The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byNot found
- JailNo jail is named on any Randolph County page that could be opened
- Sheriff's own siteThe county page points to randolphcountysheriffmo.com for full sheriff's services; that site looped between http and https redirects and could not be opened
- BedsNot found
- Daily populationNot found
- What was triedrandolphcounty-mo.com home, departments, sheriff, county commission, county clerk, presiding circuit judge and associate circuit judge pages opened; randolphcountysheriffmo.com/home.html could not be opened; randolphcountyso.org, returned in search, is the roster of Randolph County, Alabama, and is not used
Source: Randolph County, Missouri - 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 Andy Boggs
- Runs the jailNot established from a county page - the county's sheriff page names the sheriff but describes no jail, and the sheriff's own site could not be opened
- 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 address372 Hwy. JJ, Huntsville, MO 65259
- Listed contact844-277-6555 ext. 107
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Randolph County, Missouri - 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 pages list Scott Hayes as Presiding Circuit Judge and James Cooksey as Associate Circuit Judge, both at the courthouse, 372 Highway JJ, Huntsville. The judicial circuit number was not confirmed from a page that could be opened.
Presiding Circuit Judge
- Scott Hayes
Associate Circuit Judge
- James Cooksey
- 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
- Randolph County's own site, randolphcounty-mo.com, was reachable and was read. It names the sheriff and the county's judges and commissioners and posts 2026 commission agendas and minutes, but names no jail and carries no roster, bed count, bond guidance, fee schedule or budget document.
- The sheriff's own site, randolphcountysheriffmo.com, which the county page says carries the sheriff's full services, could not be opened, so jail information there was not examined. The absence of a jail on the pages that were opened is recorded as not found, not as a finding that the county has no jail.
- The 2026 minutes files were listed but not individually opened, so nothing is claimed either way about a board of visitors report or grand jury jail report.
- Search returned a Randolph County Sheriff's Office roster at randolphcountyso.org; it is Randolph County, Alabama, and is not used. Commercial inmate-lookup sites (jailexchange.com, missourijailroster.com, neded.org, countyoffice.org and others) 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. Presiding Commissioner Sid Conklin, Eastern District Associate Commissioner Jason Lowry, Western District Associate Commissioner Austin Kyser, all listed on the county's own commission page. The Commission normally meets each Tuesday and Wednesday at 9 a.m. at the Randolph County Courthouse, 372 Highway JJ, Huntsville. Commission Clerk Stacey Roth; County Clerk Terri Maddox. Agendas and monthly minutes for January to August 2026 are posted on the commission page.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Randolph 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?
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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