The Detention Center
Piatt County Jail
- Operated byPiatt County Sheriff's Office
- Jail addressPublic Safety Building, 1216 Raymond Road, Monticello, IL 61856
- Capacity (county site)76 inmates
- Rated capacity (IDOC 2025)77 (66 male, 11 female)
- Population on inspection day (IDOC 2025)9 (11 Mar 2025)
- Year built (county site)2004
- Who it holds (county site)People awaiting bond or trial, sentenced inmates, and people held for other agencies
- FY2026 Sheriff's Department budget$3,680,320 (incl. jailer salaries $773,998, inmate medical $43,018, inmate meals $29,000)
- Champaign County inmate housing revenue (budget)$30,000 in 2025; $0 budgeted for 2026
- Jail AdministratorZack Cooper — Named as jail administrator in the IDOC 2025 inspection report; the county budget funds a Jail Administrator post ($81,535, FY2026) but the county pages opened give no name
Source: Piatt 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
- ✓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
- ✓Phone, video and commissary rates
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built2004 (county site; IDOC 2025 report agrees)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds76 (county site); 77 rated (IDOC 2025 report)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Mark Vogelzang
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff is warden of the county jail (55 ILCS 5/3-15003)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Office history (county site)34th person to hold the office
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Piatt 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.
Piatt 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 boardPiatt County Board →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- County jail page gives the name, address, 76-inmate capacity and 2004 build year.
- Posting Bail page: bail posted in person only, 24 hours, cash (exact amount) or card with a transaction fee, plus a $40 processing fee; call ahead to confirm the amount. It does not explain pretrial release hearings.
- Commissary deposits via tigerdeposit.com and orders via tigersnack.com; no deposit, phone or video rates published. Visiting page covers in-person hours only.
- FY2025-26 county budget on the treasurer's page shows the Sheriff's Department lines including jail staff, inmate meals and inmate medical.
- Older sheriff site (piattcounty.org/sheriff) also names the jail and its 76-inmate capacity.
- No roster, PREA, deaths-in-custody, inspection or contract material found.
- State inspection/oversight: IDOC Jail and Detention Standards Unit, inspected 11 March 2025: rated capacity 77, population 9 that day; noncompliances: none recorded.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Piatt 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