Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 23, 2026 and October 9, 2026.
Pulaski County, Illinois, has about 4,900 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office and two city agencies. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the State's Attorney files charges, a case in the Circuit Court of Pulaski County. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Pulaski County public records, Illinois arrest records, Illinois inmate search and Illinois criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Pulaski County
The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Pulaski County. It reported 21 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Pulaski County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Mounds, 608 residents: 3 arrests reported for 2025.
- Ullin, 460 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Pulaski County
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Ullin: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Pulaski County Sheriff's Office: 21 for 2025, 41 for 2024, 53 for 2023, 114 for 2022 and 119 for 2021.
- Mounds: 3 for 2025, 0 for 2024 and 14 for 2023.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,176 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,176 in 2025 against 1,193 in 2024, down 1.4 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Pulaski County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Pulaski County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2019 the jail held about 210 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 240 beds, and it ran at 89 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office at ilsheriff.org/county/pulaski (page title: Pulaski County | Illinois Sheriffs' Association), phone (217) 753-2372, 20 Justice Dr, Ullin, IL 62992, a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Illinois Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at idoc.illinois.gov/offender/inmatesearch.html.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Pulaski County
Whether someone was arrested in Pulaski County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Circuit Court of Pulaski County, kept by the Circuit Clerk, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the State's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at pulaskicountyil.net/states-attorney.html, phone 618-748-9134).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at illinoiscourts.gov/courts-directory/156/Pulaski-County-Courthouse/c... (page title: Pulaski County Courthouse | State of Illinois Office of the Illinois Courts), phone (618) 748-9300, belongs to a lower court, not to the Circuit Court of Pulaski County.
Illinois is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: conviction information is public under the Uniform Conviction Information Act, through the Illinois State Police. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Pulaski County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 5 business days, with one 5-day extension, and it may charge copying only after the first 50 pages.
- An arrest by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (217) 753-2372.
- An arrest in Mounds or Ullin: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the State's Attorney, 618-748-9134, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Circuit Court of Pulaski County it is kept by the Circuit Clerk. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at illinoiscourts.gov, phone (618) 748-9300, is a lower court's.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at pulaskicountygovernment.nextrequest.com (page title: Open Public RecordsNextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Illinois State Police.
The other Pulaski County guides go further: warrants, inmate search, criminal records, court records, police reports, traffic tickets, DUI and property records.
Cities in Pulaski County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the seven cities in Pulaski County: Mounds and Ullin. Mound City, Karnak, Olmsted, New Grand Chain and Pulaski have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Circuit Court of Pulaski County.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Pulaski County each year?
Ullin reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,176 between them.
Where are people arrested in Pulaski County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Pulaski County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Illinois State Police: conviction information is public under the Uniform Conviction Information Act. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Pulaski County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 5 business days, with one 5-day extension; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at pulaskicountygovernment.nextrequest.com.
Is this the official Pulaski County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.