2020 Minnesota Statutes
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641.01 JAIL CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE; PRISONER PLACEMENT.
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.
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Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
Revisor of Statutes