The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byNot found
- JailNo jail is named on any Nodaway County page that could be opened
- RosterThe sheriff's site has a Current Inmates page, but it is blocked to automated fetching by the site's robots rules, so nothing is claimed about what it shows
- What was triednodawaycountysheriff.com home page opened; nodawaycountysheriff.com/current-inmates refused (robots rules); nodaway.mo.us refused (no provenance). No county government site could be opened.
Source: Nodaway County Sheriff's Office · 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 Austin Hann
- Runs the jailNot established from a page that could be opened - the sheriff's home page does not describe a 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 address404 N Vine, Maryville, MO 64468
- Listed contact660-582-7451
- Earlier recordThe sheriff's own website still named Randy Strong (in office since January 2017)
- State listThe Missouri Law Enforcement Agencies list (Missouri DPS, POST program) also names Austin Hann; 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 Nodaway 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. 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, nodawaycountysheriff.com, which counts as first-party. Its home page was opened and supplied the sheriff's name, start of term and office address; it does not mention a jail.
- The sheriff's Current Inmates page appeared in search results but is blocked to automated fetching by robots rules, so the roster and named checks are recorded as no rather than yes. This county was only partly examined: no county government site could be opened, so budget, commission and minutes information is not found rather than absent.
- Search results for this county were dominated by commercial inmate-lookup sites styled to look official (for example nodawaycountyjailmo.org, nodawaycountyjail.org and missouriprisons.org). 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.
- Ordinary Missouri counties are governed by a three-member County Commission. No Nodaway County government page could be opened, so no commissioner's name was confirmed and none is recorded here.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Nodaway 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