Hearings and Release

DOC's Hearings and Release Unit is responsible for approving an incarcerated person’s conditions of release from a state correctional facility and for conducting hearings for people who violate their conditions of release. HRU also issues warrants, modifies conditions of release, and conducts detention hearings (for people alleged to have committed a new crime), interstate probable-cause hearings, disciplinary hearings for people who are subject to extended incarceration, and review hearings for individuals whose release has been revoked.

Contact information: If you have any questions on these rules, please email docrulemaking.DOC@state.mn.us or call 651-396-1912.

2940 - Proposed Repeal of Obsolete Rules of the Hearings and Release Unit

Summary

This rule chapter governs the Hearings and Release Unit and contains provisions on conditions of release, warrants, revocation proceedings, and other HRU functions. The rule chapter was adopted in 1984 after the Minnesota Corrections Board was dismantled, with the board’s duties transferred to the Hearings and Release Unit. Since then, the rules have been amended only once for technical and nonsubstantive changes.

In 2005, the Minnesota Legislature exempted most of the rules from the Administrative Procedure Act, and most of the rule chapter has been superseded by department policies, which are publicly available online. Both the rulemaking exemption and department policies have made the HRU rule mostly unnecessary and obsolete. Accordingly, the department proposes to use the obsolete rulemaking process to repeal rules that have been identified as unnecessary and obsolete.
Status
Documents
1. HRU policies
  - Juveniles, adults, and warrants (chapter 106)
  - Life sentence review (203.060)
2. Rulemaking
  - Current rule chapter (2940)