The Detention Center
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- Operated byNot found
- IDOC inspection reportNo 2025 or 2024 IDOC report found at the standard URL (404)
- Sheriff's office address (ISA listing)103 N 6th Street, Vienna, IL 62995
- Sheriffs' Association listingA jail at 103 N. 6th Street, Vienna; no IDOC 2025 or 2024 inspection report was found for the county at the state's published address
Source: Illinois Sheriffs' Association — Johnson 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
- BedsNot found
Since then
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The Sheriff
Sheriff Pete Sopczak
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Unconfirmed listingThe Illinois Sheriffs' Association page lists Pete Sopczak (elected 2018) at 103 N 6th Street, Vienna; not confirmed on any county or sheriff page
- Also named onthe Johnson County Sheriff's Department (Vienna, IL) Facebook page, 2026 cover image (checked 20 September 2026)
- First elected2018 (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.
Johnson County Circuit Court
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- 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's own website not found.
- The boardNot found
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- No page on a Johnson County or sheriff's own website could be opened, so no checks were judged.
- What was tried: IDOC 2025 and 2024 report URLs (both 404); one web search returned only the sheriffs' association, Facebook, Wikipedia and aggregator sites; guessed county domains johnsoncountyil.gov and johnsoncounty.illinois.gov were refused (provenance).
- No IDOC 2025 inspection report was found for Johnson County; whether the county runs its own jail or houses prisoners elsewhere could not be confirmed from a county page.
- Sheriff Pete Sopczak is named by the Illinois Sheriffs' Association directory and on the sheriff's office's own 2026 Facebook cover image.
- State inspection/oversight: No IDOC 2025 (or 2024) Jail and Detention Standards Unit report found for Johnson County at the published URL pattern.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Johnson 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