The Detention Center
Cumberland County Jail
- Operated byCumberland County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address166 Courthouse Square, Toledo, IL 62468 (IDOC 2025)
- Rated capacity (IDOC 2025)30
- Population on inspection day (IDOC 2025)10 (8 male, 2 female)
- Year built (IDOC 2025)1997
- Jail AdministratorChief Deputy Russell Thomas — Listed in the jail administrator field of the IDOC 2025 inspection report only
Source: IDOC 2025 jail inspection report · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built1997 (IDOC 2025 report)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds30 rated (IDOC 2025)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Steve Maroon
- Runs the jailYes — as sheriff he is warden of the county jail (55 ILCS 5/3-15003); IDOC 2025 report lists him as sheriff of the Cumberland County Jail
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Office addressP.O. Box 56, 166 Courthouse Square, Toledo, IL 62468
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Cumberland County — Sheriff · 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.
Cumberland 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).
- NoteSix members listed; chairman Floyd Holkenbrink (Western District).
- The boardCumberland County Board →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The county's sheriff page gives the sheriff's name and contact details only; no jail information.
- A separate sheriff site (cumberlandilsheriff.org) could not be opened (redirect loop).
- The county posts FY24 and FY25 audits; the FY25 audit's General Fund budget comparison shows Sheriff fee revenue ($39,950 budgeted, $31,045 actual) but no sheriff or jail spending line, so it is not counted as a jail budget.
- Board agendas and minutes archive is posted.
- Not scored: The separate sheriff site could not be opened (redirect loop); only a contact-only county sheriff page was read. Marking the rest 'not published' would claim more than was checked.
- State inspection/oversight: IDOC Jail and Detention Standards Unit, inspected 29 October 2025: rated capacity 30, population 10 that day; noncompliances: staffing and supervision (701.20, 701.130, 701.140) — "There are times when only one officer is assigned to a shift; therefore, there is insufficient personnel, supervision, and backup"; supervisory checks (701.130) — "65 out of 130 checks were timely, giving a compliance percentage of 50%."
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Cumberland 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