The Detention Center
Miller County Adult Detention Center
- Operated byMiller County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address1999 MO-52, Tuscumbia, MO 65082
- RosterA current inmate roster is published on the sheriff's own site; it showed 46 people in custody when opened in September 2026
- Board rateThe sheriff's office states that from 1 January 2019 it increased the jail board rate to house prisoners from $38.00 to $45.00 per diem
- Who is heldThe page says the jail holds people on holds for Probation and Parole or Community Corrections, people sentenced by municipal courts in the county, and others on holds for other agencies
- Inmate message phone$1.00 charge for a 30-second message
- Video visitation25-minute sessions; unlimited offsite visits; at most two onsite visits a week per inmate
- Money depositsThrough Turnkey Corrections or a lobby kiosk; money orders no longer accepted
- BedsNot found - no bed count published on any page that could be opened
Source: Miller County Sheriff's Office - Detention Center · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓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
- ✗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 Louis Gregoire
- Runs the jailYes - the Miller County Sheriff's Office operates the Miller County Adult 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.
- Office address1999 MO-52, Tuscumbia, MO 65082
- Listed contact573-369-2341 (24-hour)
- County pagesDid not name the sheriff: the sheriff's home, detention center, contact and employment pages were opened and none names the sitting sheriff
- Source of the nameName from the Missouri Law Enforcement Agencies list kept by the Missouri Department of Public Safety (POST program), a state list, not a county page; checked 18 September 2026
- Office (state list)Miller County Sheriff's Office, 1999 Hwy 52, Tuscumbia, MO 65082; phone (573) 369-2341
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Missouri Law Enforcement Agencies list (Missouri Department of Public Safety, POST program; shown on the Attorney General's Police and Sheriffs Contacts page) - statewide list, checked 18 September 2026 · 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
Notes on the record
- The sheriff's office runs its own domain, millercountysheriff.org, which counts as first-party; the site states it is the Missouri office at Tuscumbia (Miller County also exists in Arkansas and Georgia).
- The sheriff's site publishes a live current-inmate roster and a detention center page naming the jail.
- The contracts check is recorded as yes because the sheriff's own page publishes the per-diem board rate charged to house prisoners ($45.00 from 1 January 2019) and says the jail holds prisoners for other agencies. No individual agency contract document was found.
- The fees check is recorded as no: a $1.00-per-30-second inmate message charge is published, but no commissary price list and no video visitation or standard phone rate.
- The roster shows a count of people in custody, but no bed count or published average daily population, so the capacity check is recorded as no.
- The sitting sheriff is not named on any sheriff's page that could be opened, and no county government site was returned by the search, so the sheriff's name and the county seat are recorded as not found rather than taken from memory.
- No budget, commission minutes, board of visitors report or grand jury jail report could be examined.
- 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.
- Ordinary Missouri counties are governed by a three-member County Commission. No Miller County government website was returned by the search, so no commissioner's name was confirmed and none is recorded here.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Miller 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