Search Adair County Detention Center Inmates

Adair County Detention Center Custody

The Adair County Detention Center is a county jail operated by the Adair County Sheriff's Office. It is the primary local detention point for Adair County, the City of Kirksville, Truman Department of Public Safety, surrounding counties, and other agencies. The facility holds pretrial detainees, sentenced county jail inmates, and people held under state, local, or civil authority. It is not a Missouri state prison.

The older sheriff corrections page identifies a secure central control room, intake processing area, holding cells, four housing units, an indoor exercise yard, three visitation rooms, a medical room, laundry room, and full-service kitchen. Those building details help explain why custody questions may involve intake, housing, visits, medical access, phone accounts, mail review, commissary, or records release.

The sheriff's older corrections page describes the building and local jail operations. The Adair County corrections and jail page is the matching source for the facility layout, health care, meals, laundry, and Board of County Visitors details.

The building source supports treating this as a local jail page, with county visitation, mail, phone, commissary, and lookup procedures rather than state prison rules.

Adair County Detention Center Population

Current county capacity and current average daily population were not located on official Adair County pages. The best sourced facility figures come from the Vera Incarceration Trends county dataset. Vera lists Adair County, Missouri jail rated capacity as 64 in the 2013 through 2019 rows, with a 2019 jail population of 53. That 2019 row also separates the jail population into 35 people in pretrial custody and 18 people in sentenced custody.

Read those figures as historical county jail data, not a live count. The county pages reviewed did not publish a daily custody dashboard, annual booking total, demographic report, or current 2026 average daily population. For current custody, call the jail control room.

Lookup Adair County Detention Center Inmates

No official public online Adair County Detention Center jail roster was found on the county government site or older sheriff site. A current Adair County inmate lookup should start with the jail control room, then move to a written public-records request if staff cannot release the needed detail by phone. For filed charges after arrest, use Missouri Case.net. For sentenced state custody, use MODOC Offender Search. Federal and immigration custody are separate systems.

1. Call the Adair County Detention Center control room at (660) 665-4644 ext. 1 and ask whether the person is currently held there.
2. Have the person's full legal name, date of birth if known, approximate arrest date, and arresting agency, such as the sheriff, Kirksville Police, Truman Department of Public Safety, or another agency.
3. Ask whether custody status, bond status, and a court case number can be confirmed. Staff may limit details by phone.
4. If older booking details or records are needed, use the Adair County Sheriff's public-records request process.
5. Use Missouri Case.net, MODOC Offender Search, BOP Inmate Locator, or ICE Online Detainee Locator when the custody type points outside the county jail.

For a fuller local records route, the Adair County jail inmate records page separates phone, records, court, state, federal, and immigration lookup channels.

Adair County Detention Center Contact

The facility and Sheriff's Office share the Franklin Street address in Kirksville. Use the jail control room for current detainee questions, visit scheduling, and facility-specific directions before traveling. Use the sheriff administrative phone for Sheriff's Office business that is not a jail control room question.

Adair County Detention Center Visits

Adair County's visitation rules allow two 30-minute visits each week. Visit days and times depend on housing area and room assignment, so call the jail control room before traveling. Visitors enter from the Franklin Street side lobby and sign in with correctional personnel at the control room window at the far end of the lobby.

Photo identification is required. Visits are non-contact unless the visitor is an attorney or other official. Visitors are subject to search, and refusal means leaving. Cell phone use, recording, and photography are prohibited in visitation rooms. The county also bars some case-connected visitors, including victims, co-conspirators, witnesses, and people barred by court order.

The Adair County jail visitation rules source covers lobby entry, identification, visit limits, search rules, case-conflict limits, and dress standards.

The image documents the same practical rule set visitors need before entering the Franklin Street lobby.

Adair County Detention Center Mail

Incoming mail goes to the jail address with the detainee's name, the sender's full legal name, and a full return address. The county screens mail for contraband. Rejected mail is returned to the sender when possible, and detainees may appeal under the facility process. Prohibited examples include stickers, stains, lipstick, perfume smell, nude photos, and offensive drawings or depictions.

Detainees cannot receive incoming calls. Staff do not pass routine telephone messages, although emergency messages may be screened case by case. Outgoing calls use NCIC Inmate Communications. Detainees receive a unique PIN for collect calls and may buy prepaid minutes through commissary.

Adair County Detention Center Commissary

Adair County uses Keefe Commissary. Detainees place commissary orders on Monday nights, so timing matters. Funds, money orders, and cashier checks must arrive before 4 p.m. Mondays for that week's order. Deposits can be made online through Access Corrections, by phone, or at the kiosk in the visitors lobby. The kiosk requires a driver's license or state non-driver ID scan and does not accept $1 bills.

Credit card user information must match the scanned ID information exactly. Released detainees seeking unused commissary fund refunds report to the receptionist window during the listed weekday lobby window with photo identification.

The Adair County jail commissary page is the source for Keefe, Access Corrections, the Monday deadline, kiosk ID scanning, and the no $1 bill rule.

Adair County Detention Center Intake

Booking begins when an arresting agency takes a person into custody and transports that person to the Adair County Detention Center. Agencies may include the Adair County Sheriff's Office, Kirksville Police Department, Truman Department of Public Safety, or another surrounding agency. Jail staff then create or update custody records, assign housing, and handle initial health and safety needs.

Missouri law also shapes jail classification. RSMo 221.097 requires separation and classification rules for certain confined people. In plain terms, classification is the jail's process for deciding housing and supervision so detainees are separated when law, safety, or facility rules require it.

Pretrial detainee

A person held before case disposition or while waiting for bond, court action, or release conditions.

Sentenced county inmate

A person serving a jail sentence locally after a court disposition.

Detainer

A hold or notice from another authority, such as another county, probation or parole, federal custody, or immigration custody.

Classification

The jail assessment used for housing, separation, supervision, and safety.

Adair County Detention Center Oversight

The sheriff's corrections page describes contracted health care through an on-site nurse, regular physician visits, and pharmacy services. It states that health services are provided regardless of an inmate's ability to pay or repay the cost. Meals are prepared on site by contracted kitchen personnel, and laundry is performed on site by jail staff.

Adair County also has a Board of County Visitors. The Presiding Judge of the Circuit Court, in partnership with the Sheriff, appoints six members. The board stays advised of jail conditions and management, including administration, cleanliness, discipline, and comfort. If it finds harmful or improper conditions, it reports facts and suggested remedies to the Presiding Judge, Sheriff, and County Commission.

Visitors should plan for a downtown Kirksville facility. From U.S. 63 or Missouri Route 6, route toward the courthouse and Franklin Street. Official parking, public-transit, and ADA entrance details were not published in the researched jail pages, so call the control room before travel when those details affect the visit. The Adair County inmate population overview adds broader county jail context and state or federal lookup distinctions.