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Clark County Jail Overview

Clark County Jail is the only detention facility identified in the Clark County facility map from official county, IDOC, BOP, and ICE sources reviewed. It is operated by the Clark County Sheriff's Office. The official sheriff page lists the jail and sheriff's offices together and states that sheriff's deputies operate the county jail, assist local community departments when called on, work with local courts, and support crime and drug-prevention work.

The jail is a county-jail facility, not an Illinois state prison. It holds people at the local stage of a case: newly booked arrestees, adult pretrial detainees, short-sentence county inmates, and area-county detainees if needed. People sentenced to IDOC custody leave the county-jail lookup path and should be searched through the state prison locator after transfer.

Clark County Jail Capacity

The best official facility figures come from the IDOC 2024 Clark County Jail compliance monitoring report. The report lists Sheriff Bill Brown and Jail Administrator Jay Sharp, with an inspection date of November 14, 2024. It gives the facility construction dates as 1981 and 2010, with no last renovation listed. The rated capacity is 50 total beds, split between 40 male beds and 10 female beds, with no rated juvenile beds.

On the November 14, 2024 inspection date, Clark County Jail held 10 people: 9 male and 1 female. The housing layout was 10 single cells, 16 double cells, and one 8-bed dorm. Inspector comments also noted one single holding cell, one single safety cell, and one double safety cell as special-purpose cells or detention rooms that were not included in rated capacity.

Search Clark County Jail Custody

The sheriff page does not publish a Clark County hosted roster form. Instead, it links to Illinois VINELink, also described as Illinois AVN, for custody status, case status, recent offenders processed into the jail, and notifications. VINELink is the official local online route documented by the sheriff, but the jail phone line remains important for same-day questions.

1. Start at the official Clark County Sheriff page and follow its Illinois VINELink custody path.
2. Search VINELink for the person and register for text, phone, or email notifications when ongoing custody updates matter.
3. Call Clark County Jail at 217-826-6393 if the online result is missing, stale, or unclear.
4. Use a written FOIA request to the sheriff for releasable jail or booking records that are not available online.
5. Use IDOC, BOP, or ICE locators instead when the person is in state, federal, or immigration custody.

For the broader roster workflow and field limits, use the Clark County jail inmate records page. It separates county-jail records from court records, state prison records, and federal or immigration locator searches.

Clark County Jail Contact

The jail and sheriff's office share the official address published by the county and by IDOC inspection materials. The county map/location page also lists the same Sheriff's Department location and phone number. For custody status, release, transfer, visit, mail, phone, or commissary questions, call before going in person because several public-facing details were not published in the official sources reviewed.

The county government main contact is separate from the jail and is listed at 501 Archer Ave., Marshall, IL 62441. Court questions should go to the Circuit Clerk or court records path, not the jail, because a custody entry does not replace the formal court file.

Clark County Jail Visits

The 2024 IDOC inspection states that Clark County Jail uses face-to-face visitation on Thursday and Sunday. No public schedule hours, visitor application form, identification rule, dress code, child-visitor policy, holiday schedule, visit length, or attorney-visit procedure was located in the official county and inspection sources reviewed.

Visitors should confirm the person is still in Clark County Jail before making the trip. A release, transfer, court movement, medical issue, discipline status, or facility restriction can change access. The inspection says phone calls and visits are available on request, but it does not publish the rules a visitor would need at the door.

Clark County Jail Mail

No public inmate-mail format was located for Clark County Jail. Use the jail address only after calling to confirm the correct name format, whether a booking number or housing detail is needed, and what items are barred. The inspection checklist confirms mail standards are part of county-jail inspection, including contraband, funds handling, and privileged mail protections, but it does not publish a public Clark County mail handbook.

Do not send cash unless the jail confirms that it is accepted. Also confirm custody first. The person may have been released, moved to another county, transferred to IDOC after sentencing, or placed in a different system that uses different mail, phone, and money rules.

Clark County Jail Intake

Clark County's public sheriff page does not publish a detailed booking timeline, but the inspection materials show the admission standards reviewed for the local jail. Intake standards include verifying the legality of confinement, confirming identity, fingerprinting and photographing in line with law, completing a pat-down search, documenting property and medication, providing phone access as soon as practicable, and creating a detainee record at admission.

The inspection materials also point to health and safety screening. Medical services are listed through Cork Medical Center, two contractual RNs, EZ Clinic, and Paris Community Hospital unless the detainee has a local physician. Clark County Health Department provides fourteen-day medical screenings. Mental-health services are listed through Human Resources Center and Qun Wu MD with Horizon Health, and dental care is through Paris Family Dental unless another local dentist is already established.

Illinois's pretrial framework changed after the end of cash bail took effect statewide on September 18, 2023. For Clark County Jail, that means release and detention questions often depend on court hearings, release conditions, detainers, or transfer status, not just a payment amount. Verify release status with the jail and court records before acting.

Clark County Jail Conditions

The 2024 IDOC report lists practical service and condition details that are not on the public sheriff page. GED materials are provided by Lake Land College. Law library resources, including Illinois Compiled Statutes, are available in physical copy. Religious services are available. The facility has a restraint chair and tasers, with stun gloves or cuff noted as not yet active at inspection.

Recent inspection improvements included mattresses, an expanded commissary list, surface cleaner, a portable generator, a Lexipol contract to update the policy manual, and completion of the safety cell. The 2024 noncompliance finding concerned Illinois County Jail Standard 701.130(a)(2), which requires personal observation of detainees at least every 30 minutes rather than relying only on monitoring equipment. The sampled period showed 1058 of 1072 checks completed on time, a 98.7 percent timely-check rate.