The Detention Center
Jasper County Jail
- Operated byJasper County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address106 E. Morgan Street, Newton, IL 62448
- Rated capacity (IDOC 2025)30
- Population on inspection day (IDOC 2025)5 (4 male, 1 female)
- Year built (IDOC 2025)2023
- Visitation / commissary / phone vendorinmatesales.com (20-minute video visits; free local kiosk visits Wednesday and Saturday)
- FY2026 Sheriff budget (county)$1,963,700, including inmate medical $110,000, food for prisoners $30,000, out-of-county housing $10,000
- Jail AdministratorSergeant Caleb Swick — Jail administrator named in the IDOC 2025 inspection report; not named on the county pages opened
Source: Jasper County Jail page · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗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 built2023 (IDOC 2025 report)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds30 rated (IDOC 2025)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Brandon Francis
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Office runs the Jasper County Jail at 106 E. Morgan Street
- 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: Jasper County Sheriff's Office 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.
Jasper 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 Board of 9 members from three districts, meets the third Thursday monthly; chairman Jason Warfel (county site).
- The boardJasper County Board →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Sheriff's 'Jail Report' page lists the people currently in custody, with charges and bond information.
- FY2026 proposed budget packet on the county site shows the Sheriff at $1,963,700 with jail lines inside it; no jail debt-service line was seen.
- Jail page describes video visitation and commissary through inmatesales.com but publishes no rates; no PREA, bond/pretrial or capacity information found.
- State inspection/oversight: IDOC Jail and Detention Standards Unit, inspected 14 Apr 2025: rated capacity 30, population 5 that day; noncompliances recorded: staffing ("Only one officer assigned to most shifts", citing 701.20, 701.130 and 701.140) and supervision checks ("110 of 144 checks were timely", 76%, against the 30-minute personal-observation standard 701.130 a) 2)).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Jasper 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