The Detention Center
Douglas County Jail
- Operated byDouglas County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address920 S. Washington, Tuscola, IL 61953
- Rated capacity (IDOC 2025)36 (32 male, 4 female)
- Population on inspection day (IDOC 2025)12
- Year built (IDOC 2025)1986
- Jail AdministratorKaitlin Rund — Jail administrator named in IDOC 2025 inspection report
Source: Douglas County Sheriff — Corrections · 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 built1986 (IDOC 2025 report)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds36 rated (IDOC 2025 report)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Nathan Chaplin
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Office operates the Douglas County jail
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Douglas County elected officials · 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.
Douglas 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).
- NoteSeven-member County Board; chairman Tom Hettinger per the county contact page. Agendas and minutes are on the county's FOIA portal.
- The boardDouglas County Board →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Sheriff's pages are on the county site; the corrections page gives the jail address, visitation schedule and rules, and weekend-sentence rules.
- Current jail population is offered only through a phone app; no roster could be viewed on the site.
- County budgets 2020-2026 are listed on the county FOIA portal but hosted on Google Drive; the 2026 file would not open, so the sheriff/jail line could not be confirmed.
- No PREA, bond, fee, contract or deaths-in-custody information found on county or sheriff pages.
- State inspection/oversight: IDOC Jail and Detention Standards Unit, inspected 17 Apr 2025: rated capacity 36, population 12 that day; noncompliances: staffing (701.20/701.130, "sufficient personnel" for 24-hour supervision), backup personnel (701.140, "Backup personnel shall be notified and available when cell doors to living quarters are opened"), and the detainee commissary audit could not be produced.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Douglas 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