The Detention Center
Pike County Detention Center
- Operated byPike County Sheriff's Office
- Sheriff's office address1600 Bus. Hwy 54 W, Bowling Green, MO 63334; the county page does not state separately whether the detention center is at the same address
- VisitationMonday to Friday 4 pm to 9 pm, Saturday and Sunday 9 am to 5 pm; photo ID for visitors 17 and over; at most 3 visitors per inmate
- MailStandard postcards only
- Inmate fundsDeposits through a lobby kiosk or the Inmate Canteen website
- Medical providerCardinal Correctional Healthcare
- BedsNot found
- Daily populationNot found
- What was triedThe Jail Information PDF linked from the county's sheriff page (hosted on img1.wsimg.com) was refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED). The 2026 commission minutes index opened, but the individual minutes PDFs were not examined. The site pikecountysd.org returned by the search belongs to Pike County, Illinois, and is not used
Source: Pike County, Missouri - Sheriff's Office Information Page · 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 Stephen Korte
- Runs the jailYes - the county's sheriff information page describes the Pike County Detention Center and its visitation rules
- 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.
- In office since2009, per the county's historical list of sheriffs
- Office address1600 Bus. Hwy 54 W, Bowling Green, MO 63334
- Listed contact(573) 324-3202
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Pike County, Missouri - 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. The county's own court pages list Circuit Judge James Beck and Associate Circuit Judge Milan Berry. The judicial circuit number is not stated on those pages.
Circuit Judge
- James Beck
Associate Circuit Judge
- Milan Berry
- 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 county site pikecountymo.net hosts the sheriff's pages. It names the Pike County Detention Center and publishes visitation hours and rules, mail rules and the medical provider, so the named check is met.
- No roster, bed count, daily population, bond guidance, PREA audit, or phone, video or commissary price list was found on any page that opened. The sheriff's page links a Jail Information PDF, which could not be opened, so nothing is claimed about its contents.
- The county publishes commission minutes for 2021 to 2026 as monthly PDFs. Only the index page was opened; the individual minutes were not examined, so nothing is claimed either way about a board of visitors report, grand jury jail report, jail budget or boarding contract appearing in them.
- Search results included pikecountysd.org, which is the Pike County, Illinois sheriff, and several commercial inmate-lookup sites. None is 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 Bill Allen, Eastern District Commissioner Tom Wallace, Western District Commissioner Brock Bailey, all listed on the county's own commission page, which states the commissioners set the budget and approve expenditures. The commission meets 9:00 a.m. to noon Monday and Thursday on the second floor of the courthouse. Minutes are published by year on the county site.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Pike 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