The Detention Center
Christian County Correctional Center
- Operated byChristian County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address301 W Franklin St, Taylorville, IL 62568
- Rated capacity (IDOC 2025)58 (50 male, 8 female)
- Population on inspection day (IDOC 2025)33
- Year built (IDOC 2025)1975
- Staffing (sheriff's site)8 corrections officers
- Jail AdministratorRohn Burke — Sheriff's home page: "The Christian County Correctional Center is headed by Rohn Burke and staffed by 8 Corrections Officers."
Source: Christian County Sheriff's Office — Jail · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗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 — not published
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built1975 (IDOC 2025 report)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds58 rated (IDOC 2025)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Bruce A. Kettelkamp
- Runs the jailYes — the Christian County Correctional Center is part of the Sheriff's Office
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Chief Deputy (sheriff's site)James Baker
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Christian County Sheriff's Office — Staff · 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.
Christian 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).
- NoteCounty board page could not be opened (christiancountyil.com/county-board/ blocked by robots.txt); name not confirmed on a page opened.
- The boardNot found
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- Sheriff's jail page gives the facility name, address and visitation rules; it says detainees get three free phone calls within the first three hours.
- Sheriff's Resources page links to an outside commissary deposit portal (jailatm) but lists no fee amounts.
- No inmate roster, capacity, budget, PREA, deaths, contracts or bond guidance found on the sheriff's site.
- County website (christiancountyil.com) home page opened; its county board page was blocked by robots.txt, so no board, minutes or budget documents were read.
- State inspection/oversight: IDOC Jail and Detention Standards Unit, inspected 2 December 2025: rated capacity 58, population 33 that day; noncompliances: Section 701.130 Supervision — personal observation at least once every 30 minutes; 85 of 104 checks reviewed were timely (82%).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Christian 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