1. Open the inmate roster with the person's name.
2. Or use the Sheriff's Office app: for iPhone or for Android.
3. Search VINELink online, or with the VINELink app for iPhone and the VINELink app for Android.
4. Still nothing? Call the Wabash County Sheriff's Office at 618-262-2706.

Illinois treats adult booking photos as public (5 ILCS 140/2.15). Ask the Wabash County Sheriff's Office with an Illinois Freedom of Information Act request, or call 618-262-2706. Juvenile photos are not released. Most U.S. Marshals Service photos stay private too, under 5 U.S.C. 552. ICE records for someone held by the Sheriff's Office go through the ICE FOIA request page for the booking.

Youth stay off the roster (705 ILCS 405/1-7). A judge here picks the juvenile detention center for detained youth. Call 618-262-2706 to learn about a detained child's hearing.

The U.S. Marshals Service may hold federal defendants in county jails in this county. The Southern District of Illinois hears it at Melvin Price U.S. Courthouse, 750 Missouri Avenue, East St. Louis, IL 62201 (618-482-9371). Use VINELink before sentencing; the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator after.

1. A Form I-247A is ICE's request to the Wabash County Jail.
2. The Illinois TRUST Act (5 ILCS 805/15) stops this county from honoring the 48-hour hold.
3. Agents may wait outside the County Jail.
4. After an ICE arrest, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System with the A-number of the detainee.

Someone given prison leaves the county jail for Illinois Department of Corrections intake. Families can follow moves on the Illinois Department of Corrections inmate search, then see our Illinois state prisons guide.

Search empty? Call each county jail next door:

• Lawrence County Jail, Lawrenceville: 618-943-8093
• Richland County Jail, Olney: 618-395-7483
• White County Jail, Carmi: 618-382-7149

For state prisons, use the Illinois Department of Corrections inmate search. For federal holds, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator.

There's no cash bail in Wabash County: the Pretrial Fairness Act ended it in 2023. Within 48 hours, a judge rules on release (725 ILCS 5/109-1). A warrant issued before September 18, 2023, may still carry a cash bond; the jail at 618-262-5531 can say how to post it. More: our bail and release page.

• Visits: there are no in-person visits. Book a video visit at least 24 hours ahead, online or on the lobby kiosk at the jail. Free visits run Thursday and Sunday and must be booked on that lobby kiosk. Jail staff can't set visits up. More in our visitation guide.
• Commissary: detainees order once a week, by tablet or phone, until 6 a.m. Thursday. Orders arrive on Friday. Family can buy care packages too; see our commissary guide.
• Deposits: money for a detainee's account goes through the jail's online vendor; see our money guide.
• Phone, tablet and message time: buy it online for the right device. For trouble, call vendor support at 877-998-5678, not the jail. Our phone page and inmate messaging page explain more.
• To block calls from a detainee, phone the jail at 618-262-5531.
• Medicine: bring it in a labeled bottle. The jail doctor must approve it first.
• Gifts: only paperback books, approved by jail supervisors. No food.
• Letters: see our mail guide.
• After a move to state prison, a detainee may take ID cards, a Social Security card, a birth certificate, legal mail, one religious book, an address book, dentures, glasses and a plain wedding band worth under $50. Other property is held 30 days for pickup and thrown out on day 31.

The county has about 10,907 residents (U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 estimate, released 2026). The county seat is Mount Carmel, IL.

Wabash deputies serve warrants in Allendale, Bellmont and Keensburg as well as Mount Carmel, and the sheriff's staff take warrant calls at 618-262-2706. Any warrant from a Wabash case also appears on Illinois' statewide re:SearchIL site, which is worth checking. Your lawyer can check it, or you can after the clerk enrolls your email. Plan ahead with a defense attorney and you can surrender voluntarily at the county jail on a set morning and often see a judge the same day. If a skipped court date caused the trouble, call the Market Street clerk at 618-262-5362 or stop in at 401 Market Street, Mount Carmel, IL 62863 to ask about a new court date.

No town police numbers for Wabash County are on file yet; the Sheriff's Office can help.

• Mount Carmel: no listed number here yet; the sheriff's office, 618-262-2706, can direct you