The Olmsted County Sheriff is responsible for the detention of adult prisoners including pre-sentence, sentenced, federal boarders, and work order.
Staff is also responsible for prisoner transportation, extradition, court security.
The Olmsted County Adult Detention Center is located in the Olmsted County Government Center located at 101 4th Street South East, Rochester Minnesota 55904-3719. The ADC is a Direct Supervision facility with a capacity of 138 beds of which 12 are dedicated to female detainees. The ADC also houses pre-sentence and sentenced detainees, and also detainees for the U.S. Marshals Service , the Federal Bureau of Prisons , other county and state organizations. The ADC offers educational, recreational and religious programming for detainees. In January 1998 the Olmsted County ADC received ACA accreditation .