North Dakota Code § 12-47-02

Jurisdiction over penitentiary and affiliated facilities
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The penitentiary and the grounds and premises thereof, for the purpose of all judicial 
proceedings, is within and a part of the county of Burleigh, and the courts of that county have 
jurisdiction of all crimes or public offenses committed within the penitentiary. The jurisdiction of a 
crime or public offense committed within an affiliated facility of the penitentiary is in the county 
where the affiliated facility is located.

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