The Detention Center
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- Operated byPemiscot County Sheriff's Office
- JailThe county's sheriff page says the office runs 'the Jail that houses local, state and federal inmates' but does not give the jail a name, address or bed count
- Holds other agencies' prisonersState and federal inmates, per the sheriff page; no contract or per-diem rate published
- BedsNot found
- Daily populationNot found
- What was triedpemiscotcounty.org sheriff, commissioner, clerk, circuit clerk, Judicial Division III and home pages were opened; the sheriff has no separate site that the search returned. Search results were otherwise dominated by commercial inmate-lookup sites, which are not cited
Source: Pemiscot County Government - 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 Joe Bryant
- Runs the jailYes - the sheriff's office page lists the Jail among its divisions, stating it houses local, state and federal inmates
- 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 address800 Ward Avenue, Caruthersville, MO 63830
- Listed contact(573) 333-4101
- Chief DeputyJosh Bost
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Pemiscot County Government - 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. The county's own Judicial Division III page lists W. Keith Currie as Associate Circuit Judge, Division III. The judicial circuit number was not confirmed from a page that could be opened.
Associate Circuit Judge, Division III
- W. Keith Currie
- 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 county site pemiscotcounty.org was reachable and was read. The sheriff's page confirms the office runs a jail housing local, state and federal inmates but publishes no name, address, bed count, roster, bond guidance or commissary and phone rates for it, so the named check is recorded as no.
- The clerk's page says the office prepares the county financial statement and serves as clerk to the County Commission, but no budget, financial statement or minutes are linked, so no board of visitors or grand jury jail report could be examined.
- Search results for this county returned several sites styled to look official, including pemiscotcountyjailroster.org, missouriinmaterosters.org and caruthersvillecityjail.org. These are commercial inmate-lookup sites, not county publications, and are not cited or counted.
- 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.
- 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 Mark Cartee, District 1 Associate Commissioner David Greer, District 2 Associate Commissioner Baughn Merideth, all listed on the county's own commissioner page. The commission meets Wednesdays at 9:00 a.m. in the commission office on the first floor of the Pemiscot County Courthouse. County Clerk Pam Treece. Neither the commission page nor the clerk's page links minutes, agendas or a budget.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Pemiscot 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