The Detention Center
Morgan County Jail
- Operated byMorgan County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address300 West Court Street, Jacksonville, IL 62650
- Rated capacity (IDOC 2025)65 (55 male, 10 female)
- Population on inspection day (IDOC 2025)29
- Built (IDOC 2025)1984
- FY2027 County Jail budget (county)Total expenditures 2,000,000
- Jail AdministratorWeston Crews — Jail administrator, as named in the IDOC 2025 inspection report
Source: IDOC 2025 jail inspection report · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗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 — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built1984 (IDOC 2025)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds65 (IDOC 2025)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Mike Carmody
- Runs the jailYes — sheriff is warden of the county jail (55 ILCS 5/3-15003)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Current term (county page)1 December 2022 – 30 November 2026
- Office address300 West Court Street, Jacksonville, IL 62650
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Morgan 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.
Morgan 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).
- NoteCounty site calls the governing body County Commissioners; fiscal year runs 1 September – 31 August.
- The boardMorgan County Board of Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- FY2027 county budget has Sheriff and County Jail lines (jail total expenditures 2,000,000).
- Sheriff page lists 2015 and 2017 jail inspection reports, but the 2017 link returned 404 and the alternate path was refused, so no posted copy could be confirmed.
- Sheriff page does not name the jail or give roster, capacity, bond, fee, PREA or contract information.
- No PREA, death-in-custody or contract information found.
- State inspection/oversight: IDOC Jail and Detention Standards Unit, inspected 4 November 2025: rated capacity 65, population 29 that day; noncompliances: supervision (701.130) — of 127 observations reviewed, 46 exceeded the 30-minute requirement (64%); officials to "take steps to ensure complete compliance with the supervision standard."
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Morgan 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