Where Kentucky River Regional Jail Releases Go
Kentucky River Regional Jail, or KRRJ, is the active regional jail established by the research as serving Knott County. A person may leave the Hazard facility after bond, dismissal, probation, credited time served, a court order, or expiration of a local jail sentence. Those outcomes may result in return to the community, but they do not all have the same legal effect. Bond does not dismiss a charge, and probation continues under court conditions.
Other departures are transfers. Movement to a Kentucky Department of Corrections institution or placement begins or continues state custody. Movement to another jail, a federal authority, or immigration custody also ends the KRRJ episode without proving community release. Release to parole or probation allows community presence with continuing supervision. The written entry should identify the purpose, authority, date, time, and person or agency receiving custody.
| Recorded route | What it means |
|---|---|
| Bond or court release | Physical departure under the court's current terms |
| Time served or sentence expiration | Completion of the confinement calculated for that local episode |
| Probation or parole | Community placement with continuing legal supervision |
| KDOC, another jail, federal authority, or ICE | Transfer to another custodian, not ordinary community release |
How to Confirm a Kentucky River Regional Jail Release
KRRJ does not provide an official historical release portal or rolling recent-release list identified in the research. Its official inmate-search link goes to KOOL, the Kentucky Online Offender Lookup. KOOL is valuable for a state-sentenced person and a person under KDOC supervision, but it is not a complete archive of each ordinary KRRJ pretrial or misdemeanor booking.
- Gather the full name, birth date, booking number, court case, and approximate custody dates.
- Check Kentucky VINE for the reported custody event and release date.
- Search KOOL if a state sentence, parole, or other KDOC relationship is plausible.
- Call KRRJ booking or inmate information for current routing.
- Request the written KRRJ release or removal entry for the identified booking.
- Obtain the Knott court order when the legal reason for release matters.
- Check the receiving agency when the entry shows a transfer.
VINE can report that a person is no longer in the reporting custody and give a release date. That remains an event notice, not a full discharge record. KOOL can show parole, supervision dates, and a Probation and Parole location. The Knott County released inmate search provides the broader path for matching jail, state, court, federal, and immigration records.
Kentucky River Regional Jail Records and Contact
Use the line that matches the question. Booking can address immediate processing, while inmate information can address current location information. Administration is separate from the designated open-records custodian. Call before traveling because no source established a fixed public release hour, release door, family waiting area, or weekend procedure.
Kentucky River Regional Jail
Address: 200 Justice Drive, Hazard, KY 41701
Administration: 606-436-0622
Booking: 606-436-1008
Inmate information: 606-436-4032
Fax: 606-435-8314
The designated records custodian is Adam Dials, Assistant Administrator. Requests may be emailed to perryjailcd@ky.gov or mailed or delivered to the Justice Drive address. Inspection appointments are available Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The policy allows five business days for the response, excluding weekends and legal holidays.
What a Kentucky River Regional Jail Release Record Shows
Kentucky regulation 501 KAR 7:120 requires a written record of the time, purpose, date, and authority for release or removal, plus the person or authority receiving the prisoner. These fields make the record more useful than a live-screen absence. They distinguish a departure to family or the community from a move into another agency's custody.
| Field | What it can establish |
|---|---|
| Release date and time | When KRRJ ended the identified custody episode |
| Purpose or type | The recorded reason, such as bond, order, time served, probation, or transfer |
| Release authority | The court, sentence calculation, agency, or other basis |
| Recipient or receiving agency | Whether the person entered the community or another custodian received them |
| Booking and case identifiers | Which custody episode and court matter the event belongs to |
Ask for the exact recorded label instead of requesting that the custodian interpret it. “Released to another agency” is not the same as discharge. A court order may explain the legal basis, while the KRRJ entry proves when staff processed the physical departure. Pairing both records produces the strongest local account.
Request Kentucky River Regional Jail Release Records
A focused request should name an existing record for a specific booking. Include the person's full name, date of birth, booking number or case number, approximate admission date, and approximate release date. Ask for the release or removal entry and identify the fields needed, including date, time, purpose, authority, and recipient. A booking sheet or booking photograph can be listed separately.
KRRJ accepts Kentucky's standardized open-records form, but state law does not make that form the only valid route. Kentucky's Open Records Act permits the custodian to ask how the requester qualifies as a resident of the Commonwealth. A denial should cite the applicable exception and briefly explain why it applies. Juvenile, sealed, expunged, private, or protected law-enforcement material may be withheld.
The published policy lists standard paper copies at $0.10 per page and electronic copies without charge. Large electronic productions placed on media can carry actual media cost and postage. Photographs are charged at actual production cost. Ask for electronic delivery and an estimate before nonstandard production. No unsupported flat fee should be assumed.
Why Knott County Releases Happen in Hazard
Knott County's former jail is closed. The active local detention path instead runs to KRRJ in Perry County. A June 29, 2005 interlocal agreement documented by the Kentucky Auditor explains the arrangement under which Knott and Perry jointly maintain and finance the regional jail. The audit describes a 75 percent Perry and 25 percent Knott debt-service allocation.
This history explains a record trail that might otherwise look inconsistent. A Knott arrest can produce a physical jail and release record in Hazard, while the criminal case remains with the Knott court in Hindman. If a state sentence follows, KOOL may become the main public source for custody and supervision. No single office necessarily holds every part of that sequence.
The Kentucky Auditor's Knott County report documents the shared arrangement. It also helps explain why unofficial references to a live “Knott County Jail” are misleading. The elected county jailer office still exists, but that fact does not reopen the closed facility or make it the custodian of current KRRJ release entries.
About Kentucky River Regional Jail Custody
KRRJ is a regional county jail, not a Knott Sheriff-operated jail and not a state prison. Its official page states a capacity of 150. It can hold people connected to Knott cases before trial, on local sentences, or during a transition in custody. A state-sentenced person may also appear through KDOC systems, depending on placement and record status.
No official KRRJ 24-hour list, 72-hour list, released-person photo gallery, or verified inmate mobile app was located. Do not replace that absence with an unofficial roster. For recent confirmation, use VINE, call KRRJ, and follow with the written entry when the release type or recipient matters.
Planning for a Kentucky River Regional Jail Release
Physical release occurs in Hazard, while the Knott courthouse and many county services are in Hindman. That distance matters for pickup and record requests. An older KDOC resource directory identifies LKLP transportation and 2-1-1 as possible local leads, but it does not establish a jail-door stop, current route, taxi rule, or guaranteed service.
Call booking at 606-436-1008 before travel. Ask whether the release has been physically processed, whether another agency will receive custody, and where an approved pickup should wait. Do not promise a departure time based only on a court order because staff may still need to verify holds, calculate credit, complete property steps, or arrange a transfer.
If the person moves into District 11 parole or probation, the supervising location should be confirmed separately. If the person transfers to KDOC, BOP, ICE, or another jail, use that agency's system for the next custody event. The KRRJ release entry remains the record of how this facility's episode ended.