The Detention Center
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- Operated byPulaski County Sheriff's Office
- JailThe sheriff's home page carries the heading 'Pulaski County Justice Center' and says the office provides detention, but it does not name a jail or describe a detention facility
- BedsNot found
- Daily populationNot found
- What was triedpcsheriff2.com home page opened (single page, no working sub-links); pulaskijail.com/inmate-roster-2/ looped between http and https redirects and could not be opened; showmepulaski.org, the county site linked by the prosecuting attorney, could not be resolved; Wikipedia county page refused
Source: Pulaski 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
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The Sheriff
Sheriff Stacy Ball
- Runs the jailThe sheriff's office states its mission includes providing law enforcement, detention and court security
- 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 address403 School Street, Waynesville, MO 65583
- Listed contact573-774-6196
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Pulaski 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. The Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney's own site states that Pulaski County is in the 25th Judicial Circuit; no individual judge's name 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, pcsheriff2.com, which counts as first-party. It was opened and gives the sheriff's name, office address and phone numbers, but it is a single page with no jail name, roster, bed count, bond, fee or PREA information.
- A site at pulaskijail.com styled as a Pulaski County Detention Center roster appeared in search, but it could not be opened (redirect loop), so its operator is unconfirmed and nothing on it is counted.
- Searches also returned commercial inmate-lookup sites (missouriprisons.org, pulaskicountydetentionmo.org, missourijailroster.com, mcdonaldcountygov.com and others). These are not county publications and are not cited or counted.
- The county seat is not recorded because no page that could be opened states it. The sheriff's office is in Waynesville.
- All ten transparency checks are recorded as no. The sheriff's first-party site was reachable and was read; the county government domain could not be reached, so budget, minutes and any board of visitors report were not examined.
- 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. The county site linked from the prosecuting attorney's page, showmepulaski.org, could not be resolved, so no commissioner's name, agenda or minutes page was confirmed and none is recorded here.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Pulaski 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