(730 ILCS 125/0.01) (from Ch. 75, par. 100)
Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the County Jail Act.
(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
(730 ILCS 125/1) (from Ch. 75, par. 101)
Sec. 1. There shall be kept and maintained in good and sufficient condition and repair, one or more jail facilities for the use of each county within this State. However, this requirement may be satisfied by a single jail facility jointly maintained and used by 2 or more counties. It shall be unlawful to build a jail within 200 feet of any building used exclusively for school purposes.
(Source: P.A. 83-1073.)
(730 ILCS 125/2) (from Ch. 75, par. 102)
Sec. 2. The Sheriff of each county in this State shall be the warden of the jail of the county, and have the custody of all prisoners in the jail, except when otherwise provided in the "County Department of Corrections Act".
(Source: P.A. 83-1073.)
(730 ILCS 125/2.1) (from Ch. 75, par. 102.1)
Sec. 2.1. New jail. The sheriff of each county in this State shall be the warden of any new jail facility constructed or otherwise acquired in the county and shall have the custody of all prisoners in that facility, except when otherwise provided in Division 3-15 of the Counties Code.
(Source: P.A. 87-645.)
(730 ILCS 125/3) (from Ch. 75, par. 103)
Sec. 3. The Sheriff may appoint a superintendent of the jail, and remove him at his pleasure, for whose conduct and training, he shall be responsible. The Sheriff shall also be responsible for the hiring and training of all personnel necessary to operate and maintain the jail.
(Source: P.A. 83-1073.)
(730 ILCS 125/4) (from Ch. 75, par. 104)
Sec. 4. The Warden of the jail shall receive and confine in such jail, until discharged by due course of law, all persons committed to such jail by any competent authority.
When there is no county jail facility operating in a county, arresting agencies shall be responsible for delivering persons arrested to an adjoining county jail facility, if the adjoining county has entered into a written agreement with the committing county allowing for the maintenance of prisoners in the adjoining county.
(Source: P.A. 86-570.)
(730 ILCS 125/5) (from Ch. 75, par. 105)
(Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 101-652)
Sec. 5. Costs of maintaining prisoners.
(a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), all costs of maintaining persons committed for violations of Illinois law, shall be the responsibility of the county. Except as provided in subsection (b), all costs of maintaining persons committed under any ordinance or resolution of a unit of local government, including medical costs, is the responsibility of the unit of local government enacting the ordinance or resolution, and arresting the person.
(b) If a person who is serving a term of mandatory supervised release for a felony is incarcerated in a county jail, the Illinois Department of Corrections shall pay the county in which that jail is located one-half of the cost of incarceration, as calculated by the Governor's Office of Management and Budget and the county's chief financial officer, for each day that the person remains in the county jail after notice of the incarceration is given to the Illinois Department of Corrections by the county, provided that (i) the Illinois Department of Corrections has issued a warrant for an alleged violation of mandatory supervised release by the person; (ii) if the person is incarcerated on a new charge, unrelated to the offense for which he or she is on mandatory supervised release, there has been a court hearing at which bail has been set on the new charge; (iii) the county has notified the Illinois Department of Corrections that the person is incarcerated in the county jail, which notice shall not be given until the bail hearing has concluded, if the person is incarcerated on a new charge; and (iv) the person remains incarcerated in the county jail for more than 48 hours after the notice has been given to the Department of Corrections by the county. Calculation of the per diem cost shall be agreed upon prior to the passage of the annual State budget.
(c) If a person who is serving a term of mandatory supervised release is incarcerated in a county jail, following an arrest on a warrant issued by the Illinois Department of Corrections, solely for violation of a condition of mandatory supervised release and not on any new charges for a new offense, then the Illinois Department of Corrections shall pay the medical costs incurred by the county in securing treatment for that person, for any injury or condition other than one arising out of or in conjunction with the arrest of the person or resulting from the conduct of county personnel, while he or she remains in the county jail on the warrant issued by the Illinois Department of Corrections.
(Source: P.A. 94-678, eff. 1-1-06; 94-1094, eff. 1-26-07.)
(Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 101-652)
Sec. 5. Costs of maintaining prisoners.
(a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), all costs of maintaining persons committed for violations of Illinois law, shall be the responsibility of the county. Except as provided in subsection (b), all costs of maintaining persons committed under any ordinance or resolution of a unit of local government, including medical costs, is the responsibility of the unit of local government enacting the ordinance or resolution, and arresting the person.
(b) If a person who is serving a term of mandatory supervised release for a felony is incarcerated in a county jail, the Illinois Department of Corrections shall pay the county in which that jail is located one-half of the cost of incarceration, as calculated by the Governor's Office of Management and Budget and the county's chief financial officer, for each day that the person remains in the county jail after notice of the incarceration is given to the Illinois Department of Corrections by the county, provided that (i) the Illinois Department of Corrections has issued a warrant for an alleged violation of mandatory supervised release by the person; (ii) if the person is incarcerated on a new charge, unrelated to the offense for which he or she is on mandatory supervised release, there has been a court hearing at which the conditions of pretrial release have been set on the new charge; (iii) the county has notified the Illinois Department of Corrections that the person is incarcerated in the county jail, which notice shall not be given until the hearing has concluded, if the person is incarcerated on a new charge; and (iv) the person remains incarcerated in the county jail for more than 48 hours after the notice has been given to the Department of Corrections by the county. Calculation of the per diem cost shall be agreed upon prior to the passage of the annual State budget.
(c) If a person who is serving a term of mandatory supervised release is incarcerated in a county jail, following an arrest on a warrant issued by the Illinois Department of Corrections, solely for violation of a condition of mandatory supervised release and not on any new charges for a new offense, then the Illinois Department of Corrections shall pay the medical costs incurred by the county in securing treatment for that person, for any injury or condition other than one arising out of or in conjunction with the arrest of the person or resulting from the conduct of county personnel, while he or she remains in the county jail on the warrant issued by the Illinois Department of Corrections.
(Source: P.A. 101-652, eff. 1-1-23.)
(730 ILCS 125/6) (from Ch. 75, par. 106)
Sec. 6. The warden of the jail shall keep an exact permanent calendar of all persons committed to jail, registering the name, place of abode, time, cause and authority of their commitment, and the time and manner of their discharge.
(Source: P.A. 83-1073.)
(730 ILCS 125/7) (from Ch. 75, par. 107)
Sec. 7. On the first day of each month, the warden of the jail of the county shall prepare a list of all prisoners in his custody, specifying the causes for which and the persons by whom they were committed, and make available to the court his calendar of prisoners.
(Source: P.A. 83-1073.)
(730 ILCS 125/8) (from Ch. 75, par. 108)
Sec. 8. The Sheriff may be imprisoned in the jail of his county, and for the time he is so imprisoned, the coroner shall be warden of the jail, and perform all the duties of the sheriff in regard thereto, and shall, by himself and his sureties, be answerable for the faithful discharge of his duties as such warden.
(Source: P.A. 83-1073.)
(730 ILCS 125/9) (from Ch. 75, par. 109)
Sec. 9. When there is no jail or other penal institution in a county, or the jail or other penal institution of the county is insufficient, the sheriff may commit any person in his custody, either on civil or criminal process, to the nearest sufficient jail of another county, and the warden of the jail of such county shall receive and confine such prisoner, until removed by order of the court having jurisdiction of the offense, or discharged by due course of law.
(Source: P.A. 83-1073.)
(730 ILCS 125/10) (from Ch. 75, par. 110)
Sec. 10. Whenever a prisoner is committed to the jail of one county for a criminal offense committed or charged to have been committed in another, or is transferred to another county for safe keeping or trial, the county in which the crime was committed, or charged to have been committed, shall pay the expenses of the keeping of such prisoner. In civil suits, the plaintiff or defendant shall pay the expenses, in the same manner as if the imprisonment had taken place in the same county where the suit was commenced.
(Source: P.A. 83-1073.)
(730 ILCS 125/11) (from Ch. 75, par. 111)
Sec. 11. Debtors and witnesses shall not be confined in the same room with other prisoners; male and female prisoners shall not be kept in the same room; minors shall be kept separate from those previously convicted of a felony or other infamous crime; and persons charged with an offense shall not be confined in the same cell as those convicted of a crime. The confinement of those persons convicted of a misdemeanor or felony shall be in accordance with a classification system developed and implemented by the local jail authority.
(Source: P.A. 87-899.)
(730 ILCS 125/12) (from Ch. 75, par. 112)
Sec. 12. Whenever the Warden of the jail of any county deems such jail insufficient to secure the prisoners confined therein, he shall give notice thereof to the county board.
(Source: P.A. 83-1073.)
(730 ILCS 125/13) (from Ch. 75, par. 113)
Sec. 13. Whenever the Warden of any jail shall have in his custody any person charged with a capital offense or other high crime, and there is no jail in his county, or the jail is insufficient, he may, with the advice of the judge of the circuit court of such county, employ a sufficient guard, not exceeding 3 persons, for the guarding and safe keeping of such prisoner in his own county. The expense of such guard shall be audited and paid as other county expenses.
(Source: P.A. 83-1073.)
(730 ILCS 125/14) (from Ch. 75, par. 114)
Sec. 14. At any time, in the opinion of the Warden, the lives or health of the prisoners are endangered or the security of the penal institution is threatened, to such a degree as to render their removal necessary, the Warden may cause an individual prisoner or a group of prisoners to be removed to some suitable place within the county, or to the jail of some convenient county, where they may be confined until they can be safely returned to the place whence they were removed. No prisoner charged with a felony shall be removed by the warden to a Mental Health or Developmental Disabilities facility as defined in the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code, except as specifically authorized by Article 104 or 115 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963, or the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Any place to which the prisoners are so removed shall, during their imprisonment there, be deemed, as to such prisoners, a prison of the county in which they were originally confined; but, they shall be under the care, government and direction of the Warden of the jail of the county in which they are confined. When any criminal detainee is transferred to the custody of the Department of Human Services, the warden shall supply the Department of Human Services with all of the legally available information as described in 20 Ill. Adm. Code 701.60(f). When a criminal detainee is delivered to the custody of the Department, the following information must be included with the items delivered:
(Source: P.A. 99-215, eff. 7-31-15.)
(730 ILCS 125/15) (from Ch. 75, par. 115)
Sec. 15. The Warden of the jail shall furnish each prisoner daily with as much clean water as may be necessary for drink and personal cleanliness, and serve him three times a day with wholesome food, well cooked and in sufficient quantity. The Warden of the jail in counties of the first and second class shall procure at the expense of the county, all necessary foods and provisions for the support of the prisoners confined in the jail, and shall employ suitable persons to prepare and serve the food for the prisoners, or otherwise provide suitable food service.
(Source: P.A. 83-1073.)
(730 ILCS 125/16) (from Ch. 75, par. 116)
Sec. 16. The Warden of the jail or other person shall not permit any prisoner to send for or have any alcoholic beverages or controlled substances except when prescribed by a physician as medicine.
(Source: P.A. 83-1073.)
(730 ILCS 125/17) (from Ch. 75, par. 117)
Sec. 17. Bedding, clothing, fuel, and medical aid; reimbursement for medical expenses. The Warden of the jail shall furnish necessary bedding, clothing, fuel, and medical services for all prisoners under his charge, and keep an accurate account of the same. When services that result in qualified medical expenses are required by any person held in custody, the county, private hospital, physician or any public agency which provides such services shall be entitled to obtain reimbursement from the county for the cost of such services. The county board of a county may adopt an ordinance or resolution providing for reimbursement for the cost of those services at the Department of Healthcare and Family Services' rates for medical assistance. To the extent that such person is reasonably able to pay for such care, including reimbursement from any insurance program or from other medical benefit programs available to such person, he or she shall reimburse the county or arresting authority. If such person has already been determined eligible for medical assistance under the Illinois Public Aid Code at the time the person is detained, the cost of such services, to the extent such cost exceeds $500, shall be reimbursed by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services under that Code. A reimbursement under any public or private program authorized by this Section shall be paid to the county or arresting authority to the same extent as would have been obtained had the services been rendered in a non-custodial environment.
The sheriff or his or her designee may cause an application for medical assistance under the Illinois Public Aid Code to be completed for an arrestee who is a hospital inpatient. If such arrestee is determined eligible, he or she shall receive medical assistance under the Code for hospital inpatient services only. An arresting authority shall be responsible for any qualified medical expenses relating to the arrestee until such time as the arrestee is placed in the custody of the sheriff. However, the arresting authority shall not be so responsible if the arrest was made pursuant to a request by the sheriff. When medical expenses are required by any person held in custody, the county shall be entitled to obtain reimbursement from the County Jail Medical Costs Fund to the extent moneys are available from the Fund. To the extent that the person is reasonably able to pay for that care, including reimbursement from any insurance program or from other medical benefit programs available to the person, he or she shall reimburse the county.
For the purposes of this Section, "arresting authority" means a unit of local government, other than a county, which employs peace officers and whose peace officers have made the arrest of a person. For the purposes of this Section, "qualified medical expenses" include medical and hospital services but do not include (i) expenses incurred for medical care or treatment provided to a person on account of a self-inflicted injury incurred prior to or in the course of an arrest, (ii) expenses incurred for medical care or treatment provided to a person on account of a health condition of that person which existed prior to the time of his or her arrest, or (iii) expenses for hospital inpatient services for arrestees enrolled for medical assistance under the Illinois Public Aid Code.
(Source: P.A. 100-987, eff. 7-1-19.)
(730 ILCS 125/17.5)
Sec. 17.5. Pregnant female prisoners. Notwithstanding any other statute, directive, or administrative regulation, when a pregnant female prisoner is brought to a hospital from a county jail for the purpose of delivering her baby, no handcuffs, shackles, or restraints of any kind may be used during her transport to a medical facility for the purpose of delivering her baby. Under no circumstances may leg irons or shackles or waist shackles be used on any pregnant female prisoner who is in labor. In addition, restraint of a pregnant female prisoner in the custody of the Cook County shall comply with Section 3-15003.6 of the Counties Code. Upon the pregnant female prisoner's entry to the hospital delivery room, 2 county correctional officers must be posted immediately outside the delivery room. The Sheriff must provide for adequate personnel to monitor the pregnant female prisoner during her transport to and from the hospital and during her stay at the hospital.
(Source: P.A. 100-1051, eff. 1-1-19.)
(730 ILCS 125/17.6)
Sec. 17.6. Sheriff training related to pregnant prisoners.
(a) The sheriff shall provide training relating to medical and mental health care issues applicable to pregnant prisoners confined in the county jail to:
(b) The training must include information regarding:
(Source: P.A. 101-652, eff. 7-1-21.)
(730 ILCS 125/17.7)
Sec. 17.7. Educational programming for pregnant prisoners. The Illinois Department of Public Health shall provide the sheriff with educational programming relating to pregnancy and parenting and the sheriff shall provide the programming to pregnant prisoners. The programming must include instruction regarding:
(Source: P.A. 101-652, eff. 7-1-21; 102-28, eff. 6-25-21.)
(730 ILCS 125/17.8)
Sec. 17.8. Prisoner post-partum recovery requirements. The sheriff shall ensure that, for a period of 72 hours after the birth of an infant by a prisoner:
(Source: P.A. 101-652, eff. 7-1-21.)
(730 ILCS 125/17.9)
Sec. 17.9. Housing requirements applicable to pregnant prisoners.
(a) The sheriff may not place in administrative segregation a prisoner who is pregnant or who gave birth during the preceding 30 days unless the sheriff or the sheriff's designee determines that the placement is necessary based on a reasonable belief that the prisoner will harm herself, the prisoner's infant, or any other person or will attempt escape.
(b) The sheriff may not assign a pregnant committed person to any bed that is elevated more than 3 feet above the floor.
(Source: P.A. 101-652, eff. 7-1-21.)
(730 ILCS 125/17.10)
Sec. 17.10. Requirements in connection with HIV/AIDS.
(a) In each county other than Cook, during the medical admissions exam, the warden of the jail, a correctional officer at the jail, or a member of the jail medical staff must provide the prisoner with appropriate written information concerning human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The Department of Public Health and community-based organizations certified to provide HIV/AIDS testing must provide these informational materials to the warden at no cost to the county. The warden, a correctional officer, or a member of the jail medical staff must inform the prisoner of the option of being tested for infection with HIV by a certified local community-based agency or other available medical provider at no charge to the prisoner.
(b) In Cook County, during the medical admissions exam, an employee of the Cook County Health & Hospitals System must provide the prisoner with appropriate information in writing, verbally or by video or other electronic means concerning human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and must also provide the prisoner with option of testing for infection with HIV or any other identified causative agent of AIDS, as well as counseling in connection with such testing. The Cook County Health & Hospitals System may provide the inmate with opt-out human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing, as defined in Section 4 of the AIDS Confidentiality Act, unless the inmate refuses. If opt-out HIV testing is conducted, the Cook County Health & Hospitals System shall place signs in English, Spanish, and other languages as needed in multiple, highly visible locations in the area where HIV testing is conducted informing inmates that they will be tested for HIV unless they refuse, and refusal or acceptance of testing shall be documented in the inmate's medical record. Pre-test information shall be provided to the inmate and informed consent obtained from the inmate as required in subsection (q) of Section 3 and Section 5 of the AIDS Confidentiality Act. The Cook County Health & Hospitals System shall follow procedures established by the Department of Public Health to conduct HIV testing and testing to confirm positive HIV test results. All aspects of HIV testing shall comply with the requirements of the AIDS Confidentiality Act, including delivery of test results, as determined by the Cook County Health & Hospitals System in consultation with the Illinois Department of Public Health. Nothing in this Section shall require the Cook County Health & Hospitals System to offer HIV testing to inmates who are known to be infected with HIV. The Department of Public Health and community-based organizations certified to provide HIV/AIDS testing may provide these informational materials to the Bureau at no cost to the county. The testing provided under this subsection (b) shall consist of a test approved by the Illinois Department of Public Health to determine the presence of HIV infection, based upon recommendations of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If the test result is positive, a reliable supplemental test based upon recommendations of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shall be administered.
(c) In each county, the warden of the jail must make appropriate written information concerning HIV/AIDS available to every visitor to the jail. This information must include information concerning persons or entities to contact for local counseling and testing. The Department of Public Health and community-based organizations certified to provide HIV/AIDS testing must provide these informational materials to the warden at no cost to the office of the county sheriff.
(d) Implementation of this Section is subject to appropriation.
(Source: P.A. 97-244, eff. 8-4-11; 97-323, eff. 8-12-11; 97-813, eff. 7-13-12; 98-1046, eff. 1-1-15.)
(730 ILCS 125/17.15)
Sec. 17.15. Compliance with the Health Care Violence Prevention Act. The sheriff or warden of the jail shall comply with the Health Care Violence Prevention Act.
(Source: P.A. 100-1051, eff. 1-1-19.)
(730 ILCS 125/18) (from Ch. 75, par. 118)
Sec. 18. The Warden shall keep and maintain the jail in a clean and healthful condition.
(Source: P.A. 83-1073.)
(730 ILCS 125/19) (from Ch. 75, par. 119)
Sec. 19. The Warden of the jail shall see that strict attention is constantly paid to the personal cleanliness of all prisoners confined in the jail.
(Source: P.A. 83-1073.)
(730 ILCS 125/19.5)
Sec. 19.5. Release of prisoners to law enforcement personnel or State's Attorney. The sheriff may adopt and implement a written policy that provides for the release of a person who is in the custody of the sheriff for any criminal or supposed criminal matter to sworn law enforcement personnel or to the State's Attorney for the purpose of furthering investigations into criminal matters that are unrelated to the criminal matter for which the person is held in custody. The written policy must, at a minimum, require that there be a written request, signed by an authorized agent of the law enforcement agency or State's Attorney office, to take custody of the prisoner and that the written request shall include the name of the individual authorized to take custody of the prisoner, the purpose and scope of the criminal matter under investigation, and a statement of the fact that the individual taking custody and agency they are employed by understand the limitation of the sheriff's liability as described in this Act. Upon the release of a person to law enforcement personnel or the State's Attorney under written policy of the sheriff, the sheriff shall not be liable for any injury of any kind, including but not limited to death, to either the person released or to any third party that occurs during the time period that the person is in custody of other law enforcement personnel or the State's Attorney unless the sheriff or a deputy sheriff, correctional guard, lockup keeper, or county employee is guilty of willful and wanton conduct that proximately caused the injury.
(Source: P.A. 92-304, eff. 8-9-01.)
(730 ILCS 125/20) (from Ch. 75, par. 120)
Sec. 20. Cost and expense; commissary fund.
(a) The cost and expense of keeping, maintaining and furnishing the jail of each county, and of keeping and maintaining the prisoner thereof, except as otherwise provided by law, shall be paid from the county treasury, the account therefor being first settled and allowed by the county board.
The county board may require convicted persons confined in its jail to reimburse the county for the expenses incurred by their incarceration to the extent of their ability to pay for such expenses. The warden of the jail shall establish by regulation criteria for a reasonable deduction from money credited to any account of an inmate to defray the costs to the county for an inmate's medical care. The State's Attorney of the county in which such jail is located may, if requested by the County Board, institute civil actions in the circuit court of the county in which the jail is located to recover from such convicted confined persons the expenses incurred by their confinement. The funds recovered shall be paid into the county treasury.
(a-5) Upon notification from the Clerk of the Circuit Court of an outstanding fine, restitution, or costs imposed by the court on a jail inmate, the warden of the jail may, at any time prior to release of the inmate, deduct from money credited to any account of the inmate an amount to pay or reduce the outstanding balance. The warden of the jail shall establish by regulation criteria for deduction from money credited to any account of an inmate to pay or reduce the amount outstanding on a fine, restitution, or costs imposed by the court on the inmate. The regulation shall comply with any withholding restrictions otherwise provided by law. The inmate shall be provided with written notice of the amount of any deduction. There shall also be prominent notice by signage at any location where the warden of the jail or jail employees receive funds for deposit into an inmate's account, that funds in an inmate's account may be used to pay fines, restitution, or costs imposed on the inmate by a court. Any person providing funds for an inmate's account shall be notified in writing when the funds are provided, that funds in an inmate's account may be used to pay fines, restitution, or costs imposed on the inmate by a court.
(b) When a prisoner is released from the county jail after the completion of his or her sentence and has money credited to his or her account in the commissary fund, the sheriff or a person acting on the authority of the sheriff must mail a check in the amount credited to the prisoner's account to the prisoner's last known address. If after 30 days from the date of mailing of the check, the check is returned undelivered, the sheriff must transmit the amount of the check to the county treasurer for deposit into the commissary fund. Nothing in this subsection (b) constitutes a forfeiture of the prisoner's right to claim the money accredited to his or her account after the 30-day period.
(Source: P.A. 96-432, eff. 8-13-09.)
(730 ILCS 125/21) (from Ch. 75, par. 121)
Sec. 21. Whenever a prisoner is committed to the jail of one county for a criminal offense committed or charged to have been committed in another, or is transferred to another county for safekeeping or trial, the county in which the crime was committed, or charged to have been committed, shall pay the expenses of the keeping of such prisoner. In civil suits, the plaintiff or defendant shall pay the expenses, in the same manner as if the imprisonment had taken place in the same county where the suit was commenced.
The County Board of the county in which the crime was committed, may require convicted prisoners transferred from such county to reimburse the county for the expenses incurred by their incarceration to the extent of their ability to pay for such expenses. The State's Attorney of the county which incurred the expenses, if authorized by the County Board, may institute civil actions in the circuit court of such county to recover from such convicted confined persons the expenses incurred by their confinement. Such expenses recovered shall be paid into the county treasury.
(Source: P.A. 83-1073.)
(730 ILCS 125/22)
Sec. 22. (Repealed).
(Source: P.A. 83-1073. Repealed by P.A. 95-840, eff. 8-15-08.)
(730 ILCS 125/23)
Sec. 23. (Repealed).
(Source: P.A. 83-1073. Repealed by P.A. 95-840, eff. 8-15-08.)
(730 ILCS 125/25) (from Ch. 75, par. 125)
Sec. 25. Any Sheriff or superintendent of the jail who shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a petty offense and fined not exceeding $100.
(Source: P.A. 83-1073.)
(730 ILCS 125/26)
Sec. 26. Detainees in immigration custody; religious worker access to jails.
(a) Any county jail in the State of Illinois for which an intergovernmental agreement has been entered into with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for detention of immigration-related detainees shall be required to provide to religious workers reasonable access to such jail. Such access shall be consistent with the safety, security, and the orderly operation of the facility.
(b) For purposes of this Section, "reasonable access" means the ability of the religious worker to enter the jail facility to be available to meet with immigration detainees who wish to consult with the religious worker regarding their spiritual needs. Such access shall be at times set by the sheriff or his or her designee. The facility shall provide advance notice to the immigration detainees of the times during which religious workers shall be available for consultation under this Section, and shall not limit the access of detainees to such religious workers without good cause. Consultations with religious workers under this Section shall not be counted against the visitation time or number of visits to which a detainee is otherwise entitled under the facility's visitation policies.
(c) The sheriff or his or her designee shall have the right to screen and approve individuals seeking access to immigration detainees at the facility under this Act.
(Source: P.A. 95-1022, eff. 6-1-09.)