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Vermilion County Jail Overview

Vermilion County Jail is operated by the Vermilion County Sheriff's Department under Sheriff Patrick Hartshorn. The jail sits at the same South Street address used by the sheriff's public contact page and by the Illinois Sheriffs' Association profile. It is the main adult local detention point for Danville and other Vermilion County arrests, but it is not the record system for sentenced state prisoners at Danville Correctional Center.

The jail is framed in state inspection records as an adult county jail, with male and female housing capacity and no juvenile capacity in the adult jail inspection. The 2023 state inspection also says the jail did not house detainees for other jurisdictions at the time reviewed. That matters for searches because a person held on a Vermilion County arrest may be there, while a sentenced state prisoner, a federal defendant, or an immigration detainee may be in a separate system.

The official sheriff site gives useful family-contact links for visitation, commissary, and mail, but the research did not locate an official public online Vermilion County Jail roster on the county site. That gap should shape the lookup path. Readers should treat the jail phone, court case search, records-request process, IDOC search, and Illinois VINE as complementary channels rather than relying on an unofficial roster page.

The Vermilion County sheriff page shows the sheriff contact block and jail-related sidebar links.

This source is the official county entry point for jail contact details, while custody confirmation still needs the jail or another originating records office.

Vermilion Jail Population Snapshot

The strongest public population source found for Vermilion County Jail is the 2023 IDOC jail inspection. That report lists a total inspected capacity of 390 people, with 352 male beds and 38 female beds. On the inspection date, the jail population was 168 people, made up of 155 male detainees and 13 female detainees. The same inspection lists no adult-jail juvenile capacity or juvenile population.

The Illinois Sheriffs' Association profile lists 420 jail beds for Vermilion County Jail and identifies Captain Harold Heaton as the jail administrator. Because the IDOC inspection gives a dated capacity breakdown and a dated population count, the IDOC number is the better figure for inspection occupancy math. The association figure is still useful as a public-profile bed count, but the two figures should not be merged into one invented total.

Find Vermilion County Jail Inmates

No official online Vermilion County Jail roster was located in the county sources reviewed. For a current jail custody question, call the jail and use the person name, date of birth if known, arresting agency, and approximate arrest date. After charges are filed, the Vermilion County Circuit Clerk case-search page can help connect the arrest to court records, but a court docket is not the same as live jail custody.

Use the statewide IDOC Individual in Custody Search when the person may have been sentenced to prison. Use Illinois VINE for custody-status notifications where the agency or case is covered. For federal or immigration matters, the BOP inmate locator and ICE detainee locator are separate systems, not Vermilion County jail roster tools.

1. Call Vermilion County Jail for immediate adult custody confirmation when no official online jail roster appears.
2. Check the Circuit Clerk case search after the State's Attorney files charges and a court case is opened.
3. Search IDOC if the person may have moved from county custody into sentenced state prison custody.
4. Use Illinois VINE as a notification tool, then verify any custody result with the office that created the record.

The Vermilion County Sheriff, IL mobile app is documented in the research as a public outreach, tips, public-safety news, and communication app from OCV, LLC. Its Google Play listing and Apple App Store listing did not advertise a confirmed inmate roster, warrant search, or mugshot gallery in the captured research, so it should not replace the jail contact path.

Vermilion Jail Address Contact

The jail's contact card is the practical starting point for custody questions, visitor-rule questions, accessible-entry needs, and mail questions that are not answered on the county website. Official research did not locate public lobby hours, a booking-desk extension, or a visitor parking rule, so call before traveling to the downtown Danville jail.

The Illinois Sheriffs' Association direction source routes drivers from I-74 to Bowman Street, then north to South Street and west toward downtown Danville. The jail is near county-government offices, so visitors should plan for downtown traffic and should confirm parking and entry rules with the jail before arriving.

Vermilion Jail Visitation

The official Vermilion County inmate visitation page says the sheriff's department offers online visitation through Securus phone and video services. The captured county page links Securus Phone Services, Securus Video Visitation, and the Securus app. It did not publish a full in-person schedule, visitor ID rule, dress code, child-visitor rule, visit length, attorney visit process, or holiday lockdown rule.

That means a Vermilion County Jail visit plan should start with the official county visitation page, then continue through Securus and the jail phone number. Video visits, phone accounts, and any on-site rules can change. A person may also be moved, released, sent to court, or temporarily unavailable for a visit after a housing or classification change.

The sheriff visitation page is the official county source for the Securus visit links.

The screenshot supports the video-visitation channel, but it does not replace confirmation of current hours, visitor approval, or account rules.

Vermilion Jail Mail Money

The sheriff's inmate mail page says physical mail addressed to incarcerated individuals is scanned and distributed digitally through terminals and tablets, effective 10/25/2023. The page says the change was made for safety and security. The static capture did not expose full mailing-instruction PDF details, so verify the current mailing address and excluded items before sending paper mail, photos, books, or legal mail.

Money and commissary deposits route through Tiger Commissary for Vermilion County Jail IL. The captured service-selection page identifies Vermilion County Jail in Danville and includes Web Deposits for placing money on an inmate trust fund account. The service-selection page did not publish a full fee schedule, deposit maximum, or order limit in the captured research.

The Tiger Commissary page is the researched vendor page for Vermilion County Jail deposits.

This image confirms the jail-specific deposit channel, while fees and transaction rules still need vendor or jail confirmation.

Vermilion Jail Intake Records

The IDOC inspection checklist shows the types of intake and records topics state reviewers apply to the jail. The checklist covers booking and personal records, legality-of-confinement review, identity verification, fingerprinting, photographing, medical screening for people who are seriously ill or injured, mental-health screening, classification, property accounting, and separation concerns. It also checks whether monthly jail population reports are forwarded to the Jail and Detention Standards Unit.

Those checklist topics help explain why a custody search can lag behind an arrest. A person may be in booking, in court, in medical screening, released under a pretrial order, or transferred before a public record route gives a clear answer. Illinois no longer uses cash bail in the old way, so the court record may show pretrial release or detention orders rather than a simple bond amount.

Booking

The administrative intake record created after an arrest and before housing assignment.

Classification

The custody review used to decide housing and separation needs inside the jail.

Pretrial detention

Custody before case resolution when a court orders detention under Illinois pretrial law.

About Vermilion County Jail

Vermilion County Jail is a downtown Danville facility with a 1976 construction date in the 2023 IDOC inspection. The inspection inventory listed 16 single cells, 48 double cells, three 24-bed dormitories, 95 double detention rooms, and one 16-bed dormitory. It also listed 36 full-time employees assigned to jail duties and no part-time jail officers in the captured lines.

The inspection checklist covers records, admission, classification, medical and mental-health topics, discipline, grievances, visitation, food service, security, emergency procedures, and population reporting. The checklist should not be read as a full visitor handbook or as proof of a specific program unless the report clearly says so. It is still important because it shows the state standards framework for the local jail.

For broader Vermilion County inmate record routes, the Vermilion County jail inmate records page explains the fallback chain when an online roster is not available. The Vermilion County inmate population page places the jail numbers alongside the separate juvenile facility and Danville Correctional Center.