Bourbon County Regional Jail
Bourbon County Regional Detention Center is a full-service regional jail in Paris, Kentucky. The facility is operated through the Bourbon County Regional Detention Center and Bourbon County Fiscal Court structure, with the county services page identifying Sam Norris as Jail Administrator. Official sources describe a wider role than a single-county lockup.
The jail houses offenders for Bourbon County, Nicholas County, Harrison County, and Robertson County. It also houses Kentucky Department of Corrections offenders and United States Marshals Service offenders. The county services page says the detention center provides care and custody of state, county, and city inmates, classifies inmates, and runs work release for Class D and county inmates.
That mixed role shapes every Bourbon County Regional Detention Center inmate search. A person may be locally charged and waiting for court, serving a short local sentence, held as a Class D inmate, housed locally for DOC, or detained for USMS. The facility name alone does not identify the court or agency that controls release.
The facility overview screenshot is from the official Bourbon County Regional Detention Center about page.
The official overview supports the key local point: Bourbon County Regional Detention Center is a regional jail with county, state, and federal custody categories, not just a local arrest holding room.
Bourbon County Jail Capacity
The official about page says Bourbon County Regional Detention Center was built with an original 87-bed capacity. It also says a new wing was built in 2016-2017 because of changing incarceration rates and that the wing increased capacity. The current rated bed count after that expansion was not published in the official pages reviewed.
Research did not locate a current average daily population, race or sex breakdown, annual booking count, or post-expansion rated capacity on official jail pages. For exact current population figures, the most defensible route is a written request to the jail or a usable state dataset. Kentucky jail standards under 501 KAR 3:020 require jails housing state prisoners to provide weekly population updates to DOC showing state, federal, and county prisoners.
Search Bourbon County Detention Inmates
The correct local lookup path is the Cadmus Scribe current-inmates portal linked from the jail home page. The jail says the Current Inmate List provides charges and bond information for current detainees. During static inspection, the portal returned a Blazor error instead of visible search fields, so the live browser view should control if it loads normally.
- Open the official Bourbon County Regional Detention Center website.
- Use the Current Inmates link to reach the Cadmus current-inmates portal.
- If the portal renders, search or browse using the controls shown on screen.
- Confirm that the record names Bourbon County Regional Detention Center or the correct holding facility.
- If the portal fails, call 859-987-2137 or use the jail contact form.
For a sentenced Kentucky offender, use KOOL even if the person is physically housed in the Bourbon jail. For federal prison custody, use the BOP locator. For immigration custody, use ICE ODLS. For custody alerts, use Kentucky VINELink.
Bourbon County Facility Contact
The jail phone line is the fallback for current custody, bond, and portal problems. The official contact page also provides a public web form. Its visible fields are name, phone number, email, company, subject, question, email routing, and submit. Required markers appeared on name, email, subject, and question.
Bourbon County Regional Detention Center
101 Legion Dr.
Paris, KY 40361
859-987-2137
Official jail website lists current inmates, commissary, phone time, bonds, Pay My Jailer, visitation, and contact form routes.
The jail address is separate from downtown government offices. Bourbon County government offices list 301 Main Street, and the Bourbon County Judicial Center is at 310 Main Street. The detention center is the custody location; the court clerk is the case-file route; the sheriff is the route for sheriff reports and law-enforcement questions.
Bourbon County Jail Visits
Visitation is routed through the jail's inmatesales.com link. The official jail page tells users to create an account and schedule visitation there. It does not publish local visiting days, visit length, visitor approval details, dress code, child visitor rules, lobby limits, or a full list of contraband rules on the pages found.
| Visitation Item | Official Detail | Practical Step |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduling | Create an account and schedule through inmatesales.com. | Use the link from the jail website. |
| Visit type | Jail page points to vendor scheduling. | Confirm on-site or remote status before booking. |
| Identification | Not published in pages found. | Call the jail before arriving. |
| Dress and property rules | Not published in pages found. | Ask the jail or vendor before the visit. |
Note: A scheduled visit can be affected by court transport, release, discipline, medical status, or transfer to another custody system.
Bourbon County Jail Money
Money, phone, communication, and fee routes are separate from the inmate lookup, but each depends on confirmed custody. The jail home page links to jailfunds.com for commissary deposits and purchases. It links to inmatesales.com for phone calls, chirping, communication, and visitation scheduling. It also links to Pay My Jailer for jail fees.
| Service | Provider or Route | Documented Use |
|---|---|---|
| Commissary deposits | jailfunds.com | Deposits, gift baskets, and e-cigarettes. |
| Phone and chirping | inmatesales.com | Phone calls, chirping, and communication services. |
| Visitation scheduling | inmatesales.com | Account creation and visit scheduling. |
| Jail fees | Pay My Jailer | Jail-fee payment route linked from the jail. |
Mail rules were not found on the official pages reviewed. A cautious mail format is inmate full name, Bourbon County Regional Detention Center, 101 Legion Dr., Paris, KY 40361. Before sending mail, confirm whether the jail requires an inmate ID, postcard format, scanned mail, publisher-only books, or other limits.
Bourbon County Jail Intake
Official pages do not publish a detailed booking manual, but the facility's role and staff structure support the local process. After a Bourbon County arrest or an arrest from an agency that uses the regional jail, the person is transported to the jail for identity checks, warrant and charge confirmation, property inventory, medical or mental-health screening, fingerprinting, a booking photo, jail-management entry, classification, and housing assignment.
The staff page names roles tied to intake and movement, including a classifications officer, court officer, transportation captain, operations captain, Class D coordinator, and shift lieutenants. The county services page lists classification and work release as detention center services. Kentucky rules also require full-service jails to maintain classification systems and prisoner record systems.
- Classification
- A jail review used to assign housing and supervision based on risk, needs, and custody category.
- Work release
- A controlled status for eligible Class D or county inmates to work under jail rules.
- USMS hold
- Federal custody routed through the United States Marshals Service, often controlled by federal court.
- DOC offender
- A Kentucky Department of Corrections inmate who may be housed locally or in a state institution.
Bourbon County Jail Records
For records beyond the visible roster, Kentucky Open Records law supplies the request path. KRS 61.872 gives Kentucky residents a right to inspect public records unless an exception applies and allows written requests by hand, mail, fax, or email. KRS 61.874 covers copies and reproduction costs. KRS 61.878 contains exemptions.
Send jail custody and booking requests to the detention center. Send sheriff report requests to the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office. Send court-case copy requests to the Bourbon Circuit Court Clerk. Send DOC records to Kentucky DOC when the person is a sentenced offender or appears in KOOL. The right custodian matters because one agency may not hold another agency's record.
Bourbon County Jail Programs
The strongest documented local program detail is work release. Bourbon County's services page says the detention center operates a work release program for Class D inmates and county inmates. The staff page names a Class D Coordinator and a Classifications Officer, which supports that those functions are formal jail roles.
State jail standards add conditions context. Jail medical rules require emergency medical, vision, and dental care and transfer when needed care is unavailable. Classification rules require a written prisoner classification system for full-service jails. Prisoner-rights standards apply to full-service jails. The official Bourbon pages did not publish a local GED list, substance-abuse program, religious services schedule, grievance packet, PREA page, accreditation page, or medical vendor page.
Note: Program access can depend on sentence type, housing status, discipline, medical limits, court orders, and jail classification.