The Detention Center
Madison County Jail
- Operated byMadison County Sheriff's Department (Jail Division)
- Jail address405 Randle St, Edwardsville, IL 62025
- Rated capacity (IDOC 2025)328
- Population on inspection day (IDOC 2025)292 (268 male, 24 female)
- Year built (IDOC 2025)1980
- VisitationVideo visits and phone calls only; no contact or onsite visitation (IC Solutions)
- Medical providerAdvanced Correctional Health (ACH) Inc.; nurse visit $10, doctor visit $20 charged to detainees
- FY2026 capital itemsJail cell check system replacement $150,000; jail kitchen AC replacement $100,000
- Jail AdministratorCaptain Blake Sellers — Jail Administrator (Sheriff's Administration page)
Source: Madison County Sheriff — Jail Division · 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 built1980 (IDOC 2025 report)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds328 rated (IDOC 2025 report)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Jeff C. Connor
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Department has a Jail Division
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Chief Deputy SheriffChief Marcos D. Pulido
- Office address405 Randle Street, Edwardsville, IL 62025
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Madison County — Elected Officials · 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.
Madison 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).
- Note26 members, one per district; Chairman Chris Slusser. Madison County is in the Third Judicial Circuit (circuit court page).
- The boardMadison County Board →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Sheriff pages live on the county domain (madisoncountyil.gov/departments/sheriff/) and name the Madison County Jail.
- PREA page: full-time PREA Coordinator, reporting by phone (618-692-1064) and online form; no audit reports posted.
- FY2026 budget (Auditor, via county CMS file host) has JAIL - ADMIN, GROCERIES, MEDICAL EXPENSES and UTILITIES lines and SHERIFF - ADMIN.
- No online in-custody roster found; FAQ says charge and bond information is available by calling 618-692-1064.
- Phone vendor IC Solutions and commissary via accesscorrections.com named, but no phone, video or commissary rates published. Medical co-pays ($10 nurse / $20 doctor) are published.
- Medical page says the jail contracts with Advanced Correctional Health; the contract itself was not found.
- Jail administrator on the county site (Capt. Blake Sellers) differs from the IDOC October 2025 report (Capt. Jody Collman).
- What was tried: sheriff index.php (fetch not permitted).
- State inspection/oversight: IDOC Jail and Detention Standards Unit, inspected 16 October 2025: rated capacity 328, population 292 that day; noncompliances noted under 701.40/701.80 ("Detainees were sleeping on mattresses placed on the floor") and 701.130 Supervision ("265 out of 432 checks were timely, giving a compliance percentage of 61%").
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Madison 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