The Detention Center
Pike County Jail
- Operated byPike County Sheriff's Department
- Jail address204 E. Adams St, Pittsfield, IL 62363
- Beds (sheriff's site)63
- Rated capacity (IDOC 2025)60 (56 male, 4 female)
- Population on inspection day (IDOC 2025)22 (13 Nov 2025)
- Built (sheriff's site)1861 on present site; present addition 1984 (IDOC report gives 1986)
- Holds federal prisonersSheriff's jail page sets separate visiting hours for federal inmates
- FY26 Sheriff budget (county)$2,035,549, incl. corrections/cook/dispatch unit $550,736 and boarding prisoners $273,000
- Jail AdministratorDan Brennecke — Jail Administrator, Pike County Jail (IDOC 2025 report: Daniel Brennecke)
Source: Pike County Sheriff — Jail History · 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
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗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 built1861 original on present site; present addition 1984 (sheriff's site); IDOC 2025 report gives 1986
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds63 (sheriff's site); 60 rated (IDOC 2025 report)
Since then
- 1984 addition (sheriff's site)
The Sheriff
Sheriff David E. Greenwood
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff is warden of the county jail (55 ILCS 5/3-15003)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Chief Deputy (sheriff's site)Zachary L. Orr
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Pike County Sheriff's Department · 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.
Pike 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 Board chaired by Reta Hoskin; Vice-Chairman Tom Lewis.
- The boardPike County Board →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Sheriff's jail page names the jail and administrator, gives visiting hours (including for federal inmates), a PREA zero-tolerance statement with reporting routes, and bond payment instructions (cash, money order, or card by phone 24/7).
- Bond guidance covers how to pay only; it does not explain pretrial release hearings.
- Phones by Securus and commissary by money order; no rates published.
- Sheriff's site posts a weekly arrests/bookings list (two-week date range), not a current in-custody roster; not counted as a roster.
- County posts FY26 adopted budget with Sheriff lines, plus a separate FY2024 Sheriff Department budget amendment sheet.
- No deaths-in-custody, inspection report or contract documents found.
- State inspection/oversight: IDOC Jail and Detention Standards Unit, inspected 13 November 2025: rated capacity 60, population 22 that day; noncompliances: staffing ("utilizes one jail officer per shift with a few hours covered by two officers when shifts overlap"); "hot water was not working in the living area sinks"; 30-minute observation checks 79% complete (131 of 166); "could not produce documentation indicating the completion of an audit of the detainee commissary system."
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Pike 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