St. Clair County Jail Inmate Search

St. Clair County Jail Overview

St. Clair County Jail is operated by the St. Clair County Sheriff's Department at 700 N. 5th St., Belleville, IL 62220. The facility is the county's primary jail, not an Illinois Department of Corrections prison. It holds adult men and women in local custody, including pretrial detainees, people serving local sentences, fugitives or other agency holds, and people waiting for transfer to IDOC or the Illinois Department of Human Services when a court or state process requires it.

The jail also has a documented federal role. U.S. Marshals Service agreement number 25-99-0198 names St. Clair County Jail as a local facility for federal detainee housing, safekeeping, and subsistence, with USMS, BOP, and ICE listed as authorized users. That contract detail does not turn the Belleville jail into a federal prison, and it does not mean a federal pretrial detainee will appear in the BOP locator. It means the jail may physically house people for federal agencies while their federal case, transfer, designation, or immigration matter is pending.

The jail building was constructed in 1970. IDOC inspection records list renovations in 1988 and 1994, and Vera's local fact sheet describes a later expansion to 418 beds. The housing layout documented in the 2024 inspection includes single cells, quad cells, single and double detention rooms, dormitories, infirmary areas, quiet rooms, and holding areas. Medical, mental-health, and dental services are provided by Wexford Health Sources; meals are prepared onsite by Aramark Corrections Services; commissary is provided through Keefe Commissary Network; and communications, tablets, video visits, and digital mail involve ICSolutions and TextBehind.

St. Clair County Jail Capacity and Population

The IDOC St. Clair County Jail inspection dated May 15, 2024 lists total capacity at 409 and reports an inspection-day population of 385. Earlier IDOC inspections and the Illinois Sheriffs' Association listed 418 beds, so 409 is the current inspection figure and 418 is the prior or alternate published capacity. The 2024 inspection also reported 329 male and 57 female detainees, a breakdown that sums to 386 while the same report states a total of 385. The safest reading is to preserve the stated total and note that the sex breakdown does not cleanly match it.

Earlier inspections show why current capacity matters. IDOC reported 511 people against 418 capacity in April 2021, 475 against 418 in April 2022, and 490 against 418 in April 2023. By the May 2024 inspection, the facility was below the stated 409 capacity on that day, but IDOC still recommended limiting certain C, D, G, and H block quad-bed cells to double occupancy when other cells or dormitory space were available.

How to Look Up an Inmate at St. Clair County Jail

Use the county jail roster for current Belleville jail custody. The county Corrections page links the inmate search and says current inmate records are updated hourly. The current search route sends users to the St. Clair County goejail current inmates portal, which may require a browser or human verification screen before the list loads. Do not use IDOC to find a newly arrested county detainee unless the person has already moved into state custody.

1. Start from the official county Corrections page and follow the Inmate Search link to the goejail current inmates portal.
2. Complete the verification screen if the portal asks for it. The live result columns were not visible during research because of that screen.
3. Search with the person's last name, first name, or booking number if the older official lookup shell is used as a parallel reference.
4. Confirm that the record identifies St. Clair County Jail or current county custody before relying on the result.
5. If the person is missing, call the jail information system, check the Circuit Clerk for filed charges, and check IDOC, BOP, ICE ODLS, or VINELink depending on the custody situation.

The older official lookup at inmates.stclaircounty.org showed Last Name, First Name, and Booking Number fields during research, but the county's current site routes to goejail. Its Michigan contact page should not be used for Illinois jail contact information.

St. Clair County Jail Address and Contact

Use the Sheriff's Department and jail contacts for custody confirmation, jail policy, phone accounts, mail questions, and current release or hold information. The sheriff contact page routes jail information through the Inmate Information System at (618) 456-7606, including current inmate bond information by pressing 1, jail policy by pressing 2, phone account information by pressing 4, and personal voicemail by pressing 5. Illinois no longer uses cash bail for new pretrial release decisions, so treat the older bond prompt label as a public phone route for release and custody information rather than proof of a cash-bail process.

Visiting Someone at St. Clair County Jail

Public county pages reviewed emphasized video visitation and phone or digital contact rather than publishing a complete in-person visiting schedule. The ICSolutions The Visitor page for St. Clair County Jail says all visitors must register at no cost through ICSolutions before participating in video visitation. Video visits may be onsite from terminals in the facility visitation center or offsite from a Windows computer, Android device, or iOS device using ICS Mobile. The same source describes the system as a replacement for traditional glass visits because the detained person remains in the housing unit.

Visitors should bring government photo identification and expect screening if traveling to the facility. Official pages reviewed did not publish a visitor parking map, a full property checklist, or jail-specific public transit instructions, so call the jail before traveling for a visit or policy question.

Mail, Phone, and Money at St. Clair County Jail

Personal mail for the jail is not sent directly to Belleville. The official detainee mail flyer says personal mail must be addressed to the ICSolutions Digital Mail Center in Phoenix, Maryland, where it is scanned and made available on tablets or kiosks. Legal mail and approved publications go directly to the St. Clair County Jail. Items that cannot be scanned, including paper larger than 14 by 8 inches and non-paper items, may be returned. No packages are accepted at the Digital Mail Center.

Booking and Intake at St. Clair County Jail

St. Clair County has not published a full public booking manual in the reviewed material, but the local process can be described from official county and state sources. After an arrest, a local agency or sheriff's deputy brings the person to jail or another law-enforcement holding point. Jail staff receive custody paperwork, identify the person, inventory property under jail policy, take fingerprints and a photograph when applicable, screen medical and mental-health needs, and classify the person for housing. New bookings may not appear instantly even though the county Corrections page says inmate-search records are updated hourly.

After intake, court review controls release or continued detention. The State's Attorney may review felony and certain serious cases before filing charges, and court records appear through the Circuit Clerk after charging documents are filed. A person may remain held because of a court detention order, warrant, out-of-county hold, DOC or parole issue, federal hold, immigration matter, or another custody barrier. For filed court dates and case numbers, use the county Circuit Clerk tools rather than assuming the jail roster is the complete court record.

Programs, Vendors, and Oversight at St. Clair County Jail

IDOC inspection material gives a practical picture of programs and oversight inside the Belleville jail. Wexford Health Sources provides medical, mental-health, and dental services, and the 2024 inspection noted expanded mental-health hours, electronic medical records, medication-administration records, and a protocol after assessment by Alton Mental Health. Programs documented in the research include AA and NA, anger management, emotions groups, a female trauma support group, GED materials from Southwestern Illinois College, law-library resources through kiosk and tablets, religious volunteer visits, chapel services, and women's Bible study.

Jail oversight comes through several channels. IDOC's Jail and Detention Standards Unit inspects county jails and collects population statistics. The county PREA material says reports can be made by notifying staff, making a written complaint, using the staff chain of command, contacting the jail, or writing to the PREA Coordinator. FOIA requests for sheriff or jail records can be made through the St. Clair County JustFOIA portal or the sheriff FOIA form, subject to Illinois public-record exemptions.