MN DOC – Minnesota Correctional Facility – MCF Lino Lakes

MN DOC – Minnesota Correctional Facility – MCF Lino Lakes basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 651-717-6100

This facility is for adult inmates.

The inmates housed at MCF Lino Lakes located at 7525 4th Ave in Lino Lakes, MN are placed according to their custody level (determined by a number of factors including the past criminal history and the length of their sentence). There are ample educational and vocational training programs for all inmates, especially ones that show a willingness to learn new things that will prepare them for a better life when they are released. The mission is to promote and prepare the offender to leave in better shape than when they arrived, giving them the best chance to never come back and thus lower the state's recidivism rate.

MN DOC – Minnesota Correctional Facility – Lino Lakes – Friends & Family Handbook

MCF-Lino Lakes consists of medium-security and a minimum-security unit with a population of 1,300 adult males. This facility has the highest concentration of educational and treatment programs. In many cases, offenders serve the final phase of their sentence at Lino Lakes so they can obtain the services they need to prepare for release.

Notable features include:

Chemical dependency programming is provided in TRIAD, a 293-bed therapeutic community, along with Serenity West with 60 beds.

Lino Lakes is also the site of the department's Sex Offender Treatment Program, which can house 270 offenders. Research suggests that participants in the program commit new offenses at a significantly lower rate than untreated offenders.

Lino Lakes is also the site of a Prison Fellowship Academy, a faith-based program funded and operated by Prison Fellowship through a partnership with the corrections department.

The facility opened in 1963 and originally served as a juvenile facility. In 1978, Lino Lakes was remodeled and converted to an adult facility.

visitation Info

MN DOC – Minnesota Correctional Facility – Lino Lakes – Visitation

Visiting – Lino Lakes

Offenders are allowed 24 visiting hours per month. There is no visiting on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or State holidays. One or two hour visits are available on weekdays. All weekend visits and non-contact visits are one hour in length. Registration ends one hour before the end of the visiting day. Visits may consist of up to four people (children under the age of 2 and under will not count toward this number).

Hours of Visiting:

Visiting Staff Contact: Information recording available 24 hours/day, 7 days/week (651) 717-6100 ext 437. All other calls, please limit to visiting hours only. Information regarding the status of applications will not be provided over the telephone.

All Lino Lakes visitors must mail their applications to MCF-Rush City 7600 525th Street, Rush City, MN 55069 

Directions: The facility is located approximately 15 miles north of the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Take interstate 35W north to exit #36 (County 23). Make a left going over the bridge. Take a left on Apollo Drive. At the four way stop – turn right onto Lilac. Go past 4th Avenue and take the first left turn. Follow the signs for parking and the visiting entrance.

Visiting Regulations: Please read the Inmate Visiting Information prior to visits.

There is no visiting on the following State recognized holidays:

• New Year's Day
• President's Day
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
• Memorial Day
• July 4 (Independence Day)
• Labor Day
• Veterans Day
• Thanksgiving and the following Friday
• Christmas Day