The Detention Center
Andrew County Jail
- Operated byAndrew County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address400 East Main Street, Savannah, MO 64485
- Beds84 beds across 7 cell block areas
- Jail administrator named on the pageShelly Gatewood (jail administrator under the elected sheriff)
- Holds prisoners for other agenciesPage lists Savannah, Clinton County, Holt County, Jackson County MO and Wyandotte County KS among jurisdictions held for — no contract or per-diem rate published
- PREAPage states the facility falls under PREA regulations; no audit report is published
- Inmate rosterPublished by the sheriff's office at andrewcountysheriff.org
Source: Andrew County Sheriff's Office — Jail · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✗PREA audits — not published
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✓How to post bond
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds84 beds across 7 cell block areas
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Grant Gillett
- Runs the jailYes — the Andrew County Jail is operated by the Sheriff's Office (RSMo 221.020)
- Office and jail address400 East Main Street, Savannah, MO 64485
- Separate sheriff domainandrewcountysheriff.org, run by the office itself (first-party)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Andrew County MO — Sheriff · checked 2026-09-18
The Judges
Andrew County is not one of the six Missouri jurisdictions (Clay, Greene, Jackson, Platte, St. Louis County, St. Louis City) where the 1940 Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan reaches the trial bench, so its circuit and associate circuit judges are elected on a partisan ballot. They are state judicial officers, not county officials. No court page was opened, so no judge is named here.
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-18
The County Commissioners
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
- The boardBoard of County Commissioners →
Notes on the record
- The sheriff's office runs its own first-party site, andrewcountysheriff.org, which carries the jail page, the inmate roster and bonding guidance; the county site, andrewcounty.org, carries the sheriff and commissioner pages.
- Capacity is recorded 'yes' on the published bed count of 84; no average daily population figure is published, and no statewide Missouri county-jail population dataset exists.
- Bond guidance passes on the jail page's posting instructions and its list of local bonding agents, with the note that a complete list of qualified bonding agents may be obtained from the Office of State Courts Administrator in Jefferson City.
- The jail page names the jurisdictions whose detainees it holds but publishes no contract and no per-diem rate, so the contracts check is 'no'. It states the facility falls under PREA regulations but publishes no audit result, so the PREA check is 'no'.
- Commissary is described as provided through Turnkey kiosks and the phone system, with no prices published, so the fees check is 'no'.
- No Missouri state agency inspects county jails. The Department of Corrections inspects state prisons under RSMo chapter 217; that authority does not reach chapter 221 county jails. The only statutory mechanisms are local and lay — grand jury visits under RSMo 221.300 and a county board of visitors under RSMo 221.320–221.350, which 221.350 requires to report yearly. No such report was found published by Andrew County.
- Missouri has no death-in-custody reporting law and no public dataset; RSMo 58.451 requires only that the coroner be notified. Nothing opened records a death in Andrew County custody.
- Missouri county jails are funded by the county — RSMo 221.080 puts jail expense on the county commission.
- Three-member County Commission: Brad Jarvis, Presiding Commissioner; Fritz Hegeman, East District; Gary Baumann, West District. The commission meets Monday and Thursday each week and approves the budgets of all county offices as well as the Road & Bridge Fund. The commissioner page publishes no budget document, agenda or minutes and no board-of-visitors or grand jury jail report.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Andrew County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-09-18 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered