The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byNot found
- JailNo jail is named on any Shannon County page that could be opened
- Where prisoners goNot found - no county page says where arrested persons are held
- What was triedshannoncounty.gov home, sheriff, commission, and the September, October and November 2025 commission minutes index pages were opened. The minutes themselves are posted as downloadable Word files whose text could not be read, so nothing is claimed about their contents.
Source: Shannon County, MO - 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 Steven Hogan
- Runs the jailNot established - the county's sheriff page names the sheriff and staff but describes no jail or detention facility
- 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 addressPO Box 880, Eminence, MO 65466
- Listed contactNon-emergency (573) 226-3117 ext. 8; emergency 911 or (573) 226-3615
- Chief DeputyTony Hughes
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Shannon County, MO - 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. No judge's name and no circuit number 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 →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The county runs its own domain, shannoncounty.gov, with a sheriff page naming the sheriff, chief deputy and contact numbers. The site has no jail page, roster, budget page or bond information.
- No Shannon County page that could be opened names a jail or says where the county's prisoners are held. That is recorded as not found rather than as a finding that the county has no jail.
- Commission minutes are published monthly as downloadable Word documents. Their text could not be read, so no board of visitors report or grand jury jail report could be examined and nothing is claimed either way.
- All ten transparency checks are recorded as no. The county domain was reachable and was read, so this is an examined county with nothing published on the points checked.
- Searches for this county returned only commercial inmate-lookup sites styled to look official, such as shannoncountyjailmo.org and shannoncountyjail.org. None is a county publication and 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, the ordinary Missouri form. Presiding Commissioner Beth (Stewart) Long, Southern Commissioner Herman Kelly, Northern Commissioner Vester Crider, all listed on the county's own commission page. The commission meets Mondays from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on the first floor of the County Courthouse in Eminence. The county posts monthly commission minutes pages, the latest linked being November 2025.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Shannon 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