The Detention Center
Johnson County Sheriff's Office Detention Center
- Operated byJohnson County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address278 SW 871st Road, Centerview, MO 64019
- Not at the county seatThe sheriff's office and detention center are in Centerview, not in Warrensburg where the courthouse and justice center are
- RosterA booking roster is published on the sheriff's own site
- BedsNot found - no bed count published on any page that could be opened
- What was triedjocomosheriff.org/roster, the county auditor page and the sheriff's office facility detail page all refused automated fetches
Source: Johnson County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓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 Scott W. Munsterman
- Runs the jailYes - the Johnson County Sheriff's Office Detention Center
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- Statutory basisRSMo 221.020 gives the sheriff of each county the custody, rule, keeping and charge of the jail and of all prisoners in it; RSMo 221.080 puts jail expense on the county commission.
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Johnson County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-18
The Judges
Missouri's 1940 Nonpartisan Court Plan covers the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals statewide, but at circuit level it applies in only six jurisdictions - Clay, Greene, Jackson, Platte, St. Louis County and St. Louis City. This county is not one of them, so its circuit and associate circuit judges are elected on a partisan ballot. They are state judicial officers, not county officials. The county's own site links to the 17th Judicial Circuit, which is the circuit serving Johnson County; no individual judge's name was confirmed from a 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 →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The sheriff's office runs its own domain, jocomosheriff.org, separate from the county's jocomo.gov. Both count as first-party.
- The county publishes commission minutes for 2017 to 2026 and links an agenda centre, and references county budgets in navigation, but no budget document or jail budget figure could be opened.
- The minutes index page carries no mention of a board of visitors report or a grand jury jail report; the individual minutes files could not be opened, so nothing is claimed either way.
- No bed count, daily population, PREA audit, in-custody death, bond schedule or commissary and phone rate was found published on either county domain.
- No Missouri state agency inspects county jails. The Department of Corrections operates and 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 and runs jail-administrator training, but it is a private association of sheriffs, not a regulator. The only statutory mechanisms are local and lay: a grand jury visit to the jail 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 dataset; RSMo 58.451(1)(5) requires only notice to the coroner.
- Three-member County Commission, the ordinary Missouri form. The county's own page states the Commission is composed of a Presiding Commissioner elected county-wide and two Associate Commissioners elected from districts, and describes it as the governing and executive body of the county with budget approval and departmental oversight. Presiding Commissioner Troy Matthews, took office January 2023. Eastern Commissioner Rusty Sproat, took office January 2025. Western Commissioner Destry Hough, appointed by the County Commission on 29 June 2026.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Johnson 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