The Detention Center
Montgomery County Jail
- Operated byMontgomery County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address211 East Third Street, Montgomery City, Missouri
- Jail line573-564-8086
- Jail administratorCaptain Eric Foree, with Sergeant Brian Shahan as assistant jail administrator - sheriff's staff, not a separately appointed official
- Housing unitsSix - four male, one female, one trustee
- Bond postingCash bonds by Visa, Mastercard or Discover, 24 hours a day, through a third-party processor; published fee $2.00 minimum plus 8% of the total for payments over $50.00
- VisitationIn-person visits of 30 minutes, two visitors per inmate, on Saturdays and Sundays on a published schedule effective 31 January 2026; video visitation requires funds on a commissary account
- Phone, video and commissaryKiosk and online deposit vendors are named, but no call, video or commissary rate is published
- PREAA jail PREA sexual abuse prevention and identification policy document is posted; no PREA audit result was found
- BedsNot found - no bed count published on any page that could be opened
- What was triedThe sheriff's home, jail division, bonding procedures, money and kiosks, incarcerated detainees, visitation and administrative division pages were opened. A separate result, montgomerycosheriff.net/InmateRoster.html, refused the fetch and its state was not confirmed, so it is not used.
Source: Montgomery County Sheriff's Office - 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 Craig S. Allison
- Runs the jailYes - the sheriff's office Jail Division operates the Montgomery County Jail and describes the office as the pre-trial custodial keeper of those charged with crimes
- 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 address211 East Third Street, Montgomery City, Missouri
- Listed contactOffice 573-564-8084; dispatch 573-564-3378
- Command staff publishedChief Deputy Daniel J. Gevermuehle
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Montgomery 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.
- 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, montgomerycountymosheriff.org, which counts as first-party and is the fullest jail web presence in this group. It names the jail and its administrator, describes its housing units, and publishes bond posting instructions with the processing fee.
- The jail sits in Montgomery City. The county seat was not confirmed from any page that could be opened, so it is recorded as not found rather than inferred from the jail's location.
- The roster check is recorded as no: the sheriff's detainee page directs the public to call the jail or view a weekly booking report inside the sheriff's mobile app, and no in-custody list is published on the website itself.
- The prea check is recorded as no: a PREA policy document is posted, but a policy is not an audit result and no audit was found.
- The fees check is recorded as no: kiosk, deposit and commissary vendors are named, but no phone, video or commissary rate is published on a page that could be opened. The bond processing fee is recorded under bond_info.
- Search results also included mctxsheriff.org, the Montgomery County, Texas sheriff, which is not used; mgso.us was returned but not opened and is not used.
- 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 Montgomery 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 Montgomery 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).
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Names verified 2026-09-18 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered