1997 Minnesota Statutes

     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