2002 Minnesota Code
Chapters 640 - 643 Incarceration
Chapter 641 County Jails
Section 641.01 Construction, maintenance; prisoners placed in jail, reports.
641.01 Construction, maintenance; prisoners placed in jail, reports.
The county board of each county is authorized to construct, purchase, or lease, regulate and maintain, at the expense of the county, a jail for the safekeeping of prisoners, and also, adjoining and connected to it, a residence for the use of the sheriff.
Any peace officer placing a prisoner in the jail shall report immediately to the officer's superior officer concerning the fact of that placement. No prisoner shall be detained without a jailer or custodian present in the jail, awake and alert at all times, capable of responding to the reasonable needs of the prisoner.
HIST: (10947) RL s 5462; 1955 c 425 s 1; 1980 c 602 s 1
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