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Madison County Jail Overview

Madison County's departments page names Nic Adams as sheriff, and the Madison County Sheriff's Office operates the Madison County Jail. The jail is the county facility used after arrests by the sheriff's office, Fredericktown Police Department, and other local agencies when a person must be held past initial police processing. Missouri law also fits that structure: RSMo 221.020 places custody, rule, keeping, and charge of the county jail and prisoners with the county sheriff, except for limited statutory exceptions.

The jail's official local identity should stay tied to Fredericktown, Missouri. Search results for "Madison County jail roster" can point to other Madison Counties in Arkansas, Indiana, Alabama, Illinois, and Kentucky. For this Madison County Jail, confirm Missouri, Fredericktown, and the 573 area-code jail phone before trusting any roster or booking page. No separate Madison County work-release center, regional jail, state prison, Federal Bureau of Prisons facility, or ICE detention center was located inside Madison County from the official county, state, federal, and facility-list sources reviewed.

The local jail is distinct from the Madison County Justice Center. The jail handles custody and booking questions. The Justice Center at 3 Court Square is important after booking because it houses the Circuit Clerk, Judge, and Juvenile Office according to the county contact page. Formal charges, court dates, bond orders, dispositions, and older certified court records route through the court system, not through a jail roster.

Madison County Jail Contact

Use the jail phone for current custody questions, booking status, bond status, transfer status, and whether a person is still held locally. The Missouri Association of Counties directory lists the jail at the same North Main Street address used in other official sources and gives county office hours of 8-4:30 Monday through Friday, closed legal holidays. Those office hours should not be treated as jail visitation or intake hours, since jail custody functions can differ from county business counters.

The Missouri Department of Public Safety county directory also lists the sheriff's office at 124 N. Main St. with phone 573-783-2234. Fax numbers differ by source: DPS lists 573-783-8528, while the county departments page lists 573-561-1211. Because the phone number is consistent across county, DPS, and Missouri Association of Counties sources, it is the safest first contact for jail information.

The official source image comes from the Missouri Association of Counties directory entry for Madison County. It is useful because it shows the jail address and office-hour context from a statewide county directory.

Use the image as a contact cross-check, not as a substitute for calling the jail before travel, visits, mail, or deposits.

Madison County Jail Lookup

No official Madison County, Missouri online jail roster was located on the county or sheriff sources reviewed. That absence matters. A Madison County Jail custody search should not rely on third-party roster pages or similarly named Madison County sites from other states. The direct county-jail route is the jail phone, then Missouri VINELink for custody notifications, then court and corrections systems if the person is not found or may have moved.

1. Call Madison County Jail at 573-783-2234. Ask for current custody status, booking date, bond status, first appearance or court-date information if available, and whether a transfer or hold exists.
2. Search Missouri VINELink for custody status and release notification options. VINELink is the strongest statewide fallback when a local county roster is not published.
3. Check Missouri Case.net when formal charges may have been filed. Search by litigant name or case number, then narrow to the correct county or court filters when visible.
4. Use the Missouri DOC Offender Web Search only after sentencing, prison transfer, probation, parole, or a DOC-related hold becomes likely.
5. Use the BOP Inmate Locator for federal prison custody, ICE ODLS for immigration detention, and the U.S. Marshals Eastern District of Missouri for federal pretrial custody questions.

Have the person's full name, date of birth or age, arrest date, booking date, arresting agency, and any court case number ready before calling. If the arrest was made by Fredericktown Police Department, that agency may be the arresting agency, but a person held past police processing should route to Madison County Jail for local custody status. A court case may lag behind jail intake, so a new arrest can be real even when Case.net does not yet show a case.

Madison County Jail Capacity

The only located facility-specific count for Madison County Jail is an older inventory figure. The Prisoners of the Census/BJS Missouri correctional-facility inventory lists Madison County Jail as a local facility at 124 North Main Street in Fredericktown with 34 listed for the facility on 3/31/2006. Current official rated capacity, current average daily population, pod-by-pod capacity, annual bookings, and a live jail dashboard were not located in county, sheriff, DPS, DOC, or court sources.

The 2006 number should be read as a historic correctional-facility inventory count, not a current bed count. It is still useful because it confirms Madison County Jail as a small local jail facility, but it does not answer how many people are housed there today. For a current population count, call the jail. For court volume, charges, and filed case status, use Case.net and the Circuit Clerk route after a case opens.

Madison County Jail Visits

Official Madison County Jail visitation rules were not located on county or sheriff pages. No local schedule, visit length, dress code, child visitor rule, visitor ID rule, attorney-visit rule, approval process, lobby kiosk rule, or video visitation vendor was confirmed in official sources. The practical result is simple: call the jail before arriving. Do not assume that a rule shown on a third-party jail page or a page for another Madison County applies in Fredericktown, Missouri.

Visitor logistics are also not fully published. Research did not locate a visitor parking lot, transit route, locker rule, public entry door, ADA entry note, or property restriction list for the Madison County Jail building. Visitors coming from rural Madison County communities such as Marquand should plan extra travel time because local routes are rural and weather can affect two-lane roads. Confirm parking, entry, accessibility, and property rules with the jail before leaving.

Note: Do not travel for a visit until Madison County Jail confirms the person is still in custody and visits are allowed that day.

Madison County Jail Mail

Official local mail, phone, commissary, and money-deposit rules were not found for Madison County Jail. Third-party pages may name vendors, but those claims were not confirmed by the official research sources and should not be treated as jail policy. Before sending mail or funds, call the jail and ask for the exact inmate-name format, whether a booking number or date of birth is required, what address line to use, what mail items are barred, and whether books, photos, cards, or legal mail follow separate rules.

State prison rules are different. If a Madison County defendant has been sentenced and transferred to Missouri DOC custody, use DOC family and friends pages for visiting, mail, phones, and money transfer. MODOC lists JPay and mailed money-order or cashier-check options for prison deposits, but those DOC rules should not be applied to Madison County Jail unless the jail confirms a local match.

Madison County Jail Booking

Madison County Jail booking follows the general Missouri local-jail path documented in the research. After arrest, intake may include identity checks, warrant checks, property inventory, medical or mental-health screening, booking photo and fingerprints, entry of arrest or warrant information, and preliminary housing classification. The exact Madison County timing, property rules, medical request process, and housing classification terms were not published in official local sources.

Booking charges and court charges are not the same thing. Jail booking information starts with the arresting agency's allegations, warrants, and hold information. Formal court charges appear after the prosecutor files a complaint or information, or after an indictment. For Madison County, that court pathway runs through Case.net and the Circuit Clerk at the Justice Center. A person may be in jail before the filed case is easy to find online.

Booking

Jail intake after arrest, including identification, records checks, property handling, and initial custody entry.

Bond

A court-set release condition that may be cash, surety, recognizance, or another form.

Detainer

A request from another agency to hold or notify before release, often tied to another warrant, federal case, DOC hold, or immigration matter.

First appearance

The first court event after arrest where custody, bond, and early case issues may be addressed.

Directions to Madison County Jail

Madison County Jail is in downtown Fredericktown at 124 N. Main St. The jail is near the courthouse square and Justice Center area, which matters because jail custody, court filings, and clerk services are close but not the same office. Visitors coming from U.S. 67 generally enter Fredericktown on local routes toward downtown and the courthouse area, then use Main Street. From Missouri Route 72, approach Fredericktown and follow local signs toward downtown.

Do not rely on courthouse or Justice Center hours as a jail-service schedule. The Missouri Association of Counties lists county office hours of 8-4:30 Monday through Friday, closed legal holidays, but the jail's custody operations and public counters may follow different access rules. Call 573-783-2234 to confirm the correct entrance, public counter availability, visitor check-in process, and whether a person is still housed locally before making the trip.

Madison County Jail Records

When a Madison County Jail record is not available online, use a Missouri Sunshine Law request to the agency that created or holds the record. For booking records, jail logs, arrest reports, or booking photos, that route usually starts with the Madison County Sheriff's Office or the county records custodian. RSMo 610.011 states Missouri's policy favoring open public governmental records unless another law closes them, and RSMo 610.100 defines arrest and incident reports while recognizing exceptions for active investigative material and other protected information.

A useful written request should name the person, date of birth if known, arrest date, booking date, incident number or case number if known, and the specific records wanted. Ask whether inspection or electronic copies are available, whether redactions apply, and whether the office can provide a fee estimate before copying. No Madison County sheriff records-request form, local booking-record fee schedule, or published response timeline was located, so avoid assuming a fee or a fixed turnaround.

For court records after a jail arrest, the Circuit Clerk is the better route once a case exists. The county departments page lists Circuit Clerk Tenia Hermann at 573-783-2176 x2, and the Justice Center address is 3 Court Square. For a broader custody walkthrough, the Madison County jail inmate records page separates current custody checks from court, DOC, federal, and immigration searches.

Madison County Jail Transfers

A person can leave Madison County Jail without being released home. Transfer paths include court transport, another Missouri county warrant, Missouri DOC reception after sentencing, probation or parole holds, federal pretrial custody through the U.S. Marshals Service, federal prison custody through BOP after conviction, and immigration detention through ICE. A local 2025 news report described ICE detainers connected to people held in Madison County Jail after a Fredericktown stop, which shows why local custody and immigration or federal processes can overlap.

Call the jail first when the transfer date is unclear. VINELink can help with release notifications, but it may not explain every court, DOC, federal, or ICE step. Once a person is no longer physically held at Madison County Jail, the next system controls the record, rules, mail, money, and visitation process.