The Detention Center
Morgan County Sheriff's Office Adult Detention Center
- Operated byMorgan County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address211 East Newton Street, Suite #2, Versailles, MO 65084
- Jail line573-378-5481 (24 hours)
- Jail AdministratorCaptain Kyle Van Vleck, a sheriff's office captain, listed on the sheriff's Adult Detention Center page
- RosterA current-inmate roster and a 48-hour release list are published on the sheriff's own site; the current roster listed 102 people when opened
- BedsNot found - no bed count published on any page that could be opened
- Visitation and communicationsNo-contact video visits 7 days a week through CidNet; inmates buy commissary, video, phone and text data through Cidnet.com. No rates are published.
- Other agencies' detaineesThe detention center's published PREA investigation procedures refer to notifying ICE/ERO and to detainees transferred from ICE/ERO custody; no contract or per-diem rate is published
Source: Morgan County Sheriff's Office - Adult Detention Center · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓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 — 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 Norman Dills
- Runs the jailYes - the Morgan County Sheriff's Office runs the 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.
- Listed contact573-378-5481
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Morgan County, Missouri - Sheriff · 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 judge's name or circuit number 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, morgancountymoso.org, separate from the county's morgancountymo.gov. Both are first-party and both were opened.
- The sheriff's site publishes a live current-inmate roster and a 48-hour release list, and names a Jail Administrator, Captain Kyle Van Vleck. The elected sheriff remains the jailer under RSMo 221.020, so jail_administrator is null.
- The Adult Detention Center page publishes a detailed PREA investigations policy, but no PREA audit result, so the prea check is recorded as no.
- The PREA policy text refers to ICE/ERO notification and to detainees transferred from ICE/ERO custody. No detention contract or per-diem rate is published, so the contracts check is recorded as no.
- Video visitation, commissary, phone and text services run through CidNet, but no rates are published, so the fees check is recorded as no. No bond posting guidance, bed count, daily population figure or budget was found.
- The county commission page publishes no minutes, agendas or budget documents, so no board of visitors or grand jury jail report could be examined.
- Search results for this county included commercial inmate-lookup sites styled to look official (for example morganmorecords.us and missourijailroster.com). 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. Presiding Commissioner Tony Stephens, Western District Commissioner Trent Edgar, Eastern District Commissioner Brian Lehman, all listed on the county's own commission page. Meetings are held in the Commission Meeting Room, 100 E. Newton Street, Versailles, and are open to the public; the page says agendas and minutes are provided by the County Clerk and posted on the county's website, but no minutes link is given on it.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Morgan 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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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