Marshall Routes Murray Release Supervision
The Minnesota Department of Corrections assigns Murray County to its Marshall field office for community-supervision routing. The office does not confine people and does not physically release them. A person reaches this service path after a state-prison release or through a supervision arrangement that DOC administers. For an executed state sentence, supervised release means the prison portion ended while DOC jurisdiction continues in the community. Final discharge means DOC authority over that sentence has ended, subject to other cases.
Start with the Minnesota DOC Public Viewer. Its stated scope covers adults committed to the Commissioner who remain under DOC jurisdiction, whether incarcerated or released from prison and supervised. A status showing community supervision, supervised release, parole, or another non-prison placement can support the conclusion that secure prison confinement ended. It does not prove the person has no conditions, warrants, or other open matters. The supervising location can point toward Marshall, but it is an administrative assignment rather than a home address.
Check Murray Post-Release Supervision
A Murray County state case should be traced from the DOC record to the committing court and then to the supervising office. Use the strongest identifier available. An OID, the DOC offender identification number, is more reliable than a common name. Preserve the exact status and date labels rather than translating a projected date into an accomplished release.
- Open the DOC Public Viewer and read its scope and search notices.
- Search with the OID when known. Otherwise use name fields and compare identity details cautiously.
- Open the individual record and note the OID, current status, holding or supervising location, case information, and every date label exactly as displayed.
- Confirm that the committing case belongs to Murray County through Minnesota Court Records Online.
- Use the Marshall office for routing or clarification after the record connects the person to DOC supervision in Murray County.
- Ask DOC Central Records to explain unclear sentence, status, release, or discharge fields. Do not ask the field office to disclose protected supervision data.
A no-result remains inconclusive. The person may have had only county-jail custody, may be outside the viewer's jurisdiction-based scope after final discharge, may have an identity mismatch, or may be subject to a nonpublic limit. For the complete custody classification and records path, use the Murray County release lookup.
Note: Record the search time and exact interface labels because DOC status and sentence fields can change as the case moves forward.
Marshall Supervision Contact for Murray
The official DOC county-to-office table places Murray County with the Marshall District office. Contact should follow a Public Viewer check so the caller can provide the OID, displayed status, and the precise point needing clarification. Office staff may route an inquiry but cannot promise access to an agent's name, schedule, address, conditions, or other nonpublic supervision details.
Minnesota DOC Marshall Field Office
601 Highway 59 N
Marshall, MN
507-476-4330
No office hours were established in the research, so none should be assumed. For public sentence or status records, use DOC data requests or contact Central Records at co-records.doc@state.mn.us. Chapter 13 does not require DOC to create a report or rearrange data it does not maintain.
Murray DOC Release Status Fields
The Public Viewer is the proper first search because Marshall is not a custody locator. Its individual details can include the OID, identity information, current status, holding or supervising location, sentence information, offense or case entries, and date fields. Interface labels change. Copy the current label and its value rather than promising a fixed field set.
| Record item | How to read it |
|---|---|
| OID | Matches the person across DOC records and office questions. |
| Current status | Distinguishes prison custody, community supervision, and other displayed placements. |
| Location or supervision office | Identifies the responsible institution or field-office route, not a residence. |
| Confinement release date or other date label | Must be read in the exact context shown and may not be final discharge. |
| Offense and case information | Helps connect the DOC record to the Murray County court case. |
| Sentence or expiration information | Supports status analysis but may require Central Records explanation. |
A projected, anticipated, or confinement-release date is not automatic proof that physical release occurred. Central Records is the better source for a detailed explanation. The court file confirms the sentence imposed, while the prison or DOC record confirms the corrections event.
Murray Probation and Supervised Release
Probation usually follows a court disposition and may allow a person to remain in the community without serving an executed state-prison term. Supervised release follows the incarceration part of an executed DOC sentence. Parole is mainly relevant to life, indeterminate, certified-adult, and other limited cases within the Minnesota Supervised Release Board's authority. These labels point to different records and decision makers.
| Status | Starting record | Marshall role |
|---|---|---|
| Felony probation | Murray court disposition and current supervision record | Possible DOC supervision route under the current delivery plan |
| Supervised release | DOC Public Viewer and sentence record | Field-office routing when Murray County is assigned |
| Board-authorized release | Board approved minutes, Public Viewer, and Central Records | Supervision routing after an actual release is confirmed |
| Final discharge | DOC discharge record and court file | May no longer fall within active field-office supervision |
The court docket is the sound starting point for whether the Murray disposition was probation or an executed prison sentence. A person can be out of prison and still under DOC authority. Conversely, a county probation case may never have entered state prison at all.
Murray Release Warrants Need Cross-Checks
The DOC individual and fugitive source includes an active-fugitive path for people allegedly evading supervision during the remaining part of a sentence. It is not a list of every Murray County warrant. Absence from that list does not prove compliance, and an entry is an allegation that must not be turned into a new conviction.
Check the DOC individual and fugitive guidance, the Public Viewer, the Murray court case, and current physical-jail sources with the same date stamp. A supervision violation or new warrant can return a formerly released person to jail or prison. The current jail record confirms physical custody, while the court and DOC sources explain the legal or supervision event.
Note: Preserve words such as “alleged” and “fugitive” exactly as the official source uses them, and confirm later case action separately.
Board Review for Murray Releases
Minnesota's ordinary determinate supervised-release model does not send every case to a parole board. The Supervised Release Board, effective in its current role since July 1, 2024, has defined authority for life or indeterminate sentences, certified-adult cases, and specified statutory categories. A Murray County conviction alone does not show that Board review applies.
For an eligible case, use the official Board review schedule. An agenda may list an OID, review type, facility, eligibility or confinement date, and a potential determination. The approved minutes, not an agenda's possible-outcome column, record the decision. A favorable action may include directives and prerelease conditions, so Public Viewer or Central Records must still confirm actual release.
The Marshall office handles supervision routing after the relevant release event. It does not replace the Board minutes and does not decide ordinary release dates. The Murray post-release supervision page explains how the status types fit together.
Correcting Murray Release Record Errors
Murray County's jail-administration description names admission/release, personal-property, clothing, jail-register, good-time, and discharge records. Questions about local booking property or an error in a jail event belong with the jail that maintains that booking. They do not belong with the Marshall field office merely because the person later entered DOC supervision.
A DOC status, release-date, or sentence-field question belongs with DOC Central Records. Identify the person by name and OID, quote the exact viewer label, and explain the suspected error. A Murray court-record problem belongs with Court Administration. Each office can address its own record, but one office cannot rewrite an event maintained by another agency.
Note: Identify the booking, OID, or court file and the exact disputed field so the request reaches the record custodian that can act.
Marshall Office Is Not Residence
The field office is in Marshall rather than Slayton. That rural service geography is relevant to agency routing, but it says nothing about where a released Murray County person lives or where the person was physically released. A supervising-location label may identify an administrative office, district, or agent assignment.
Privacy limits also matter. Supervision records can contain nonpublic personal, schedule, safety, and case-management data. Start with the public status fields. Ask only for clarification or public records needed to understand the release or supervision status. The office may lawfully limit what it confirms, and its refusal to provide a private detail is not evidence that supervision ended.