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Henderson County Jail Role

Henderson County Jail is operated by the Henderson County Sheriff's Office. The jail serves the local court and law-enforcement system for Oquawka, Stronghurst, Gladstone, Biggsville, and the rest of Henderson County. It is a county jail, not an Illinois state prison, a federal prison, or an immigration detention center. That distinction matters because a person arrested on a Henderson County case may be in sheriff custody before trial, may later be sentenced to the Illinois Department of Corrections, or may be outside the local jail system altogether.

The public address record has a real conflict. IDOC jail inspection reports for 2024 and 2025 list Henderson County Jail at 248 Warren Street, Oquawka, IL 61469. The Illinois Sheriffs' Association directory lists the county jail at 113 N. 4th Street, Oquawka, IL 61469, and gives a sheriff mailing address of P.O. Box 228. Both sources describe the sheriff and jail block around Warren Street, Fourth Street, and the courthouse area. For a visit, delivery, records request, or in-person question, call first and ask which entrance or mailing format should be used that day.

The Illinois Sheriffs' Association Henderson County directory shows the local sheriff and jail listing used for public routing.

The directory image is useful because it preserves the public-facing jail address and older bed count, which differ from the latest IDOC inspection address and capacity.

Henderson County Jail Capacity

The most recent IDOC inspection reports make Henderson County Jail look different from a busier county jail. The 2024 and 2025 reports list 10 beds, all male, and both inspections recorded zero people in custody on the inspection date. The 2023 IDOC report and the Illinois Sheriffs' Association directory used an older 14-bed figure. The practical meaning is narrow: the Oquawka jail had no detainees on those inspection dates, but Henderson County detainees can still exist and can be housed by contract in Warren County or McDonough County when needed.

Henderson County Jail Lookup

Henderson County does not publish a normal public web roster in the research located for this project. The local lookup path is app-first through the Henderson Co. Sheriff's Office mobile app on Google Play or the Apple App Store. The app-store pages do not show exact inmate-search fields, so no booking number, charge, mugshot, bond, or housing field should be assumed. If the app does not answer the question, the sheriff phone line is the next local source.

1. Open the Henderson Co. Sheriff's Office app and confirm it is the Illinois app, package com.ocv.a1534 on Google Play or Apple ID 6752949381.
2. Use the inmate lookup area in the app if it is available on the device. Search by the fields the app shows, not by guessed web-roster fields.
3. Call the Henderson County Sheriff's Office at 309-867-4291 if the app does not show the person or if the custody location is unclear.
4. Ask whether the person is in Oquawka, at Warren County Jail for male housing, or at McDonough County Jail for female housing.
5. Use IDOC, BOP, or ICE locators only when the person is in state prison, federal custody, or immigration custody rather than local jail custody.

For a fuller explanation of app, phone, FOIA, VINE, IDOC, BOP, and ICE channels, use the Henderson County jail inmate records overview. A written FOIA request can be used for arrest or booking records that are not available through the app. Illinois FOIA section 5 ILCS 140/3 controls written public-record requests, and 5 ILCS 140/2.15 covers core arrest information, including a photograph when and if available.

Henderson County Jail Contact

Use the sheriff's main phone number before traveling, mailing records, or planning a visit. The address conflict is not a reason to omit either source. It is a practical warning that the jail, sheriff's office, and courthouse area are clustered in a small Oquawka government block, while different official sources use different street references.

Henderson County Jail Visits

Henderson County Jail visitation detail is thin in public web sources. IDOC reports four visitation stations and remote visitation, but no local public schedule, visitor identification rule, dress code, or attorney-visit rule was located. Because the Oquawka jail had no detainees on the 2024 and 2025 inspection dates, the most important first step is to confirm where the person is physically housed. A person held for a Henderson case may need Warren County or McDonough County visiting rules instead of Oquawka rules.

Do not travel to Oquawka based only on an arrest rumor. Call the sheriff's office, ask for the current housing site, and then confirm that site's visit sign-up, identification, arrival time, and remote-visit process.

Henderson County Jail Mail

Mail, phone, commissary, and money rules must be handled with care because the research did not locate a Henderson County public mail rule page or deposit fee schedule. IDOC's 2025 inspection lists Combined Public Communications for telephone, commissary, and law library services. It also lists OSF and Eagle View Community Health System for medical services, Eagle View for mental health, and Mama's Place for meals. Those provider names are useful, but they do not create a public deposit fee table or mail format.

Henderson County Jail Booking

After a Henderson County arrest, sheriff custody begins with booking or transfer into an approved jail setting. Booking can include identification, property inventory, fingerprints, a booking photograph when available, medical screening, and a housing decision. Illinois law also requires prompt court action. If a person is arrested for a detention-eligible offense, the person must be brought before a judge without unnecessary delay, generally within 48 hours, and the State must file the charge that starts the court case.

The housing decision is especially important in Henderson County. The local jail has A and B blocks with detention rooms and C and D dormitories, but the 2024 and 2025 IDOC reports state that male detainees may be housed at Warren County Jail and female detainees at McDonough County Jail when necessary. That means a booking record, court case, and physical jail location can point to different counties. Court records remain tied to the Henderson County case even when the person sleeps in Monmouth or Macomb.

About Henderson County Jail

The 2025 IDOC report lists Henderson County Jail as built in 1935 and last renovated in 1978. It describes four single detention rooms and two three-bed dormitories, with A and B blocks on the first floor and C and D dorms on the second floor. Recent inspection comments show a small rural jail that has kept contracts and physical plant work in place despite very low inspection-date population.

Conditions notes improved from 2023 to 2024 and 2025. The 2023 inspection cited staffing and supervision noncompliances. The 2024 and 2025 inspections listed no noncompliances. Improvements included plumbing work, new shower heads, reduced ligature points, new window treatments, office and floor work, facility painting, and planning for roof and booking-area flooring. The 2025 recommendations focused on dorm windows, light covers, lighter paint, a TV stand, and a metal plumbing box.