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The Saint Louis County Courthouse, completed in 1909, was designed by Daniel Burnham & Co. as the focal point of the complex. In front of it stands a monument to Duluth veterans who died in service overseas. It was designed by Cass Gilbert and installed around 1921. The St. Louis County Jail, designed by Holstead & Sullivan, was added in 1923.
St. Louis County is a county located in the Arrowhead Region of the U.S. state of Minnesota.As of the 2020 census, the population was 200,231. [3] Its county seat is Duluth.It is the largest county in Minnesota by land area, and the largest in the United States by total area east of the Mississippi River.
The Minnesota Correction Facility – Stillwater (MCF-STW) is a close custody (level 4) state prison for men in Bayport, Minnesota, United States. Built 1910–1914, it houses 1,600 inmates in seven different living areas. Additionally, approximately 100 inmates are housed in a nearby minimum security area.
St. Louis County is large—some 6,860 square miles (17,800 km 2)—and Duluth, the county seat, is at the southern end of the county, far removed from the communities of the Iron Range. Local advocacy succeeded in having a second county court district established in 1904, with cases heard in a small frame building.
The holding capacity of the facility is 1,400 male and female inmates. The St. Louis County Jail is a direct-supervision facility that detains adults and juveniles being tried as adults who are awaiting trial or serving county sentences and is the only jail in Missouri that holds an accreditation known as the ALDF from the American Correctional ...
1916–1917 northern Minnesota lumber strike; 2007 World Junior Curling Championships; 2008 United States Men's Curling Championship; 2008 United States Women's Curling Championship; 2019 Americas Challenge
In 2023, HF1200 was introduced to the Minnesota Legislature, which would ban the Department of Corrections from housing prisoners in privately-owned prisons. Supporters of the bill state that the Prairie Correctional Facility is too far from a major hospital and the Twin Cities, where many of the inmates families would be visiting from. [5]
The Minnesota Territorial Prison, later the Minnesota State Prison, was a prison in Stillwater, Minnesota, United States, in operation from 1853 to 1914. Construction of the prison began in 1851, shortly after Minnesota became a territory. [2] The prison was replaced by the Minnesota Correctional Facility – Stillwater in nearby Bayport.