New Ulm Supervised Release
The official Minnesota DOC directory lists Brown County under its New Ulm field-services location. DOC planning material describes the local state role as supervising adults on felony probation and people on supervised release from prison. Field services is a community office. It does not operate the Brown County Jail, house prisoners, or maintain a county booking roster.
Supervised release is the community part of a Minnesota prison sentence. A person may live in Brown County and report through field services while remaining under the commissioner’s authority. A violation can result in sanctions or a return to custody. Discharge is the later point at which DOC jurisdiction over the sentence ends. These terms must not be merged.
| Record label | Meaning | Where to verify |
|---|---|---|
| Incarcerated | Still held in an MNDOC institution | DOC PublicViewer |
| Supervised release | Outside prison while serving the community term | PublicViewer and field-office routing |
| Parole | Board-authorized status for an eligible case | Board materials and DOC record |
| Discharged | DOC sentence jurisdiction has ended | DOC status or official records response |
Verify New Ulm Release Records
Start with the Minnesota DOC PublicViewer. The locator covers adults who remain under DOC jurisdiction, whether incarcerated or released from prison into supervision. It does not include every person ever held in Brown County Jail. A county-only stay does not create an MNDOC prison record, and a fully discharged former prisoner may no longer appear.
Use the DOC number when known. Otherwise search the offered name fields and compare identity details before opening a plausible result. Transcribe the status and every date exactly. “Projected” is forward-looking. “Released” can mean release from the institution into supervision. “Discharged” is the stronger record that the DOC sentence ended.
- Open the official statewide locator and read its scope.
- Search by DOC number or name, then rule out similar identities.
- Open the detail and preserve the exact status, supervision location, and date labels.
- Use the field-office directory when the record points to Brown County community supervision.
- Request a historical public record from DOC Records Management when a discharged person is no longer shown.
New Ulm Office Contact
The official directory places Minnesota DOC Field Services at 1 South State Street in New Ulm and gives 507-233-6651 as the Brown County contact. Research did not identify separately published walk-in hours for this state office, so no hours should be assumed. Call first for routing and appointment information. Individual details may be limited by law and policy.
1 South State Street
New Ulm, MN
507-233-6651
Brown County state community-supervision routing
Brown County Community Corrections operates at the same street address with a different number, 507-233-6620, and published weekday hours. The county office handles its stated pretrial and probation roles. Shared geography does not merge the agencies. Route a state prison supervised-release question to MNDOC; route a county pretrial or probation question by the Brown County order.
The Brown County parole and probation resource compares those two layers and explains why ordinary Minnesota supervised release should not be called parole.
Brown County Sentence Records
A Brown County court judgment can show the commitment, sentence, probation action, or revocation. Minnesota Court Records Online provides access to many public district-court records, but it is not a minute-by-minute prison movement log. The DOC transaction supplies the physical institutional release and later supervision status. Use both when the chronology matters.
MCRO name search has limits. Pending criminal cases do not appear in defendant-name results before conviction, and exact-name rules can miss a case. Search by case number or citation when known. Try the documented wildcard and sound-alike options, or contact Brown County Court Administration for broader courthouse access. Certified copies come from the court administrator.
- Commitment
- A judgment placing the person in the custody of the commissioner of corrections.
- Institutional release
- The event ending prison confinement, often followed by community supervision.
- Revocation
- An official action that can return a supervised person to custody.
- Final discharge
- The end of the DOC sentence and its supervision component.
Note: A Brown County case can remain in the Fifth Judicial District record while the person is held at a prison elsewhere in Minnesota.
New Ulm Release Date Rules
For the standard covered fixed felony sentence for an offense on or after August 1, 1993, Minnesota Statutes section 244.101 generally divides the executed term into two-thirds imprisonment and one-third supervised release. That is not an 85 percent rule. It also does not guarantee the simple arithmetic date. Disciplinary confinement can extend the prison portion, while other sentence rules, holds, and court action may change the result.
Minnesota Rehabilitation and Reinvestment Act credit can affect an eligible person’s calculation within statutory limits. Section 244.44 caps the possible earned credit and bars a reduction below one-half of the total executed sentence. An individual must meet eligibility and plan requirements; credit is not automatic and can be revoked. Current DOC policy must control any case-specific question.
Weekend and holiday adjustments under section 244.05 also depend on the offense date for covered state-prison releases. Modern covered dates move forward to the next qualifying day, while certain older dates use the prior qualifying day. No official Brown County source established a parallel local-jail formula. The county roster’s “Projected Rls Date,” a prison scheduled release date, and a Board projected date are three separate fields.
New Ulm Discharge Requests
When PublicViewer no longer returns a fully discharged person, contact DOC Records Management. The published office is at 1450 Energy Park Drive, Suite 200, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108. The phone is 651-361-7330, the email is CO-Records.DOC@state.mn.us, and the fax is 612-473-5006. Ask for a public record, not a new calculation or narrative.
A focused request can identify the person by name and DOC number, give a date range, and seek the public institutional-release date, supervision start, final discharge date or status, and relevant movement transaction. Inspection of public data is free. Copy or retrieval charges may apply under the state data-practices rules, but no single cost should be promised before the office reviews the request.
- State the name, DOC number if known, and Brown County case context.
- Ask for the exact existing public release, supervision, and discharge fields.
- Choose inspection, electronic copies, or both.
- Ask for a cost estimate and a statutory explanation for withheld data.
The office may segregate nonpublic medical, psychological, financial, safety, investigative, or security information. A public court document may still supply facts that were presented to the court.
New Ulm Supervision Boundaries
The field office is relevant only when MNDOC has a supervision role. It is not a public list of every probationer in Brown County, and it cannot confirm an ordinary county-jail release merely because the person lives nearby. Check the legal custodian. Brown County Jail handles the local booking event; Community Corrections handles its published county roles; MNDOC handles state prison and state supervision records.
The Minnesota Supervised Release Board has authority over defined categories that include certain indeterminate, life-sentence, certified-adult, and criminal-sexual-conduct cases. Its decisions and projected dates do not govern every determinate sentence. Ordinary supervised release is administered within the broader DOC system. Accurate wording protects the difference between a Board decision, a prison release, and final discharge.
Notification also depends on custody type. Minnesota VINE covers county-jail custody events and does not follow a person after commitment to an MNDOC prison. State-prison notification uses Minnesota HAVEN through DOC Victim Assistance. A VINE release alert may close the Brown County Jail stage while the person enters state custody. It cannot later confirm the prison release or New Ulm supervision placement.
A warrant or alleged violation may change the public status after release. Brown County's warrant PDF covers criminal matters venued in its district court, while MNDOC publishes a separate wanted-fugitives route for alleged post-prison supervision violations. Each list has its own scope and can change after service or recall. Confirm with the issuing authority and the current DOC record before describing the person as wanted or back in custody.
Note: A person can be outside prison and still under MNDOC authority for months or years, depending on the lawful sentence record.