Perry County Jail Release Routes
The Perry County Sheriff’s Office Jail is the only confirmed adult detention facility in the county facility map. It is a county jail operated by the Sheriff, not a Missouri state prison. A person may be held before trial, on a local sentence, on a warrant, or while another authority arranges transfer. That mix makes the recorded disposition essential.
A community release can follow bond, time served, dismissal, sentence completion, or another court-authorized order. A transfer ends Perry County custody but keeps the person in custody elsewhere. Possible destinations include MODOC, another county, federal authorities, or another agency. The jail’s custody-event entry should be read with the Perry County court docket and, when applicable, the destination agency’s admission record.
| Jail exit | Likely next source | What to confirm |
|---|---|---|
| Bond | Case.net and Sheriff record | Order, completed processing, and other holds |
| Time served or court release | Judgment and release entry | Legal basis and physical exit time |
| MODOC transfer | State Offender Search | Institution or field assignment |
| Federal transfer | Federal docket or BOP | Federal custody, not community release |
Confirm Perry County Jail Releases
The official Perry County Jail page provides the local jail contact route, but it does not provide an authenticated released-person search. No official 24-hour list, 72-hour list, release archive, field set, refresh schedule, or retention period was verified. A current information screen, if available to staff, is not the same as a public historical release ledger.
Use a named-person inquiry. Match the full legal name with a date of birth, booking number, case number, or a narrow booking range. Ask for the recorded release date and time, the release type or disposition, and the transfer destination when that field is open. If the response uses a code, request the agency’s existing legend instead of guessing.
- Check the 32nd Judicial Circuit case for a bond, dismissal, judgment, sentence, or warrant entry.
- Call the jail information line and ask for the correct route to the booking or release record.
- Send a written Chapter 610 request for the custody-event history and exit disposition.
- If the record says transfer, search the named receiving system and match at least two identifiers.
- Use MOVANS only as corroborating notice, then verify the event with the Sheriff or destination agency.
Leaving the Perry County Jail record does not always mean leaving custody. A transfer and a community release both end the local jail stay.
Perry County Jail Release Contact
The official Sheriff’s Office page supplies the current administration address and contact details. The separate jail number is the practical first call for a current question or records referral. Use the official county source instead of a legacy directory, since the justice-center move changed the local address context.
Perry County Sheriff’s Office Jail400 W. St. Joseph St., Suite 3
Perryville, MO 63775
Jail questions: 573-547-4071
Administration: 573-547-4576
Fax: 573-547-7461
Email: sheriff@perrycountymo.gov
The county administration page identifies Sheriff Jason Klaus and Jail Administrator Captain Pete Unverferth. A named official can help route a question, but the office’s records custodian remains the proper destination for a formal release-record request. Confirm the current custodian and method before sending personal identifiers.
The Missouri records-custodian statute is shown in the captured source below.
The law addresses response duties; it does not create a public Perry County Jail release feed.
Request Perry County Jail Records
A written Missouri Sunshine request creates a clear scope and response trail. Ask for existing open portions of the booking and release records. Useful identifiers include full name, date of birth, booking or case number, and approximate booking and exit dates. Request the booking sheet, custody-event history, recorded release date and time, disposition, and receiving agency when the exit was a transfer and that field is open.
Electronic delivery may reduce copy cost. Ask for an itemized estimate before charges. Perry County publishes no fixed fee for a jail release record or booking photograph. Section 610.026 permits defined copy, staff-time, research, media, and necessary programming costs, as well as prepayment. It directs use of employees that results in the lowest charges.
Section 610.023 requires the custodian to act as soon as possible and by the end of the third business day. Production can take longer for reasonable cause if the response explains the delay and gives the earliest availability. A denial requested in writing should state the specific legal basis. Ask for segregable open portions when part of a record is closed or redacted.
| Request item | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Release date and time | Records the local physical exit event |
| Disposition or release type | Separates bond, completion, court release, and transfer |
| Destination agency | Directs the next custody search when open |
| Booking number and sheet | Ties the release to the correct jail stay |
| Booking photograph | Connects the requested image to the same booking |
Perry County Jail Court Records
The county court-information page directs criminal case searches to the 32nd Judicial Circuit. Case.net may show the bond, judgment, sentence, dismissal, warrant activity, and later orders. These records can outlast short-term jail visibility, making them useful after a person leaves the Perry County Sheriff’s Office Jail.
A court release order is not the same as the jail’s exit timestamp. Staff may still need to check other warrants and holds, complete identification, handle papers, and release property. If dates differ, place the court order, jail exit, MOVANS event, and destination admission on one timeline. The source closest to each event should control that part of the account.
The Perry County criminal-case directions appear in this captured official page.
The court record explains judicial action, while the Sheriff’s entry remains the direct record of departure from the county jail.
Perry County Jail Transfer Search
A MODOC transfer should lead to the state’s active Offender Search. That system covers people in institutions and those under active community supervision. It expressly excludes discharged people. If a person completed all state supervision, use MODOC historical data or a Sunshine request rather than treating a failed live search as no history.
A federal transfer requires a different route. The BOP locator record guide explains federal coverage and displayed release information for sentenced federal custody. A U.S. Marshals pretrial matter is better followed in the federal docket because no public USMS released-person database was verified. The ICE locator addresses current immigration detention and is not a historical release record. None of these systems proves what happened at the Perry County Jail unless the local record first identifies that destination.
- Community release
- Physical custody ends and the person returns to the community, with or without supervision.
- Transfer
- One agency ends custody because another agency receives the person.
- Parole
- A Board-authorized prison release into MODOC legal custody and field supervision.
- Final discharge
- The state sentence and supervision relationship ends.
For a complete named-person route, use the Perry County released inmate search and record path and keep each result within its own custody system.
Perry County Jail Release Property
The official Perry County property policy states that stored personal property may be released to family or friends at the person’s direction. If it is not collected, the county holds it for only 14 days after release or transfer. Property may then be disposed of or donated to charity.
That deadline is both practical and evidentiary. It requires prompt contact, and the policy expressly separates release from transfer. A family member should ask which exit disposition was recorded before assuming that property availability means the person returned to the community. Call the Sheriff to confirm the current authorization and pickup steps before traveling.
Note: The property clock follows both release and transfer, so act quickly even when the receiving custody system is still being identified.
Perry County Jail Bond Releases
The Sheriff publishes an authorized surety-bondsmen list. The page confirms a local bond route but does not publish a bond schedule, a processing duration, or a Sheriff booking fee. Verify that a listed bondsman remains authorized and confirm the case-specific bond with the jail or court.
Posting bond does not end the case. Case.net can show later hearings and disposition. Nor does a court bond order prove that physical processing is complete. Another warrant, hold, or case can keep the person confined. The Perry County Jail release entry is the direct source for the completed exit, while the docket explains the order that allowed it.
Perry County Jail Address History
Older directories can conflict with the current W. St. Joseph address because Perry County developed a Joint Justice Center. Voters approved Prop C.O.P.S. in April 2021 by 1,364 to 814. The county broke ground on January 9, 2023, for an estimated $26.5 million center of roughly 60,000 square feet in the 400 block of W. St. Joseph Street.
The county’s Joint Justice Center announcement describes a planned shared location for the Sheriff and jail, Perryville Police, courts, prosecutor, joint dispatch, emergency management, and coroner. That history explains the address shift without proving a separate city detention facility. The facility map therefore remains limited to one verified adult jail.
Use the county’s current official contact page before mailing a record request or visiting. A legacy Kingshighway address may belong to the former arrangement. The present Sheriff contact at 400 W. St. Joseph St., Suite 3 is the researched destination for administration and release-record routing.