Trace Lyon County Jail Releases

Lyon Jail Holds Murray Prisoners

Lyon County Jail is operated by the Lyon County Sheriff's Office in Marshall. It serves as a contract boarding destination for some Murray County prisoners. The Murray County board packet from March 2024 documents recurring payments for named people housed at Lyon during differing service periods. That is direct county evidence of cross-county custody.

Boarding does not move the criminal case to Lyon County. Murray County District Court can remain the court of record while Lyon holds the person. Murray may maintain the originating arrest, transport authorization, billing record, and return destination. Lyon is more likely to hold the physical booking, daily custody, property, and final exit event for the boarding period.

The published billing periods must be read with care. A service-date range shows days invoiced under the boarding arrangement. It is not necessarily the whole legal custody episode, a formal release date, or proof that the person entered the community at the end. Historical names in the packet are not needed to explain the process and should not be repeated.

Confirm Lyon County Jail Exits

Start with the Murray case or booking, then identify whether transport to Lyon occurred. A person-specific Minnesota VINE check may show current county-jail status or a custody change, but the notice depends on agency data and may not remain available as a historical archive. The two jail records are the durable route.

Ask each agency a question tied to its role. Murray should explain the originating booking and the authority and date for transport. Lyon should explain when physical custody began, when it ended, and the destination. If Lyon says “released,” ask whether that word means returned to Murray, delivered to DOC, picked up by another agency, or released to the community.

1. Use the Murray court file or booking data to establish the person and approximate custody period.
2. Ask Murray County whether the record shows transport to Lyon County Jail and obtain the destination entry.
3. Search Minnesota VINE for a specific county-jail record or notice if the event is current.
4. Ask Lyon for its booking identifier, admission time, exit time, exit type, and destination.
5. Follow any receiving agency. A DOC transfer requires the state offender search, while another jail requires that jail's record.
6. Compare both jail records with the Murray court case before recording a community release.

The Murray County custody-search path helps classify state, federal, immigration, and court records if the Lyon destination leads outside county detention.

Did Lyon Transfer Murray Custody?

Murray's local jail administrator role includes arranging placement at contracted local jails and transport to state prison. Combined with the county's documented Lyon payments, that duty makes transfer follow-up essential. A booking may close in Murray before Lyon opens its physical-custody record. Later, Lyon may close its record as another agency accepts the person.

Treat those as linked segments. The Murray release or transport entry should name Lyon. Lyon's admission should fit that movement. Its exit entry should then name the community, Murray, DOC, another county, or another authority. A gap between records calls for agency clarification, not a guess that release occurred.

This method also prevents a common timing error. A court may authorize release while a separate warrant or hold keeps the person confined. The Murray court docket explains the legal order in that case. Lyon's record shows whether staff completed a community release or acted on another custody demand.

Note: Record “not shown,” “transferred,” and “released to the community” as separate findings because only the last confirms freedom from that custody chain.

Request Both Murray and Lyon Records

A complete request is usually two-part. Ask Murray for the originating admission, transfer or transport, destination, billing-side custody dates, and court or incident identifiers. Ask Lyon for the custodial booking, admission, physical release or transfer event, and receiving destination. Use the same full name and identifiers so the two offices can match the same person.

The Murray Sheriff's public-data procedure states that a requester should describe the desired data clearly. An office need not create a new report or arrangement that it does not keep. Request existing records and ask for the public portions when some fields are classified.

Ask for a cost estimate before copies. Inspection of public data is generally the least-cost route. No fixed Lyon or Murray response time, copy fee, or retention period is supported by the research, so none should be promised.

Lyon Boarding Dates Are Not Releases

Invoices can show that Murray paid Lyon for a named person's service dates. They are administrative records tied to boarding. They may help locate a custody period, but they do not replace Lyon's jail-register or release entry. A billed period could end because the person returned to Murray, went to court, transferred into DOC custody, moved to another facility, or entered the community.

Request the event behind the final billed day. The strongest field set is the Lyon admission and release date and time, the release or transfer authority, and the destination. Pair that with Murray's transport data. If the two agencies use different terms, preserve each agency's wording and ask which event ended physical confinement.

A current roster is also not a substitute. It answers who is shown now, not what happened at the end of an old boarding period. No Murray official rolling recent-release feed was found in the July 2026 sweep. VINE is useful for a named person before or near the event, while written records provide retrospective proof.

Lyon Release Court and DOC Checks

Murray County District Court remains the core court source for a Murray prosecution. Search MCRO by file number when available, then read the Register of Actions for bond, release conditions, dismissal, sentencing, warrants, probation, or an executed prison commitment. The court order is legal authority, but the Lyon jail record proves the actual exit.

An executed commitment to the Commissioner changes the next search. The Minnesota DOC Public Viewer covers in-scope adults in prison or physically released from prison while still supervised. A transfer from Lyon to DOC is not a release to the community. Search by OID when known and compare the Murray committing court, offense information, status, location, and date labels.

VINE serves county-jail custody and notification. Minnesota Haven is the distinct notification route for DOC cases. If a Lyon record says the person went to state custody, the search must move from county VINE and jail records to Public Viewer, Central Records, and Haven where notification rights apply.

Note: A no-result in DOC may mean a county-only case, identity mismatch, final discharge, nonpublic limits, or timing rather than community release.

Lyon Jail Record Access Limits

Minnesota Statutes section 13.03 supplies the general presumption that government data are public unless another law classifies them. Section 13.82 governs law-enforcement records, and section 13.85 covers corrections and detention records for county jails and other facilities.

Medical, psychological, financial, security-sensitive, informant, investigative, juvenile, victim, and unrelated personal data may be protected. Ask only for the public custody event needed to trace the exit. If an office withholds a field, ask it to identify the governing classification and release any public portion that can be separated.

Sealed or expunged data cannot be recovered by demanding cached or commercial copies. MCRO may also omit an old, nonelectronic, unavailable, restricted, or properly destroyed record. A no-result requires a cautious explanation, not a conclusion that the custody never happened.

Lyon County Jail Contact

The verified facility address identifies the physical jail in Marshall. The research did not establish a stable phone number or public counter schedule, so those details must be checked with Lyon County on the day of contact rather than invented. When calling, identify the Murray connection and approximate service period.

Ask whether the person was admitted for Murray County, when physical custody ended, and whether Lyon released the person to the community or transferred them. A records request should then seek the existing booking, release, transport, and destination entries that support the answer.