The Detention Center
Lincoln County Detention Center
- Operated byLincoln County Sheriff's Office Jail Division
- Jail address65 Business Park Dr, Troy, MO 63379
- Jail Division headCaptain Valentina Patti, named on the county's Jail Division page
- Jail line636-462-6507
- VisitationMonday-Friday 6 PM-10 PM, Saturday-Sunday 8 AM-3:45 PM; the county states no face-to-face visits are allowed
- BondingThe county states bonding is available 24/7 and cashier's checks are accepted
- Commissary and phonesCommissary deposits through JailATM.com or a lobby kiosk; phone accounts through CIDNet; no rates published
- Medical charges publishedDetainee Handbook: $15 per nurse visit, $25 per physician visit
- BedsNot found - no bed count published on any page that could be opened
- Daily populationNot found
- What was triedThe Current Inmates roster link on the Jail Division page (a JailTracker page on public-safety-cloud.com) was refused for automated fetching; the sheriff's inmateroster.lincolncountysheriff.us domain redirected from https back to http and could not be opened
Source: Lincoln County - Jail Division · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗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
- ✗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 Rick Harrell
- Runs the jailYes - the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office Jail Division
- 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.
- Administrative offices65 Business Park Drive, Troy, MO
- Non-emergency line636-528-6100
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Lincoln 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. No judicial circuit number or judge's name was confirmed from a page that could be opened.
Still needed
- 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 sits on the county's own domain, lincolncomo.gov, which carries a dedicated Jail Division page and a Detainee Handbook dated January 2026. The handbook names the Lincoln County Detention Center and its address, so the named check is met.
- The Jail Division page links a Current Inmates list, but it is hosted by a commercial jail-management vendor and could not be opened, so the roster check is recorded as no. Nothing is claimed about what it shows.
- The bond_info check is met on a brief statement only: the Jail Division page says bonding is available 24/7 and cashier's checks are accepted. No bond schedule is published.
- The fees check is recorded as no. The county names its commissary and phone vendors and the handbook publishes nurse and physician visit charges, but no phone, video visit or commissary rate is published; the handbook refers only to 'nominal costs' for secure messaging and video visits.
- The handbook states that medication and administrative costs are not deducted from Immigration and Federal detainees' accounts, which indicates the jail holds federal detainees. No housing agreement or per-diem rate is published, so the contracts check is recorded as no.
- The county publishes budgets for 2023 to 2026, financial statements and audit reports. The 2026 budget that was opened lists General Fund departments from the County Commission to Capital Outlay but no sheriff, jail or detention department, and the 2025 budget PDF had no readable text. No jail budget figure was found, so the budget check is recorded as no.
- The Agendas and Minutes page had no entries when opened, so no board of visitors report or grand jury jail report could be examined.
- Search results for this county included commercial inmate-lookup sites styled like official pages, among them missouriprisons.org, missourijailroster.com and missouriprisonroster.org. They are not county publications and are not cited or counted.
- 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 describes a Presiding Commissioner elected at large and two Associate Commissioners elected from Districts 1 and 2, meeting on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Lincoln County Courthouse in Troy. The page does not print the commissioners' names, so none is recorded here. The county's Agendas and Minutes page was opened but its listing was empty.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Lincoln 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