The Detention Center
No county jail (one holding cell)
- Operated byEdwards County Sheriff's Office
- JailIllinois Sheriffs' Association lists Edwards County as "No Jail- one holding cell"
- IDOC inspectionNo 2025 or 2024 IDOC jail inspection report found at the standard URL
- Where prisoners are heldNot found
Source: Illinois Sheriffs' Association — Edwards County · checked 2026-09-20
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The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNo jail — one holding cell (Illinois Sheriffs' Association)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Darby Boewe
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Office address50 Main St., Albion, IL 62806 (Illinois Sheriffs' Association listing)
- Name sourceIllinois Sheriffs' Association county page; not confirmed on a county or sheriff site
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Illinois Sheriffs' Association — Edwards County · 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.
Edwards 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).
- NoteGoverning body not confirmed; no county website could be opened.
- The boardNot found
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- No county or sheriff page could be opened: the sheriff's listed site (ecsheriff.org) refused the fetch, and no county website was found, so the ten checks were not assessed.
- Illinois Sheriffs' Association lists the county as having no jail, only one holding cell; the facility that holds Edwards County prisoners was not found.
- No IDOC 2025 or 2024 inspection report exists at the standard URL for Edwards County, consistent with it having no jail.
- Sheriff name is from the Illinois Sheriffs' Association listing and could not be confirmed on an official county page.
- State inspection/oversight: No IDOC Jail and Detention Standards Unit report for Edwards County found for 2025 or 2024; the county is listed as having no jail (one holding cell).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Edwards 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