The Detention Center
Fulton County Jail
- Operated byFulton County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address268 West Washington Avenue, Lewistown, IL 61542
- Year built (IDOC 2025)1983
- Rated capacity (IDOC 2025)80 (70 male, 10 female)
- Population on inspection day (IDOC 2025)39 (38 male, 1 female)
- Name on county site'Fulton County Jail' — staff 'responsible for the care and custody of pre-trial detainees and convicted individuals sentenced to the Fulton County Jail'
- VisitingScheduled at least 24 hours ahead through Inmatesales.com; on-site and remote video visits, all recorded unless attorney privilege applies; in-person Mon–Fri 8AM–4PM at 100 N Main St, Lewistown
- Jail AdministratorChris Ford — Jail administrator named in the IDOC 2025 inspection report
Source: IDOC 2025 jail inspection report · 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 built1983 (IDOC 2025 report)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds80 rated capacity (IDOC 2025)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Jon Webb
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff is warden of the county jail (55 ILCS 5/3-15003)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term; elected November 2022, term expires 2026 (county sheriff page)
- Office address268 W Washington Ave, PO Box 269, Lewistown, IL 61542
- Phone(309) 547-2277
- Name sourceFulton County sheriff page on fultoncountyil.gov (also IDOC 2025 report)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Fulton 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.
Fulton 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).
- NoteBoard pages on fultoncountyil.gov were refused (robots.txt) on 20 Sep 2026, as fultonco.org pages were earlier. Board name 'Fulton County Board' not confirmed from an opened page.
- The boardFulton County Board
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- County site fultoncountyil.gov opened on 20 Sep 2026: the sheriff page and its 'Jail Visiting Hours and Rules' page. The home page and elected-officials page showed no usable links.
- Named: the visiting page names the 'Fulton County Jail' and says jail staff care for pre-trial detainees and people sentenced there.
- Visiting: booked at least 24 hours ahead through Inmatesales.com; video visits (on-site and remote) are recorded; the 'Jail Superintendent or designee' may end a video visit. No visit or phone rates are given.
- The sheriff and visiting pages give no roster, capacity, bond/pretrial guidance, fees, PREA, deaths, inspection or contract information.
- Checks judged on the two sheriff pages that opened; further pages (board, budget, sitemap, other sheriff pages) were refused (robots.txt could not be fetched), so a published budget or minutes may exist but could not be seen.
- Jail administrator name comes from the IDOC 2025 report, not the county site.
- State inspection/oversight: IDOC Jail and Detention Standards Unit, inspected 8 Oct 2025: rated capacity 80, population 39 that day; noncompliances: one — "jail officials could not produce documentation indicating the completion of an audit" of the commissary fund (701.250(f)). The report also recommends repairing or replacing inoperable toilets and painting cell blocks A and B.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Fulton 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