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Knox County Jail is a county jail located in Knox County, Texas. Rated capacity: 14. Reported population: 8. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
The Knox County Jail, located on the public square in Knoxville, is a former county jail used by Knox County, Illinois. Built in 1845, the jail was the second used in the county; it replaced a log jail which was thought to be insufficiently secure. Contractor Alvah Wheeler built the two-story brick building for $7,724. The county's only official hanging was conducted at the jail in 1873, when John M. Osborne was executed for the murder of Adelia Matthews; several hundred people came to watch his execution. Later in the same year, the county seat and the jail were both moved to Galesburg; the Knoxville jail is now part of the Knox County Museum.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
14
Current population
8
Occupancy
57%
Year opened
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Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
—
Region
Texas
Security level
—
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
0/100
Low concern0/100
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersOccupancythis: 57% · peers avg: 93% (38%)
Capacity (beds)this: 14 · peers avg: 547 (97%)
Data completeness
66%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q23302759)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Knox County Jail. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/knox-county-jail
Chicago
"Knox County Jail." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/knox-county-jail.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-knox-county-jail,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Knox County Jail},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/knox-county-jail},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}