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Logan County Jail Overview

Logan County Jail is operated by the Logan County Sheriff's Office as part of the Logan County Safety Complex at 911 Pekin Street in Lincoln. It is local custody, not state prison custody. The jail receives people arrested by the sheriff's deputies, the Lincoln Police Department, the Illinois State Police, and other agencies on Logan County charges or warrants. The jail administrator is Rod Boyd, and the facility runs 24 hours a day with correctional staff. Sheriff Mark Landers leads the office that operates it.

Capacity figures differ across official sources, which is worth knowing before reading any single number. The county jail page says the jail can house 53 inmates. The sheriff's welcome page lists a rated capacity of 65. The 2024 state inspection lists 58 beds, split 50 male and 8 female. The dated inspection is the most current standards figure, and the older numbers reflect earlier rated capacities. The jail page does not publish a live housing map, so the inspection reports are the better source for bed counts.

Who Is Held at Logan County Jail

The jail holds a mostly local and mostly pretrial population. That includes people booked on new Logan County charges, people waiting for a first court date, people serving a short county sentence, and people picked up on a warrant. Some are held briefly on an out-of-county warrant before transfer, and the 2019 Vera dataset showed most of the people in the jail were held pretrial rather than on a sentence. The count stays small, in the low dozens on recent inspection days.

What the jail does not hold is just as important. Sentenced felons do not stay here once they are transferred to the state prison system, and the two Illinois Department of Corrections prisons in Lincoln are separate facilities with their own populations. A person who moves from the jail into state custody is searched through the state corrections locator, not the county channels, which is the most common point of confusion for families tracking someone through the system.

Logan County Jail Capacity and Population

The clearest dated figures come from the Illinois Department of Corrections jail inspection. The November 12, 2024 inspection listed 58 beds and counted 25 people in custody that day, 17 male and 8 female. That is roughly 43 percent of inspection capacity, a calculation from the official numbers rather than a figure the state stated directly. Inspection-day counts in earlier years ranged from the low 20s to the mid 40s, all under the listed beds.

The sheriff's office that operates the jail is shown below, the same office that handles custody, visitation, and records questions for the facility.

The agency that runs the jail is the Logan County Sheriff's Office.

The sheriff's site carries the jail menu, the FOIA links, and the contact numbers used to reach the facility and confirm whether someone is in custody.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Logan County Jail

Because Logan County Jail uses the county custody channels rather than a public roster, the lookup runs through Illinois VINELink and the jail phone line. VINELink connects to the county booking system and lets families register for release and case notifications. The fuller set of channels, including the records-request fallback, sits on the jail inmate records page.

1. Search Illinois VINELink by the person's name.
2. If a same-day booking is not showing yet, call the jail at 217-735-2610 with inmate questions.
3. For the charge and next court date, use the circuit clerk's case search.
4. If the person was sentenced to state prison, switch to the IDOC search instead of the county channels.

Logan County Jail Address and Contact

The jail and the sheriff's administrative office are at different addresses, so route custody questions to the jail at the Safety Complex and not the downtown office. The card below lists the jail's address and phone line.

Visiting Someone at Logan County Jail

The jail allows one 30-minute in-person visit each week, and two or more people visiting together count as that single visit. The visitor must already be on the inmate's approved list, and visits are scheduled by phone the same day. Remote video visits run separately for a fee. The schedule below comes from the official jail page, which warns that times can change without notice.

Schedule an in-person visit by calling 217-735-2610 between 8:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. on the day of the visit. Visitors 18 or older must show a picture ID, sign the register, and expect a search on jail property. Cell phones and electronic devices are not allowed in the visit, and no personal property beyond vehicle keys may come in. Clergy visits require ID and an ordination certificate or a church letter, and the applicant cannot have an outstanding warrant.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Logan County Jail

Mail must use the inmate's first and last name, in care of the jail, with the sender's full return name and address. Cashier's checks, money orders, and certified checks are deposited to the commissary account, while personal checks and cash are returned. Inmates can place outgoing calls using account funds but cannot receive calls, and staff will not relay messages. Funds for commissary, phone, or bond can be added online or at the lobby kiosk.

Books and periodicals may be allowed subject to inspection and approval, but only when delivered from a supplier such as Amazon or Barnes & Noble. These mail and deposit rules are specific to the county jail and should not be mixed with the state prison rules, which use different addresses and a different deposit vendor.

Booking and Intake at Logan County Jail

Booking turns an arrest into a custody record. After an arrest, a person is taken to the Safety Complex, where staff confirm identity, handle property, complete the booking entry, and run a medical or safety screening before classification and a housing assignment. A booking normally reaches the custody system within a few hours, so a same-day arrest may not appear on VINELink right away. Illinois no longer uses money bail, so after booking a person may be released under pretrial conditions or held after a detention hearing under Article 110, which affects how long a name stays on the county custody list.

About Logan County Jail

The jail sits inside the Logan County Safety Complex and is the hub of local custody for a rural central Illinois county of roughly 27,000 people. State inspections have noted preliminary approval for additional detention rooms, outdoor recreation, an expanded medical-services area, and negative-air-pressure rooms, and a 2023 inspection referenced a MARS opioid-dependency program. A county jail addition plan and a 2025 county board review show the facility is planning for more space even though recent inspection counts run low. Once a person is sentenced to prison, custody shifts out of the jail to a state facility such as Lincoln Correctional Center.

The office that runs the jail brings a corrections background to it. Sheriff Mark Landers is a Logan County native and Army veteran who worked as an Illinois Department of Corrections officer before a long career with the sheriff's office, where he served as patrol deputy, investigator, and chief deputy before his election. Logan County itself carries an unusually dense correctional footprint for a rural county, with one sheriff-run jail, two adult state prisons, and a newer state youth center all in or near Lincoln, which is why sorting the county jail apart from the state facilities matters so much when searching for someone in custody.