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Clay County Jail Overview

Clay County Jail is the only confirmed detention facility located in Clay County from the official source review. It is operated by the Clay County Sheriff's Office at 300 E. Broadway St in Louisville. The sheriff welcome page says the sheriff is warden of the county jail and that the jail serves people awaiting trial and people serving court sentences. The IDOC inspection adds that the facility may house for area counties if needed.

The jail is a local county facility, not an Illinois state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center. No separate work-release annex, regional jail, municipal jail with public roster, BOP institution, ICE facility, or IDOC prison physically located in Clay County was confirmed. Once a Clay County defendant is sentenced to state prison and transferred, the IDOC locator becomes the correct search tool.

Clay County Jail Capacity

The 2024 IDOC inspection gives the most specific public capacity and population data for Clay County Jail. The report lists 17 rated beds, including 13 male beds and 4 female beds. The inspection-date population on August 15, 2024 was 8 people, with 7 male detainees and 1 female detainee. The 2023 IDOC report listed 19 beds and 8 people in custody on August 3, 2023.

Look Up Clay County Jail Inmates

Current Clay County Jail custody is searched through the sheriff app's Inmate Search feature and public feed. The feed is free and did not show a login requirement in the research. It can show name, inmate ID, demographics, custody status, booked date, and reporting agency. It should not be expected to show charges, bond, court date, housing unit, or visible booking photos because those fields were missing or empty in inspected entries.

1. Open the Clay County Sheriff's Office web app.
2. Select Inmate Search from the feature bar or Jail Info menu.
3. Search or scan the date-descending list for the person's name.
4. Open the entry and read the custody status, booked date, and reporting agency.
5. Call (618) 665-3316 if the record is unclear, missing, or time-sensitive.

The official sheriff app screenshot shows the public app home where jail, inmate search, Most Wanted, contact, and related features are grouped.

Clay County Sheriff's Office web app

Clay County Jail Address

The formal facility address in the IDOC inspection is 300 E. Broadway St, Louisville, IL 62858. The sheriff app and inmate feed also use 300 Broadway St and PO Box 267 for agency and mail references. Use the physical address for visitor travel and the PO Box when following jail mail rules.

Clay County Jail Visitation

Clay County Jail visitation is scheduled through InmateSales, with Combined Public Communications providing inmate phone, texting, and video visitation services. Family and friends create an account at InmateSales and schedule a visit there. Visits outside regular hours require sheriff authorization.

Minimum visit access is one 15-minute visit per inmate per day. Cellphones are strictly prohibited in the visiting area, including the booth and lobby. Recording any visit is prohibited. Inappropriate behavior can end a visit, and visiting hours can change without notice.

Clay County Jail Mail and Money

Inmate mail must use the name of the inmate, Clay County Jail, PO Box 267, Louisville, IL 62858. Correspondence must be sent through U.S. Mail unless the sheriff authorizes otherwise. The jail rules allow up to ten photographs, no larger than 4x6, and no drawings. Mail must be on plain white notebook paper or similar and free of stickers, glue, glitter, or foreign substances.

The sheriff commissary and mail data is published through an official app JSON resource. That matters because the rules may appear on a `cdn.myocv.com` URL while still being official sheriff app content.

official commissary and inmate mail data

Clay County Jail Intake

Clay County public materials do not publish a full booking manual, but IDOC and Illinois County Jail Standards identify the main intake duties. Jail officers verify legal authority for confinement, verify identity, create personal and booking records, handle property, screen medical and mental-health needs, fingerprint and photograph detainees as required by law, and assign suitable quarters. The public feed then exposes part of that record as booked date, custody status, physical descriptors, and reporting agency.

The 2024 inspection says orientation materials are provided by kiosk. Detainees have law library access to Illinois Compiled Statutes through kiosk, with LexisNexis on a computer by request. Meals are prepared on-site by jail staff. Medical, mental-health, and dental triage are routed through local providers including a local RNP, local walk-in clinic, Clay County Hospital Clinic, Clay County Hospital, Clay County Counseling Services, and DDS Jay Swanson.

Clay County Jail Services

The IDOC inspection records several jail services and recent improvements. Religious volunteer visits are available, and religious phone or video visits are available upon request. The facility has an observation room and holding room outside rated capacity. Control devices listed by IDOC include a restraint chair and tasers. Pest control was noted as quarterly through Orkin.

Recent improvements in the 2024 report included new mattresses, sheets, towels, uniforms, shoes, televisions, games, puzzle books, library books, freezer and refrigerator equipment, a floor scrubber, power washer, trauma kits, AEDs, an iris scanner, kiosk and camera wiring, an emergency generator awaiting installation, and approval for an annual painting and maintenance contract. These details should not be inflated into a guarantee of conditions, but they do show what IDOC recorded at inspection.

Clay County Jail Inspection

IDOC monitored Clay County Jail on August 15, 2024. The report found the jail below rated capacity on inspection day, but it also found staffing and supervision non-compliances. IDOC recommended no fewer than two officers assigned at all times. The report noted that dispatchers were trained jail officers but were not primarily assigned to correctional duties during the shift, which mattered for continuous jail duty.

The personal observation finding was specific: 96 of 144 expected checks were timely, a 67 percent compliance rate. IDOC also flagged sufficient 24-hour supervision, awake and alert officer staffing, and backup personnel when cell doors to living quarters are opened. Capacity and compliance should be discussed separately because the official concern was supervision, not overcrowding.