The Detention Center
Warren County Jail
- Operated byWarren County Sheriff Department
- Jail address104 West Main St., Suite A, Warrenton, MO 63383
- Jail Division staff publishedA lieutenant (Matt Schmutz), 2 sergeants, 4 corporals, about 20 detention officers and a jail nurse are listed in the sheriff's Jail Division directory
- Arrest reportsWeekly arrest reports (bookings for each week, with arresting agency, charges and bond) are published as PDFs; the most recent opened covers 6-12 September 2026. These are booking logs, not a list of who is in custody now
- Documents linkedAbout Jail Visitation, Inmate Handbook and Weekly Jail Menu downloads are linked from the Jail Info page but could not be opened
- BedsNot found - no bed count published on any page that could be opened
- What was triedwarrencomosheriff.gov home, Jail Info and Jail Division pages and a weekly arrest report PDF were opened. No county government website was returned by search; warrencountymo.org was attempted and refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED).
Source: Warren County Sheriff Department - Jail Info · 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
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Kevin Harrison
- Runs the jailYes - the Warren County Sheriff Department has a Jail Division and publishes a Jail Info page for the Warren 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 address104 W. Main St., Suite A, Warrenton, MO 63383
- Listed contact636-456-4332 (office); 636-456-7088 (dispatch)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Warren County Sheriff Department · 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
Notes on the record
- The sheriff's department runs its own domain, warrencomosheriff.gov, which counts as first-party. It names the Warren County Jail, gives its address, lists Jail Division staff, and publishes weekly arrest reports.
- The roster check is recorded as no on a strict reading: the weekly arrest reports list bookings for a past week, with bond amounts, but not who is in custody now.
- The Inmate Handbook and visitation documents are linked but could not be opened, so the bond_info and fees checks are recorded as no. Nothing is claimed about what those documents contain.
- No bed count, daily population, PREA material or housing contract was found on the sheriff's site.
- No county government website was returned by the one search spent on this county, and the one domain attempted was refused, so budget and commission minutes could not be examined; they are recorded as not found rather than as absent.
- Search results included commercial inmate-lookup sites (missouriinmatesearch.org, jailexchange.com, missouriinmates.org, missourijailroster.com, missouriofficialrecords.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.
- Ordinary Missouri county, expected to be governed by a three-member County Commission, but no Warren County government website could be opened, so no commissioner's name, board page or minutes page was confirmed and none is recorded here.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Warren 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