The Detention Center
Moultrie County Jail
- Operated byMoultrie County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address1505 W. Hagerman St., Sullivan, IL 61951
- Rated capacity (IDOC 2025)58 (48 male, 10 female)
- Population on inspection day (IDOC 2025)5
- Built (IDOC 2025)2007
- VisitationRemote video visits only (cidnet.net); on-site visitation not currently available
- Jail AdministratorJodi Trussell — Jail administrator, as named in the IDOC 2025 inspection report
Source: Moultrie County — Inmate Visitation · 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 — not published
- ✓Independent inspection
- ✗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 built2007 (IDOC 2025)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds58 (IDOC 2025)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Gary Carroll
- Runs the jailYes — sheriff is warden of the county jail (55 ILCS 5/3-15003)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Elected2022 (county sheriff page)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Moultrie 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.
Moultrie 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).
- The boardMoultrie County Board →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Sheriff's jail-inspections page posts IDOC inspection reports for 2017-2025; the 2025 PDF itself was blocked by robots.txt, so its contents were read from the IDOC copy.
- FY2026 adopted budget (linked from county budget page, hosted by the county's web vendor) includes Sheriff department 008 with jailer salaries.
- Deposits via kiosk or jailatm.com; "There is a fee for each transaction" but no amounts; indigent inmates get one free 5-minute call a week.
- No roster, capacity, bond/pretrial guidance, PREA, death-in-custody or contract information found.
- State inspection/oversight: IDOC Jail and Detention Standards Unit, inspected 29 April 2025: rated capacity 58, population 5 that day; noncompliances: none recorded.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Moultrie 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