This is a private reference site, not a government office. It cannot confirm custody, release a person, post bond, pull official booking records, schedule visits, or answer urgent jail questions. Use the official office that controls the record or custody status.
Hardin County Record Contacts
For current Hardin County Jail custody, start with the sheriff's office and jail phone. No separate official records unit, jail information line, sheriff FOIA web form, online roster, or mobile app was located in the research file, so phone and written mail are the practical local routes.
Hardin County Sheriff's Office / Jail
104 E. Market St.
P.O. Box 246
Elizabethtown, IL 62931
Phone: 618-287-2271
Sheriff: Jerry Fricker
Jail Administrator: Jessica Fricker
Visit days: Wednesday and Sunday. Exact public hours were not located.
Court records after an arrest are kept separately from jail custody records. Hardin County criminal cases route through the Circuit Clerk and Judici, not through this site.
Hardin County Circuit Clerk
Nancy Pennell, Circuit Clerk
Hardin County Courthouse
102 Market St.
P.O. Box 308
Elizabethtown, IL 62931
Phone: 618-287-2200 ext. 2
Court portal: Judici Hardin County
Use the contact path that matches the question. Illinois FOIA, 5 ILCS 140, is the public-records route for local jail records that are not posted online. The Illinois State Police UCIA process is separate and covers public conviction-history information, not current jail custody.
- For a person in the county jail, call Hardin County Jail and review jail inmate records.
- For booking photos, read the request path on jail roster mugshots.
- For charges filed after arrest, use Judici or the Circuit Clerk and the court records after a jail arrest page.
- For facility details, use the Hardin County Jail page.
- For sentenced Illinois prisoners, use the IDOC Individual in Custody Search.
- For statewide conviction-history access, use the Illinois State Police criminal history path.
- For custody alerts, use Illinois VINE. VINE is for status and notification, not court filings.
- For federal sentenced custody, use the BOP inmate locator. For immigration custody, use the ICE detainee locator.