The Detention Center
Not scored. The county's own website was not reachable in the session that produced this record, so its disclosures were never examined. This is a gap in the research, not a finding about the county.
- Operated byNot found
- JailNot found - no county or sheriff page could be found to name one
- Sheriff's officeListed at the Wayne County Justice Center, 100 Maple Street, Greenville, by the City of Piedmont's page; that page does not describe a jail there
- What was triedOne search for the county returned no Wayne County, Missouri government or sheriff website; the only government page returned was the City of Piedmont's county officials listing, which was opened. wcsoga.com is a Georgia sheriff's site and was not used.
Source: City of Piedmont - Wayne County Officials · checked 2026-09-18
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 Kyle Shearrer
- Runs the jailNot established from a county page - no county or sheriff website was found
- 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 addressWayne County Justice Center, 100 Maple Street, Greenville, MO 63944-0109
- Listed contact(573) 224-3090
- Source caveatName taken from the City of Piedmont's undated Wayne County Officials page, a municipal government page, not a county publication
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: City of Piedmont - Wayne County Officials · 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
- No Wayne County, Missouri government website and no sheriff's website was found by the search spent on this county, so the county's own publications could not be examined. The transparency checks are left empty rather than scored: this is an unexamined county, not a county that publishes nothing.
- The sheriff's and commissioners' names come from the City of Piedmont's Wayne County Officials page, an undated municipal page. They are recorded with that caveat.
- Search results were dominated by commercial inmate-lookup sites (jailexchange.com, missouriinmates.org, missouriprisonroster.org, inmateaid.com 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. The City of Piedmont's Wayne County Officials page lists Presiding Commissioner Brian Polk, West District Associate Commissioner Steve Foster and East District Associate Commissioner Doug Wood. That page is undated and is a municipal page, not a county publication; no county commission page or minutes were found.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Wayne 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