Massac County, Illinois — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Massac County Detention Center

Operated byMassac County Sheriff's Office
Jail address515 Market St., Metropolis, IL 62960
Rated capacity (IDOC 2025)40
Population on inspection day (IDOC 2025)20 (15 male, 5 female)
Year built (IDOC 2025)1990
VisitationSundays and Wednesdays; females 12–1 pm, males 1–3 pm
Bond (sheriff page)"Bond may be posted for an inmate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week" by cash or credit card
Jail AdministratorJohn Konemann — Jail Administrator (sheriff's jail page; also named in the IDOC 2025 report)

Source: Massac County Sheriff's Office — Jail page · checked 2026-09-20

Transparency rating

2/10Closed

✓The jail is named
✗Who is in custody — not published
✗Beds and daily population — not published
✗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
✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Massac County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-20. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

Year built1990 (IDOC 2025 report)
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
Beds40 rated (IDOC 2025 report)

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Chad Kaylor

Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's office operates the Massac County Detention Center
How the office is filledElected, four-year term

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Massac County Sheriff's Office — home 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.

Massac County Circuit Court

Not found

Still needed

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 site (www.massaccountyil.gov, per Wikipedia) could not be opened; governing body not confirmed from a county page.
The boardNot found
Where the jail money is decidedNot found

Notes on the record

Sheriff site massacsheriffsdept.com names the Massac County Detention Center and its administrator.
Jail page says bond may be posted 24/7 by cash or credit card; it does not mention the Pretrial Fairness Act or pretrial release hearings.
Inmate-listing page shows no roster; it directs people to the sheriff's mobile app.
No phone, commissary or booking rates published (phone cards via commissary or collect calls).
No PREA, inspection, deaths, budget or contract information found on the sheriff site.
What was tried: www.massaccountyil.gov (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED); downloadable-forms page (500 error).
State inspection/oversight: IDOC Jail and Detention Standards Unit, inspected 25 June 2025: rated capacity 40, population 20 that day; noncompliances noted: "There is only one officer assigned to some shifts" (701.20, 701.130); observation checks "135 out of 432 checks were timely, giving a compliance percentage of 31%"; "Individual cells are unsecured during night hours per direction of the Sheriff."

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Massac 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