The Detention Center
Jasper County Detention Center
- Operated byJasper County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address405 E 5th Street, Carthage, MO 64836
- BedsConstructed to house 165 inmates in six pods; the county's page states capacity to house 200+ inmates
- Year built1993
- Detention staffingOne captain, one lieutenant, seven sergeants, 28 detention officers and one medical tech
- Holding for othersThe page states the facility holds inmates for other local jurisdictions as space is available; no agency names and no per-diem rates are published
- Vendors named, rates notCommissary deposits via money order, JailATM.com or a lobby kiosk; inmate phone calls through City Tele Coin. No prices published
Source: Jasper County Missouri Sheriff's Office — Detention/Jail · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✗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 built1993
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsConstructed to house 165 inmates in six pods; the Sheriff's Office states capacity to house 200+ inmates
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Randee Kaiser
- Runs the jailYes — the Jasper County Detention Center is a division of the Sheriff's Office; RSMo 221.020 makes the sheriff the jailer
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- Sheriff's Office address231 S Main Street, Carthage, MO 64836 — (417) 358-8177
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Jasper County Missouri Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-18
The Judges
Jasper County is not one of the six Missouri jurisdictions under the Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan at circuit level, so its circuit and associate circuit judges are elected on a partisan ballot. They are state judicial officers, not county officials. The circuit number could not be sourced from a page actually opened.
Missouri Circuit Court — judicial circuit serving Jasper 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
- The Sheriff's Office runs its own domain, jaspercountysheriff.org, which counts as first-party. It is the only Jasper County government site that surfaced; no separate county government domain was found in the one search spent here.
- Capacity is scored yes for published bed numbers (165 as built, 200+ stated capacity). A daily population figure is not published, so the capacity picture is half-complete.
- Roster is scored yes: the Sheriff's Office publishes a current inmate list for the Detention Center as a PDF linked from its inmate roster page. The PDF itself (https://jaspercountysheriff.org/wp-content/documents/InmateRoster.pdf) was refused with PROVENANCE_REQUIRED, so its contents are not described here; the roster page that links it was opened.
- Contracts is scored no. The detention page says the facility holds inmates for other local jurisdictions as space is available, but publishes no agency names, no contracts and no per-diem rates.
- Fees is scored no. JailATM.com and City Tele Coin are named as vendors but no commissary prices, per-minute call rates or video-visit charges are published.
- Bond information is scored no: the detention pages that opened carry no bond posting guidance and direct callers to the phone.
- Commercial sites ignored: inmatesearchmissouri.org, missourijailroster.com, bookingreports.missouriofficialrecords.com, fayettesheriffwv.net, missouri.thepublicindex.org — scraped aggregators, not sources.
- 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 and city jails. The Missouri Sheriffs' Association publishes non-binding jail guidance but is a private association, not a regulator.
- The only inspection-like mechanisms in Missouri law 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 such report was found published by Jasper County.
- Missouri has no death-in-custody reporting law and no public dataset. RSMo 58.451(1)(5) requires notice to the coroner of a death believed to have resulted from injury or illness while in the custody of the law.
- Missouri's Sunshine Law, RSMo 610.023, requires a records request to be acted upon as soon as possible and in no event later than the end of the third business day after receipt.
- Ordinary Missouri county government — a three-member County Commission (presiding commissioner and two associate commissioners). No Jasper County government domain surfaced in the search; only the Sheriff's Office's own first-party domain was reachable, so no commissioner is named and no board, minutes or budget URL is cited.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Jasper 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