The Detention Center
Taney County Detention Center
- Operated byTaney County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address266 Main Street, Forsyth, MO 65653 (sheriff's office address)
- RosterA live inmate list is published on the county's sheriff subdomain, showing a current inmate count with bond amounts and bond types for each person
- Count shown196 in custody on the roster when opened (page stamped 9 August 2026) - a point-in-time count, not an average daily population
- BedsNot found - no bed count published on any page that could be opened
- What was triedtaneymosheriff.gov home page, the county's sheriff department pages, so.taneycounty.org/inmates.php, the county home, departments, commission and auditor pages were opened. The sheriff's Corrections Division/Jail, Jail Commissary and Inmate Mail and Communications pages are linked from the sheriff's home page but were not returned by search, so were not opened. The 2026 approved budget PDF (media.taneycounty.org) returned no readable content.
Source: Taney County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓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 — 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 Brad Daniels
- Runs the jailYes - the Taney County Sheriff's Office operates the Taney County Detention Center through its Corrections Division/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 address266 Main Street, Forsyth, MO 65653 (mailing P.O. Box 1005)
- Listed contact(417) 546-7250, non-emergency, 24 hours
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Taney 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. No judge's name or 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
- Taney County has two first-party web presences: the county's taneycounty.org (including the sheriff's subdomain so.taneycounty.org, which hosts the live inmate list) and the sheriff's own taneymosheriff.gov.
- The live inmate list shows a current in-custody count and bond amounts and types per person. No bed count was found, so the capacity check is recorded as no; the point-in-time count is recorded in the jail facts.
- The county Auditor's page lists approved county budgets for 2024 to 2026 and audit reports for 2022 to 2024. The 2026 budget PDF returned no readable content, so no sheriff or jail line item could be read; the budget check is recorded as no on a strict reading, not as a finding that no budget is published.
- The sheriff's home page links a Jail Commissary page and an Inmate Mail and Communications page, but neither could be opened, so the fees check is recorded as no. Nothing is claimed about what those pages contain.
- The commission minutes archive (2012 to September 2026) exists, but individual minutes were not opened, so nothing is claimed either way about a board of visitors or grand jury jail report.
- Search results for this county included commercial inmate-lookup sites styled to look official (taneycountyjailmo.org, missouriprisons.org, missourijailroster.com). They 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.
- County Commission, which the county's own page describes as the executive body of Taney County operating under the first-class guidelines of the Revised Statutes of Missouri; it adopts the county budget. The county's departments listing names Nick Plummer as Presiding Commissioner; the two associate commissioners' names were not confirmed from a page that could be opened. The commission page carries an archive of Commission Minutes from 2012 to September 2026. The Auditor's page publishes approved county budgets (2024, 2025, 2026) and audit reports.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Taney 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