Find Pulaski County Inmate Records

Pulaski County Jail Roster Overview

The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office, led by Sheriff Randy Kern, is tied to the Pulaski County Detention Center in Ullin. The official county site lists the jail's services, but it does not display a searchable inmate roster, a current-inmate list, a booking report, or a mugshot gallery. That absence is the single most important fact about inmate records in this county. There is no last-name search box to open, and no posted window for how long a release stays visible, because nothing is posted in the first place.

One non-government page claims to show the Pulaski roster, but its button links to a Kentucky jail system, not an Illinois one. Illinois readers should not treat it as official. The county roster, even if it existed, would only cover current local custody. It would not show sentenced state prisoners, who move to the Illinois Department of Corrections, and it would not show federal or immigration detainees, who appear in the federal Bureau of Prisons or ICE systems. Each of those is a separate lookup, covered further down.

How to Use the Pulaski County Inmate Search

With no online roster, the search is a sequence of phone and records steps. Gather the person's full legal name, any aliases, an approximate arrest date, and the arresting agency before you begin.

1. Call the Pulaski County Detention Center at 618-845-3512 and ask whether the person is in custody and which authority holds them.
2. Ask whether a public booking number or booking date can be shared, and which court should be checked next.
3. For records the jail will not release by phone, send a written FOIA request to the detention center's FOIA officer.
4. Search the court case on Judici once charges are filed, then move to IDOC, BOP, ICE, or VINE if the person is sentenced, federal, or transferred.

Note: court records can lag a jail booking, especially right after an arrest or over a weekend, so a missing case does not always mean no charge was filed.

Pulaski County Records Request Fields

Since the lookup runs through a written request, the useful field table is the one for a FOIA request, not a roster form. The jail's FOIA process is an instruction sheet rather than a fillable database. It tells you what to include and where to send it. A complete request lets staff find the record and reply by the method you choose.

The sheriff's office page is where the FOIA notice and court-information links sit, and it is worth reviewing before sending a request.

The official Pulaski County Sheriff's Office page names the sheriff, posts the FOIA notice, and links to court information.

That page routes records seekers either to the jail's FOIA officer or to the court portal, depending on whether they need custody or case information.

What a Pulaski County Inmate Record Shows

Because no public profile is exposed, this describes what a requester can ask the jail to provide, not fields that appear online. The detention center holds these details and may release them under Illinois FOIA, subject to redaction for juvenile, safety, privacy, or investigative reasons. Final charges, by contrast, appear in the court file after the prosecutor acts.

Booking photos for current detainees are handled the same way, by request, and are covered on the jail roster mugshots page.

Finding County, State, and Federal Inmates

The hardest part of a Pulaski County inmate search is knowing which system holds the person. Pretrial and short-sentence detainees sit in the county jail. Sentenced felons move to the Illinois Department of Corrections. Federal detainees, including the U.S. Marshals Service prisoners the jail holds under contract, appear in the federal Bureau of Prisons system once committed, and immigration detainees show up in the ICE locator. Use the table to pick the right starting point.

The federal locator is a good example of a clean public search, with both a number tab and a name tab.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons locator covers federal inmates from 1982 to the present and returns name, register number, age, and location.

For a person held at the Ullin jail on a U.S. Marshals hold, the local jail confirms the physical custody while the federal system tracks the case.

Pulaski County Jail Facility

Pulaski County operates one detention facility. It carries the local jail population and the detainees held for Alexander County and the U.S. Marshals Service. The full facility profile, with visitation and contact detail, lives on the detention center page.

Booking Process in Pulaski County

A person arrested in Pulaski County or delivered on a warrant is taken to the detention center if jail custody is required. At intake, staff identify the person, search for contraband, inventory property, run an initial medical and security screening, photograph and fingerprint where required, open a custody record, note the arresting agency and any hold, and classify the person for housing. Because the jail holds for more than one authority, intake may involve a local Pulaski charge, an Alexander County case, or federal hold paperwork.

After booking, the path splits. Local criminal cases route to the Pulaski County Circuit Clerk and Judici, federal cases route to U.S. District Court and the Marshals Service, and a state sentence routes to IDOC. No official page states how fast a new booking would appear online, because no online roster was confirmed, so the honest timing advice is to call the jail for current custody and check the court portal after a case is filed.

Bond, Holds, and Release in Pulaski County

Illinois changed how release works. Since September 18, 2023, courts no longer use the old cash-bail system for new pretrial decisions. Instead a judge decides pretrial release or detention under the state's pretrial framework, weighing conditions on an individual basis. The county jail page still carries older language such as "Post Bond (County Only)," which can apply to county matters, old cases, or court-ordered financial conditions. It does not mean that paying money will free a person whose release the court has not ordered.

A hold is the other reason a person stays in custody. If the detention center holds someone for the U.S. Marshals Service, Alexander County, parole, or another agency, clearing the local Pulaski case may not lead to release. To check status, call the jail at 618-845-3512, confirm whether any hold or detainer exists, and check the court case once it is filed. The charges side of a case is covered on the court records after a jail arrest page.

Common Pulaski County Record Terms

A few terms come up again and again when reading jail and custody records. Knowing them makes a phone call to the detention center or a records request much clearer.

Booking

The jail intake record created after arrest and delivery to the detention center.

Hold

Another authority's instruction that the jail not release the person on the local case alone.

Detainer

A request or notice from another county, the state, ICE, or a federal agency to keep custody.

Pretrial release

Court-ordered release before a case ends, usually with conditions, under the current Illinois system.

FOIA

The Illinois Freedom of Information Act process used to request records that are not online.

Visitation Hours and Rules

The official visitation sheet sets social visits for Friday evenings and both weekend days, with shorter midday weekend blocks. Each detainee is allotted 30 minutes, and visitors must arrive 45 minutes early for security processing. All family and social visits are non-contact. Attorneys, paralegals, consular officials, and clergy may visit at other times with advance arrangements through the jail. Because schedules can change for staffing, holidays, or facility status, call 618-845-3512 before traveling.

How to Contact a Pulaski County Inmate

Family and friends reach a detainee through mail, the jail's deposit and commissary link, and visits. The county's notice directs money sent by mail to be sent only as a U.S. Postal Money Order, addressed to the inmate at Pulaski County Detention Center, 20 Justice Drive, Ullin, IL 62992. The county also links JailATM for inmate commissary deposits. The local pages do not name a current phone vendor or new-booking call rule, so confirm communication options by calling 618-845-3512. Do not import Illinois state prison phone rules for a county detainee, since the jail and IDOC run different systems.

No official Pulaski County, Illinois sheriff mobile app was found during this research. Search results surface apps for Pulaski County in Missouri and Kentucky, but those serve other states and should not be installed for an Illinois lookup. There is no app-only roster, warrant search, or most-wanted list for this county, so the jail phone line and the FOIA process remain the working channels.

Commissary and Inmate Funds

The county links JailATM at deposits.jailatm.com for commissary deposits, but no Pulaski-specific fee schedule, spending limit, order day, or kiosk fee was published. When JailATM is down, the county notice points to a U.S. Postal Money Order by mail. The county notice also says that a JailATM or JPay outage does not affect bonding by credit card, though release still depends on the court's pretrial order, not on a payment alone.