Bourbon County Jail Records
The official local custody source is the Bourbon County Regional Detention Center. Its home page links to a Current Inmates route and states that the current-inmate list is used for charges and bond information for current detainees. The list opens the Cadmus Scribe current-inmates portal, which is the online starting point for a person who may be housed at the regional jail.
Bourbon County inmate records need careful routing because the jail is regional. Official jail and county sources say the facility houses people for Bourbon County, Nicholas County, Harrison County, Robertson County, the Kentucky Department of Corrections, and the United States Marshals Service. A person in the building may be a local pretrial detainee, a county sentence inmate, a Class D work-release inmate, a DOC offender housed locally, or a federal detainee held for USMS. The same building does not make every record a county case.
The Cadmus portal did not show searchable controls during static inspection. It returned a Blazor error instead of a public profile list. That limitation should not be treated as proof that the roster is unavailable. Start from the official jail site, try the Current Inmates link, then call the jail or use the contact form if the portal does not load.
The official jail home page screenshot is from Bourbon County Regional Detention Center and shows the local links for current inmates, commissary, phone time, bonds, Pay My Jailer, and visitation.
Those links matter because Bourbon County inmate records often require more than one action: search the roster, confirm bond with the jail, schedule visits through the vendor, and use separate systems when custody is state, federal, or immigration based.
Use the Bourbon County Roster
The fastest Bourbon County jail roster search starts at the official jail website, not a copied roster or a commercial mugshot page. The jail describes its current-inmate list as the place to find charges and bond information. If the person was just arrested, allow for intake, identity checks, charge entry, and classification before assuming a missing name means release.
- Open the official Bourbon County jail website.
- Choose the Current Inmates link, which opens the Cadmus portal for current detainees.
- If the portal loads, search or browse using the fields shown on screen and compare names carefully.
- Review charges and bond information, since the jail says those items are provided through the current-inmate list.
- If the portal shows an error, reload once, try another browser, then call the jail at 859-987-2137.
- If local custody is not confirmed, check KOOL, BOP, ICE ODLS, and VINELink as appropriate.
Do not treat an old screenshot, social post, or mirrored roster as the active Bourbon County jail roster. Release, transfer, bond changes, and holds can change after a booking record first appears. The jail is the direct source for current local custody questions.
Bourbon County Roster Fields
The Cadmus current-inmates portal is official because the jail links to it, but the static page did not expose a normal search form during research. That is an important Bourbon County inmate record fact. Field behavior should be taken from the live portal if it renders in the user's browser, not guessed from another Cadmus county.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search controls | Not visible in static inspection | Not visible | The Cadmus portal returned a Blazor error during static review. |
| Current Inmates link | Navigation link | n/a | Official jail link opens https://inmateportal.cadmusscribe.com/brk. |
| Charges | Record content | n/a | The jail home page says charges are available through the current-inmate list. |
| Bond information | Record content | n/a | The jail home page says bond information is available through the current-inmate list. |
When a search screen fails, the best fallback is not a third-party list. Use the jail phone line, the official contact form, or a written Open Records request to the agency that keeps the record. For a new arrest, give the person's full name, date of birth if known, arrest date, and the agency involved.
Note: A roster error is a technology limit, not a legal denial of access to nonexempt jail records.
Bourbon County Inmate Profile
Bourbon County inmate records from the current-inmates list are confirmed for charges and bond information. Other common booking details, such as booking date, housing unit, physical descriptors, photo display, court dates, or release status, were not visible in the static inspection. The page should therefore be read as a custody route, not as a promise that every jail field will appear online.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Charges | Confirmed by the official jail home page as available through the Current Inmate List. |
| Bond information | Confirmed by the official jail home page as available through the Current Inmate List. |
| Name, booking details, mugshot, demographics | Not visible in static inspection, so confirm through the live portal or jail staff. |
| Release status, housing, court date | Not visible in static inspection. Check the jail, court clerk, or DOC records as needed. |
A charge on the jail roster is not the final court outcome. It may reflect the arrest allegation, warrant language, or intake information. Court filings, later amendments, dismissals, indictments, plea outcomes, and sentencing are court records rather than jail roster fields.
Bourbon County Jail Contact
When the Bourbon County jail roster does not answer a current custody question, contact the regional jail directly. The county services page lists the detention center as the local agency that provides care and custody of state, county, and city inmates, classification of inmates, and work release for Class D and county inmates. The jail contact page also provides a public contact form with fields for name, phone number, email, company, subject, question, and email routing.
Bourbon County Regional Detention Center
101 Legion Dr.
Paris, KY 40361
859-987-2137
Use the jail website for current-inmate, visitation, commissary, phone, and bond links.
Bourbon County Sheriff's Office
301 Main Street, Suite 104
Paris, KY 40361
859-987-2130
Office hours are Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; deputies are available through 911 or 859-987-2100.
The jail is the direct route for booking and custody records. The sheriff is the right office for sheriff reports, civil process, and law-enforcement contacts. The Bourbon Circuit Court Clerk handles court case records from the Bourbon County Judicial Center.
Bourbon County Records Requests
Kentucky Open Records law gives Kentucky residents a route to inspect nonexempt public records. KRS 61.872 allows agencies to require a written request delivered by hand, mail, fax, or email. KRS 61.874 covers copies, reasonable reproduction costs, and commercial-use terms. KRS 61.878 lists exemptions, including some law-enforcement and prosecutor records.
Route the request to the office that has the record. Send booking, custody, jail incident, admission, and release record requests to the regional jail. Send sheriff report requests to the sheriff. Send court-file requests to the Bourbon Circuit Court Clerk. Send state offender records to Kentucky DOC if the person has moved into DOC custody or appears only in KOOL.
Important: Ask for the record you need by name and date range, and avoid asking the jail to create a new report.
Bourbon County Custody Search
The Bourbon County jail roster is for current local jail custody and locally housed detainees. KOOL is for Kentucky DOC offenders. BOP is for federal prisoners from 1982 to present. ICE ODLS is for immigration detention. VINELink is a notification and custody-status service, not a full case file.
| Custody Type | Where to Search | Why It Matters |
|---|---|---|
| Local pretrial or county sentence | Cadmus current-inmates portal or jail phone | The jail says the current list provides charges and bond information. |
| Sentenced Kentucky offender | Kentucky Online Offender Lookup | KOOL covers DOC offenders and can show Bourbon County Regional Jail as a location. |
| Federal sentenced inmate | BOP inmate locator | BOP records cover federal inmates incarcerated from 1982 to present. |
| Immigration detention | ICE Online Detainee Locator System | Search by A-number or biographical details when immigration custody is possible. |
| Custody notifications | Kentucky VINELink | VINELink can support custody-status alerts for Kentucky cases. |
A detainer is a hold from another agency. It can come from DOC, another county, USMS, ICE, probation, or a court. A local bond amount may not lead to release if a separate hold controls the person's custody.
State and Federal Locators
KOOL is the statewide Kentucky Department of Corrections locator. Search controls include photo-only, alias search, name fields, DOC number, PID number, gender, location or facility, offender type, sort order, and page size. KOOL snippets found during research showed Bourbon County Regional Jail as a possible location for incarcerated inmates, which matches the jail's documented DOC housing role.
| Locator | Useful Fields | Best Use |
|---|---|---|
| KOOL | Name, alias, DOC number, PID number, gender, facility, offender type | Sentenced or DOC-supervised Kentucky offenders. |
| BOP by name | First name, middle name, last name, race, sex, age | Federal prisoners and federal prison history from 1982 forward. |
| ICE ODLS | A-number, name, country of birth, date of birth | Immigration detainees or possible ICE transfers. |
The BOP by-name screenshot is from the official Federal Bureau of Prisons locator.
Use that federal locator only when the person is in BOP custody or has a federal prison record. It does not replace the Bourbon County jail roster for current local custody.
Bourbon County Visitation Records
Visitation information comes from the jail home page and is vendor based. The page directs visitors to create an account and schedule visitation through inmatesales.com. It does not publish local visit days, visit length, dress code, child visitor rules, or a full contraband list on the pages found, so those details should be confirmed before travel.
| Item | Officially Located Information | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduling | Create an account and schedule visitation on inmatesales.com. | Use the vendor link from the jail site. |
| On-site vs. remote | The jail page points to visitation scheduling, while the vendor also supports communication accounts. | Confirm the visit type with the jail. |
| Visitor ID | Not published on official pages found. | Call 859-987-2137 before arrival. |
| Children, dress, contraband | Not published on official pages found. | Ask the jail or vendor before scheduling. |
Note: Custody status should be confirmed before travel because release, transfer, or a court movement can change a scheduled visit.
Bourbon County Inmate Services
The jail publishes service links for commissary, communications, visitation, bond information, and jail fees. These routes are separate from the inmate record itself, but they are often needed after custody is confirmed. Do not send money or schedule a visit until the person's identity and facility location are clear.
| Service | Vendor or Route | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Commissary deposits | jailfunds.com | Official jail link says deposits, gift baskets, and e-cigarettes. |
| Phone time and chirping | inmatesales.com | Official jail link says phone calls, chirping, and communications. |
| Visitation scheduling | inmatesales.com | Create an account and schedule through the vendor. |
| Jail fees | Pay My Jailer | The jail home page labels this as the jail-fee payment route. |
Mail rules were not published on the official pages found. The safest format to confirm is the inmate's full name plus Bourbon County Regional Detention Center, 101 Legion Dr., Paris, KY 40361. Do not assume postcard-only mail, money-order rules, scan mail, or publication limits unless the jail confirms them.
Bourbon County Booking Process
After an arrest in Bourbon County or by an agency that uses the regional jail, the person is transported to Bourbon County Regional Detention Center. Intake can include identity verification, warrant and charge confirmation, property inventory, medical or mental-health screening, fingerprints, booking photo, entry into the jail-management system, classification, and housing assignment.
Kentucky jail standards support that process. 501 KAR 3:110 requires full-service jails to maintain prisoner classification systems. 501 KAR 3:020 requires jails that house state prisoners to retain admission, release, court order, property, work, program, disciplinary, unusual occurrence, and related records. 501 KAR 3:090 covers jail medical care and transfer when care is unavailable.
- Booking
- Jail intake after arrest, including identity, charges, property, and record entry.
- Classification
- A risk and needs review used for housing, supervision, and program decisions.
- Detainer
- A hold from another court or agency that can block release.
- Class D inmate
- A Kentucky lower-level felony category often housed in county or regional jails.