Minnesota Department of Corrections inspection records provide the clearest capacity and licensing figures for Clearwater County Jail. The 2025 inspection report identifies the facility type as Jail, the certificate holder as Clearwater County Sheriff's Department, and the governing rule as Minnesota Rules chapter 2911 for local adult detention facilities. The authority to operate runs from 06/01/2025 through 05/31/2027.

The same research reports FY25 average daily population as 19.00, based on the MNDOC performance report, which is below both the approved capacity and the 85% operational capacity. The FY24 average daily population was 20.31. These numbers are jail-population measures, not a live current count. For a current name-by-name custody check, use the county inmate list or call the jail.

Clearwater County Jail Lookup

The correct lookup for this facility is the Clearwater County Inmate List. The roster is a public list, not a name-search form. It attempts to update about every 60 minutes and shows the visible fields documented in the research: mugshot, last and first name, booking date and time, and charges for all hold reasons. It does not visibly show a full inmate profile, booking number, housing unit, bond amount, court date, release date, or arresting agency in the inspected public display.

1. Open the county inmate list and read the disclaimer before relying on the entry.
2. Scan for the person's last and first name. Use the browser find command if the list is long.
3. Review the booking date and time and the charges or hold reasons. Treat that text as custody information, not a conviction.
4. If the person is missing, call Clearwater County Jail at 218-694-6226 to confirm intake, release, transfer, or hold status.
5. Use MNDOC, BOP, ICE, or VINE only when the question is state prison, federal custody, immigration custody, or custody notification.

The county warns that the roster may be incomplete or delayed, that people can use false identification, and that true identity can require fingerprint comparison. That warning is especially important for new bookings, aliases, and names with common spellings.

Clearwater County Jail Address

Official address references vary by function. The sheriff's office page lists the courthouse first floor at 213 Main Avenue North, Dept. 102, Bagley, MN 56621. The jail mail format uses Clearwater County Jail, inmate full name, 213 Main Ave. N., Dept. 101, Bagley, MN 56621. The 2025 Minnesota DOC inspection report lists the inspected jail address as 213 N Main Avenue N, Suite 101, Bagley, MN 56621. For visitors and maps, use the Main Avenue North courthouse and sheriff complex in Bagley, then confirm the correct entrance before arrival.

The current sheriff identified in the research is Darin Halverson, and the jail administrator is Candace Coulter. Those names should be used only as office context because custody confirmation still comes through the jail, roster, records process, or court system.

Clearwater County Jail Visits

Clearwater County Jail publishes three social visitation windows. Visitors must call and book no later than noon the day before the visit. Visits are non-contact, and each inmate is limited to a maximum of four visits per week. The jail also shortens visits to about 15-20 minutes when needed so all visitors can be accommodated.

Local visitor rules include no food or beverage, no pets, and minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. A person on felony probation or conditions of release from a felony charge may not visit any inmate. A person who has been an inmate at Clearwater County Jail within the last six months may not visit. A person may not visit two or more inmates on the same day unless the inmates are immediate family members.

Clearwater Jail Mail and Money

The jail publishes a direct mail format and specific money and phone-card options. It does not publish a complete package rule, book-vendor rule, legal-mail rule, postcard-only rule, or banned-items list in the inspected page text. Do not invent those limits. Call 218-694-6226 before mailing packages, photos, books, legal mail with special handling needs, or money orders.

Verify custody before depositing money or buying a phone card. A name may disappear from the roster because of release, transfer, sentencing to MNDOC, movement on a federal hold, immigration custody, or identity correction after fingerprint comparison.

Clearwater Jail Intake

After a local arrest, a person is booked at Clearwater County Jail when local detention is needed. The research does not include a published Clearwater booking manual, but official jail and inspection sources support the standard intake framework: identity collection, fingerprinting, booking photograph, property handling, medical or mental-health screening, search procedures, charge or hold entry, and classification for housing and safety. The public roster normally appears only after the county system updates, and the county does not promise instant posting.

Classification is more than a label. Minnesota Rule 2911 requires policies that address custody level, housing assignment, gender, juvenile/adult status, offense category, severity, escape risk, safety risk, disciplinary history, special needs, and medical or mental-health needs. The 2025 DOC inspection found two classification-related housing issues and says they were corrected on site. That inspection context supports careful language: the jail has minimum, medium, and maximum classifications, but public pages do not show each inmate's housing or risk level.

Clearwater Jail Inspection Notes

The 2025 DOC inspection moved Clearwater County Jail to biennial inspection status and reported substantial rule compliance. The report listed a 97.52% mandatory-rule compliance rate and a 98.94% essential-rule compliance rate. It also noted issues that were either corrected on site or required follow-up procedure updates, including daily security inspection documentation, prescription medication count accuracy, staff post-order signatures, and volunteer-agreement updates.

The juvenile detention audit is also local and important. The report noted Clearwater's rural exception, which can allow delinquent juvenile hold up to 24 hours excluding weekends and holidays. It listed three juveniles held or processed since October 1, 2024, and found no JJDP violations. This does not mean the jail is a juvenile facility in the ordinary sense. It means limited juvenile processing authority exists under the inspection framework.

Beyond Clearwater County Jail

Clearwater County has no separate official city jail, regional jail, state prison, BOP prison, or ICE detention center located inside the county in the official sources reviewed. Bagley has a police department contact page, but local detention lookup still routes to the sheriff-operated county jail when someone is booked into county custody. Once a person is sentenced to prison, the Minnesota DOC locator is the right system, not the county roster.

Federal and immigration custody are separate. The BOP inmate locator covers federal sentenced prisoners from 1982 to present. Federal pretrial custody is usually managed through the U.S. Marshals Service and may be housed under contract in another facility. The ICE Online Detainee Locator System is for immigration detention and is searched by A-number or biographical data. For custody-change alerts tied to victim notification, Clearwater County points users to VINE and VINELink.