The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byNot found
- JailThe county's official site carries a page titled Jail (perrycountymo.us/99/Jail), but it returned a 403 error to every automated fetch, so nothing on it is recorded
- County courthouse15 W St. Maries St., Perryville, MO 63775, per the county home page
- Not to be confused withThe historic Perry County Jail museum in Pinckneyville is in Perry County, Illinois, not Missouri
- What was triedperrycountymo.us/99/Jail (403), perrycountymo.us/92/Sheriffs-Department and perrycountymo.us/93/Administration (robots.txt failures, retried once), and perrycountysheriff.com (a redirect loop between http and https) all failed; only the county home page perrycountymo.us opened
Source: Perry County, MO - Official Website · 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 Jason Klaus
- Runs the jailNot established from a page that could be opened - the county site has a Sheriff's Department page and a Jail page, but both refused automated fetches
- 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.
- Source of the nameName from the Missouri Law Enforcement Agencies list kept by the Missouri Department of Public Safety (POST program), a state list, not a county page; checked 18 September 2026
- Office (state list)Perry County Sheriff's Office, 400 West St Joseph Street, Suite 3, Perryville, MO 63775; phone (573) 547-4576
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Missouri Law Enforcement Agencies list (Missouri Department of Public Safety, POST program; shown on the Attorney General's Police and Sheriffs Contacts page) - statewide list, checked 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 and no judicial circuit number were 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
- Only the county home page, perrycountymo.us, could be opened. The county's own Jail, Sheriff's Department and Administration pages and the sheriff's separate domain perrycountysheriff.com all refused automated fetches. The county was therefore only lightly examined.
- The ten checks are recorded as no because the one page that opened was read and publishes none of them; they should not be read as a finding that the deeper pages carry nothing. In particular, the county does maintain a page titled Jail, which could not be opened, so the named check may well be met on a manual visit.
- The sheriff's name could not be confirmed from any page that opened and is recorded as Not found rather than guessed.
- Search results returned several commercial inmate-lookup sites styled to look official, including missouriinmateroster.org, missourijailroster.com and inmatesearchmissouri.org. They 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 is the ordinary Missouri form. The county home page references Commission Information with meeting agendas, minutes and bid information, and says the County Clerk's office and County Commission are relocating to the historic Perry County Courthouse, but it names no commissioner and the linked pages could not be identified or opened, so no commissioner's name is recorded here.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Perry 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