Electronic Monitoring Services
Community Corrections
320.203.6942
Electronic monitoring services are provided under a contractual arrangement with Midwest Monitoring and Surveillance, Inc. (MMS) of Fairmont, Minnesota. MMS employs full-time, professional staff in their St. Cloud office to provide electronic home monitoring services.
Adult and juvenile offenders must be court-ordered to electronic home confinement or pre-trial remote electronic breath testing. The court sets duration an offender is in the program. Offenders are responsible for the cost of service. Indigent offenders may apply to the Community Corrections Division for financial assistance to defray a portion or all of the cost for services.
The program is intended to offer the court an alternative between traditional probation and jail for adults or placement of juveniles in residential or custodial settings. It may also be used to provide enhanced supervision for probation violators from traditional and intensive supervision caseloads who might otherwise be incarcerated or placed out of the home.
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