The Detention Center
Livingston County Jail
- Operated byLivingston County Sheriff's Office
- Jail addressPublic Safety Complex, 844 W. Lincoln Street, Pontiac, IL 61764
- Year built (IDOC 2025)2005
- Rated capacity (IDOC 2025)179
- Population on inspection day (IDOC 2025)128
- Jail AdministratorLisa Draper — Jail Superintendent (county jail page)
Source: Livingston County — Jail · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗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 built2005 (IDOC 2025 report)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds179 rated (IDOC 2025)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Ryan Bohm
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's office 'oversees the operation of the county jail' (county sheriff page)
- 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: Livingston 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.
Livingston 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).
- The boardLivingston County Board →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- PREA page gives zero-tolerance policy, seven reporting routes incl. an anonymous hotline, the PREA policy, PREA audit reports (2016, 2020) and coordinator annual reports.
- FY2026 county budget has a Sheriff department (Dept 200) and a Jail department (Dept 201).
- Jail page links only the IDOC (state prison) inmate search, not a county roster.
- Visitation page names vendors (Smart Communications, Visitel) but publishes no rates.
- No bond/pretrial, capacity, contract or deaths information found on county pages.
- State inspection/oversight: IDOC Jail and Detention Standards Unit, inspected 23 May 2025: rated capacity 179, population 128 that day; noncompliances: none recorded.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Livingston 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