Perry County Sheriff's Office Jail Overview
The official Perry County jail page places the jail under the Perry County Sheriff's Office. The current jail correspondence address is 400 W. St. Joseph St. STE 3, Perryville, MO 63775, and the jail is part of the county's Joint Justice Center public-safety and court campus. Sheriff Jason Klaus is listed on the Sheriff's Administration page, and Captain Pete Unverferth is listed as jail administrator.
The facility holds people booked into county custody, including recent arrestees, people waiting on first appearance or later court hearings, county-sentenced inmates, and detainees moving to or from another agency. Perryville police arrests also feed into this county jail path after booking. Missouri DOC prisoners, federal sentenced prisoners, and immigration detainees are searched in separate systems, even if a local case began in Perry County.
The county Joint Justice Center groundbreaking release described a roughly 60,000-square-foot building in the 400 block of West St. Joseph Street. It includes the Sheriff's Office and Jail, Perryville Police Department, Circuit Court Clerk, Prosecuting Attorney, Emergency Management, state and municipal courts, joint 911 dispatch, and the Coroner's Office. That matters for records users because custody, city arrest, court, and prosecution offices share the same broader justice-center setting but still keep different records.
The county's jail overview page is a useful starting point for jail subpages and staff contact information.
The Perry County jail overview is shown in the county screenshot.
The overview confirms the official county source for jail topics even though it does not publish a searchable public inmate list.
Perry County Sheriff's Office Jail Capacity and Population
No official Perry County jail page reviewed published a current rated capacity, bed count, housing-unit map, average daily population, annual bookings total, or live inmate count. Older third-party pages repeat a prior Kingshighway address and a 40-bed figure, but the official county materials now use the West St. Joseph Street jail correspondence address and describe the Joint Justice Center setting. Those older numbers should not be treated as official capacity data.
Population-adjacent official facts are limited to the county and building context. The City of Perryville profile lists Perry County's 2020 population as 18,956 and Perryville's 2020 population as 8,555. The county news release lists the Joint Justice Center as roughly 60,000 square feet and estimated the project at $26.5 million. Those facts describe the local justice setting, not a jail headcount.
How to Look Up an Inmate at Perry County Sheriff's Office Jail
No official Perry County, Missouri searchable jail roster, current-inmate list, or mugshot gallery was located on the county jail pages. The practical lookup chain starts with the jail staff phone line and then moves to court, DOC, federal, immigration, or notification systems depending on the person's status.
- Call jail staff at 573-547-4071 for current custody questions, or call the sheriff/jail office line at 573-547-4576 for records and jail-policy questions.
- Provide the person's full legal name, date of birth if known, and approximate arrest date. Ask whether the person is currently held at the Perry County Sheriff's Office Jail and whether releasable bond, hold, release, or court-date information is available.
- For filed criminal charges, use Missouri Case.net. Perry County directs users to the 32nd Judicial Circuit for pending criminal prosecutions and searches by defendant name, case number, or scheduled hearings and trials.
- If the person has moved from county jail to state correctional supervision, use Missouri Department of Corrections Offender Search. MODOC covers active offenders, probationers, and parolees, not ordinary new county bookings.
- For federal custody, use the BOP Inmate Locator. For immigration detention, use ICE ODLS. Neither replaces the Perry County jail call for local custody.
- Use VINELink when release or victim-notification alerts are the goal. Perry County Sheriff's quick links include Missouri victim notification through VINELink.
Tiger Commissary is not a jail roster. Its inmate-selection workflow may help family or friends place funds or commissary orders after they already know the person is held at Perry County Jail, but it should not be treated as the official custody search.
Perry County Sheriff's Office Jail Address and Contact
Use the official sheriff and jail numbers before traveling, especially because the county pages do not publish a jail lobby schedule, public booking-window hours, or visitor-entry instructions. The sheriff page gives the main office phone and emergency number; the jail overview page also gives a jail-staff line for jail questions.
Perry County Sheriff's Office Jail
400 W. St. Joseph St. STE 3
Perryville, MO 63775
573-547-4071 jail staff
573-547-4576 sheriff/jail office
911 for emergencies
The same West St. Joseph Street corridor appears across jail, court, prosecution, police, and Joint Justice Center materials. That does not mean each office can answer every records question. Custody questions start with jail staff; filed court records start with Case.net or the Circuit Clerk; police incident questions may require the arresting agency.
Visiting Someone at Perry County Sheriff's Office Jail
The official Perry County visitation page confirms that visitors may leave cash, money orders, or cashier's checks for an inmate's commissary account. It also says special visits must be cleared in advance by the Sheriff or Jail Captain. It does not publish a regular weekly visiting schedule, online scheduling provider, visit length, child-visitor rule, dress code, visitor ID rule, or video visitation vendor.
| Topic | Official Detail | What to Confirm |
|---|---|---|
| Regular visits | Visitation page exists, but no schedule was published in the reviewed text. | Call jail staff before arrival. |
| Special visits | Must be cleared in advance by the Sheriff or Jail Captain. | Ask what approval and timing are required. |
| Commissary deposits | Visitors may leave cash, money orders, or cashier's checks. | Confirm lobby rules and accepted timing. |
| ID, dress code, minors | No detailed rule was located in official county text reviewed. | Ask jail staff for current entry rules. |
The visitation source page is the county source for the special-visit and commissary-deposit notes.
The image reinforces the main caution for visitors: the county gives some visit-related rules, but it does not provide a complete public visiting calendar.
Mail, Phone, Commissary, and Money at Perry County Sheriff's Office Jail
The official inmate correspondence page gives the mail format as the inmate's name, c/o Perry County Sheriff's Office Jail, 400 W. St. Joseph St. STE 3, Perryville, MO 63775. The county materials reviewed did not publish postcard-only rules, photo rules, book rules, scanning procedures, or a phone/video vendor.
For money, the county visitation page allows visitors to leave cash, money orders, or cashier's checks for commissary. The Tiger Commissary Perry County Jail page confirms Perry County Jail in Perryville, Missouri and offers Web Deposits and Order Commissary options.
| Service | Provider or Detail | Source Note |
|---|---|---|
| Mail address | Inmate name, c/o Perry County Sheriff's Office Jail, 400 W. St. Joseph St. STE 3, Perryville, MO 63775 | Official correspondence page |
| Phone or video | No public vendor found in official county text reviewed | Call jail staff |
| Visitor deposit | Cash, money order, or cashier's check for commissary account | Official visitation page |
| Web deposits | Tiger Commissary Web Deposits | Tiger Commissary vendor page |
| Commissary orders | Tiger Commissary Order Commissary | Tiger Commissary vendor page |
Tiger Commissary's Perry County Jail page shows the deposit and order options available through the vendor.
Use the vendor page for deposits or commissary ordering, and use the jail phone line for custody confirmation or facility policy questions.
Property and Health Care Rules
The personal property page says articles brought at incarceration are stored and generally may not be taken to cells. The listed exceptions are legal papers needed to prepare a current case and wedding rings that do not have stones or sharp corners. Personal property may be released to family or friends by the inmate. If it is not released, property is held 14 days after release or transfer and then may be disposed of or donated. The jail will not accept outside personal property except one set of jury-trial clothes brought by the attorney.
The health care services page says medical care is provided by a nurse practitioner or another qualified medical professional. Doctor and dental visits carry a $10 co-pay, prescription medication carries a $7.50 co-pay, emergency dental care is handled on an emergency basis, and medical care will not be refused because an inmate lacks funds. Mental treatment can be provided by court order, and eyeglasses, contacts, and related supplies are the inmate's responsibility.
The official health-care page is one of the clearest county sources for jail-condition details.
These medical and property rules are facility operations details, not a public inmate roster or a substitute for direct jail contact.
Booking and Intake at Perry County Sheriff's Office Jail
Perry County does not publish a detailed public booking manual. A typical local path starts with arrest by a sheriff's deputy, Perryville police officer, Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper, or another agency. The person is transported to the Perry County Sheriff's Office Jail or Joint Justice Center setting for intake, property inventory, medical screening, booking record creation, housing or classification, and bond or court steps.
Missouri law affects timing and records access. Section 544.170 addresses warrantless detention timing unless a person is charged by oath and held by warrant. Missouri Sunshine Law sections 610.011, 610.023, 610.026, and 610.100 provide the public-records framework for requests and arrest-report access. Filed charges and later court events are normally checked through Case.net rather than through the jail.
About Perry County Sheriff's Office Jail
The recent local facility story is the Joint Justice Center. Perry County broke ground on January 9, 2023, after voters approved Prop C.O.P.S. in April 2021. The county release described a half-cent capital-improvement sales tax for 20 years and then one-eighth cent for maintenance. A later county release said Perry County received a 2025 Missouri Association of Counties County Achievement Award for the project, emphasizing cooperation between the county and the City of Perryville.
Published program and condition details are limited. The county gives concrete rules for correspondence, health care, personal property, visitation deposits, bonding, and commissary. No official county page was located for GED, vocational, substance-abuse, work-release, religious services, grievance, tablet, or reentry programming.
Note: Confirm custody, visiting permission, entry rules, and mailing limits with Perry County jail staff before traveling or sending money.