The Detention Center
Not scored. The county's own website was not reachable in the session that produced this record, so its disclosures were never examined. This is a gap in the research, not a finding about the county.
- Operated byCarroll County Sheriff's Office (presumed under RSMo 221.020; not confirmed from a county page)
- Historic structureThe Carroll County Sheriff's Quarters and Jail at 101 W. Washington St., Carrollton - a two-storey brick residence built 1878 with an attached jail built in 1958 to replace the original, which had collapsed. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 11 October 1979.
- CaveatWhether that structure is still the county's operating jail was not established from any source that could be opened.
- What was triedhttps://www.carrollcomo.org/visitors/sheriff_s_department.php failed - the TLS certificate does not match that hostname, so robots.txt could not be fetched. http://www.carrollcountygovernment.org/ returned a 302 redirect loop between http and https and never served content. https://www.mocounties.com/carroll-county timed out. Only https://dps.mo.gov/dir/programs/cvsu/counties/carroll.php and Wikipedia pages opened.
Source: Wikipedia - Carroll County Sheriff's Quarters and Jail · checked 2026-09-18
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtAttached jail built 1958, replacing the original jail attached to the 1878 sheriff's residence (historic NRHP structure; current operating status not established)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff William McCoy
- Runs the jailRSMo 221.020 makes the Missouri sheriff the jailer; Carroll County is not one of the three statutory exceptions
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- Office address106 S. Folger, Carrollton, MO 64633 - listed by the Missouri Department of Public Safety, not by the county
- County page searchNo page on a Carroll County domain could be opened, so the current officeholder was not confirmed. A name was not guessed.
- Source of the nameName from the Missouri Law Enforcement Agencies list kept by the Missouri Department of Public Safety (POST program), a state list, not a county page; checked 18 September 2026
- Office (state list)Carroll County Sheriff's Office, 106 S Folger, Carrollton, MO 64633; phone (660) 542-1121
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Missouri Law Enforcement Agencies list (Missouri Department of Public Safety, POST program; shown on the Attorney General's Police and Sheriffs Contacts page) - statewide list, checked 18 September 2026 · 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
- audit.checks is deliberately an EMPTY OBJECT. Carroll County's own websites refused every automated attempt: carrollcomo.org has a TLS hostname mismatch that blocks the robots.txt fetch, and carrollcountygovernment.org serves only a redirect loop. This county is unexamined, not closed, and must not be scored as closed.
- The sheriff's name is recorded as Not found. No Carroll County page naming the current officeholder could be opened, and a name was not guessed.
- The Department of Public Safety page that did open lists the Carroll County Sheriff's Office at 106 S. Folger, Carrollton and the Prosecuting Attorney at 8 S. Main St. Ste 5, Carrollton. dps.mo.gov is a state site, so it cannot satisfy any transparency check.
- 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.
- Carroll County is an ordinary Missouri county governed by a County Commission. No Carroll County government page could be opened, so no commissioner names, board page or minutes page are recorded.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Carroll 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).
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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