Ohio County Projected Versus Actual Release
A projected date is the corrections system's present estimate based on the sentence and credits then recorded. KOOL uses the exact advanced-search label “Projected Release Date From/To.” Kentucky public material does not promise that this field is a final exit date. A record may also show minimum or maximum expiration information, parole eligibility, or a proposed parole release date. Each label answers a different question.
A pretrial detainee usually has no computed sentence-release date. Release depends on bond, dismissal, a court order, another case, or later sentencing. A person serving a definite local sentence may need a calculation from the Ohio County Detention Center and the court judgment. A KDOC offender has a state sentence calculation that can follow the person even while physically held in a county jail.
A transfer is not a community release. Nor are escape, death, or pickup on a detainer. When a person leaves the Ohio County roster, first determine which event occurred before interpreting any date.
Find an Ohio County Projected Release
Start by classifying the case. The official Ohio County inmate lookup is a live custody view, not a projected-date archive. KOOL is the stronger public route for a sentenced state offender. The court and jailer are the correct sources for a local pretrial or county-sentence question.
- Check the live Ohio County roster to see whether the person is still displayed, but do not treat absence as release.
- Search KOOL by name, DOC number, or PID number when state jurisdiction may apply.
- Open the matching detail and distinguish Projected Release Date, minimum expiration, maximum expiration, parole eligibility, and proposed release fields.
- For a county case, obtain the judgment and later orders from the Ohio County court, then ask the jailer for the booking, sentence, credit, release, or transfer record.
- Check the parole action and any known detainer, consecutive sentence, revocation, or corrected jail credit that may alter the calculation.
- Confirm the actual event through the jail, current KOOL status, KDOC Daily Releases, VINE, or the court.
The Ohio County released inmate search covers the broader record trail when no date appears online. Keep the person's name, date of birth, case number, booking range, and DOC identifier separate. Similar names are common, and the wrong match can produce a plausible but unrelated date.
Note: KOOL is a state corrections source, not a full archive of every Ohio County booking or county-only sentence.
Ohio County KOOL Date Search Fields
KOOL's advanced search can locate people within a date range and narrow results by correctional facts. Search fields are filters, not proof that every detail will be public on every record. The exact projected-date label is valuable because it lets a searcher test a known range without confusing the field with a parole hearing date.
| Field group | How it helps |
|---|---|
| Projected Release Date From/To | Finds records whose current calculation falls in a date range |
| Name and aliases | Finds spelling and known-name variations |
| DOC number or PID number | Separates people who share a name |
| Supervision status and location | Shows whether the person may be in custody or supervised outside it |
| County of supervision | Narrows a community-supervision assignment |
| Offense name, KRS code, conviction county | Helps match the correctional record to the judgment |
| Institution or supervision dates | Places the date within a custody or supervision timeline |
Other filters include offender type, age, race, gender, indictment, crime and conviction dates, institution start, supervision begin date, and escape or abscond dates. Use only facts already known from a reliable record. A projected date should then be read beside current status and location.
Kentucky Credits Affect Ohio County Release
KRS 197.045 supplies the main sentence-credit framework for a person sentenced to a state penal institution. It requires qualifying prior-confinement credit. It also provides specific educational and program credits, good-behavior credit, meritorious-service credit, and emergency-service credit under the statute's terms and KDOC administration.
The statute provides 90 days for specified approved diplomas, degrees, or technical programs and up to 90 days for approved drug treatment, evidence-based, promising-practice, or life-skills programming. It allows up to ten days per month for good behavior, up to seven days per month for exceptionally meritorious service or outstanding institutional duties, and up to seven days per month for exceptional emergency service. Those categories should not be added by hand to predict a date. Eligibility, award, application, and forfeiture are administrative questions.
Except for prior-confinement credit, awarded credit may be forfeited or future credit denied after an institutional offense or rule violation. Consecutive sentences are merged for credit and expiration calculations. Eligible sexual offenders have special treatment-completion limits. A new judgment, corrected jail credit, sentence amendment, or revocation can require recalculation.
For a qualifying state felon housed in a county jail, 501 KAR 2:060 directs statutory, meritorious, educational, and approved substance-program credits to follow KRS 197.045 and KDOC policy. That state-felon rule should not be applied by assumption to an ordinary county misdemeanor sentence.
Ohio County Violent-Offender Date Limits
The current KRS 439.3401, effective July 15, 2026, defines covered violent offenders and generally requires a term-of-years violent offender to serve at least 85 percent before probation, shock probation, parole, conditional discharge, or another early-release form. The current credit subsection limits covered people to the specified prior-confinement credit, subject to applicability rules.
This is not a rule that all Kentucky prisoners serve 85 percent. The statute's definition, offense date, sentence, judgment, amendments, and exceptions matter. Domestic-violence provisions can also affect the analysis. A valid Ohio County calculation must use the statute version that governs the offense and the actual judgment. KOOL may show the agency's current date, but legal questions about the calculation belong with counsel or the agency record.
Note: A percentage rule cannot be safely applied without the offense date, covered offense, sentence, judgment, and controlling statute version.
What Changes Ohio County Release Dates
A release date can move earlier or later as the record changes. Some changes affect the sentence calculation. Others do not alter the sentence itself but prevent release to the community on the expected day. The distinction is important when explaining why a projected date passed without an ordinary exit.
| Factor | Possible effect | Best confirming source |
|---|---|---|
| Prior-confinement credit correction | Changes time already credited | Judgment, jail certification, KDOC calculation |
| Earned or program credit | May advance the estimate when awarded and applicable | KDOC sentence record |
| Disciplinary action | May forfeit credit or block future credit | KDOC institutional record |
| Consecutive or concurrent judgment | Changes how terms combine | Court judgment and KDOC calculation |
| Detainer or warrant | May cause pickup or transfer rather than community release | Holding agency and release record |
| Parole action | May propose release, defer review, deny parole, or require serve out | KOOL Parole Information and Board record |
| Revocation or new case | May return the person to custody or extend practical confinement | Court and KDOC records |
A detainer is a request or notice that another authority seeks custody. It can turn the expected exit into an agency transfer. A corrected court order can also alter the date after the initial record was entered. Record the time each source was checked because public systems may update on different cycles.
Ohio County Parole Dates Are Conditional
KRS 439.340 permits the Kentucky Parole Board to parole people in adult state institutions and eligible sentenced felons in county jails. Under the current terms, a nonviolent Class D felon with an aggregate sentence of one to five years receives review after 15 percent or two months, whichever is longer. Detailed schedules and offense-date rules appear in 501 KAR 1:030.
Eligibility creates consideration, not a right to leave. “Parole Recommended” and “Proposed Release Date” are pre-release decision fields. “Deferred” postpones reconsideration. “Serve Out” requires service through sentence completion as the regulation defines it. Conditions, holds, rescission, or later revocation may affect the practical result.
Mandatory reentry supervision is also not discharge. KRS 439.3406 generally places qualifying people under supervision six months before projected completion when discretionary parole was not granted, with stated exclusions. A person on that status is considered released on parole and remains under supervision.
Confirm an Ohio County Actual Release
KDOC's Daily Releases archive supplies dated statewide reports for KDOC-controlled releases, including some state offenders released from local jails. Its fields include DOC number, name, type of release, released-from location, and highest felony class. It does not capture every Ohio County pretrial bond-out or county-only sentence.
For local custody, call or write the Ohio County Jailer for the booking, release, or transfer entry. Pair it with the court order when bond, time served, probation, or dismissal drove the exit. For a state record, compare the dated report with current KOOL status. A Kentucky VINELink release alert can add notice, but an alert must still be confirmed because source updates can lag and false alerts occurred in February 2026.
The strongest answer names both the projected date and the later actual event. If the person moved to KDOC, another jail, federal custody, or immigration custody, describe that as a transfer. If the release record shows community discharge, parole, probation, or another release type, use the agency's exact term and date.
Request Ohio County Release Calculations
When the public screens do not resolve the date, request the existing records from the agency that owns the calculation. For a local booking, direct the request to Ohio County Detention Center and Jailer Landon Spurlock at 108 East Washington Street, Hartford, KY 42347, or call 270-298-4455, extension 4. Ask for the booking record, sentence or jail-credit entry, release or transfer disposition, and the date and time of the event. For a KDOC-controlled sentence, use KDOC open records for the sentence calculation and discharge material within the public scope.
The Kentucky Open Records Act permits lawful redaction and does not require an agency to answer a new hypothetical calculation. A precise request works best: identify the person, DOC or case number, conviction, approximate custody dates, and the named projected-release field. If a court order may have changed the term, obtain that order from the Ohio County clerk as well. The agency calculation and judgment together show why the public estimate moved.