The Detention Center
Ste. Genevieve County Sheriff's Office Detention Center
- Operated bySte. Genevieve County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address55 South Third St., Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670
- Jail administratorLt. Andrew (Andy) Johnson, a sheriff's lieutenant, not a separate appointed official
- CapacityThe sheriff's page describes a facility capable of housing approximately 300 detainees daily; the county-published 2023 PREA audit gives a designed capacity of 420
- Average daily population380 over the 12 months before the April 2023 PREA audit
- Staff35 full-time deputies/correctional officers
- Who it holdsServes local, state and federal agencies, from civil detainees to felons
- VisitationSunday 12:00 to 4:00, 30-minute visits, first come first served; video visitation and email through a contracted vendor
- BondCash (exact amount) at the Detention Center, cash or approved surety bondsperson, or the Circuit Clerk's office 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays; the county publishes its approved bail bond agent list
- PREAFinal PREA audit (on-site 17-19 April 2023, report 20 November 2023) found 45 standards met, 0 exceeded, 0 not met; annual PREA incident tables published for 2023, 2024 and 2025
Source: Ste. Genevieve County - Detention Center · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗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
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds420 designed capacity (2023 PREA audit); the sheriff's page says approximately 300 detainees daily
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Gary Stolzer
- Runs the jailYes - the Ste. Genevieve County Sheriff's Office Detention Center
- 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.
- Command staffChief Deputy Major Jason Schott; Jail Administrator Lieutenant Andy Johnson
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Ste. Genevieve County - Sheriff's Administration · 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 Circuit Clerk page does not state the judicial circuit number or name any judge, so neither is recorded.
- 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 most transparent small county in this group, and the only one that publishes a PREA audit. The county's own domain, stegencounty.gov, hosts the sheriff's pages, the detention centre page, a final PREA audit report and three years of annual PREA incident tables.
- The 2023 PREA audit, by auditor Vevia Sturm, found all 45 standards met. It gives a designed capacity of 420 and an average daily population of 380, which differs from the sheriff's own description of a facility capable of housing approximately 300 detainees daily; both figures are recorded as published.
- The detention centre says it serves local, state and federal agencies, but no housing contract or per-diem rate was found published, so the contracts check is no.
- Video visitation, email and deposits run through a contracted vendor; no phone, video or commissary rate was published on a county page, so the fees check is no.
- The Detention Center links inmate search to VINELink, a statewide victim-notification service, not a county roster, so the roster check is no.
- The budgets and financial statements page was opened but displayed no document or figure, so the budget check is no. The 2026 commission minutes index mentions no board of visitors or grand jury jail report; the individual minutes were not opened.
- Search results were dominated by commercial inmate-lookup sites (stegenevievecountyjailmo.org, stegenevievecountyjail.org and others); 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 Randy Ruzicka, District #1 Commissioner Cory Ford, District #2 Commissioner Mark Marberry, all listed on the county's own commissioners page. Public meetings are held every Monday and Thursday, 8:15 a.m. to noon, at 55 S. 3rd Street, Ste. Genevieve. The county publishes 2026 agendas and minutes (5 January to 23 July 2026) and a budgets and financial statements page.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Ste. Genevieve 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