The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byNot found
- JailNo jail is named on any Mississippi County page that could be opened
- Where prisoners goNot found - no county page says where arrested persons are held
- BedsNot found
- What was triedmisscomo.net sheriff, services, government, county commission, county clerk, circuit clerk and public notices pages were all opened; none names a jail or detention facility. The sheriff's office has no separate website that the search returned.
Source: Mississippi County, Missouri - Sheriff · 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 Terry Park (Interim Sheriff)
- Runs the jailNot established from a county page - the county's sheriff page gives contact details and staff but describes no jail or detention facility
- 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 address200 W Commercial St., Charleston, MO 63834
- Listed contact(573) 683-2111
- Earlier recordThe county's services page listed Britton Ferrell as sheriff; the office now has an interim sheriff
- State listThe Missouri Law Enforcement Agencies list (Missouri DPS, POST program) also names Terry Park as head of the office; checked 18 September 2026
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Confirmed by phone with the Mississippi County Sheriff's Office, 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. The county's own circuit clerk page identifies the court as the Missouri 33rd Judicial Circuit, and the county's services page lists Raymond Brownlee as judge for the Drug Court. No other judge's name was confirmed.
Drug Court - Judge
- Raymond Brownlee
- 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
- Trap: the search returned mississippicountysheriffar.org, which is the Mississippi County Sheriff in Arkansas, not Missouri. It is not used anywhere in this record.
- Mississippi County's own domain is misscomo.net. Its sheriff page names deputies and command staff and gives the office address and phone, but describes no jail, roster, bed count, bond procedure or phone and commissary rates.
- No jail is named on any county page that could be opened. That is recorded as not found rather than as a finding that the county has no jail.
- The county clerk page states that the clerk is the county's budget and accounting officer and maintains annual financial statements, but no budget or financial statement is linked. The public notices page carried a single unrelated notice. No commission minutes, board of visitors report or grand jury jail report is published.
- All ten transparency checks are recorded as no. The county domain was reachable and was read, so this is an examined county with nothing published, not an unexamined one.
- 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 James D Conn, 1st District Commissioner Mitch Pullen, 2nd District Commissioner Darrell Jones; County Clerk Emily K Pullen, who the county describes as the budget and accounting officer. The commission meets every Thursday at 9:00 a.m. in the County Commission meeting room at the Mississippi County Courthouse, 200 North Main Street, Charleston. The commission page links no minutes, agendas or budget.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Mississippi 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