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Understanding Lee County Releases

Release means that one custodian no longer holds a person. It does not always mean an unrestricted return home. Someone may leave Three Forks Regional Jail on bond, recognizance, dismissal, time served, sentence expiration, or another court order. The same person might instead transfer to the Kentucky Department of Corrections, another jail, a treatment placement, federal custody, or another agency. The record must preserve that distinction.

Three Forks publishes a current-inmate list, not a released-person archive. Once a name drops from that list, the booking and release sheet, Kentucky VINE record, and signed Lee County court order are stronger sources. A release from Lee Adjustment Center is different. It is a state-prison event best checked through Kentucky Online Offender Lookup, known as KOOL, the KDOC Daily Releases archive, VINE, and state corrections records.

Parole

Board-authorized community release before the final sentence end. Supervision continues.

Probation

A court-ordered community status that may be imposed without a state-prison release.

Discharge

The end of a custody or supervision status as recorded by the responsible agency.

Time served

Release because the custodial term reached its legal endpoint, subject to any other hold.

Detainer

A request or legal basis for another agency to take custody after the first custodian releases the person.

Lee County Release Types

The label attached to the event tells where to look next. Bond and recognizance allow a case to continue outside the jail under court terms. A dismissal can end a charge but may not resolve a separate case or hold. Parole and mandatory reentry supervision place an eligible state inmate in the community under KDOC oversight. Transfer means the person changed custodians. It should never be rewritten as community release.

How Lee Pretrial Release Works

Kentucky Pretrial Services operates in all 120 counties around the clock. Its official process helps explain how someone can leave Three Forks while a Lee County charge remains active. Eligible people charged with bailable offenses are interviewed and assessed within 24 hours. A qualifying pre-arraignment release may follow. Otherwise, the assessment goes to the judge, whose decision is sent to the jail and clerk.

Kentucky uses recognizance, unsecured, third-party surety, cash, property, and partially secured mechanisms. The local process should not be described as a commercial-bondsman system. Check the Kentucky Pretrial Services explanation, then obtain the signed Lee court order. Pretrial release settles physical custody for that moment. It does not settle guilt, dismiss the case, or erase the duty to appear.

Lee County Release Record Fields

A useful release record answers who left, which facility released or transferred the person, when it happened, and what authority controlled the event. Three Forks does not publish a field specification. Ask for existing fields rather than assuming the jail must maintain a particular form. For a KDOC event, the dated Daily Releases PDF identifies the releasing institution and the agency's exact release type.

Do not merge date labels. Booking, disposition, parole eligibility, projected release, minimum expiration, actual release, supervision start, and final discharge are separate events. Preserve the source's own term. That is especially important when a record says transferred, mandatory reentry supervision, or discharged at minimum expiration.

Request Lee County Release Records

Kentucky's Open Records Act provides the documentary fallback. KRS 61.872 permits a Kentucky resident to inspect nonexempt public records. A signed written request and residency statement may be required. Delivery may be by hand, mail, fax, or email, and an agency must accept the Attorney General's standardized form. KRS 61.880 calls for a written decision within five days, excluding weekends and legal holidays. Exemptions, redaction, active use, storage, and retention may still affect access.

1. Identify the custodian. For Three Forks, call 606-464-2598 and confirm the official records custodian and delivery address.
2. Give the person's name and an approximate booking date. Add the case or booking number and date range if known.
3. Ask for the existing booking sheet, release entry, release date and time, disposition, authority, transfer destination, and booking photograph.
4. State that the request seeks existing records. Do not ask the agency to create a new list or answer factual questions.
5. Keep the written response. If access is denied, the agency must cite an exception and explain how it applies.

No jail-specific form, custodian email, records hours, copy schedule, or public retention period was found. Inspection itself is not subject to a reproduction fee. Copies and postage may be charged under KRS 61.874, generally at actual reproduction cost. For old KDOC information missing from KOOL, write Offender Information Services, P.O. Box 2400, Frankfort, KY 40602-2400. KDOC ordinary paper copies are generally ten cents per page plus postage under 501 KAR 6:350.

Lee Release Orders at Court

The Lee County Court of Justice names Circuit Clerk Tyler Phillips as the local starting point for Circuit and District records. Circuit Court handles felony cases. District Court handles misdemeanors, traffic cases, arraignments, and early felony stages. Ask for the signed judgment, bond or release order, probation order, dismissal, revocation order, or other entry tied to the event. A calendar date only shows that a proceeding was set.

Older records may be stored at a records facility or destroyed under an authorized retention schedule. The clerk supplies the locator information when a file is at the State Records Center because that archive cannot search the court material by a person's name. The official Kentucky court-record request page explains the clerk-first route.

The public docket can help locate a case before contacting the clerk. The Kentucky docket portal is a search aid, not proof that someone physically left custody.

Find Released Lee County Inmates

Begin with the system that last held the person. This avoids treating one database as a complete Lee County history. A current Three Forks search tests present listing only. A KOOL result speaks to the KDOC system. Federal and immigration locators apply only when those agencies had custody.

1. For a recent local booking, check Three Forks Current Inmates. If absent, record when the search occurred and call the jail.
2. Search Kentucky VINE. Check both local-jail and KDOC records when duplicates appear, then confirm any alert independently.
3. Review the Lee court docket and obtain the signed order or clerk confirmation.
4. For a state sentence or Lee Adjustment Center, search KOOL and the KDOC Daily Releases archive around the suspected date.
5. Use BOP or ICE only when the case has federal or immigration jurisdiction.
6. Request the booking and release sheet when documentary proof is needed or the online trail ends.

There is no official Three Forks rolling local release feed. The Jail Releases: 24 Hours and Jail Releases: 72 Hours pages therefore provide time-bounded verification paths instead of fabricated lists.

Kentucky Search for Lee Releases

KOOL is the official Kentucky offender search. Start with surname and first initial, as the agency FAQ recommends, then try aliases. Narrow results with name, age, conviction county, DOC or PID number, Offender Type, Supervision Status, Location Type, Location, and County of Supervision. A probation-and-parole district can support community supervision. An institution or jail location points to custody.

Read every sentence date exactly as labeled. Expected Time To Serve, Minimum Expiration of Sentence Date, Parole Eligibility Date, Maximum Expiration of Sentence Date, and Projected Release Date From/To are not interchangeable. A forecast may change. Use the Projected Release resource to interpret those fields, then find an event record.

KOOL says recent offender data may not be final and its FAQ reports updates four times daily. It does not promise a permanent public archive for every fully discharged person. The Daily Releases archive and Offender Information Services are better historical fallbacks.

Lee State Release Reports

Kentucky publishes dated KDOC release PDFs. This archive is unusually useful for actual state events because the reports show DOC number, name, type of release, releasing facility, and highest felony class. Release language may include mandatory reentry supervision, discharge at a minimum or administrative minimum expiration, shock probation, or transfer.

Open the KDOC Daily Releases index and check dates near the suspected event.

Pair the PDF with KOOL. The report records the event; KOOL adds identity, sentence, location, and supervision context. Neither source should be stretched beyond KDOC custody.

Lee Release Reentry Contacts

KDOC Region 6 publishes separate reentry contacts for Lee County's different paths. Gregory Purvis is the District 8 Probation and Parole reentry coordinator covering Lee at 859-274-3067. Kristy Hounshell is the Lee Adjustment Center coordinator at 606-464-2866. Courtlyn King is the county-jail coordinator covering Powell and Lee at 606-362-6348.

These are program-navigation contacts, not substitutes for the supervising officer or a custody record. Identify the source of release first. District 8 concerns community supervision, the institutional contact concerns Lee Adjustment Center planning, and the county-jail contact serves the local jail layer. For supervision details and final discharge, follow Probation & Parole and verify the matching KOOL identity.

Two Lee County Custody Systems

Three Forks Regional Jail and Lee Adjustment Center sit in the same county but have different legal roles. Three Forks arose from a Lee, Owsley, and Wolfe interlocal agreement in 2000 and is governed through a regional jail authority. Its current list concerns the regional jail. Lee Adjustment Center is an 866-bed, medium-security adult-male prison operated by CoreCivic under contract with KDOC. State use resumed under the contract arrangement in 2017 and 2018.

This split controls the search. The Three Forks roster cannot answer whether a state prisoner left Lee Adjustment Center. KOOL cannot be assumed to preserve every ordinary local detainee. A person can also move from the regional jail into KDOC, causing one system to lose the current entry as the other gains one. Search both when a transfer is plausible.

Lee Release Alerts and Registries

Kentucky VINE is a free statewide custody and notification system. A specific-person inquiry can return a release date for an out-of-custody result or an institution address and phone for someone in custody. Register online through VINELink Inmate Search or call 800-511-1670. A person may have both a local and KDOC record, so review and register on each relevant result.

VINE is an alert source, not the final word. Kentucky has documented a vendor incident that produced false release alerts. Confirm a notice with Three Forks, KDOC, or the court. The KSP Sex Offender Registry is narrower still. It applies only to people with a legal registration duty, and registry presence does not prove current freedom because a registrant may be held on another matter.

Federal and Immigration Releases

Use the BOP Inmate Locator only for federal Bureau of Prisons custody. Search by federal identifier or name and compare identity fields. A past release date with a released status means the person left BOP custody. It does not rule out state custody, a detainer, or federal supervision. BOP's online coverage begins in 1982, with older requests routed to the National Archives.

ICE's Online Detainee Locator System covers current detention and certain people released from ICE custody within the prior 60 days. Search by A-number and country of birth, or by exact name and country of birth. Disappearance outside that window proves nothing. A transfer from Three Forks to ICE remains custody, not release to the community. No public U.S. Marshals released-person locator was found.

Where Lee Release Records Appear

The right source depends on custody type and timing. Use this comparison before treating a blank result as an answer.

Lee Release Records After Expungement

Expungement can change what ordinary public searches return. Kentucky's court guidance says eligible cases follow a certification and petition process. Many eligible Class D felony petitions under KRS 431.073 cannot be filed until five years after sentence completion or successful probation or parole, whichever comes later. Eligibility has exclusions, and the prosecutor receives time to object.

After a completed order, covered agency records may be removed or deleted as the law directs, and agencies may answer that no record exists. That can explain a missing historical result. Roster disappearance alone never proves expungement. Sealed, juvenile, confidential, and exempt records also require separate treatment, and Kentucky's Open Records Act does not override those limits.

Lee County Release Facilities

Only two Lee County detention facilities were confirmed in the official-source sweep. Other placements remain possible because a warrant, court order, classification, state sentence, federal jurisdiction, or interagency transfer can send a Lee County case elsewhere.

• Three Forks Regional Jail: the regional local jail serving Lee, Owsley, and Wolfe counties. Confirm departure through the jail, VINE, Lee court records, or a release-sheet request.
• Lee Adjustment Center: a KDOC contract prison. Confirm state release through KOOL, Daily Releases, VINE, supervision records, or a KDOC request.