Lookup Danville Correctional Inmates

Danville Correctional Center Overview

Danville Correctional Center is operated by the Illinois Department of Corrections, not by the Vermilion County Sheriff's Department. IDOC identifies it as a medium-security adult male institution at 3820 East Main Street in Danville. It opened in October 1985 and is one of the largest custody sites physically located in Vermilion County, but it is not part of the county jail roster process.

IDOC's facility page says Danville Correctional Center encourages positive attitudes, programs, and work opportunities for adult males in custody. The facility has 17 buildings over 85 acres. Living areas include three X-type housing units, one T-type housing unit, a receiving unit, a segregation unit, and a 15-bed health-care unit. The housed population is general-population individuals in IDOC custody.

The IDOC Danville Correctional Center page is the matched facility source for prison capacity, population, visitation, mail, housing, and programs.

This official IDOC source is the right facility page for Danville prison rules, while county jail records remain a separate sheriff and court issue.

Danville Prison Population

IDOC lists Danville Correctional Center with an operational capacity of 1,836. The population figure captured in the research was 1,689 as of 06/30/2024. That is about 92 percent of operational capacity. These figures describe sentenced state prison custody, not the Vermilion County adult jail count and not the juvenile detention count.

The facility is a medium-security adult male prison. That security and custody label matters when looking up a person because state prisoners are searched through IDOC, while people held in the county jail before trial or on local sentences are handled by Vermilion County Jail. Federal and immigration detainees use still other systems.

Search Danville Correctional Inmates

Use the IDOC Individual in Custody Search for Danville Correctional Center. Do not use the Vermilion County Jail contact path as the primary search path for a sentenced state prisoner. A person may have been arrested in Vermilion County, appeared in Vermilion County court, and later transferred into IDOC, but once that transfer occurs the prison lookup belongs to IDOC.

The static IDOC search page confirms the Individual in Custody Search but did not expose every live search-field label in the capture. Use a legal name and IDOC number when known. If the result shows a different IDOC facility, follow the current facility result rather than assuming the person is still in Danville. For release or notification questions, Illinois VINE may help where the custody event is covered.

1. Open the IDOC Individual in Custody Search for sentenced Illinois state prisoners.
2. Search by name or IDOC number when available, then review matching results carefully.
3. Confirm whether the result lists Danville Correctional Center or another IDOC facility.
4. Use the current IDOC facility page for mail, visiting, phone, and deposit rules.

The IDOC search page is the correct search source for Danville Correctional Center inmates.

This search page belongs to state prison custody, so it should not be used as proof of current Vermilion County Jail custody.

Danville Correctional Contact

Use the IDOC facility contact information for prison questions. The same East Main Street address is used for business mail and individual-in-custody mail in the research, but personal mail must include the person's name and IDOC number. Calling the sheriff's jail line for Danville Correctional Center questions will usually send the caller back to IDOC.

IDOC also lists a fax number of 217-446-9505 and identifies Trent Allen as warden in the researched facility block. Use the current IDOC page for any updated leadership or rule changes because prison policies can change statewide or by facility.

Danville Correctional Visits

IDOC visitation rules control Danville Correctional Center. The researched IDOC facility page says visitors must sign up in advance. It also gives video visitation windows every day of the week and says visitors should log on 15 minutes before the scheduled start. The research notes that IDOC links visitor ADA accommodations and IDOC visitation rules and information from the facility page.

Prison visits differ from county jail video visits. Danville Correctional Center visitors should expect IDOC approval, scheduling, identification, dress, conduct, and security rules. A county court hearing or old jail booking record does not authorize a prison visit. The current IDOC facility page and statewide visitation rules should be checked before any travel or video session.

Danville Mail Phone Money

Mail to Danville Correctional Center must identify the individual in custody by name and IDOC number. The researched mail format is: Individual in Custody Name and IDOC#, 3820 East Main Street, Danville, IL 61834. Business mail uses the same street address. Before sending anything other than standard correspondence, check IDOC's current incoming mail rules because prohibited items and vendor rules can change.

The research file did not capture a Danville-specific deposit fee table, phone-rate table, or commissary price list. IDOC's high-level family and friend resources include deposit services, phone services, incoming mail policies, visitation rules, information release forms, and facility pages. Use those IDOC channels rather than the county jail's Tiger Commissary page, which is for Vermilion County Jail.

Danville Admission Process

Danville Correctional Center does not perform street-arrest booking for Vermilion County. Arrest booking happens through the local jail system. A person reaches IDOC after a criminal case results in a state prison sentence and the person is transferred into the Illinois prison system. IDOC search and facility assignment then control the public prison lookup path.

The facility has a receiving unit, which is different from county jail booking. Prison reception and classification focus on custody level, housing, health, programs, sentence administration, and facility placement inside the state system. If the person was recently sentenced, a lag may occur before the IDOC result reflects the current facility.

IDOC

The Illinois Department of Corrections, the state agency that runs Danville Correctional Center.

Receiving unit

A prison unit used for intake and placement steps after transfer into IDOC custody.

Sentenced prisoner

A person committed to state prison after conviction and sentencing, not a county pretrial detainee.

Danville Prison Programs

Danville Correctional Center has a richer program profile than a county jail page. IDOC lists education programs including Adult Basic Education, Advanced ABE, ASE/GED, college remedial work, associate degree programs, a bachelor's degree through Eastern Illinois University, the Education Justice Project, Divine Hope Bible College, and a Title One under-21 program.

Career and work programs include automotive technology, construction occupations, career technologies, CNC tool operations, mechatronics, and industries such as cardboard box production, screen printing, sewing, book binding, embroidery, and graphic art. IDOC also lists volunteer, religious, AA, NA, social services, counseling, lifestyle redirection, parole school, substance abuse, drug education, anger management, parenting, psychological services, veterans transition and support, leisure activities, chaplaincy, and library services.

These program facts are tied to sentenced state prison custody. They should not be used to describe Vermilion County Jail, which has a different operator and a much thinner public program record in the researched sources.

About Danville Correctional Center

Danville Correctional Center is a major state prison presence inside Vermilion County. It may appear in local inmate-population research because it is physically in Danville and holds a large number of people, but its records and rules come from IDOC. That distinction is one of the most important points for readers who are moving from an arrest, to court, to sentence, and then to prison custody.

If a person was arrested locally and is still in pretrial custody, the Vermilion County Jail facility page and the Vermilion County Sheriff are the better local custody path. After charges are filed, the Vermilion County Circuit Clerk case-search page can help track the court case that led to a prison sentence. If a person is in federal or immigration custody, BOP, USMS, or ICE systems apply instead of either the county jail or IDOC.

The Vermilion County inmate population page separates the county jail population, juvenile detention population, and Danville state prison population so searches are routed to the right office.