Clinton County Inmate Release Records
A release from Clinton County Jail means that the jail ended its custody event. It does not always mean the person went home. The person may have posted bond, received credit for time served, completed a sentence, received probation, or left after a dismissal. The jail can also transfer someone to Kentucky Department of Corrections, another county, the U.S. Marshals Service, or immigration authorities. Each outcome sends the search to a different record system.
The local jail is documented under two names. A Kentucky DOC directory calls it Clinton County Jail, while a Kentucky State Police report uses Clinton County Detention Center. Those are naming variants for the local operation, not proof of two buildings. The verified jail phone is 606-387-4395. No official Clinton County roster or online release archive was found, so a direct custody check and a request for the existing booking and release record are the sound local starting points.
- Release
- The end of one agency's custody event, whether to the community or another custodian.
- Discharge
- Completion of the correctional sentence or supervision shown by the responsible agency.
- Detainer
- A request or legal basis for another agency to take custody.
- Time served
- A sentence satisfied by time already spent in custody.
Note: A name missing from a live list does not establish release, transfer destination, or final discharge.
Clinton County Release Types
The wording on a Clinton County release record determines what should be checked next. Physical departure and legal case status are related but separate facts. A bond order may let a person leave while the charge remains pending. A transfer closes the local jail stay while custody continues. Parole or probation places the person in the community under rules, but final discharge comes later.
| Release type | Meaning | Next record |
|---|---|---|
| Bond or recognizance | Pretrial jail custody ends while the case continues. | Jail release record and Clinton County court docket |
| Dismissal or court order | A judge supplies authority to release, subject to other holds. | Court order plus the jail's door-out time |
| Time served or expiration | The custodial term tied to that record is complete. | Release log, judgment, and any supervision record |
| Probation or parole | The person is in the community under court or DOC supervision. | KOOL, court order, or Kentucky Parole Board record |
| Transfer or detainer | Clinton County custody ends and another agency takes control. | Destination field and receiving-agency locator |
| Final discharge | The responsible correctional agency records completion. | DOC final-discharge document or court completion record |
Escape, absconding, and death are not ordinary community releases. “Absconded” on Kentucky Offender Online Lookup means an alleged failure to stay available for supervision. It does not mean supervision ended. Likewise, a person removed from an active list due to death should never be described as released.
Clinton County Release Record Fields
Clinton County has not published an official field schema. A focused request can still identify the existing documents and fields needed to verify a custody change. Ask for what the agency maintains, rather than assuming its software uses a particular label. A booking number or court case number makes the request far easier to match.
| Field | What it can show |
|---|---|
| Booking date and time | When the local custody event began. |
| Booking or jail identifier | The number tying documents to one stay. |
| Arresting agency and charges | Who initiated the booking and the recorded charge entries. |
| Bond type and amount | The bond terms, if those fields are maintained. |
| Hold or detainer | Whether another authority may claim custody. |
| Release date and time | The recorded end of the Clinton County custody event. |
| Release type or destination | Community release, transfer, or receiving institution, if recorded. |
| Related documents | Release authorization, property receipt, photograph, or log if held and nonexempt. |
The jail record answers the physical-custody question. The court file answers the legal one. Pair both when exact timing and authority matter, since a judge may issue an order before staff clear every hold and finish release processing.
Request Clinton County Release Records
Start with Clinton County Jail at 606-387-4395. Ask who serves as custodian for booking and release records and where a written Kentucky Open Records Act request should go. If the sheriff created the arrest record, the official county directory lists the Sheriff's Department at 606-387-5111 and fax 606-387-5463. The sheriff and jailer may hold different parts of the file.
- Identify the person by full name, date of birth if known, and a narrow booking or release date range.
- Add the booking number and Clinton County case number when available.
- Ask for the existing booking and release record, including the recorded release time, type, destination, and related nonexempt documents.
- Request electronic delivery and provide the contact details the custodian requires.
- If material is withheld, ask for the legal basis and any reasonably separable public portion.
Jail custody and release records: 606-387-4395
Sheriff's Department: 606-387-5111
Sheriff fax: 606-387-5463
Courthouse office hours listed by the county: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Central, unless otherwise stated
No verified local release-record fee, form, email, retention schedule, or response timetable was found. Do not apply unrelated sheriff service fees to a jail-record request. Confirm the method and cost with the actual custodian before sending payment.
Note: Ask for existing records, not a new explanation or analysis that the agency would have to create.
Kentucky Law on Clinton Releases
KRS 61.870 through 61.884 supplies Kentucky's general open-records framework. Agency-held booking sheets, logs, and photographs may qualify as public records, but exemptions and retention still control. Juvenile, safety-sensitive, private, sealed, or expunged material can be restricted. A custodian decides what is held and what can be released.
Important: Public-record status does not guarantee that Clinton County still has a document or that every part is open.
State correctional records follow additional rules. Kentucky DOC instructions cite KRS 197.025 and a five-day response period that excludes weekends and legal holidays. That timetable applies to DOC requests, not as an invented promise for Clinton County Jail. For an official state release or discharge record, use the Kentucky DOC open-records process.
Clinton Release Orders and Jail Time
The Clinton County Court of Justice page is the durable local anchor after a temporary jail entry disappears. District Court generally handles misdemeanors, violations, traffic matters, and early felony proceedings. Circuit Court handles felony prosecutions. A felony path may therefore require checking both levels.
Read the docket as a sequence. The bond order can explain pretrial release. A dismissal or acquittal states a case result. Judgment and sentence show the legal term. Probation, revocation, satisfaction, or completion entries explain later status. Yet none necessarily gives the minute the jail finished release. The 2024 DOC directory lists the Clinton County Circuit Court Clerk at 100 South Cross Street, Albany, Kentucky 42602, and 606-387-6424. Verify current visit details before going.
Does a release order prove the person is outside? No. Jail staff may still need to verify holds and complete processing. Match the order to the jail release log.
Clinton Release Records After Expungement
Kentucky provides different expungement paths for eligible felonies, dismissed or acquitted charges, and misdemeanors or violations. KRS 431.073, 431.076, 431.078, and 431.079 address those routes and effects. Eligibility, waiting periods, exclusions, pending cases, and the version of the law must be checked for the individual file.
The Kentucky Court of Justice expungement hub supplies official forms and process guidance. An expunged or sealed case can explain why an older public result vanishes. A missing result can also stem from indexing, spelling, or system delay. Do not reconstruct restricted information from cached or commercial pages. Ask the clerk about the current court record and the responsible agency about its own lawful record response.
Find a Released Clinton County Inmate
No single lookup covers every Clinton County release. Begin with the last known custodian, then climb from a live status check to a dated event and, when needed, an official document. Identity details matter because common names, aliases, suffixes, and small spelling errors can point to the wrong person.
- For Clinton County Jail, call 606-387-4395 and request the method for obtaining the release or booking record.
- Check the Clinton County case through eCourts or CourtNet, or contact the clerk for bond, dismissal, sentence, probation, and revocation entries.
- Search Kentucky VINE for the specific person and reporting agency. Confirm the event time with that agency.
- Use KOOL when Kentucky DOC custody, felony history, parole, probation, or a state transfer is plausible.
- For a DOC-involved case, inspect the official Daily Releases report for the suspected date.
- Use BOP, the federal docket, USMS, or ICE only when that separate custody system is plausible.
Why the name disappears: a current roster shows people still held. Release, transfer, delay, or a corrected identity can remove a name, so absence alone proves nothing.
A live screen is useful for orientation. A dated VINE event or state release report adds timing. A jail release record, final-discharge document, parole order, or certified court order is the best source when the result must be documented. For a same-day window, the Jail Releases: 24 Hours page explains the local fallback without inventing a county feed.
Note: Match date of birth, booking or case number, PID, DOC number, and reporting agency before accepting a name result.
Kentucky Offender Search for Clinton Releases
Kentucky Offender Online Lookup, known as KOOL, follows people within Kentucky DOC custody and supervision. It is not a complete archive of Clinton County bond-outs. Start with minimal name information, since an incorrect extra field can hide the correct result. Open the detail and compare identifiers before reading status, location, sentence dates, or parole information.
| KOOL field | Use | Caution |
|---|---|---|
| Name and aliases | Starts a broad identity search. | A variant spelling may be needed. |
| DOC or PID number | Narrows to a state correctional identity. | It is not a county booking number. |
| Supervision status and county | Can locate a person on community supervision. | Absconded is not discharged. |
| Current location | Distinguishes an institution from a supervision district. | Read it with the status label. |
| Projected release range | Filters by an estimated state release window. | It does not prove actual release. |
| Conviction and offense fields | Help confirm the right record. | A county of conviction is not always the place of confinement. |
The detail may show Minimum Expiration of Sentence Date (Good Time Release Date), Parole Eligibility Date, and Maximum Expiration of Sentence Date. Each means something different. KOOL also warns that data newer than 120 days may not be final and says updates occur daily. If a calculation or discharge is disputed, request the sentence calculation or final-discharge record from DOC.
Clinton County Recent Release Records
Clinton County government publishes no verified roster, recent-release view, rolling one-day or three-day list, release timestamp page, public cadence, or online retention rule. No verified Kentucky Clinton County sheriff app or jail social feed was found. Results for agencies with the same county name in other states must be rejected unless they show Kentucky markers such as Albany, the 606 area code, or an official Kentucky domain.
The Kentucky DOC Daily Releases archive is the closest official supporting feed. It uses dated statewide reports, not a rolling Clinton County window. Reports can list a name, release type, and releasing institution or location. They may include a DOC prisoner released from a county jail, but do not include every local bond-out or short county sentence.
Can the last state report stand in for a Clinton County list? No. It helps only when the person was part of the Kentucky DOC population.
Clinton County Release Supervision
Kentucky DOC's Division of Probation and Parole administers community supervision, while the Kentucky Parole Board makes parole decisions within its authority. Probation usually begins with a court judgment. Parole follows incarceration through a Board or statutory process. Mandatory reentry supervision is another path, so a parole denial does not always mean confinement lasts until maximum expiration.
Clinton County appears in a dated statewide list under District 3. KOOL can show supervision status, county of supervision, current location, and parole information. The current contact directory should control because office assignments can change. Central Probation and Parole is listed at 502-782-2277, District 3 main at 270-746-7420, with Adair and Barren satellite numbers also documented. The full Probation & Parole page explains how to verify the assigned office and final discharge.
Clinton Release Alerts Across Systems
Kentucky VINE receives data from participating county jails, prisons, mental-health facilities, and juvenile detention centers. It can provide custody-event alerts for release, transfer, escape, or an upcoming parole hearing. Search one person, confirm the reporting agency, and register only on the correct record. An alert is a useful second source, but the agency remains the authority for exact timing and destination.
Federal systems answer narrower questions. The BOP Inmate Locator covers sentenced federal inmates from 1982 forward and may show a release date or that someone is not in BOP custody. USMS handles federal pretrial detention and transport without a comparable public historic release database. The ICE locator is mainly for current civil immigration detention. A miss is not historical release proof.
A handoff is the key cross-sovereign trap. Clinton County can record release to another agency while the person remains confined. BOP can end custody while a state hold applies. ICE can lose a current locator result after transfer or removal. Always state release from the named agency, not universal freedom.
Clinton Release Status by Source
The source should match both the custody level and the time question. A current list answers who is held now. A release record documents who left a named custodian. A correctional detail can show prison or supervision status. Court records explain the order or sentence behind the change.
| Source | Best for | Does not prove |
|---|---|---|
| Clinton County Jail | Local custody check and exact release record | Final outcome of the court case |
| Clinton court file | Bond, dismissal, judgment, sentence, and probation | Exact jail door-out time |
| Kentucky VINE | Reported custody events and alerts | Final discharge or freedom from another hold |
| KOOL and Daily Releases | Kentucky DOC custody, supervision, and dated state releases | Every Clinton County jail-only release |
| BOP, USMS, or ICE | The named federal custody system | Status in all other jurisdictions |
Clinton Jail Names and Records
A June 2025 Kentucky State Police report uses “Clinton County Detention Center,” while the 2024 Kentucky DOC District 20 directory uses “Clinton County Jail.” Search both names when looking through dated news, court, or agency material. Do not count them as separate facilities without direct confirmation.
Third-party pages conflict on the jail's street address and capacity. The official sources reviewed establish the name and phone but do not settle those facts. Call 606-387-4395 before an in-person visit, property matter, or hand-delivered request. A copied address from an unofficial page can send a reader to the wrong place.
Clinton County Release Facilities
The county has one documented local detention operation, but a Clinton County case can move into several statewide or federal networks. No official source reviewed found a state prison, federal prison, ICE contract facility, or USMS-operated facility physically inside Clinton County. These pages describe the systems that may receive a person and the correct release path for each.
- Clinton County Jail: local pretrial and jail custody, with community release or transfer confirmed by the jail record.
- Kentucky Department of Corrections institutions statewide: state prison custody and supervision tracked through KOOL, Daily Releases, and DOC records.
- Federal Bureau of Prisons institutions: sentenced federal custody tracked through the BOP locator and federal records.
- ICE detention system: civil immigration custody checked with the current locator and ERO follow-up.
- U.S. Marshals Service detention network: federal pretrial custody and transport checked through the docket and holding facility.
Choose the page for the last known custodian. A local release record may name the receiving institution or agency, which is the strongest clue for continuing the search.
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