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Moultrie County Jail Overview

The Moultrie County Jail is operated by the Moultrie County Sheriff's Office at 1505 W. Hagerman St. in Sullivan. It is a local adult jail, not a state prison, and it holds pre-trial detainees, people serving short county sentences, and individuals held on warrants, mittimus commitments, court orders, or transfers pending court or state custody. The jail is open 24 hours a day, every day of the year, while the sheriff's business office keeps weekday daytime hours. Sheriff Gary Carroll leads the office, and Jodi Trussell serves as jail administrator.

The building was constructed in 2007 and is rated for 58 beds, split as 48 male and 10 female, with no juvenile capacity. Its layout is 24 two-person detention rooms, one 10-bed dormitory, and one segregation or suicide-watch room. The 2025 state inspection found the jail in full compliance with the Illinois County Jail Standards and noted recent upgrades: fresh exterior paint, a new boiler, a new heat-exchange unit, and a handheld translator for language access.

Moultrie County Jail Capacity and Population

The hard numbers for this jail come from the annual Illinois Department of Corrections inspections. On the most recent inspection date, April 29, 2025, the jail held 5 people, 4 men and 1 woman, against its 58 rated beds. Earlier inspections counted 9 in 2024 and 15 in 2023, so the facility has run well below capacity on each recent check.

These are point-in-time inspection figures from IDOC, not a daily average, which the county does not publish. The 2025 occupancy worked out to about 8.6% of rated capacity.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Moultrie County Jail

This is a county jail, so the lookup uses the sheriff's channels rather than the state locator. No public roster sits online, so the phone line is the front door. Have the person's full legal name and, if possible, a date of birth and arrest date before you call.

1. Call the Moultrie County Jail at 217-728-4386; the jail answers around the clock and can confirm custody and charges.
2. Give the inmate's full name and any identifying details so staff can locate the booking.
3. File a county FOIA request if you need a written booking record the staff cannot share by phone.
4. If the person was sentenced and transferred, switch to the Illinois Department of Corrections locator instead of the jail.

For the full set of access channels, including the court index and VINE alerts, see jail inmate records.

Moultrie County Jail Address and Contact

The jail and the Sheriff's Office share one building on the west side of Sullivan. Use the phone line for custody questions at any hour, and the business office for records matters during weekday hours.

Visiting Someone at Moultrie County Jail

On-site visits are not offered at this jail. All family visitation is remote and runs through CIDNET, available seven days a week, with each visit monitored and recorded. A visit must be scheduled at least 24 hours ahead, and the registering adult needs a valid State ID or driver's license unless the visitor is a minor.

Eligibility rules apply: a visitor cannot have been an inmate here within the last 30 days, cannot have an outstanding warrant, and cannot be party to a no-contact order with the inmate. The county visitation page sets out the CIDNET setup and ID rules.

Those rules are posted on the Moultrie County Jail visitation page, which explains remote scheduling and the no on-site visitation policy.

Confirm the inmate is still in custody before booking a slot, since a release or transfer cancels a scheduled visit.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Moultrie County Jail

Standard mail goes to the inmate's first and last name at 1505 W. Hagerman, Sullivan, IL 61951. Every piece is opened and inspected, the sender's full name and address must appear, and the only enclosures allowed are pictures, with no Polaroids and nothing larger than 5x7. Cash and personal checks are not accepted by mail. Money for an inmate can be added at the lobby kiosk, online through JailATM, or by money order with the inmate's full name; the kiosk and JailATM each charge a fee.

Phones sit in every cellblock and allow outbound calls only; an indigent inmate gets one free five-minute call each week. Officers can answer custody and charge questions but will not pass messages to an inmate.

Booking and Intake at Moultrie County Jail

Intake at the Moultrie County Jail follows the Illinois admission checklist. After arrest, warrant service, mittimus, or transfer, the receiving officer confirms the legal basis for the hold, verifies identity, and conducts a pat-down search. Detainees are fingerprinted and photographed as the law requires, and their property and any medication are logged on a signed receipt with a duplicate given to the person. Each detainee may make a reasonable number of completed phone calls as soon as practicable.

A medical and mental-health screening checks for injuries, medical conditions, medication, and self-harm risk, with a referral to health staff when needed. Housing then depends on classification across the jail's two-person rooms, dormitory, and segregation room. The county does not publish a roster, so confirm a fresh booking by phone rather than expecting it to appear online.

Directions and Visitor Planning for Moultrie County Jail

The jail sits on the west side of Sullivan at 1505 W. Hagerman St., away from the downtown courthouse square at 10 S. Main Street. From the IL-121 corridor, head toward Sullivan on IL-32 and turn toward W. Hagerman Street north of the main route. From nearby towns such as Bethany, Lovington, Arthur, or Dalton City, route into Sullivan first, then to the Hagerman Street address.

The county pages do not publish a parking lot layout, transit route, or visitor-entry ADA instruction, so confirm parking and accessibility by phone before you travel. Call 217-728-4386 ahead of time if you need accessible parking or entry help, and remember that most family visits are handled remotely rather than at a counter, so a trip to the building is usually for records or business-office matters.

Inspection Findings and Jail Standards

The Illinois Department of Corrections inspects the jail every year against the County Jail Standards. The 2025 inspection reported no noncompliance and noted that the facility had a written procedures manual, emergency plans, and staff training in first aid, CPR, and the recognition of mental illness. Officers conduct a medical and mental-health screening at intake, with suicide-prevention and crisis-intervention training in place.

Reentry steps are built into release. Positive identification is made before any discharge or transfer, property and medication are returned and documented, and a detainee released with mental-health needs is given community resource contacts and the chance to receive copies of their jail medical and medication records. Local probation services, based at the county courthouse complex in Sullivan, supervise people sentenced to probation, conditional discharge, or supervision.

About Moultrie County Jail

The jail dates to 2007 and is the only detention facility in the county. The 2023 inspection described it as very clean and orderly, and the 2025 inspection recorded no noncompliance along with several building upgrades. It is the local end of a wider system: once a person is convicted of a felony and committed, they transfer out of this jail and into the Illinois Department of Corrections, where the state locator takes over the search. Until that point, the Sullivan jail is where pre-trial and short-sentence inmates are held, and the sheriff is the office to ask about custody. Return to the Moultrie County inmate population overview for population trends and the laws behind the data.