The Detention Center
Texas County Justice Center
- Operated byTexas County Sheriff's Office
- Beds72, published by the county: "The Texas County Justice Center houses a 72-bed jail"
- Jail staff published15 full-time jailers, 3 part-time jailers, 1 jail administrator, 1 assistant jail administrator, 2 full-time cooks
- Sheriff's office address519 North Grand Avenue, Suite 101, Houston, MO 65483
- Daily populationNot published
- RosterNot found - the sheriff's page and Sheriff's Resources page carry no inmate roster link
Source: Texas County, Missouri - Sheriff · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗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
- Beds72
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Scott Lindsey
- Runs the jailYes - the sheriff's office staffs the jail in the Texas County Justice Center
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff; the county states it is a county-wide elected office serving a four-year term
- 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 address519 North Grand Avenue, Suite 101, Houston, MO 65483
- Listed contact417-967-4165
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Texas 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. 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
- The county's own site, texascountymissouri.gov, names the Texas County Justice Center and publishes its jail bed count (72) and jail staffing. No daily population is published, so the capacity check is recorded as no; the bed count is recorded in the building record.
- No inmate roster, bond guidance, commissary, phone or video-visit rates or PREA material was found on the sheriff's page or the Sheriff's Resources page. No separate sheriff's website was found.
- The county has a Budget & Finance Reports page, but no budget document or figure could be read from it, so the budget check is recorded as no.
- The commission page states the sheriff reports jail inspections and a Board of Prisoners report to the commission. Those reports are not published on the county's site, and the Agendas & Minutes page holds only one set of minutes (19 February 2020), so the inspections check is recorded as no.
- Search results included commercial inmate-lookup sites (missouricountyjails.org, missourijailroster.com, missouriinmates.org and others). 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.
- Three-member County Commission, the ordinary Missouri form. Presiding Commissioner Scott Long, District I Commissioner John Casey, District II Commissioner Robert Ross, listed on the county's own commission page. The commission holds sessions on Wednesday and Thursday. The commission page lists among matters before it the sheriff's reports, including a "Board of Prisoners report, and the monthly prisoner menus and inspections of the jail"; those reports themselves are not published on any page that was opened. The Agendas & Minutes page carries a single document, minutes of 19 February 2020.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Texas 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