Fingerprints must be paid for in cash with exact change. Fingerprints for civilian applicants are $10 per card if you need to purchase a fingerprint card, it is an additional $10. It does not handle fingerprints for immigration, citizenship, or passports. It handles court-ordered juvenile fingerprints, adult criminal fingerprints, and civilian applicant fingerprints. The jail offers two non-jail related services to Blue Earth County residents: fingerprinting and drug testing. The Justice Center also houses other parts of Blue Earth County’s criminal justice system, including: the district court, the county attorney, probation, and the Blue Earth County Sheriff’s Office.

The jail also serves two community service functions: fingerprinting and drug testing. The public can go to the jail entrance for jail-specific functions, such as inmate visitation and dropping off money for inmate trust accounts. Inmates will be notified if these changes occur.The Blue Earth County Jail is in the Blue Earth County Justice Center in Mankato. The visitation schedule, days and times may change due to circumstances beyond the jail staff's control.Friday, Saturday and Sunday only twenty (20) minutes visits will be allowed, unless there are no scheduled visits, which officers will advise and can make an exception. Visitation will be scheduled accordingly Monday through Sunday, beginning at 7 am and ending at 9 pm.Inmate will be required to wear their mask to visitation also. Due to only one inmate being pulled out at a time, there will be no restriction on whether male or female, or classification.This will include alternating phone hall sides. Officers will disinfect the visitation area after the conclusion of the visit and there will at least be a thirty (30) minute separation between visits.Hand sanitizer will be at the lobby window and all visitors will be required to sanitize their hands upon entry to the visitation area. No phones or electronic items will be allowed. No food, drink, candy, purses, bags or any carrying device is allowed in the visitation area. Visitors are required to arrive ten minutes prior to their scheduled visit to sign in.All visitors will wear masks, exceptions will only be made based on CDC guidelines.Any misconduct or violation of the facility rules may result in disciplinary action. At no time will children be unattended and if children leave the assigned visitation area/seating, the visitation will be terminated. All visitors must be disclosed at the time of scheduling and must have a valid government issued identification.Inmates and/or visitors can request one visit for forty (40) minutes but it has to be made at the time of scheduling. Each inmate will receive two (2) visits per week, Monday through Sunday, with at least one (1) being on the weekend.If there is available time later visitors can reschedule but due to the work load of officers and the amount of inmates needing visits, it can't be guaranteed that the time will be made up. If the visitors do not show up, it still counts as a visit for the inmate. Times are determined on a first come, first serve basis. Visitors will have to call the jail and schedule a time for visitation.In accordance with GA-34 issued March 2, 2021, the Erath County Jail is instating the following guidelines so that we can begin allowing in-person visitation.

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