Saline County, Missouri — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Saline County Jail

Operated bySaline County Sheriff's Office
Jail addressSheriff's office, 1915 W. Arrow St., P.O. Box 366, Marshall, MO 65340
Layout published8 male pods, 1 female pod and 3 holding cells; no bed count is given
In custodyThe sheriff's current-inmates roster showed 69 people in custody when opened in September 2026
BondsThe sheriff's jail page states bonds are accepted 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and must be cash in the exact amount
VisitationBy appointment only, scheduled 24 hours in advance by calling 660-886-5511
CommissaryThrough an outside canteen vendor's website or a kiosk in the sheriff's office lobby; no prices or rates are published
What was triedsalinecountysheriff.com home, jail, roster, departments-and-services and sheriff's message pages were opened. No Saline County, Missouri government site was found: a search result at salinecounty.org is Saline County, Arkansas, and is not cited.

Source: Saline County Sheriff MO - Jail · checked 2026-09-18

Transparency rating

3/10Closed

✓The jail is named
✓Who is in custody
✗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
✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Saline County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-18. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

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 Daniel Kirchhoff

Runs the jailYes - the Saline County Sheriff's Office operates the Saline County Jail
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 address1915 W. Arrow St., P.O. Box 366, Marshall, MO 65340
Listed contact660-886-5512 (non-emergency, 24-hour)

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Saline County Sheriff MO · 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 circuit number was confirmed from a page that could be opened.

Still needed

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, salinecountysheriff.com, which counts as first-party. It names the jail, publishes a live current-inmates roster and a released-inmates list, and explains how to post bond.
The capacity check is recorded as no: the jail page describes 8 male pods, 1 female pod and 3 holding cells but gives no bed count, and the roster count of people in custody is not a published capacity or daily population figure.
The fees check is recorded as no: the jail page names how commissary is ordered but publishes no phone, video visit or commissary rates.
No county government website for Saline County, Missouri was found, so no budget, commission minutes, board of visitors report or grand jury jail report could be examined. A search result at salinecounty.org belongs to Saline County, Arkansas, and several commercial inmate-lookup sites were returned; none is cited.
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, but no Saline County government website was found, so the commission's form and members were not confirmed and no commissioner is named here.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Saline 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