The Detention Center
Shelby County Detention Center
- Operated byShelby County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address (IDOC 2025)151 N. Morgan St, Shelbyville, IL 62565
- Rated capacity (IDOC 2025)26 (23 male, 3 female)
- Population on inspection day (IDOC 2025)16 (13 male, 3 female)
- Year built (IDOC 2025)1987
- Visits (sheriff's page)Remote video visits 7 days a week, fees apply via inmatesales.com; on-site visits free, one per week, 25 minutes
- Jail AdministratorDaine Burkhead — Jail Administrator (sheriff's Jail page; also named in the IDOC 2025 report)
Source: Shelby County Sheriff's Office — Jail page · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗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 built1987 (IDOC 2025 report)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds26 rated (IDOC 2025 report)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Brian McReynolds
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff is warden of the county jail
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Shelby County Sheriff's Office — Jail page · 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.
Shelby 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).
- NoteGoverning body not confirmed — the county site (shelbycounty-il.gov) could not be opened.
- The boardNot found
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- Sheriff's site (scso87.org) names the Shelby County Detention Center, the sheriff and the jail administrator, and gives visitation rules; video-visit fees are said to apply but no rates are given.
- Inmate accounts link to jailatm.com; no roster, bond guidance, PREA, capacity or deaths information found on the sheriff pages opened.
- The county government site (shelbycounty-il.gov) could not be opened, so budget and board checks reflect only the sheriff's site.
- State inspection/oversight: IDOC Jail and Detention Standards Unit, inspected 15 July 2025: rated capacity 26, population 16 that day; noncompliances: one, 701.250(f) commissary — the facility '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 Shelby 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