Find MCF–St. Cloud Releases

MCF–St. Cloud Release Paths

Minnesota Correctional Facility–St. Cloud is a Level 4 close-custody prison operated by the Minnesota Department of Corrections. It is not the Sherburne County Jail. Adult men committed to the commissioner arrive for processing, medical and program assessment, and classification. Most are then assigned to another DOC institution, though some remain at St. Cloud. A record that changes from St. Cloud to another prison location usually describes an internal transfer, not a release from state custody.

A true prison release can begin supervised release after the confinement part of a determinate sentence. “Determinate” means the court imposed a fixed term. Certain cases also carry conditional release, an added supervision term created by statute for designated offenses. Another person may reach sentence expiration or final discharge. A narrower group with life or older indeterminate sentences follows the Minnesota Supervised Release Board process instead of an ordinary fixed-date path.

The destination and status wording settle the difference. A new DOC facility points toward transfer. “Under Supervision as of” supports a transition from prison confinement to community supervision while DOC jurisdiction continues. An expiration date addresses the end point of the controlling sentence or jurisdiction and is not the same as the date prison confinement is expected to end.

Confirm MCF–St. Cloud Releases

Begin at the Minnesota DOC Search for Individuals and Fugitives page, which leads to the COMS public viewer. The complete six-digit DOC Offender Identification number, or OID, is the strongest search key because it separates people with similar names. A partial OID does not work. When the OID is unknown, search with the available first or last name fields, compare the identity details, and open the individual record.

1. Enter the complete six-digit OID when it is known.
2. Otherwise search by first or last name and compare identifiers.
3. Open the detail record and copy the exact current-status wording.
4. Record the facility, supervision context, and each displayed date label.
5. Check the linked agent or supervising agency when supervision is shown.
6. Request the historical DOC event when the viewer does not resolve the question.

The viewer can search conviction-name history and aliases while displaying the person's current DOC name. Do not merge records because names resemble each other. Match the OID, birth date, court file numbers, sentence information, and other available identifiers. Save the access date as well. The application is dynamic, and both labels and current status can change. The MN DOC person search is the matched official source for this facility's online lookup.

The screen represents the state corrections route. It does not turn the Sherburne County jail locator into a prison-release source, nor does one prospective date prove that the release event has occurred.

Note: Preserve the exact label and access date because a current DOC result can change as custody and supervision progress.

MCF–St. Cloud Record Fields

A DOC detail record can contain several facts needed to understand movement from MCF–St. Cloud. The available display may vary by record, so absence of a field should not be filled by guesswork. The OID anchors identity. Current status and facility or supervision details describe the present state. Sentence and court fields explain the controlling case, while release-related dates require careful reading.

The viewer may also display front and side photographs, sentence date, highest-ranked offense, and a caseworker or agent linked to the Community Services Directory. A released-but-supervised person can remain searchable because supervised release is still part of the executed sentence. After final discharge, however, the public viewer may no longer return the person because its stated scope is people who remain under DOC jurisdiction.

MCF–St. Cloud Anticipated Release Date

Anticipated Release Date is the exact Minnesota DOC label for the forward-looking field on an incarcerated record. It must not be described as guaranteed. It estimates when prison confinement is expected to end, commonly through movement into supervised release. The actual event needs a later status or event record. By contrast, Expiration Date concerns the end of the controlling sentence or DOC jurisdiction. Those two dates can answer different questions.

Discipline, jail or prison credit corrections, court amendments, consecutive sentences, conditional-release rules, statutory offense terms, and earned incentive release credits may alter the displayed estimate or its context. Detainers can also affect where a person goes next. A date should therefore be read with the current status, sentence information, and any receiving authority rather than copied as a stand-alone promise.

County and state release-date rules answer different questions. For MCF–St. Cloud itself, the live DOC label remains the starting point.

MCF–St. Cloud Supervision Outcomes

Minnesota is principally a determinate-sentencing state. For an ordinary felony committed on or after August 1, 1993, the familiar statutory structure is a confinement portion followed by supervised release. DOC describes the ordinary baseline as two-thirds incarcerated and the remaining one-third on supervised release. Minnesota does not use a general rule requiring every person to serve 85 percent. Case facts and newer credit rules can change an individual result.

Supervised release means prison confinement ended but the person remains under legal custody and supervision. Conditional release is a distinct additional term for certain designated offenses. Probation is imposed by a court and does not automatically describe a person leaving state prison. Parole chiefly remains relevant to life sentences and older indeterminate cases within the limited authority of the Supervised Release Board.

Supervised release

The community portion of many fixed Minnesota prison sentences while DOC jurisdiction continues.

Conditional release

A separate statutory supervision term attached to designated offenses.

Expiration

The endpoint shown for the controlling sentence or jurisdiction, not simply the prison-exit date.

Final discharge

The end of the identified sentence or supervision obligation, though another case may still exist.

Parole

A release framework now associated mainly with limited life and legacy indeterminate cases.

When “Under Supervision as of” appears, note the supervising agency and linked agent. Supervision may be handled by DOC Field Services, a Community Corrections Act county, or a County Probation Officer system based on the case and location. A status change should never be converted into a claim that all legal obligations ended.

Note: Movement into supervision is a real prison release, but it is not final discharge from the sentence or DOC jurisdiction.

Request MCF–St. Cloud Release Records

Use the MN DOC Offender Record Request when the public viewer lacks enough history or the person no longer appears after final discharge. Identify the person by full name and OID. Specify the time period and ask to inspect or copy the public actual release or discharge date, status or type if maintained, sentence-administration record, and other exact event fields needed for verification. A request for the actual event is different from asking staff to confirm a past estimate.

Minnesota Chapter 13 governs access, but it does not make every part of an offender file public. Section 13.85 classifies corrections data. DOC may withhold or redact information that is not public. If a request is denied, ask for the legal authority. Inspection of public data is free. The published request form states that copies can cost 25 cents per page or the actual permitted cost of retrieval, copying, and delivery.

Check the court file as a parallel source for the sentence and later public orders. The DOC record establishes prison custody, supervision, and maintained release events. The court register explains the judicial case. Neither should be replaced by the Sherburne jail locator, which covers a separate county facility and a different custody population.

MCF–St. Cloud Facility Role

MCF–St. Cloud opened in 1889. It became the admitting facility for adult men in Minnesota's DOC system in 1996. That intake role is central to release research. New arrivals are assessed for medical and program needs, classified, and commonly transferred to another DOC institution. A person can therefore spend a limited period at St. Cloud and remain fully incarcerated after leaving its grounds.

The official MCF–St. Cloud facility page is the source for its role and facility facts. Current identity and status still belong in the DOC public viewer. Facility staff can route current facility questions, while DOC Records Management handles the formal historical release or discharge request.

A county-jail departure into this intake center is also not a community release. The Sherburne County Jail release page explains the local transfer side, while this state-prison record establishes the DOC placement and later outcome.

Note: A St. Cloud destination in a jail record confirms transfer into DOC intake, not release from state custody.

MCF–St. Cloud Release Timing

Minnesota Statutes section 244.05 supplies the ordinary supervised-release structure and special release-day rules. Discipline can postpone transition from incarceration. Certain offenses have conditional terms, and life or older indeterminate cases follow statutory minimums and Board review rather than a simple fraction. A Board grant also need not mean same-day physical release because conditions, planning, and another sentence can still intervene.

The Minnesota Rehabilitation and Reinvestment Act adds earned incentive release credits tied to objectives in an individualized rehabilitation plan. Sections 244.41 through 244.45 set limits, exclusions, and revocation rules. The credit does not apply to every case. It should not be estimated with a homemade percentage. Recheck the live Anticipated Release Date and contact Central Records when the underlying calculation must be documented.

Release planning also begins before the actual event. Minnesota Rule 2940.1200 provides for a projected release plan and assignment of a supervising agent as release approaches. Those planning steps explain why the system can show an estimate and agent information before prison confinement has ended. They do not replace the final status change.

The statewide supervised-release statute and earned-credit provisions set the legal framework. For a permitted named-person search that begins without knowing the custody system, the Sherburne County released inmates lookup separates county jail, state prison, federal, and immigration routes.