The Detention Center
Osage County Detention Center
- Operated byOsage County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address106 E. Main Street, P.O. Box 619, Linn, MO 65051
- Jail line(573) 897-5750
- CommunicationsCidnet voice, video, mail and text apps; data sold at a universal rate of $0.30 per megabyte, published by the sheriff
- CommissaryItems such as e-cigarettes and phone cards; deposit processing fees apply and vary by amount, but the fee schedule and item prices are not published
- BedsNot found - no bed count published on any page that could be opened
- RosterNot found - no inmate roster on the sheriff's home page
Source: Osage County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✓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 — 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 Michael Bonham
- Runs the jailYes - the sheriff's Detention Division runs the Osage County 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 contact(573) 897-3927 ext. 800
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Osage 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 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 →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The sheriff's office runs its own domain, osagesheriff.org, separate from the county's osagecountygov.com. Both are first-party and both were opened.
- The sheriff publishes the jail's name and address and a universal Cidnet data rate of $0.30 per megabyte for voice, video and messaging. The fees check is nonetheless recorded as no on a strict reading, because commissary prices and the deposit processing fee schedule are not published; the data rate is recorded in full above.
- The county publishes an index of commission minutes for 2020 to 2026, but the individual minutes files were not opened, so no board of visitors or grand jury jail report is claimed either way. No budget document was found.
- No bed count, daily population, roster, bond posting guidance, PREA audit or detention contract was found on either county domain.
- Search results for this county were dominated by commercial inmate-lookup sites (for example missouriprisons.org and missouriinmaterosters.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.
- Three-member County Commission, the ordinary Missouri form: the county's own page says it is a Presiding Commissioner elected countywide and two Associate Commissioners elected by district, all on four-year terms, meeting Tuesdays from 8:00 a.m. at 205 E. Main Street, Linn. Commission Clerk Brandy Boessen. The commission page does not name the commissioners in fetchable text, so none is recorded here. The county publishes an index of commission minutes from 2020 to 2026.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Osage 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