The Detention Center
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- Operated byHarrison County Sheriff's Office (by operation of RSMo 221.020)
- Jail nameNot found - the Sheriff's Office site publishes an inmate roster but never names the facility on any page that could be opened
- Sheriff's office / jail address1501 Central Street, Bethany, MO 64424
- What was triedhttps://www.harrisoncountysheriffmo.org/ (opened in full); https://www.harrisoncountysheriffmo.org/contact.php (opened in full); https://www.harrisoncountysheriffmo.org/roster-choose and /services both refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED); https://www.mocounties.com/harrison-county (fetch failed, robots.txt connect timeout); https://dps.mo.gov/dir/programs/cvsu/counties/harrison.php (opened - address only, no sheriff name)
Source: Harrison County MO Sheriff - Contact Us · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✓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 — 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
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The Sheriff
Sheriff Trevor Place
- Runs the jailRSMo 221.020 gives the sheriff of each Missouri county custody and charge of the county jail; Harrison County is not one of the three statutory exceptions
- How the office is filledElected countywide on a partisan ballot
- Sheriff's office address1501 Central Street, P.O. Box 169, Bethany, MO 64424; phone 660-425-3199, answered 24 hours
- Naming caveatThe Sheriff's Office's own site refers to 'Sheriff Place' without a first name; the full name Trevor Place comes from the state's County Sheriff's Offices contact dataset on data.mo.gov
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Harrison County MO Sheriff (first-party site) and Missouri Open Data County Sheriff's Offices dataset · checked 2026-09-18
The Judges
Harrison County is not one of the six Missouri jurisdictions 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 judge could be confirmed from a page opened in this session, so none is named.
Circuit Court and Associate Circuit Court serving Harrison County
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- 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 Harrison County Sheriff's Office runs its own first-party domain, harrisoncountysheriffmo.org, which counts as the county publishing. Its home page and contact page were both opened and read.
- The 'roster' check is recorded as yes on the strength of the Sheriff's Office home page, which was opened and which carries an 'Inmate Roster' item in its own navigation (https://www.harrisoncountysheriffmo.org/roster-choose). The roster page itself was refused with PROVENANCE_REQUIRED, so the cited URL is the home page that was actually opened, not the roster page. No inmate names, counts or bond amounts were seen.
- The site's full navigation is Home, Inmate Roster, Sex Offenders, Press, Services, Most Wanted, Contact, Crime Tips, Message From the Sheriff, Forms, Site Map. There is no detention, budget, PREA, fees, bond or inspection section in that navigation, which is why the other nine checks are 'no'.
- The Services page, which might carry bond or visitation guidance, was refused, so 'bond_info' and 'fees' should be read as not confirmed rather than confirmed absent.
- 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 - a grand jury visit under RSMo 221.300, and a county board of visitors under RSMo 221.320-221.350, which RSMo 221.350 requires to report yearly to the county. No Harrison County commission minutes could be located, so no such report is reachable.
- Missouri has no death-in-custody reporting law and no public statewide dataset; RSMo 58.451(1)(5) requires only that the coroner be notified of a death from injury or illness in custody.
- Under the Sunshine Law, RSMo 610.023, a records request must be acted upon as soon as possible and no later than the end of the third business day after receipt.
- Harrison County is governed by a three-member County Commission (presiding commissioner and two associate commissioners) in the ordinary Missouri form. The Sheriff's Office runs its own domain and does not carry commission material; no separate Harrison County government site could be located or opened, so no commissioner name, board page or minutes page is recorded.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Harrison 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