The Detention Center
No county jail
- Operated byNot found
- IDOC 2025 inspection reportNone found at the standard URL (404); 2024 URL also 404
- Where prisoners are heldNot found
- Jail status"No Jail" per the Illinois Sheriffs' Association directory; no IDOC 2025 or 2024 inspection report exists for the county
- Where prisoners are heldNot found on any page opened
Source: Illinois Sheriffs' Association directory (not a county page) · 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
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Shannon Bradley
- Runs the jailBy law the sheriff is warden of any county jail (55 ILCS 5/3-15003)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Also named onthe Gallatin County, IL Sheriff's Department Facebook page (checked 20 September 2026)
- First elected2010 (Illinois Sheriffs' Association directory)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Illinois Sheriffs' Association directory (not a county page) · 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.
Gallatin 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).
- NoteThe county site's government page lists a County Board in its departments menu; no minutes or budget links were visible in the readable page text.
- The boardGallatin County Board
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- No IDOC 2025 (or 2024) jail inspection report exists at the standard URL for Gallatin County, which suggests the county may not operate its own jail — but no page opened says where its prisoners are held, so this is unconfirmed.
- The sheriff's page on gallatinco.illinois.gov was refused three times (robots.txt could not be fetched); the circuit clerk page was refused as well.
- Pages that did open (/government/, /records/, /departments/probation/) show only navigation menus and contact details, with no jail, sheriff name, budget or board-minutes content. The ten checks were therefore not judged.
- Gallatin County has no county jail (Illinois Sheriffs' Association directory; no IDOC inspection report). Where its prisoners are held was not found.
- State inspection/oversight: No IDOC Jail and Detention Standards Unit report found for Gallatin County at the 2025 or 2024 report URLs (both returned 404).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Gallatin 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