Locate East Moline Correctional Center Inmates

East Moline Correctional Center Custody

East Moline Correctional Center is an Illinois Department of Corrections minimum-security adult male state prison. It is not a county jail, city lockup, or booking facility. A person newly arrested in Rock Island County is searched first through the county jail roster. A person sentenced to IDOC custody is searched through the IDOC Individual in Custody Search, and the prison profile may show East Moline as the current or parent institution.

IDOC says the prison opened in November 1980 after conversion from a mental health facility. The grounds overlook the Mississippi River in northwest Illinois. The facility includes 26 buildings with more than 430,000 square feet, including housing units, a work camp, administration building, one segregation unit, and a 12-bed health care unit. The site covers more than 80 acres, with 60 acres enclosed by fencing. Those details make East Moline a major state corrections facility located inside Rock Island County, but the people held there can come from many Illinois counties.

The official IDOC East Moline facility page gives the prison identity and the state source for visit, mail, and population details:

The IDOC source is the controlling facility source for East Moline Correctional Center because county jail pages do not manage state-prison custody.

East Moline Correctional Center Population

IDOC lists East Moline Correctional Center with an operational capacity of 925 and a population of 482 as of June 30, 2024. The same state facility page lists the fiscal year 2022 average annual cost per individual in custody as $72,252. These figures describe the state prison population at the facility. They should not be combined with the Rock Island County Jail average daily population, because the jail is local pretrial and short-sentence custody while East Moline holds sentenced state prisoners.

East Moline Correctional Center Inmate Lookup

The correct search tool is the IDOC Individual in Custody Search. Do not use the Rock Island County Zuercher roster for East Moline Correctional Center unless the question is about a separate county jail booking before transfer. IDOC documents three search paths: last name, birthdate, or IDOC number. The IDOC number is the strongest identifier when available, because names can be misspelled, shortened, or shared by more than one person.

1. Open the IDOC Individual in Custody Search.
2. Search by IDOC number if known, or use last name or birthdate.
3. Open the matching profile and review the location or parent institution field.
4. Confirm whether East Moline Correctional Center is listed as the current prison or parent facility.
5. Use the profile for sentence, offense, parole, projected discharge, and status details that are public.

Public IDOC profile fields can include IDOC number, name, aliases, parent institution, current location or status, date of birth, physical profile, admission date, parole date or projected parole date, projected discharge date, sentencing information, mittimus or case number, offense, class, count, custody date, county, and discharged status. IDOC says other information can be confidential unless released by subpoena or court order. That is a different public record set than the county jail roster, which focuses on booking charges, mugshots, arrest date, release date, and hold reasons.

The IDOC Individual in Custody Search is the state locator tied to IDOC custody records:

That locator should be used for sentenced state custody, while county jail booking questions stay with the Sheriff's Zuercher roster and jail phone line.

East Moline Correctional Center Contact

Facility questions should be directed to the IDOC prison, not the Rock Island County Jail. The facility address is 100 Hillcrest Road, East Moline, IL 61244. The phone number is 309-755-4511, and the fax number is 309-755-0498. Mail to a person in custody must include the person's name and IDOC number. Business mail uses the same street address, but individual mail needs the custody identifier so IDOC can route it correctly.

East Moline is part of the Quad Cities region. The state facility is different from the Rock Island County Jail at the courthouse complex in Rock Island. If a person was just arrested by a local police agency, start with the county jail. If the person has a sentence record, IDOC number, projected parole date, or East Moline facility assignment, start with the state prison search.

East Moline Correctional Center Visits

East Moline Correctional Center visits are scheduled through IDOC, not through the county jail cell-block system. The official facility page says visitors must sign up in advance through an IDOC-linked SignUpGenius process. It also links IDOC visitation rules, video visitation guidelines, and ADA accommodation information. Anyone planning a visit should review those state rules before the appointment because prison visits can depend on approval, schedule capacity, identification, dress rules, discipline status, and facility operations.

The research file flagged a possible page-template artifact in captured IDOC visitation text that referred to another prison. The reliable instruction is the explicit East Moline sentence requiring advance signup plus the listed video visitation hours. Visitors should confirm the current SignUpGenius slot and facility status before travel or video login.

East Moline Correctional Center Mail

East Moline Correctional Center mail follows IDOC state-prison format. The research file captured the individual mail format as "Individual in Custody Name & IDOC#, 100 Hillcrest Road, East Moline, IL 61244." The IDOC number should come from the state locator. This differs from Rock Island County Jail personal mail, which uses a ViaPath/TextBehind scanning process and has a source conflict in scanned-mail P.O. boxes. Do not send East Moline state-prison mail to a county jail scanned-mail address.

The research file did not capture a facility-specific East Moline commissary fee table or deposit vendor details. For that reason, state-prison money instructions should be taken from current IDOC statewide guidance and the person's IDOC profile rather than from Rock Island County Jail rules. The county jail's Sunday 8 p.m. commissary deadline, iCare package warning, Aramark jail commissary, and GovPayNet bond language are county-jail facts and should not be imported into this prison page.

East Moline Correctional Center Programs

IDOC lists a broad program set at East Moline Correctional Center. Education includes Adult Basic Education, Advanced Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education or GED, tutoring, and the Augustana Prison Education Program bachelor's degree. Career and work programming includes career technologies, construction occupations, culinary arts, laundry, and work camp functions. The facility also provides counseling, veterans transition services, health services, psychological services, lifestyle redirection, leisure-time activities, library access, parole school, AA, NA, worship services, and Toastmasters.

The Augustana Prison Education Program is a notable local detail because it links a Quad Cities college-level education pathway to a state prison inside Rock Island County. IDOC also says the facility helps surrounding communities with storm and general cleanup. Those community work and reentry programs fit East Moline's minimum-security role. They do not change the lookup rule: the person still must be found through IDOC, and program participation is not a public substitute for custody status or sentence information.

IDOC

Illinois Department of Corrections, the state agency that operates East Moline Correctional Center.

Parent Institution

The facility shown on an IDOC profile as the prison responsible for the individual in custody.

Mittimus

A court commitment record tied to the sentence that sent the person to IDOC custody.

Projected Discharge

An IDOC public date field that can change as sentence credits, parole, or status updates are applied.

East Moline and County Jail Records

East Moline Correctional Center and Rock Island County Jail answer different custody questions. The county jail handles central booking, mugshots, first appearance timing, local warrants, pretrial detention, short local sentences, and some outside-agency housing. East Moline handles sentenced state-prison custody after IDOC admission and classification. A person can move from a county jail booking into a prison record after conviction and sentencing, but the public search system changes when that happens.

The county jail roster may show arrest charges and hold reasons before a formal court case is complete. IDOC profiles show sentence and facility data after admission to state custody. Illinois VINE can help with custody and case notifications, but it is not a substitute for the official jail roster, IDOC profile, or court file. For a broader comparison of local jail and state-prison counts, the Rock Island County inmate population hub separates local jail population measures from the state-prison population physically located in the county.