Meet the Facility
Facility Name: McLean County Detention Facility
Website: www.mcleancountyil.gov/ Location: Bloomington, Illinois Year Built/Opened: Built in 1976, Additions in 1990 and 2019 Average Daily Population: 195 Males; 36 Females Warden/Director: Superintendent Diane Hughes Sheriff: Matt Lane Chief Deputy: Hadley Welsch Number of Staff: 52 Uniformed; 17 Civilian Number of Volunteers: 6 Operating Budget: More than $4 million Method of Inmate Supervision: Direct Supervision Point of Contact: Tami Mills, Sergeant, Tami.Mills@mcleancountyil.gov
The McLean County Detention Facility’s (MCDF) staff consists of 52 correctional officers, six sergeants, and three administrators who are led by Sheriff Matt Lane and Chief Deputy Hadley Welsch. Our facility includes direct supervision pods that are housed with anywhere from 37 to 54 inmates. We have a specialized unit that currently houses those awaiting generational population and separately includes our residents that have mental health concerns. This unit was built as part of our expansion in 2019.
We offer the following programs to our residents to improve their well-being and help them on their path to rehabilitation: Narcotics Anonymous, Alcohol Anonymous, Anger Management, Church, Journaling, Bible Study, and Job Partnership.
McLean County is a proud member of the Stepping Up Initiative that helps provide members of our community with mental illnesses the treatment they need to prevent reentry into the criminal justice system. Often, this cycle of reentry results in missed opportunities for treatment, inefficiencies in funding, and a failure to improve public safety.
The MCDF is dedicated to the highest traditions of excellence in the practice of delivery of corrections. People who work in jails are like players on a team. At our facility, this team is made up of professional inmate support staff, correctional officers, sergeants, and administrators. We are all working towards the same goal. Our facility has been dealt a demanding task with combating the aftermath of COVID-19 as well as the violent riots that occurred in our communities. During this time, we faced overcrowding, loss of staff, and loss of programs for our residents. As we well know, residents who are incarcerated in jails experience constant trauma. This goes for our staff as well. Our staff has overcome continuous mandated overtime and stress due to being away from their families. Managing work life balance is not an easy task in our career. Our staff has done a tremendous job and put in hours of hard work to serve the members of our community. Our facility is most proud of its staff for being the backbone of our facility and a pillar in the community where they live.
