The Detention Center
Ogle County Jail
- Operated byOgle County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address601 W. Washington Street, Oregon, IL 61061
- Rated capacity (IDOC 2025)162 (130 male, 32 female)
- Population on inspection day (IDOC 2025)30 (22 Jan 2025)
- Year built (IDOC 2025)2020
- FY2026 budget, Corrections/Jail (proposed)$2,429,011
- FY2026 budget, Sheriff (proposed)$5,273,365
- Jail AdministratorLt. Jason Lynn — Jail Administrator, Ogle County Jail
Source: Ogle County Jail page · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓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
- ✓Phone, video and commissary rates
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built2020 (IDOC 2025 report)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds162 rated (IDOC 2025 report)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Brian VanVickle
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff is warden of the county jail (55 ILCS 5/3-15003)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Also named inIDOC 2025 inspection report (as Brian E. VanVickle)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Ogle County Sheriff — Contact Us · 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.
Ogle 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 boardOgle County Board →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Sheriff's jail pages name the jail and its administrator, Lt. Jason Lynn.
- No roster of its own: the inmate information page points to VINE and the Ogle County Safe App.
- PREA page gives a zero-tolerance statement, reporting routes and annual PREA statistics for 2016-2025 (2019 not listed).
- Bail page: payments online, by phone or at the Judicial Center Annex kiosk; $45.00 bonding fee; third-party service fee.
- Phone calls (CPC) listed at $0.20/minute plus taxes; commissary deposits through Access Corrections; medical/dental co-pays charged but no one refused care for inability to pay.
- FY2026 budget ordinance on the county site shows separate Sheriff and Corrections/Jail lines.
- No inspection report, deaths-in-custody record or jail contracts found on the county site.
- State inspection/oversight: IDOC Jail and Detention Standards Unit, inspected 22 January 2025: rated capacity 162, population 30 that day; noncompliances: none recorded.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Ogle 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