The Detention Center
Camden County Adult Detention Facility (the roster pages call it the Camden County Detention Center)
- Operated byCamden County Sheriff's Office, Detention Division
- Jail address1 Court Circle Suite 13, Camdenton, MO 65020
- Roster count seen96 people listed on the current-inmate roster when opened
- Other agenciesSite states the facility provides detention and transportation services for people arrested or incarcerated by other law enforcement agencies inside and outside Camden County; no rates or contracts published
- Published fees$1.00 for a 30-second recorded inmate message; $7.50 per 15 minutes for a remote video visit; on-site video visits free, 2 per day
- What was triedSheriff home page, detention-facility page, roster-choose and roster.php - all opened. No Camden County government domain was returned by search, so no county commission or budget page could be opened.
Source: Camden County Sheriff's Office - Detention Facility · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✗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 — not published
- ✓Phone, video and commissary rates
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Chris Edgar
- Runs the jailYes - RSMo 221.020 makes the sheriff the jailer; the site describes a Sheriff's Office Detention Division
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- OfficeCamden County Sheriff's Office, Camdenton
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Camden County Missouri Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-18
The Judges
Missouri's 1940 Nonpartisan Court Plan applies at circuit level in only six jurisdictions - Clay, Greene, Jackson, Platte, St. Louis County and the City of St. Louis. This county is not among them, so its circuit and associate circuit judges are elected on a partisan ballot. They are state judicial officers, not county officials. No judge names and no circuit number were confirmed from a county or court page that could be opened.
- 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
- Sheriff Chris Edgar confirmed from the Camden County Sheriff's Office home page.
- The Sheriff's Office runs on its own domain, camdencountymosheriff.org, which counts as first-party. No camden county government domain surfaced in the one search allowed for this county, so budget, commission minutes and any board-of-visitors report could not be checked.
- Capacity recorded as 'no': 96 people appeared on the roster the day it was opened, but that is a roster count, not a published bed capacity or average daily population. No bed number is published.
- Contracts recorded as 'no': the detention page says the facility holds prisoners for other agencies but publishes no contract and no per-diem rate.
- Bond info recorded as 'no': no bail-posting guidance was found on the pages that opened.
- No Missouri state agency inspects county jails. The Department of Corrections' inspection authority under RSMo ch. 217 covers state prisons, not ch. 221 county jails. The Missouri Sheriffs' Association publishes non-binding guidance but is a private association, not a regulator. 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 to the county.
- Missouri has no death-in-custody reporting law; RSMo 58.451(1)(5) only requires notice to the county coroner of a death in custody. Nothing published by Camden County on its own site records a death in its custody.
- Commercial inmate-lookup sites returned by the search (missouriprisons.org, missourijailroster.com, camdenrecords.org, camdentoncityjailmo.org) were ignored and are not cited.
- Camden County is an ordinary Missouri county governed by a three-member County Commission (presiding commissioner plus two associate commissioners) under general law. No Camden County government website was returned by the single permitted search, so no commissioner names, board page, agenda or minutes page could be opened, and none are asserted here.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Camden 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