Check MCF–Stillwater Releases

MCF–Stillwater Release Outcomes

Minnesota Department of Corrections operates MCF–Stillwater in Bayport. It is not a Washington County Sheriff's Office jail. The people confined there are state-sentenced individuals committed to the Commissioner of Corrections. The county active roster and weekday booking reports do not cover them. A prison departure belongs to the state sentence record, even though the prison building stands in Washington County.

A person can leave MCF–Stillwater for supervised or conditional release and remain under MNDOC jurisdiction in the community. Another person may reach final discharge, which ends that sentence jurisdiction. A third may be transferred to MCF–Oak Park Heights or another state prison and remain fully incarcerated. The MNDOC public locator is the first search route for all three questions. Record the status and facility with the portal's exact labels.

Confirm an MCF–Stillwater Release

The statewide locator covers adults committed to the Commissioner who are imprisoned or have left prison but remain under supervision. Search with the full six-digit MNDOC Offender ID when possible. A name search uses names tied to convictions and may return aliases or prefix matches. Confirm the Offender ID and any other available descriptors before treating a result as the right person.

1. Open the MNDOC locator and search by the full Offender ID, or use first and last name when the number is unknown.
2. Select the matching record only after checking identity information and associated names.
3. Read the current facility, custody, and jurisdiction status without replacing the portal's labels with a guess.
4. Separate incarceration, supervised or conditional release, and final discharge. A projected date does not prove that release occurred.
5. If the person is absent or the movement is historical, request the MNDOC offender record for facility changes, physical release, supervision, and discharge.

Newly sentenced people can take several business days to appear. Fully discharged people may fall outside the locator's stated current-jurisdiction scope. Therefore, no result does not prove there was no MNDOC history. For a broad comparison of county and state paths, use the Washington County released inmate search.

Note: A current supervised-release result confirms that prison custody ended while MNDOC sentence jurisdiction continues.

MCF–Stillwater Closure Transfer Check

MNDOC is phasing MCF–Stillwater toward full closure by June 30, 2029. The department reports that roughly half of the prison population has already moved to other state facilities. This is a major local search trap. Someone can disappear from a Stillwater facility context while remaining imprisoned under the same state authority.

Use the official MCF–Stillwater phased-closure page for the project-wide timeline, but use the individual locator record for a person's current state status. If the locator names a different MNDOC prison, the move is a transfer. If it reports supervised release, physical prison custody has ended but the sentence remains active. If it supplies no current record, the next step is a formal offender-record request, not a declaration of release.

MCF–Stillwater Release Records

The prison can route present facility questions, but historical release, transfer, supervision, and final-discharge documentation should be requested from MNDOC records. Give the full name, date of birth if known, and six-digit Offender ID. Ask for commitment and admission, institutional movements, physical prison release date and type, supervision start and end, final discharge, and any available public identification photograph. Request electronic delivery and a fee estimate without assuming a charge or response date.

The MNDOC offender-record request is the correct durable route. Washington County Sheriff records cannot certify a state-prison discharge. If community supervision is assigned locally, Washington County Community Corrections may hold public supervision facts, but the original state commitment remains an MNDOC matter.

MCF–Stillwater Custody Profile

The official MCF–Stillwater facility page lists the Bayport address, contact number, and prison information. MNDOC describes Level 2 minimum and Level 4 close security classifications at the institution. Those classifications refer to custody and security. They do not establish an individual's release eligibility or current projected date.

Facility operations and closure steps can change, so current details should be checked on the originating MNDOC pages. The official facility description and the separate closure notice serve different purposes: one identifies the prison, while the other reports the phased operational change.

MCF–Stillwater Release Date Types

Three dates must stay separate. A projected or scheduled date appears while a person remains incarcerated and is a planning value. The actual physical release date marks departure from prison, often into supervised or conditional release. Final discharge ends MNDOC jurisdiction for that sentence. One date cannot safely stand in for the others.

Minnesota's ordinary fixed executed sentence for a qualifying offense committed on or after August 1, 1993 contains an imprisonment term and a supervised-release term. Section 244.101 describes a baseline of two-thirds imprisonment and one-third supervised release, subject to the statutory rules. Earned incentive credits, disciplinary confinement, sentence credits, another sentence, warrants, and holds may change the projected outcome. The official calculation controls.

Projected date

An estimate or scheduled field for a person still incarcerated, not proof of departure.

Supervised release

Physical release from prison while the person remains under sentence jurisdiction in the community.

Final discharge

The end of MNDOC jurisdiction for the sentence, documented through the corrections record.

Transfer

Movement between institutions while incarceration continues.

Note: Minnesota is not an 85-percent system, and the state-prison formula should not be applied to a county-jail sentence.

MCF–Stillwater Supervised Release Records

A person released from MCF–Stillwater may be supervised by MNDOC, Washington County Community Corrections, or another assigned office. The location of the prison does not decide where supervision occurs. A person may return to another Minnesota county, and a person supervised in Washington County may have served the prison term elsewhere.

Minnesota Statutes section 13.84 makes defined adult supervision facts public, including the fact and location of probation or parole, the underlying offense, start and end dates, conditions, supervising agency, and legal basis for changes. The exact disclosure depends on the requested record and protected-data rules. Washington County Community Corrections is at 14949 62nd Street North in Stillwater and can be reached at 651-430-6900 during its listed weekday office hours.

Supervision is not final discharge. A later warrant or violation process may alter community status, and a wanted listing is not proof of present incarceration. Confirm both the corrections status and the issuing office's record.

MCF–Stillwater and County Records

Washington County contains the prison, but county geography does not convert MCF–Stillwater residents into county inmates. The Sheriff Jail Division roster, daily booking PDFs, and Sheriff release-data request apply to the county jail. They do not report state prison population changes. MNDOC owns the prison record.

Washington County court records can still matter when a local case led to a state commitment. A register of actions may show judgment and sentence. Yet it does not replace the correctional movement record or certify the exact prison release time. Use court data for legal context and MNDOC data for prison custody, supervised release, transfers, and discharge.

Federal and immigration systems are also separate. A BOP status refers only to federal Bureau of Prisons custody, while an ICE locator result concerns immigration detention. Neither should be used to interpret an ordinary MCF–Stillwater movement unless the individual record supplies a genuine link to that authority.

MCF–Stillwater Release History Context

The prison's closure process is the distinctive fact shaping current MCF–Stillwater searches. Statewide movement is expected as operations wind down. That makes facility-name searches less dependable than Offender ID searches. A past association with MCF–Stillwater may remain important history, but current placement can be elsewhere.

MCF–Oak Park Heights is a separate MNDOC prison in Washington County and may receive transfers, including movements connected to the closure. Such a transfer is still custody. It should not be described as release from the state sentence merely because the person left the Stillwater institution. The statewide locator follows the person across facilities, which is why it is the first source.

Note: Ask for all institutional movements when a historical MCF–Stillwater record must distinguish closure-related transfer from physical prison release.