Minnesota Correctional Facility-Red Wing
1079 Highway 292
Red Wing, MN 55066
phone 651/267-3600
fax 651/267-3761
Constructed in 1889, the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Red Wing,
1079 Highway 292, Red Wing, Minnesota 55066, provides treatment,
education, and transition services for approximately 150 serious and
chronic male juvenile offenders placed at the facility either as a
condition of court-ordered probation or as the result of having been
committed to the commissioner of corrections. The facility also
provides detention services and predisposition evaluation services as
requested by the courts. A separate, community reentry program for 30
minimum-security adult male offenders also operates at Red Wing.
Juvenile residents participate in the facility’s cognitive/behavior
restructuring and skill development treatment model, which incorporates
the principles of the restorative justice and therapeutic communities.
Risk/needs assessments are completed for each resident, and outcomes
are used to develop the resident’s individual treatment plan. Weekly
and quarterly reports are used to measure progress toward treatment
plan completion. All residents are expected to develop an
individualized relapse prevention plan and demonstrate its
effectiveness during daily activities prior to their release. The
facility’s Mental Health Treatment Support Unit provides services for
residents assessed to be in need of mental health management and
counseling. These services include a 12-bed temporary living unit for
those residents who have difficult adjusting in the general population
programs.
The facility also provides
sex offender and substance abuse-specific treatment programs, based on
the principles and practices affiliated with cognitive/behavioral
treatment.
Volunteer, religious, and after-school
learning enrichment program components are used to support and enhance
program services.
The education program includes
academic and prevocational components. Special education and Title 1
remedial/transition services are also available. Residents who achieve
their high school or general equivalency diploma are assigned to an
independent living skills and work readiness program.
The facility provides both a prerelease and post-release transition
services program, in collaboration with community-based service
providers. The prerelease component is designed to assist residents
develop community reentry plans related to residency, education,
employment, and aftercare treatment support services. Residents on
prerelease status are afforded three and five-day furloughs to finalize
their plans prior to release. These furloughs are also used to process
the effectiveness of the resident’s relapse prevention plan,
particularly as it relates to environmental risk factors in the
community. Upon successful completion of the prerelease component,
residents are placed in the community on an extended, community-based
furlough status. During this phase of programming, caseworkers continue
to provide case management, monitoring, and support services during the
first 90 days after release. The caseworker coordinates post-release
activities with court services staff, community-based service
providers, families, and other agencies or individuals affected by the
resident’s return to the community. Residents who fail to abide by the
conditions of their extended furlough may be returned to the facility
for additional programming. Residents who successfully complete the
post-release program are placed on probation or parole status.
Inmate Visiting
The DOC Visiting
Program is intended as an avenue to develop and maintain healthy family
and community relationships. This web site provides general
information to answer the most asked questions. Visiting practices may
vary at correctional facilities based on the security needs of the
facilities and their physical structures.
Visiting in
DOC facilities must be conducted in as accommodating a manner as
possible while maintaining order, the safety of persons, the security
of the facilities, and the requirements of correctional activities and
operations. It is a privilege for offenders to have personal visits
while confined in DOC facilities. Offenders are aware that failure to
comply with the established regulations and policies by either their
visitors and/or the offender may result in warning, termination of
visits, placement on non-contact visiting status, suspension or
revocation of the visiting privilege, including permanent loss of
visits.
The information in this web site is provided
for your use and convenience. Please pay particular attention to the
visiting regulations so that your visits occur with as little
inconvenience as possible. If you have specific questions, telephone
numbers are provided. We hope you will assist us in making your
visiting experience a pleasant one for you, your family, friends, and
the person you are visiting.
Inmate Mail Information
With the
exception of special/legal mail, incoming mail is opened and reviewed for the
presence of unallowed items. Incoming mail must include the offender's
commitment or department recognized legal name and Offender Identification
(OID) number.
Incoming mail may include: paper with words/drawings; signed
unmusical, commercial greeting cards and postcards; photographs (Polaroid
photos must have the backing removed); periodicals and published materials shipped
from the publisher; and clippings or photocopies of published materials that
meet criteria.
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here for facility addresses
Acceptable fund instruments are: money orders,
cashier checks, and certified bank checks.
All
money orders, cashier checks and certified bank checks must be mailed to
the following address:
Offender
name, OID number,
MCF- (facility name where offender is housed)
PO Box 1000
Moose Lake, MN
55767
Money
orders and checks must be made payable to the offender with OID number
and must include your first and last name and complete address,
including city, state, and zip code.
All
information contained on the money order must be legible. Money orders showing
signs of alteration will not be accepted.
**Letters
and other mailings must be mailed to the facility where the offender is
living.
Money
orders and/or letters will be returned to the sender if not sent appropriately
as stated above.
Offenders
are not allowed to receive money from another incarcerated offender's family,
visitor, or anyone living at another offender's correspondent address.
Offenders from the same family may receive money from their immediate family
members.
Funds
may also be sent to offenders via Western Union.
A Western Union location can be found by
calling 1-800-325-6000 or by visiting their web site at www.westernunion.com. When using
cash, fill out the BLUE Quick Collect form. For credit, call
1-800-634-3422 or go to their web site.
Senders
will need the following information to send money via Western
Union:
Pay
to: Minnesota Dept. Corrections
Code City:
MNDOC
State: MN
Senders account number: Offender OID# and last name
Attention Field: Offender's last and first name
Special and legal mail
may be sent or received in a sealed envelope. Incoming special/legal mail
will be opened only in the presence of the offender. Staff may check the
contents to ensure that the mail is legal or official in nature. Legal mail is
logged. Legal mail includes correspondence to or from courts, court staff
and attorneys.
Special mail includes correspondence to or from state and federal elected/appointed/regulatory
agencies and officials.
For safety and
security purposes, the content of mail is regulated. Mail is denied that
involves criminal activity; is identified as security threat group related;
requests gifts or money from unrelated individuals, contain photos of staff, is
coded material, contains unsanitary items such as hair, saliva, body
secretions; certain sexually explicit situations including sexual intercourse,
bodily excretory functions, sadism or bondage; personal photos displaying
nudity by definition; and material advocating inferiority of an ethnic, racial
or religious group.
Each facility has a Correspondence Review Authority to review denied offender
mail. Within a specified timeframe, offender's may request a review of
their denied mail by the Correspondence Review Authority.
First class mail
and subscriptions will be forwarded for 60 days. After 60 days, or if a
forwarding address is unavailable, the item will be returned to the sender.