Ramsey County Adult Jail Overview
The Ramsey County Adult Detention Center, often shortened to ADC, is the booking and pretrial jail inside the Law Enforcement Center. The Minnesota Judicial Branch location page places the sheriff's office and the Adult Detention Center in the same law-enforcement complex at Grove Street and Lafayette Road near downtown St. Paul. People arrested in Ramsey County, people booked on warrants, and people waiting for a court appearance may pass through this facility before release, bond, transfer, sentencing, or another custody decision.
This facility is not the same as the Ramsey County Correctional Facility. ADC is the arrest and jail roster hub. RCCF is the sentenced county correctional facility for adults ordered by the Second Judicial District Court to serve up to one year. That split matters for a Ramsey County inmate search because the open-data roster is centered on ADC custody, while sentenced residents may be moved to RCCF or, after a prison sentence, to the Minnesota Department of Corrections.
The Law Enforcement Center is also part of the court and warrant path. Ramsey Criminal and Traffic Court instructions direct people turning themselves in on a Ramsey County warrant to the jail entrance at 425 Grove Street, which is open around the clock for warrant turn-ins. Court service hours and visitor access can differ from jail intake access, so custody, visit, release, and pickup questions should be confirmed by phone before travel.
The court location page for the Law Enforcement Center directly matches the ADC location. The image below comes from the Minnesota Judicial Branch Law Enforcement Center page, which identifies the building, hours, parking, and jail location.
Because the sheriff's office, court functions, and ADC are tied to the same building, a roster result may also point the reader toward court dates, warrant questions, or release instructions handled through nearby county offices.
Ramsey County ADC Capacity
Ramsey County research identifies the Adult Detention Center as a 500-bed county jail. The county dashboard data reported a latest monthly average of 434 people for May 2026, with 1,219 bookings and 1,182 releases for that month. The same dashboard showed annual average monthly jail population figures of 425 in 2024, 463 in 2025, and 432 year to date through May 2026. Those figures are ADC jail-population measures, not a count of every person with a Ramsey County criminal case.
| ADC Measure | Figure | Source / Date |
|---|---|---|
| Rated capacity | 500 beds | Ramsey County facility map and county/court context |
| Latest average population | 434 | Ramsey ADC dashboard JSON, May 2026 |
| Latest monthly bookings | 1,219 | Ramsey ADC dashboard JSON, May 2026 |
| Roster publication window | Current inmates plus five days after release | Ramsey County open-data roster story |
Look Up ADC Inmates
The main lookup channel is the Ramsey County Adult Detention Center Roster open-data page. It covers current inmates and people released during the last five days, with updates every 30 minutes. The roster story also warns that a person may be in the intake or booking process and may not appear yet. For older booking records, use the Ramsey County Sheriff's data-practices process rather than assuming a missing roster row means no arrest occurred.
- Open the ADC roster story or the linked Socrata roster datasets for current custody and recent releases.
- Search or filter by name when available, then confirm the booking number and person ID.
- Compare booking rows with arresting charges, formal charges, and court-date rows tied to the same booking number.
- Use the court file number in Minnesota Court Records Online when the question is about filed charges or hearings.
- If a person was sentenced to state prison, use the Minnesota DOC public locator instead of the ADC roster.
Custody path: Arrest or warrant booking to ADC, court or release decision, then possible RCCF sentence, state DOC transfer, federal custody, or release.
Ramsey County ADC Record Fields
Ramsey County's open-data structure is more detailed than a simple name list. Separate official datasets show bookings, arresting charges, formal charges, and court events. A booking number can connect those pieces. Arresting charges are the law-enforcement allegations recorded at intake. Formal charges are the charges filed or adopted in court records and may change after prosecutor review. That distinction is important before using a jail entry for court, employment, housing, licensing, or personal decisions.
| Dataset | Public fields captured |
|---|---|
| Bookings by Person | Person ID, booking number, dates booked and released, days detained, name, first name, last name, age |
| Arresting Charges | Booking number, person ID, charge ID, arrest charge, arrest charge level, name, age |
| Formal Charges | Formal charge, charge level, court file number, booking number, person ID, name, age |
| Court by Person | Court date, building, courtroom, address, hearing type, hearing status, court location |
The inspected open-data fields did not include bond amount, housing unit, physical description, or a booking-photo URL. Minnesota law may classify some booking data as public, but medical, psychological, safety, juvenile, and security-sensitive detention data can be withheld under detention-data limits.
Ramsey County ADC Contact
The Adult Detention Services Unit phone line is the practical fallback when a roster entry is delayed, a person is being booked, a release pickup is pending, or bail and bond instructions need to be confirmed. The sheriff's office also handles written data-practices requests for public jail records not displayed in the roster. Public requests can be made through the county form, by mail to the sheriff's data-practices address, or by email to the listed designee in the official policy.
Ramsey County Adult Detention Center
425 Grove Street
St. Paul, MN 55101
651-266-9350
Jail information, inmate contact, release pickup, bail, and bond questions
Ramsey County Sheriff's Office
425 Grove Street
St. Paul, MN 55101
651-266-9333
Public records and sheriff's office questions
Ramsey ADC Visit Rules
Current official ADC visit schedules, dress code, approved-item lists, commissary vendor fees, and money-deposit fee tables were not located in accessible official pages. Ramsey County capital planning documents do confirm video visitation and lobby control areas, and county correspondence noted expired commissary and video-visitation contracts in 2023, but that does not supply current rules. The reliable instruction is to call ADC before traveling or sending funds.
| Service | Current public detail | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Visits | No current official public schedule located | Call 651-266-9350 before travel |
| No current official mail format located | Confirm name, booking number, and allowed items | |
| Money or commissary | No current vendor or fee schedule located | Verify the approved payment method by phone |
| Bail or bond | ADC and warrant office are the official fallback | Call ADC or the Warrant Office at 651-266-9320 |
Visitors should also confirm the correct entrance. Court offices at the Law Enforcement Center have posted weekday service hours, while warrant turn-in instructions identify the jail entrance as open all day and night. Free parking is reported in the lot in front of the building, street parking is scarce, and nearby lots may be reserved.
Mail Phone and Money
ADC mail, phone, video visit, and money rules should be treated as live facility rules, not static facts. No official accessible source supplied a current vendor, deposit limit, fee table, or approved mail format. Use the inmate's full name and booking number only after confirming the current facility instructions. If the person has been moved to RCCF, state DOC, federal custody, or ICE custody, the ADC mail or money process may no longer apply.
- Booking number
- The jail intake number that links a person to booking, charge, and court rows in Ramsey open data.
- Formal charge
- The charge filed in court, which can differ from the arrest charge shown at booking.
- Detainer or hold
- A request or order from another agency that may affect release even after local bail is addressed.
Ramsey ADC Booking Intake
A Ramsey County arrest usually moves through transport to ADC, identity confirmation, property handling, fingerprinting, booking-photo processing, medical or mental-health screening, warrant and hold review, custody classification, and court or bail review. The public roster may not show the person until intake data has been processed. Once loaded, a public booking row can be matched with charge and court rows through the booking number and person ID.
For warrant cases, Ramsey Criminal and Traffic Court instructs people turning themselves in to use the jail entrance at 425 Grove Street. A person who arrives before 4:00 a.m. may be heard on the next available court calendar. That timing is a court instruction, not a guarantee of release. Call the court or ADC for current status if a hearing, pickup, bond, or release window is time-sensitive.
About Ramsey County ADC
County capital planning material describes the ADC as being in continuous use for roughly two decades during the 2024-2029 planning cycle. Listed projects and needs include open booking upgrades, lobby and video visitation control updates, suicide-prevention barriers, central control work, flood-control and water-conservation systems, and medical or sanitation improvements. Those items give context for why facility rules may shift and why a phone confirmation is useful before a visit.
Note: Confirm custody, visit access, release pickup, and money rules with ADC before traveling or sending funds.