The Detention Center
McLean County Detention Facility
- Operated byMcLean County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address104 W Front Street, Bloomington, IL 61701
- Also calledMcLean County Jail (IDOC report)
- Rated capacity (IDOC 2025)455 (381 male, 74 female)
- Population on inspection day (IDOC 2025)219
- Built (IDOC 2025)1977; last renovation 2019
- Jail AdministratorDiane Hughes — Jail administrator, as named in the IDOC 2025 inspection report
Source: McLean County — Sheriff · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✗PREA audits — not published
- ✓Independent inspection
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✓How to post bond
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built1977 (IDOC 2025)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds455
Since then
- Last renovation 2019 (IDOC 2025)
The Sheriff
Sheriff Matt Lane
- Runs the jailYes — 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: McLean 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.
McLean 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).
- Note20 members, two from each of 10 districts.
- The boardMcLean County Board →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- County posts its copy of the 2022 IDOC jail inspection report (inspected 30 Aug 2022: rated capacity 455, population 241; no noncompliances identified).
- FY2026 combined budget on county site includes Sheriff and Jail Operations lines.
- Detention Facility page says bond can be posted 24/7 online via Access Corrections or at lobby kiosks; bond amounts by phone.
- Daily Blotter is an arrest/incident report, not an in-custody roster; no roster found.
- Commissary/tablets via GettingOut; no phone, video or commissary rates published.
- No PREA, death-in-custody or contract information found.
- State inspection/oversight: IDOC Jail and Detention Standards Unit, inspected 22 July 2025: rated capacity 455, population 219 that day; noncompliances: none recorded.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in McLean 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