The Detention Center
Webster County Detention facility
- Operated byWebster County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address221 N. Crittenden, Marshfield, MO 65706
- Jail line(417) 859-2247, press 2
- Beds116, published by the sheriff's office
- HousingMale and female adults, in separate housing areas for low/medium security males, high-security males and females
- VisitationFridays, by appointment
- CommissaryDeposits through a housing-unit kiosk, a lobby kiosk (cash or card) or inmatecanteen.com; no prices published
- Daily populationNot published
- What was triedSheriff's home, jail, history, contact and press release pages and the county's home, commission and about pages were all opened; no roster, bond guidance, budget or minutes found
Source: Webster County Sheriff's Office - Jail · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓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 — 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
- Beds116
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Roye H. Cole
- Runs the jailYes - the sheriff's office operates the Webster County Detention facility
- 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.
- Tenure publishedThe sheriff's own history page states he was elected in 2008 and has served from 2009 to present
- Office address101 South Crittenden, Marshfield, MO 65706
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Webster County Sheriff's Office - History of the 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. The county's own pages that were opened name no circuit number and no judge, so none 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 →
Notes on the record
- The sheriff's office runs its own domain, webstercountymosheriff.org, separate from the county's webstercountymo.gov. Both are first-party and both were read.
- The sheriff's jail page names the facility and publishes 116 beds, so the named check is met and the capacity check is recorded as met on beds alone; no daily population figure is published.
- The jail page names the commissary channel (inmatecanteen.com and kiosks) but publishes no prices and no phone or video visit rates, so the fees check is recorded as no.
- No roster, bond guidance, PREA audit, housing contract, in-custody death or budget was found on either domain. The county commission page links no minutes, so no board of visitors or grand jury jail report could be examined.
- The sheriff's name comes from the sheriff's own history page, which states he has served from 2009 to present; the site's most recent press release is dated 13 November 2023.
- Search results for this county were dominated by commercial inmate-lookup sites styled to look official; none is 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 county's commission page lists Presiding Commissioner Paul Ipock, Northern Commissioner Dale Fraker and Southern Commissioner Randy Owens, at 101 S. Crittenden, Rm 11, Marshfield. However, the county's home page states that Northern Commissioner Dale Fraker resigned on 26 August 2026 and names an interim replacement only by the surname Crawford, so the Northern seat is recorded as in transition and no full name is given for the interim commissioner. The commission page links no minutes, agendas or budget.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Webster 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