Stevens County Jail Roster Overview
The Stevens County Sheriff's Office handles corrections, booking, prisoner transport, and custody questions. Sheriff Jason Dingman is listed as sheriff.
No Stevens County owned interactive inmate roster was located. State prison custody, fugitives, and non-compliant predatory registrants use Minnesota DOC or BCA paths, not the county jail counter.
How to Use the Stevens County Inmate Roster
A Traverse County roster page and roster PDF were found, and the sample roster included a Stevens County hold. Treat it as a regional housing clue, not a Stevens-only database.
- Call Stevens County Sheriff at 320-208-6500 for current housing status.
- Check VINE for custody notification when appropriate.
- If a person may be housed in Traverse County, review the Traverse roster PDF and confirm with the facility.
- Use Minnesota DOC search for sentenced state prisoners, fugitives, or non-compliant predatory registrants.
Roster Search Fields
The Traverse roster is a static PDF, not a search form. It does not accept typed search fields.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roster format | PDF list | N/A | No interactive search fields |
| Held For | Roster column | N/A | May identify Stevens County Sheriff Office as holding agency |
| Booking date | Roster column | N/A | Shows date booked when listed |
What an Inmate Profile Shows
The inspected roster fields include name, age, booking date, held-for status, conditional bail amount, sentence end date, holding agency, and charge text.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | Last, first, and middle name |
| Booking Date | Date booked into custody |
| Charges | Statute or charge text such as probation revocation |
| Conditional Bail Amount | Bail field when populated |
| Held For | Reason or agency, including another-agency holds |
| Sentence End Date | Shown only where populated |
Stevens County Jail Facilities
Stevens County sources did not publish a local jail capacity or public visitation schedule. Traverse County Sheriff states its jail houses up to eleven inmates and is staffed 24/7/365.
Stevens County Sheriff's Office
400 Colorado Avenue
Morris, MN 56267
320-349-7010
Call the current housing facility before visiting
Traverse County Jail
400 Colorado Avenue
Morris, MN 56267
320-349-7010
Call the current housing facility before visiting
Booking Process in Stevens County
After arrest, corrections staff handle booking and transport to court. Formal court charges appear after filing or initiation in District Court.
Bail, first appearance, and probation-violation events may appear in MCRO when public and searchable.
Visitation Hours and Rules
Official Stevens sources inspected did not publish visitation, mail, commissary, money deposit, inmate phone, or video visit vendor rules.
| Day | Hours | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | Call facility | Confirm with facility |
| Tuesday | Call facility | Confirm with facility |
| Wednesday | Call facility | Confirm with facility |
| Thursday | Call facility | Confirm with facility |
| Friday | Call facility | Confirm with facility |
| Saturday | Call facility | Confirm with facility |
| Sunday | Call facility | Confirm with facility |
How to Contact an Inmate
Do not assume a vendor. Ask the current housing facility for mail format, property rules, phone access, attorney visits, and money deposits.
Commissary and Inmate Funds
No vendor name, deposit limit, or fee was verified in the Stevens County official sources inspected.
VINE and Other Custody Checks
Stevens County Sheriff materials point people to Minnesota VINE for custody-status notifications. VINE is useful when a person has already been booked, transferred, released, or moved, because the service is designed to notify registered users when a custody change happens. It is not a jail roster and it does not replace a phone call to the current housing facility.
For sentenced state prisoners, the Minnesota DOC search is the right statewide tool. For persons housed in a regional jail, like the Traverse County roster example in the research, the holding agency controls visiting, mail, phone, and money rules. That is why an inmate search in Stevens County often has to be treated as a location check first and a name search second.
Before You Visit or Send Money
Call the current housing facility before visiting, mailing property, or sending money. The researched Stevens County sources did not publish a public schedule for visiting, mail, commissary, video visits, or phone vendors. That means the safest assumption is that the rules can change with the facility that is actually holding the person.
- Confirm the exact housing location.
- Ask whether in-person visits are allowed.
- Ask how mail should be addressed.
- Ask whether money must go through the jail or a vendor.
- Ask whether attorney visits are handled differently from family visits.
Jail Records vs. Court Records
In Stevens County, the jail side of the record is about who is in custody, where they are held, and whether a transfer or release happened. The court side is about the complaint, charge, hearing, plea, and disposition. Those records can line up, but they do not always move at the same speed. A person can show up in a jail roster before the criminal case is fully visible, or a court case can exist before the custody record is easy to confirm.
That is why the inmate page works best as a location tool. It tells the reader where to check next, not just whether someone is sitting in a local jail. If the person is a state prisoner or a fugitive, Minnesota DOC becomes the more useful search. If the person is a Stevens County hold at another county jail, the housing facility controls the visit and money rules even though Stevens County is the originating case county.
Regional Roster Clues
The Traverse County roster example in the research is important because it shows how a Stevens County hold can appear outside Stevens County when another jail is housing the person. That means a county-based inmate search has to stay flexible. A local call may tell you the person is housed elsewhere, and a regional roster may show the hold even though Stevens County itself does not publish a public interactive roster. The record user has to follow the housing location, not just the county where the arrest happened.
For that same reason, the inmate page should be read together with the warrant page and criminal court record page. One page tells you custody, one page tells you the warrant or hold, and one page tells you the filed criminal case. The three together are what make the public record picture usable in Stevens County.
Statewide Inmate Search Paths
When the person is not in a Stevens County facility, statewide tools can become more useful than a county call. The Minnesota DOC search is the best route for sentenced state prisoners, fugitives, and non-compliant predatory registrants. Minnesota VINE is the best route for custody notifications because it is built to alert a registered user when the custody status changes. Neither tool replaces the local jail or sheriff for housing-specific rules, but both are part of the full Stevens County inmate-search picture.
This is why the inmate page cannot just be a roster page. It has to explain where to look when the county itself does not publish a searchable roster and where to look when the person has been moved outside the county jail system entirely.
Recommended Search Order
For a Stevens County custody check, the most useful order is sheriff first, VINE second, Minnesota DOC third, and regional roster last. That sequence reflects how the record actually moves. The sheriff knows local custody, VINE knows change notifications, DOC knows statewide sentence custody, and a regional roster can show a hold only when another county is housing the person. Using the tools in that order keeps the search tied to the real custody location instead of a guess.