The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byNot confirmed
- What the county publishesThe Chariton County sheriff page carries a name, an address and a phone number and nothing else - no jail, no roster, no bond guidance, no fees
- Whether the county operates a jailNot established from any county page. Recorded as unknown rather than guessed.
- Historic structureA Chariton County Jail and Sheriff's Residence is listed on the National Register of Historic Places; that Wikipedia article was returned by search but not opened, and nothing here relies on it.
- What was triedhttps://www.charitonco.com/sheriff and https://www.keytesvillemo.com/local-county-offices/ opened. https://www.charitonco.com/commission was refused with PROVENANCE_REQUIRED and was not retried. https://www.mocounties.com/chariton-county timed out.
Source: Chariton County - Sheriff · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
0/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗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 — 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
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Erick Billups
- Runs the jailRSMo 221.020 makes the Missouri sheriff the jailer; Chariton County is not one of the three statutory exceptions. The county's sheriff page publishes no jail information of any kind.
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- Office307 S Cherry St, Keytesville, MO 65261
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Chariton County - Sheriff · 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 Erick Billups confirmed from the county's own domain, charitonco.com, and independently listed on the City of Keytesville's county-offices page.
- All ten checks are 'no' because the Chariton County sheriff page that opened genuinely publishes nothing beyond a name, address and phone number - no jail name, no roster, no capacity, no budget, no bond guidance, no fees. This is a real finding on the page that was reached, not an assumption; the county's commission page was refused, so any budget or minutes published there remains unchecked.
- 'inspections' scored 'no': no board-of-visitors yearly report under RSMo 221.350 and no grand jury jail report under RSMo 221.300 was found, and the commission page where such a report would most likely sit could not be 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. Chariton County's coroner is named on the Keytesville city page; the county publishes no in-custody death record.
- charitoncountyjailmo.org and missourijailroster.com are commercial inmate-lookup sites and were ignored.
- Three-member County Commission. Presiding Commissioner Dr. Evan Emmerich, Eastern District Commissioner Jared Meyer, Western District Commissioner Terry Milford, phone 660-288-3200, courthouse at 306 S. Cherry Street, Keytesville. Those names come from the City of Keytesville's local-county-offices page, which was opened; the county's own commission page at charitonco.com/commission was refused and could not confirm them. County Clerk Mitzi Schuchmann and Coroner Nyle Bowyer are listed on the same city page. No agenda or minutes page on a Chariton County domain could be opened.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Chariton 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