Wabasha County Jail Inmate Lookup

Wabasha County Jail Overview

Wabasha County Jail is operated by the Wabasha County Sheriff's Office. The facility is listed by the county at 848 17th Street East, Suite #2, Wabasha, MN 55981, and serves as the primary jail for people arrested in Wabasha County before court, people serving local sentences, and people held on Wabasha County court or agency holds. Roster examples reviewed in the research include arresting agencies such as the Wabasha County Sheriff's Office, Lake City Police Department, and Wabasha Police Department, with outside hold information possible on some rows.

The county's official jail page identifies the jail phone as (651) 560-1004 and lists Jail Administrator Brenda Balow at (651) 560-1001, bbalow@co.wabasha.mn.us. Sheriff Curt Struwe is the sheriff named on the current sheriff's office page. The jail is part of the county government campus at 17th Street East; Wabasha County District Court is also at that campus in Suite 4, which is relevant for first appearances and local criminal cases after booking.

The Wabasha County jail page shown in the project image source includes the address, jail phone, jail administrator, roster link, and PREA statement. That county page is the starting point for the current roster link and facility contact details.

The Wabasha County Jail page is captured below as the official source for the facility listing and roster access point.

Because the county points users from this page to the roster PDF, verify the roster timestamp and use the jail phone when a recent booking, release, or transfer may not yet be reflected.

Wabasha County Jail Capacity and Population

The 2025 Minnesota DOC inspection report identifies Wabasha County Jail as a Jail under Minnesota Rule 2911 local adult detention facility standards. The operating authority runs from June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2027. The same inspection lists 43 approved secure coed beds and a 38.70 operational capacity based on 90 percent operating capacity.

The inspection found substantial compliance, with 98.40 percent mandatory compliance and 98.98 percent essential compliance. It also stated that the facility was clean and well-maintained and would remain on biennial inspection. The FY2025 MNDOC Performance Report reported a Wabasha County Jail average daily population of 7.00 for FY2025. That annual average is much lower than the approved capacity, but it is not a live head count; the current roster can change quickly after bookings, releases, court appearances, and transfers.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Wabasha County Jail

The official Wabasha County Jail lookup source is the Wabasha County Sheriff's Office Jail Roster Report PDF, linked from the county jail page. It is a free PDF report, not an interactive search form. The roster text reviewed in the research showed a "Current as of" timestamp and fields such as name, booking date, bail, hold reason, arresting agency, charges, status, projected release date, and hold-agency details. No public interactive last-name field or booking-number field was documented for the county roster.

1. Open the Wabasha County Jail page or the current roster PDF linked from it.
2. Check the "Current as of" timestamp before relying on a listing.
3. Use the PDF viewer's find tool, usually Ctrl+F or Command+F, and search by last name first because names and charges can wrap across lines.
4. Review the matching row for booking date, bail, hold reason, charge rows, arresting agency, status, projected release date, and any outside hold.
5. If the person is not listed, call the jail at (651) 560-1004. The person may have been released, recently booked, transferred, booked under a different spelling, committed to MNDOC, or held in federal or immigration custody.

Wabasha County Jail Address and Contact

Use the jail phone for custody, current roster, visitation, mail, money, and release-timing questions. Use the sheriff's office main number for broader sheriff records, warrant verification, and Minnesota Government Data Practices Act request routing when information is public but not online. The jail administrator contact is useful for facility administration questions, but current custody questions should start with the jail line.

Visiting Someone at Wabasha County Jail

Wabasha County's official jail page did not publish a public visitation schedule, remote-video vendor, visit length, visitor identification rule, dress code, or child-visitor rule in the research materials. Do not rely on third-party schedules for this jail without confirmation. Call Wabasha County Jail at (651) 560-1004 before traveling, especially if the person was recently booked, has a court appearance pending, or may have been transferred.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Wabasha County Jail

The official sources reviewed did not publish a mail-scanning vendor, commissary vendor, inmate phone provider, deposit website, kiosk location, payment methods, or fee table for Wabasha County Jail. Use the jail address and call the jail before sending mail, depositing funds, or setting up phone or video accounts. Confirm the required inmate-name format, whether a booking date or roster name is needed, and whether any outside vendor is currently authorized.

Booking and Intake at Wabasha County Jail

A typical Wabasha County booking begins after an arrest by the sheriff's office, Wabasha Police Department, Lake City Police Department, or another agency. Jail staff receive the person, confirm identity, check warrants or holds, collect booking information, inventory property, complete medical and safety screening, take identification materials such as fingerprints as required, classify custody risk, and place the person in jail housing or temporary holding. The public roster then shows confirmed fields such as booking date, bail, hold reason, charges, arresting agency, status, and projected release date when applicable.

The 2025 DOC inspection gives one local intake detail: Wabasha County Jail had to correct the timing and documentation of intake orientation because orientation was being completed after placement in a housing unit rather than during admission. That inspection detail is local to Wabasha and shows that admission procedures were actively reviewed by state detention inspectors during the 2025 inspection cycle.

PREA, Jail Conditions, and Court Campus Details

The county jail page publishes a PREA zero-tolerance statement for sexual assault and rape. It explains that the Prison Rape Elimination Act applies to jails and other correctional settings and states that the Wabasha Jail Division prioritizes prevention of inmate sexual assault and rape. The 2025 DOC inspection also reported substantial compliance, high mandatory and essential compliance rates, and a clean, well-maintained facility.

Wabasha County Jail and Wabasha County District Court are both on the 848 17th Street East county campus, with the jail in Suite #2 and the court in Suite 4. The court page lists surface lot and on-street public parking for the courthouse complex, but no separate jail visitor parking rates, transit route, or visitor entrance details were located. Confirm the visitor entrance, parking, and access rules with the jail before arrival.