Find Clinton County Release Dates

Clinton County Projected Release

A projection is a calculated sentence milestone. It is not a promise of the date or hour when someone will leave a facility. Kentucky Offender Online Lookup, known as KOOL, uses Projected Release Date From/To as an advanced-search filter. A detail record may instead show Minimum Expiration of Sentence Date (Good Time Release Date), Parole Eligibility Date, and Maximum Expiration of Sentence Date. Each has a separate meaning.

Minimum expiration reflects applicable sentence credit in the state calculation. Parole eligibility marks when review may be available under the governing rules. Maximum expiration is the outer endpoint shown for the sentence. A Board decision, release plan, detainer, new order, credit change, or another sentence can alter what happens before any one of those milestones.

Classify Clinton County Custody

Start with the last known authority. An ordinary Clinton County pretrial stay is not calculated through KOOL. The local court decides bond and issues release orders, while Clinton County Jail processes the physical custody event. A person held before judgment may stay confined, post bond, receive recognizance, be released after dismissal, or transfer under another hold. None of those paths creates a standard projected prison date.

KOOL becomes relevant when Kentucky DOC has custody or supervision data. A state institution in the current-location field points to confinement. A Probation and Parole district points to community supervision. A local jail can also house a qualifying state prisoner, but that does not turn every Clinton County detainee into a DOC case. Federal sentences belong in the BOP locator and federal docket.

Find Clinton County Release Dates

For a state prisoner, open KOOL and begin with minimal name data. An incorrect extra field can hide the right record. Compare the PID or DOC number, age, aliases, conviction county, offenses, and current location before reading sentence dates. The advanced date range can locate records by projected release, but the detail view supplies the more useful sentence milestones.

1. Identify county, state, or federal custody.
2. Search KOOL only for a Kentucky DOC case.
3. Open the matching record and confirm identifiers.
4. Read minimum expiration, parole eligibility, and maximum expiration separately.
5. Review current location, status, convictions, and parole information.
6. Confirm the actual event through DOC Daily Releases, VINE, or the agency record.

For a local case, call Clinton County Jail at 606-387-4395 and use the official Clinton County court route. Ask for the existing release or booking record rather than asking staff to calculate a hypothetical date. The court order explains authority. The jail log can establish the physical release time.

Kentucky Sentence Credit Rules

KRS 197.045 governs Kentucky state sentence credits. It accounts for qualifying prior-confinement credit under KRS 532.120. It also provides credit paths for approved educational or technical achievements and permits credits for approved treatment, evidence-based or promising-practice, and life-skills programs under stated conditions. DOC may award good-behavior credit up to ten days for each month served.

The statute also permits exceptional meritorious service credit up to seven days per month and exceptional emergency service credit up to seven days per month. These are not automatic promises. Except for prior-confinement credit, DOC can forfeit earned credit or deny future credit for offenses or rule violations. Consecutive sentences are aggregated for the credit and expiration calculation.

Qualifying state felons housed in local jails are addressed by 501 KAR 2:060, including statutory good time and approved jail program credit. That regulation does not establish one Clinton County rule for every misdemeanor or pretrial detainee. No county-specific good-time policy was found, so a local release date cannot be safely estimated from a statewide credit rate.

Clinton County Violent-Offender Dates

KRS 439.3401 is Kentucky's violent-offender statute. The current version defines covered violent offenders and applies an 85 percent service threshold before parole eligibility in covered circumstances, subject to statutory qualifications and exceptions. Offense date matters because the governing version may differ. The rule must not be applied to every felony.

The official statute image in the manifest shows the current violent-offender text and is the right source for checking the rule, not an informal sentence calculator.

The statute supports an eligibility analysis, not an “85 percent release date.” Parole can be denied or deferred. Mandatory reentry may apply later. A detainer can prevent release to the community. Maximum expiration can also end Kentucky custody while another case remains.

Compute Kentucky Release Milestones

A sound calculation begins with the judgment and aggregate sentence. Certified jail or prior-custody credit is applied under the governing law. The next question is whether violent-offender, sex-offense, persistent-felony, or other special rules apply based on the offense and offense date. Only credits DOC has approved belong in the calculation.

1. Start with the judgment and all concurrent or consecutive terms.
2. Apply certified prior-confinement credit.
3. Identify the special statutes tied to the offense and offense date.
4. Count only credits actually approved by DOC.
5. Account for forfeitures, discipline, parole action, and detainers.
6. Read KOOL's three date labels as separate results.
7. Confirm release with status, VINE, Daily Releases, or the source record.

This logic explains why two people with similar nominal sentences can have different projected dates. It is a record-reading method, not a substitute for a DOC sentence calculation sheet. When the displayed dates appear inconsistent, request that underlying calculation.

Clinton County Sentence Structure

Sentence structure can be as important as the credit rate. Consecutive terms are served in sequence and are aggregated for Kentucky's computation, while concurrent terms overlap as ordered. Prior-confinement credit must be certified and applied to the proper sentence. A later amended judgment, corrected credit entry, or disciplinary forfeiture can therefore change a date even when the original sentence length looks unchanged.

Never calculate from a charge label alone. The conviction, offense date, sentence class, persistent-felony status, and any special statutory rule can affect the result. KOOL gives a public-facing milestone, while the DOC calculation sheet contains the agency's working arithmetic. The latter is the better record for explaining why a projected date moved.

Why Clinton Release Dates Change

Release projections move because their inputs change. Some changes affect the calculation itself. Others leave the sentence milestone intact but prevent the person from entering the community. The distinction is vital when a date passes without an ordinary release.

A release to answer a detainer is still a release under one authority, but it is not freedom from all custody. An abscond notation is also not discharge. It indicates alleged departure from supervision and can be tied to a warrant.

Note: KOOL warns that newer information may not be finalized and says updates occur daily, so disputed dates need documentary confirmation.

Confirm Clinton County Release

After locating a projected date, check for the actual event. Kentucky DOC's Daily Releases archive organizes dated state reports and can show name, release type, and releasing location for DOC-involved releases. It does not include every Clinton County bond-out or county-only sentence. A county jail listed as a releasing location can mean a state prisoner was housed there.

VINE can send a pending custody-change alert, but it relays agency data and can lag. The Clinton County VINELink inmate search explains how to register and acknowledge a phone alert. For formal proof, request the DOC sentence calculation, parole certificate or order, final-discharge record, jail release record, or certified court order that matches the question.

County bond processing has no verified fixed release hour or weekend rule in the Clinton County research. Timing can depend on the order, staff processing, and unresolved holds. Never infer an exact door-out time from a projected date alone.

Document Clinton County Release Dates

Identity checks come before any date is repeated. Compare the full name with the case or booking number and date of birth when available. In KOOL, confirm the PID or DOC number as well. Two people with similar names can carry wholly different sentences, locations, and release milestones. A photograph can aid orientation but is not conclusive identity proof.

Parole eligibility adds another branch. KRS 439.340 and 501 KAR 1:030 tie eligibility and hearing schedules to the sentence and governing rules. Eligibility does not equal a grant. A recommendation can still require release planning, while a deferment sets later review. A serve-out result means something else. Read the person's KOOL parole information and obtain the Board record when the outcome must be proven.

Mandatory reentry supervision is another reason a simple parole prediction can fail. Kentucky Parole Board guidance notes that a statutory release path may apply despite a discretionary parole denial. Final discharge is later and stronger than merely leaving an institution. Current location, supervision status, parole information, and sentence dates must be read together.

Ask for the document that answers the exact dispute. A sentence calculation sheet explains DOC arithmetic. A parole certificate or order explains Board authority. A final-discharge record addresses sentence completion. A certified judgment supplies the court sentence, while a jail release log records the local custody event. Matching the source to the question keeps an estimate from becoming false proof.