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Northeast Regional Corrections Center Overview

Arrowhead Regional Corrections describes Northeast Regional Corrections Center as a minimum/medium correctional facility in a work-farm setting for incarcerated men. The facility is in Saginaw and serves the Arrowhead Region, including St. Louis, Carlton, Cook, Lake, and Koochiching counties. ARC also states that NERCC is a Minnesota Department of Corrections Class VI facility. That classification makes it a correctional facility with a different role from the main St. Louis County Jail in Duluth.

NERCC receives county referrals and accepts some referrals from counties outside the Arrowhead Region. ARC also notes Minnesota DOC Restructure Program referrals. The facility's public profile centers on programming, work skills, treatment, and regional jail-pressure relief. People at NERCC may have come through a county court or jail process, but Sheriff Gordon Ramsay's St. Louis County Jail roster is not a complete substitute for direct NERCC contact or DOC information when a person is in a specific ARC program.

The facility sits on 3,200 acres bordering Fish Lake and Caribou Lake. ARC says it dates to the 1930s as a work farm, with historic logging, lathe mill, dairy, laundry, beef, poultry, and hog operations. Current public-facing operations include farm and vocational features such as greenhouse, garden, meat market, and meat-processing work. Those details matter because NERCC is program-heavy compared with a short-term booking jail.

NERCC Capacity and Population

Capacity and population figures for NERCC should be used with source labels. The official ARC NERCC page confirms the facility's location, role, programs, region, and acreage, but the research did not find an official ARC bed-count statement on that page. A 2025 WTIP report described NERCC as a 144-bed facility. The ARC homepage reported that NERCC served 534 men in 2025. Those are not the same measure: one is reported bed capacity, and the other is a service count over a year.

NERCC also appears in the county inmate-population picture because ARC states that the facility is a necessary resource to address jail overcrowding in the five-county region and reduce use of state prison beds. That does not make NERCC a state prison. It remains an ARC-operated regional correctional facility, and a person sentenced into full MNDOC prison custody should be searched through the MNDOC Locator after transfer.

Look Up NERCC Custody

NERCC lookup starts by deciding which system should know the person. If the person was recently arrested in St. Louis County and has not moved into a NERCC placement, start with the St. Louis County jail roster. If the person is in a NERCC placement, contact NERCC or Arrowhead Regional Corrections directly. If the person has been committed to the Commissioner of Corrections and is under state prison or supervision jurisdiction, use the MNDOC Locator.

1. Check the county roster first for a recent St. Louis County arrest or transfer note.
2. Review the location field in the roster, since St. Louis County may transfer inmates to other facilities.
3. Contact NERCC if the person is believed to be in an ARC placement or program.
4. Use the MNDOC Locator for sentenced state custody, using name or six-digit MNDOC Offender ID.
5. Use Central Records for older county booking records that are not on the roster.

NERCC is sometimes confused with a state prison because ARC identifies it as a DOC Class VI facility. That is a facility classification, not a public state-prison locator rule. A St. Louis County inmate search may therefore move through several layers: county roster for arrest custody, ARC/NERCC contact for regional placement, MNDOC for sentenced state jurisdiction, and BOP or ICE only when federal or immigration custody is involved.

NERCC Address and Contact

NERCC's official hours are 8:00am to 4:00pm Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. ARC's contact and referral information identifies Kathy Lionberger as Division Director at NERCC, with phone and email listed in the research. Use the main NERCC number for facility questions and the ARC contact path for referrals or program-specific routing.

NERCC Visits and Hours

The research provided official NERCC business hours but did not provide a full day-by-day public visiting schedule like the St. Louis County Jail kiosk schedule. Because NERCC is a program and placement facility, visit planning should start with direct facility confirmation. The facility can confirm whether a person is there, whether visits are allowed for that status, and what identification or approval is required.

The official ARC NERCC page is the source for the facility's setting, services, and public profile.

The screenshot supports the facility-specific context: NERCC is an ARC regional corrections site, not the St. Louis County Jail roster landing page.

NERCC Mail Phone and Money

NERCC has facility-specific money and communication details in the research. Money deposits may be made at a kiosk in the main building front hall during business hours, online through JailATM, or by mailing cash or money orders for the trust account. Personal checks are not accepted. Phone service uses Reliance, and phone time may be funded through Stellar or a Reliance Wallet.

Mail rules are more detailed than a simple address line. The research says mail is inspected for contraband, legal mail is opened in the person's presence for contraband only, stamps are allowed within limits, and books, magazines, and newspapers must come from listed distributors. Those limits should be confirmed with the facility before sending items because rejected mail can delay communication.

NERCC Referrals and Intake

NERCC intake is not the same as a street-arrest booking at the St. Louis County Jail. The facility accepts referrals through Arrowhead Regional Corrections, including referrals from the Arrowhead counties, other counties, and some Minnesota DOC restructure-program pathways. A person may arrive at NERCC after jail, court, sentencing, or correctional classification decisions rather than immediately after arrest.

That referral model affects records. A recent arrest is still checked through the county jail roster. A court case is checked through Minnesota Court Records Online. A state prison or supervision record is checked through MNDOC. NERCC can answer facility-placement questions, but a caller may still need the referring county, case number, booking number, or DOC identifier to locate the correct record trail.

About Northeast Regional Corrections Center

NERCC's program list is broad. ARC identifies education, vocational training, treatment, recreation, medical services, substance-abuse treatment, mental-health therapy, cognitive-behavioral programming, treatment for men who sexually abuse, and domestic-violence programming. The work-farm setting also gives residents practical work experience. That makes the facility a regional correctional resource rather than only a bed space.

Recent local context should be handled with dates and care. Research notes an official September 23, 2025 St. Louis County update involving an escape report from NERCC and local reporting about the work farm near Duluth. That event does not change the routine lookup path. It does underscore why current custody should be confirmed directly with the facility or the system that holds the active record.