The Detention Center
Champaign County Jail
- Operated byChampaign County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address502 South Lierman, Urbana, IL 61802 (sheriff's site); IDOC report gives 502 South Leirman Street, Urbana, IL 61801
- Rated capacity (IDOC 2025)260 (243 male, 17 female)
- Population on inspection day (IDOC 2025)182
- Average daily population 2024 (sheriff's site)235
- Average daily population 2025 (2025 annual report)160 not sentenced, 54 sentenced
- Bookings 2025 (annual report)3,910
- Date built (IDOC 2025)Listed as 21 October 2024
- Electronic Home DetentionRun by the Corrections Division; average 26 clients a month in 2025
- Jail AdministratorCaptain Karee Voges — Jail Administrator, named in IDOC 2025 inspection report
Source: Champaign County Sheriff — Inmate Resources · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
6/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✗PREA audits — not published
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✓How to post bond
- ✓Phone, video and commissary rates
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtIDOC 2025 report lists 21 October 2024
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds260 rated (IDOC 2025)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Dustin D. Heuerman
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Corrections Division runs the county jail
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Corrections staff (sheriff's page)Captain/Jail Superintendent, 3 lieutenants, 8 sergeants, 50 corrections officers, 12 master controllers, 3 support staff
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Champaign County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-20
The Judges
Illinois circuit judges are elected on a partisan ballot and then stand for retention every six years (60% yes needed); associate judges are appointed by the circuit judges. They are state judicial officers, not county officials. Since 18 September 2023 Illinois has no cash bail — judges decide pretrial release or detention at a hearing.
Champaign County Circuit Court
- Not found
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-20
The County Board
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and is the warden of the jail by state law (55 ILCS 5/3-15003).
- Note22 members, 11 districts with 2 members each. The board also has a Jail Facilities Committee (archive page).
- The boardChampaign County Board →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Sheriff's page publishes 2024 jail intakes (4,193) and average daily population (235); the 2025 annual report gives 3,910 bookings.
- The roster page links to an outside Jail Records Portal for people currently in custody; the sheriff also posts daily in-custody arraignment, bookings and jail reports.
- Remote video visits cost $0.20 a minute; on-site visits at the satellite jail are free (Inmate Resources page).
- Bond payment guidance: cash, card or cashier's check, 24/7 at the facility or online. The 2025 annual report says arrestees are released with pretrial conditions if the State's Attorney does not seek detention.
- Preliminary FY2027 budget hearing document shows Sheriff General Fund and Correctional Center General Fund (FY2027 budget $9,150,279 for the Correctional Center).
- No PREA, deaths-in-custody, contract or inspection documents found on the county or sheriff pages opened.
- State inspection/oversight: IDOC Jail and Detention Standards Unit, inspected 2 October 2025: rated capacity 260, population 182 that day; noncompliances: "None".
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Champaign County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the county board members who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-09-20 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered