The Detention Center
Logan County Jail
- Operated byLogan County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address911 Pekin Street, Lincoln, IL 62656
- Capacity53 (sheriff's jail page); IDOC 2025 rated capacity 58
- Year built (IDOC 2025)1978
- Population on inspection day (IDOC 2025)10
- Jail AdministratorRod Boyd — Jail administrator (sheriff's jail page; also IDOC 2025)
Source: Logan County Sheriff — Jail Information · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓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
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built1978 (IDOC 2025 report)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds53 (sheriff); 58 rated (IDOC 2025)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Mark Landers
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff is warden of the county jail (55 ILCS 5/3-15003)
- 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: Logan County Sheriff's Office · 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.
Logan 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).
- NoteBoard page says agendas and minutes are posted on the county website and filed with the County Clerk.
- The boardLogan County Board →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Sheriff's jail page names the jail, gives capacity 53 and the video-visit fee ($7.00 for 20 minutes).
- No web roster: the jail page links VINE and the IDOC (state prison) search only.
- A 'Jail Statistics' page exists on the sheriff's site but showed no figures.
- County lists budgets FY2008-09 to FY2025-26; the FY26 PDF is blocked by robots.txt, so the sheriff/jail line could not be confirmed.
- No PREA, bond/pretrial, contract or deaths information found.
- State inspection/oversight: IDOC Jail and Detention Standards Unit, inspected 20 Nov 2025: rated capacity 58, population 10 that day; noncompliances: none recorded.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Logan 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