St. Clair County officials are putting the old jail property back up for sale. The old jail has been vacant for the last ...

St. Clair County officials monitoring the number of people held in the county jail do not see the jail population dropping in the long-term with the abolition of cash bail. Chief Judge Andrew ...

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, IL (KTVI) – Video chatting is an increasingly common way to conduct meetings and stay in touch with friends and family. Now, the technology is popping up in jails as a new tech ...

BELLEVILLE, IL (KTVI) – St. Clair County Sheriff Rick Watson tweeted that the county board may ask voters to help pay forexpansion of a local jail. In the past, several detainees filed federal ...

As of Feb. 3, the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department reported that the jail’s average daily population since the pandemic began is 493. In recent months, the population has, at times ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Sherry McCullough, (left) of Belleville chats with her incarcerated son via a video monitor at the St. Clair County Jail in ...

Tracy DeCaussin, who has worked in St. Clair County for the past 15 years, was appointed the new jail administrator following Capt. Tom Bliss's retirement on Jan. 1.

BELLEVILLE • An inmate killed himself at the St. Clair County Jail on Friday, authorities said. The man, Bradley C. Scarpi, was found dead in a cell about 9 p.m. Friday night, according to ...

According to the complaint, Brown was incarcerated at the St. Clair County jail beginning April 20, 2021, after she was arrested for driving while intoxicated.

A former inmate has filed a federal lawsuit against the St. Clair County jail saying staff neglected her medical needs for days. In a complaint filed on behalf of Lisa Lee Alice Brown, 48, on Oct ...

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - Two more former inmates of a southern Illinois jail are suing over strip searches they claim were unconstitutional. The Belleville News-Democrat reports Teresa Hale and ...