Minnesota’s Only Correctional Work Farm

VISIT OUR NEW

Farm Fresh Meat Market

Now Open to the Public

Residents at NERCC are learning skills with raising chickens, turkeys, and even meat processing.

Our new Meat Market is open year round.

Come see our shop in Saginaw Minnesota.

Spring Greenhouse Information

Our Greenhouse opens May 8th for the 2024 season.

Perennials, annuals, and vegetable plants available seasonally.

  • Monday – Friday 9am - 6pm

  • Saturday 8am - 3pm

  • Sunday 11am - 5pm

Please note that the garden center will be closed on all major holidays.

The NERCC Greenhouse is where the men grow flowers and a variety of vegetables. As seeds turn to plants, we expand to two hoop houses which are FULL and open to the public for retail purchase.

We believe people can change.

Its the individual who decides whether or not to make changes within themselves and their lives.

While we cannot require anyone to change, we can require them to learn how to change, as participants in our many avenues of programming.

Our job is to give residents tools to create change in their lives. We offer programming and learning opportunities that translate into successful life and work skills.

Life + Job Skills

The NERCC facility and it’s buildings sit among 3,200 acres bordering both Fish Lake and Caribou Lake. 

NERCC dates back to the 1930’s as a work farm with full logging, lathe mill, dairy, laundry, beef, poultry and hog operations filling facility needs and those of surrounding counties. Many of the farm's original buildings are still standing and being used. 

NERCC is not only a necessary resource to address the jail overcrowding issues in the five county region (St Louis, Carlton, Cook, Lake, Koochiching), it also reduces the use of state prison beds. 

NERCC Offers Opportunities

NERCC teaches life and job skills, including substance use disorder treatment, mental health treatment, treatment for men who sexually abused, cognitive programming, education, farming, animal care, maintenance, mechanics, food service, meat cutting, and greenhouse plantings.  These experiences provide a lifelong skill set for the men to use in their search for employment.

Day to day work activity allows the men to contribute to the cost of their stay and provides the community with valuable resources. 

  • Opportunities For Justice Involved Men

  • Products & Produce for Farmers and the Public

  • Farm Fresh Meat Market + Meat Processing Facility

Farm experiences offer justice-involved men a fresh start — back to the basics of life.

To feel in-touch with the natural environment around them, to learn skills to be self-sufficient… time and again, we have seen this process work for residents at NERCC.

The Northeast Regional Corrections Center (NERCC) is a minimum / medium security institution providing 144 beds for adult males, operated by Arrowhead Regional Corrections; a joint powers agency operated by Carlton, Cook, Koochiching, Lake, and St. Louis Counties.

It is licensed as a Class VI facility by the Minnesota Department of Corrections. Services include education, vocational training, treatment, recreation, and medical services.


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