The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byHenry County Sheriff's Office (by operation of RSMo 221.020)
- RosterThe sheriff's own Inmate Search page lists recent bookings with inmate ID, age, race, sex, booking date, arresting agency and each charge with a bond amount
- Sheriff's office200 N. Main Street, Clinton, MO 64735; non-emergency (660) 885-7300
- Monthly reportsThe sheriff posts a Monthly Brief page with a report for each month from July 2025 to August 2026 (PDFs). They could not be read here, so any jail figures in them are not recorded
- What the site does not showNo page names the jail or gives beds, visiting rules, bond guidance or fees
- Jail nameNot found - the county government site has no jail page, and the Sheriff's Office's own site could not be opened
- County seat and courthouseClinton; county offices at 100 West Franklin, Clinton, MO 64735, phone 660-885-7200
- Not to be confused withClinton is Henry County's seat. Clinton COUNTY is a separate Missouri county with its own sheriff's office at clintoncosheriff.org and is not covered here.
- Earlier attempt (research agent)https://henrymosheriff.gov/, /staffDirectory and /inmateSearch - all three blocked by robots.txt (ROBOTS_DISALLOWED); https://www.henrycomo.com/ (opened in full); https://www.henrycomo.com/central-comm-center (opened in full); https://www.henrycomo.com/county-commission and https://www.henrycomo.com/2017-henry-county-budget both refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED)
Source: Checked in the browser, 19 September 2026 · 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
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Aaron Brown
- Runs the jailRSMo 221.020 gives the sheriff of each Missouri county custody and charge of the county jail; Henry County is not one of the three statutory exceptions
- How the office is filledElected countywide on a partisan ballot
- Sheriff's office address200 North Main Street, Clinton 64735
- Separate first-party siteThe Sheriff's Office runs its own domain, henrymosheriff.gov, which is blocked to automated retrieval by robots.txt
- Source caveatThe name comes from the state's County Sheriff's Offices contact dataset on data.mo.gov; the Sheriff's Office staff directory could not be opened
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Missouri Open Data - County Sheriff's Offices Based on Missouri Law Enforcement Agencies (data.mo.gov, dated 09/18/2026) · checked 2026-09-18
The Judges
Henry 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. The county site has a Circuit Court page (www.henrycomo.com/circuit-court) but it could not be opened, so no judge is named.
Circuit Court serving Henry County
- Not found
- 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
- Examined in the built-in browser on 19 September 2026: the sheriff's site henrymosheriff.gov (home, inmate search, monthly brief). The research agent had never reached it.
- The roster shows a bond amount beside each charge, but no page explains how to post bond, so bond_info is 'no'.
- The sheriff publishes monthly reports as PDFs; they could not be read in this pass. If they carry jail population figures, the capacity check could change.
- The county government site www.henrycomo.com WAS opened and read. It confirms Clinton as the county seat, lists the Sheriff's Office as henrymosheriff.gov, and carries a County Commission page, a Circuit Court page, a county budget page and individual pages for the assessor, clerk, coroner, recorder, public administrator, treasurer/collector, prosecuting attorney, circuit clerk and surveyor. The county site itself has no jail or detention page.
- The county's budget page and commission page were both refused with PROVENANCE_REQUIRED, so no sheriff or jail budget figure could be read.
- Henry County's seat is the city of Clinton. This is a different jurisdiction from Clinton County, Missouri, which has its own sheriff's office.
- 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.
- 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.
- Henry County is governed by a three-member County Commission in the ordinary Missouri form. The county site has a County Commission page and a county budget page, but both were refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED), so no commissioner name or budget figure is recorded.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Henry 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