The Detention Center
Macon County Jail
- Operated byMacon County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address101 E. Washington Street, Macon, MO 63552, (660) 385-2062 - as given by the Linn County Sheriff's Office; the same address and phone number appear on Macon County's own sheriff page
- Holds prisoners for other countiesYes - the Linn County Sheriff's Office states it houses its inmates at the Macon County Jail; no rate or agreement is published by either county
- BedsNot found - no bed count published on any page that could be opened
- Daily populationNot found
- What was triedmaconcountymo.com home, sheriff, county-commission, county-clerk and agendas-and-meetings pages were opened; the commission minutes PDFs for January and May 2026, hosted on the site's file CDN, refused automated fetches
Source: Linn County Missouri Sheriff's Office - Inmate Roster · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
0/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗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 — 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 Kevin Shoemaker
- Runs the jailYes - the Macon County Jail, per RSMo 221.020; the county's own sheriff page does not describe the jail
- 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.
- Office address101 E Washington St., Macon, MO 63552
- Listed contact660-385-2062
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Macon County, Missouri - 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.
- 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
- Macon County's jail is a regional host: the neighbouring Linn County Sheriff's Office states that Linn County no longer has a jail and houses its inmates at the Macon County Jail. Macon County's own site does not mention that arrangement or publish any rate for it, so the contracts check is recorded as no.
- Macon County's own sheriff page covers civil process and concealed-carry permits but does not name the jail, publish a roster, bond guidance, visiting rules or commissary and phone rates. The jail's name and address come from Linn County's sheriff site, so the named check for Macon County is recorded as no.
- The county publishes monthly commission minutes from September 2024 to May 2026, but the minutes files refused automated fetches, so no board of visitors report, grand jury jail report or jail budget item could be examined; nothing is claimed either way.
- No budget document was found on the county site.
- Search results for this county were dominated by commercial inmate-lookup sites (jailexchange.com, missouriinmates.org, missourijailroster.com, missouriofficialrecords.com, mcdonaldcountygov.com) and by the Macon County, Illinois sheriff. None is 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. Presiding Commissioner Dean Still, District I Commissioner Matt Shoemaker, District II Commissioner Jeff McLin, all listed on the county's own commission page. The commission is in session every Monday and Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., at 101 E. Washington St., Ste. B, Macon; the county's page states it approves the budgets of all county offices and sets the general revenue and road and bridge levies. County Clerk Tammy Perkins. Monthly commission minutes are published for September 2024 through May 2026.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Macon 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