Jail Programs
- Volunteer for Jail Programs
- Chemical Abuse Counseling
- Educations Classes
- Home Monitoring
- Library Services
- Organized Recreation
- Spiritual Guidance
- Social Services
- Sentence to Service
- Vocational Learning
- Women's Groups
- Work Release
The Washington County Sheriff's Office is proud to work in partnership with our volunteers to provide inmates with meaningful programs to encourage and support rehabilitation and reintegration into the community. To volunteer for any of our programs listed below, or if you have an idea of your own, please complete a volunteer application and a member of our team will be in contact.
Chemical Abuse Counseling-Provided by Canvas Health
- Chemical Dependency Assessments
- Rule 25
- Out Patient Treatment in jail (OPT)
- Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)/Narcotics Anonymous (NA)
Educational Classes
- GED Preparation/Testing
- College Preparation
- Cognitive Skills
- Anger Management
- Parenting
Home Detention / Electronic Home Monitoring (HD/EHM)
- Release status ordered by the sentencing judge
- Criteria for HD/EHM must be met
- Cell phone reception necessary
- Must go through orientation
- Daily fee
Library Services available to inmates
- Law library resources/services
- Donated books/magazines
- Educational
- Business
- Resource
- Self-help
- Leisure
Open and Organized Recreation
- Exercise equipment/Cardio fitness
- Basketball
- Handball
- Volleyball
- Ping Pong
Religious and spiritual guidance is available for inmates
- Religious services and programs conducted by volunteers
- Jail Chaplains may schedule visits with inmates during visiting times without being on the visiting list
- Personal clergy may visit during scheduled visiting times if on the inmate’s visiting list.
Social service programs available to inmates
Programs staff are available to meet with inmates and assist with social services. Mental health issues may be referred to the jail medical unit.
- Veteran’s Resources
- Re-entry Assistance Program (RAP)
- NAMI Minnesota (National Alliance on Mental Illness)
- Teen Challenge
- Pet Therapy
- Resources guides for community agencies
Sentence To Service (STS)
Sentence to Service, or STS, is managed by Washington County Community Corrections, and is not a Sheriff’s Office Program.
- STS must be court ordered by the sentencing judge, and may or may not include jail time.
- Offenders sentenced to STS may complete a variety of services outside such as clearing brush in parks and recreation areas, provide landscaping upkeep of the Washington County Fair grounds, helping build sandbag dykes to prevent springtime, and collect recycling materials in and around the government center.
- Offenders who do not qualify for outside STS may work inside the jail as a Laundry or Kitchen Trusty
Employment Readiness
- Resumes
- Applications
- Interviewing
Programs available for female inmates
- Healing Circle
- Art and Creative Thought
- Creative Writing
- YOGA
Work Release
- Release status must be ordered by the sentencing judge
- Criteria for Work Release must be met
- Sentenced inmates who go to work or school and return to jail.
- Must go through orientation
- Pay a daily fee