United States · North Dakota · Minot
Ward County Jail
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Ward County Jail is a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Minot, North Dakota as a county/local jail. It has an average daily population of about 2 (FY2026 ICE data).
Capacity
68
Current population
2
Occupancy
3%
Year opened
—
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 7 Jul 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
mixed
Opened
—
Region
North Dakota
Security level
—
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersHigher risk than 0% of peer facilities in United States.
Data completeness
62%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- List of immigrant detention sites in the United States — Wikipedia
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- List of immigrant detention sites in the United States — Wikipedia — Wikipedia / U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). Ward County Jail. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/ward-county-jail
"Ward County Jail." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/ward-county-jail.
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