The Detention Center
Greene County Jail
- Operated byGreene County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address403 Seventh Street, Carrollton, Illinois
- Beds (county site)21 beds, average daily population 13
- Year built1974; major renovations in 2024 (county site)
- Staff (county site)4 full-time correctional officers, 4 full-time telecommunicators, several part-time employees
- Visitation (county site)Tuesdays 9 a.m.–12 p.m. and 1–4 p.m.; Sundays 1–4 p.m.
- Rated capacity (IDOC 2025)21
- Population on inspection day (IDOC 2025)19 (15 male, 4 female)
Source: Greene County Sheriff (county site) · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✗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 built1974 (county site and IDOC 2025)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds21 (county site; IDOC 2025 rated capacity 21)
Since then
- Major renovations performed in 2024 (county site)
The Sheriff
Sheriff Rob McMillen
- Runs the jailYes — sheriff's page says the jail is managed by the Sheriff and Chief Deputy
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Chief DeputyCale Hoesman
- Non-emergency phone217-942-6901
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Greene County Sheriff (county site) · 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.
Greene 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).
- NoteCounty site posts agendas and minutes (e.g. 13 Aug 2026 agenda, 9 Jul 2026 minutes).
- The boardGreene County Board →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The sheriff's page names the Greene County Jail and publishes its bed count (21) and average daily population (13).
- No budget, appropriation or audit document was found on the county board, ordinances, county clerk or treasurer pages.
- No roster, bond/pretrial guidance, PREA, commissary or phone fee information on the sheriff's page; it links only to state and VINE resources.
- The IDOC 2025 report lists the facility as "Greene County Sheriff's Department" and states no jail administrator is appointed.
- State inspection/oversight: IDOC Jail and Detention Standards Unit, inspected 28 Oct 2025: rated capacity 21, population 19 that day; noncompliances: staffing — one jail officer and a radio dispatcher, where standards require "a minimum of two jail officers per shift stationed in the detention area"; supervision — 19 of 83 observations exceeded the 30-minute check requirement, "an on-time percentage of 77%."
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Greene 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