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Contact Ripley County Record Offices

Use this contact routing for Ripley County jail, custody, booking, court, and corrections records. This site cannot confirm custody, release a detainee, post bond, schedule visits, or retrieve official records. The right office depends on whether the question involves current local custody, a booking record, a court case, a sentenced state record, or a federal or immigration custody matter.

Ripley County Inmate Population is a private reference site, not a sheriff's office, jail, court, bond desk, or records custodian. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release a detainee, post bond, schedule visits, or pull official booking records. Use the office routing below for the record or action you need.

Where to Ask First

For a current local detainee, start with the Ripley County Detention Center. The research for this county found no official searchable public jail roster, so the jail phone line is the most direct local custody route. Administrative county office hours are listed as 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, closed legal holidays. Jail intake and custody operations may run outside those hours, but public lobby, bond, property, and visitation questions should be checked by phone before traveling.

Ripley County Sheriff's Office / Ripley County Detention Center
301 N Lafayette St
Doniphan, MO 63935-1633
Jail and detainee line: 573-996-1044
Sheriff administrative phone: 573-996-2129
Sheriff main phone: 573-996-5555
Fax: 573-996-4318
Email listed in sheriff page snippets: rcso@sheriff.ripleycountymo.gov

For charges and court-file questions after an arrest, contact the court office that keeps the public case file. For prosecutor-filed charge questions, the prosecutor's office is separate from the jail.

Ripley County Circuit Clerk
100 Court House Sq
Doniphan, MO 63935-1699
Phone: 573-996-2818
Ripley County Prosecuting Attorney
Ripley County Courthouse
100 Courthouse Sq., Ste. 8
Doniphan, MO 63935
Phone: 573-996-2138
Fax: 573-996-7762

Use the route that matches the kind of record or custody question.

  • For someone held at the county jail, start with jail inmate records and call the detention center line.
  • For booking photos or a mugshot request, use jail roster mugshots and the sheriff records custodian route.
  • For charges filed after an arrest, use court records after a jail arrest and Missouri Case.net or the circuit clerk.
  • For the local facility page, use the footer link to the Ripley County Detention Center.
  • For a sentenced state prisoner, use the Missouri Department of Corrections Offender Search rather than the county jail.
  • For federal custody or immigration detention, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator.