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Kentucky River Regional Jail Overview

Kentucky River Regional Jail is the active regional jail serving Knott County detainees. The facility is in Hazard, Kentucky, and is listed by official Perry County material as a local jail facility with separate administration, booking, and inmate information lines. The Kentucky.gov Perry County jail page identifies Perry County Jailer Minor Allen with the jail page, while the operating structure is described as Kentucky River Regional Jail, Inc., the Perry County jailer, and the regional jail authority. For Knott County users, the practical point is simple: the jail record is not maintained through an active standalone Knott County jail page.

The facility is a local and regional jail, not a state prison. It holds adults arrested in or for Knott County and nearby regional counties, pretrial detainees waiting on court action, sentenced local inmates, and state or local prisoners where Kentucky law and jail contracts allow that placement. The official Perry County jail page describes housing separation by offense, current risk assessment, and behavior. That means a Kentucky River Regional Jail custody record may reflect booking, classification, bond, court status, release, transfer, or a state hold, depending on where the person is in the case.

Kentucky River Regional Jail Capacity

The official Perry County Fiscal Court jail page gives Kentucky River Regional Jail a rated capacity of 150 beds. That is a facility capacity for the regional jail as a whole, not a Knott-only inmate population count. No current official average daily population, annual booking count, length-of-stay figure, or demographic breakdown for Knott County detainees housed at KRRJ was located in the official sources reviewed. Do not read the regional capacity as the number of Knott County inmates in custody on a given day.

Knott County's active jail custody should also be kept separate from older statewide database labels. The Kentucky Department of Corrections KOOL location filters include a closed Knott County Jail reference. Treat that as a historical location entry, not as the facility currently serving Knott County bookings. Current local custody questions should route to Kentucky River Regional Jail, while sentenced state-prison custody should be checked through the Kentucky Department of Corrections.

Kentucky River Regional Jail Lookup

No active official local Kentucky River Regional Jail public roster was located in the reviewed sources. The official jail page routes its inmate-search link to Kentucky Offender Online Lookup, known as KOOL. KOOL is useful for statewide Kentucky custody and supervision records, especially when a person has moved into DOC status. For a new Knott County arrest or a same-day booking, call KRRJ first because the Kentucky DOC warns that offender data newer than 120 days may not have been finalized.

1. Call Kentucky River Regional Jail inmate information at (606) 436-4032 for current custody, especially when the arrest is recent.
2. Call booking at (606) 436-1008 when the question is about a new intake, a booking name, or a person just transported from Knott County.
3. Search KOOL by name, aliases, DOC number, PID number, offender type, or location when the person may be in statewide custody.
4. Use VINE for custody notifications and release or transfer alerts after a person is located.
5. Check court records separately when the question is about filed charges, court dates, or disposition rather than jail custody.

Kentucky River Regional Jail Contact

Kentucky River Regional Jail publishes separate contact paths for general administration, booking, inmate information, and faxed communication. Use the inmate information line for custody status, housing or mail ID questions, and basic status checks. Use booking for recent intake questions. If the request is for copies of jail records rather than a live custody check, use the written open-records process handled by the named custodian.

For Knott County arresting-agency records, the Knott County Sheriff's Office is a different office. For court case records, the Knott County Circuit Court Clerk is the starting point after charges are filed. KRRJ is the correct contact for jail custody, jail mail format, jail records held by the facility, and local booking status for a person housed at the Hazard facility.

Kentucky River Regional Jail Visits

The official sources reviewed did not locate a current KRRJ visitation schedule, official video visitation vendor, dress-code page, child visitor rule, attorney-visit page, or visitor approval form. That absence should not be filled with commercial jail-directory claims. Before traveling from Hindman, Knott County, or another Eastern Kentucky community, call KRRJ and confirm whether visits are available, whether the person must add visitors to an approved list, and what identification is required at entry.

Directions should be checked the same way. From Hindman, travel toward Hazard and route to Justice Drive rather than to the Perry County Courthouse address on Main Street. Because mountain roads, flood repairs, work zones, and closures can affect arrival time, confirm the route by GPS before leaving. The KYTC human-services transportation list names LKLP Community Action Council as a regional broker for counties including Knott and Perry, but that is not a jail shuttle or a guaranteed visitor ride.

Kentucky River Regional Jail Mail

The official mail format requires the facility name, inmate name, inmate ID number, and the Justice Drive address. The inmate ID number matters because a letter may be delayed or rejected if the facility cannot match the recipient. KRRJ also tells senders to get the acceptable mail list from the facility. The reviewed official sources did not publish a current scan-and-destroy mail policy, publication vendor rule, greeting-card rule, commissary vendor, deposit vendor, or phone and video price sheet.

Do not assume that a vendor listed on a third-party jail site is authorized for KRRJ. Call inmate information before sending funds, ordering commissary, or trying to schedule a paid remote visit. If a person has moved from Kentucky River Regional Jail into a state prison, use Kentucky DOC rules instead of KRRJ mail or money instructions.

Kentucky River Regional Jail Booking

A Knott County arrest can start with the sheriff's office, Kentucky State Police, a city police agency, a warrant, a court order, or another lawful hold. The custody path then moves to Kentucky River Regional Jail because Knott County detainees are served through the regional jail arrangement. At booking, KRS 71.040 says the jailer receives and keeps lawfully committed prisoners until lawful discharge, unless emergency medical care is needed before delivery to the jail.

Booking creates or updates the custody record. That can include the person's name, ID number, intake date, arresting agency, booking charges, bond or hold status, and release or transfer status. The official sources did not confirm that all of those fields are visible online through a local KRRJ roster. Classification follows intake. KRRJ's official page says prisoners are housed in separate areas based on crimes committed, current risk assessment, and behavior. Classification is the jail's process for assigning housing and security level.

Booking

Jail intake after arrest, surrender, warrant service, or court remand.

Classification

The jail process that assigns housing based on risk, offense, conduct, and safety needs.

Detainer

A hold or request from another agency that can affect release even when local bond is set.

PR Bond

Release on a promise to appear, subject to court conditions.

Kentucky River Regional Jail Records

KRRJ's open-records policy names Adam Dials, Assistant Administrator, as the designated records custodian. Written requests may be emailed to perryjailcd@ky.gov, mailed, or hand delivered to Kentucky River Regional Jail at 200 Justice Drive, Hazard, KY 41701. The policy follows Kentucky open-records timing and states that the jail must respond within five business days of receipt. Inspection is listed as available by arrangement from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

A records request should describe the record sought and the person involved. For a jail file, useful identifiers include full name, date of birth if known, booking date, inmate ID number, case number, and arresting agency. For the broader Knott County jail inmate records path, separate jail custody records from court records because court case files belong to the Kentucky Court of Justice and the Knott County Circuit Court Clerk.

Kentucky River Regional Jail Fallbacks

Different systems answer different custody questions. KRRJ is the first source for current local or regional jail custody. KOOL is the Kentucky Department of Corrections locator for statewide offender and supervision records, and it is the official inmate-search destination linked from the KRRJ page. VINE is available for notifications, including release and transfer events, and Kentucky lists the VINE phone line as 1-800-511-1670.

Federal and immigration custody are separate. The Federal Bureau of Prisons locator covers federal inmates incarcerated from 1982 to present and is strongest after a person enters BOP custody. A federal pretrial defendant may be held under U.S. Marshals Service arrangements before a BOP record appears. ICE's Online Detainee Locator System is for people currently in ICE custody or in CBP custody more than 48 hours, searched by A-number or by name, country of birth, and date of birth. None of those federal tools should be treated as the local Kentucky River Regional Jail roster.

For local color, the official Kentucky.gov jail page included a dated work-crew item from 2018. It reported that the KRRJ work crew collected 184 bags of trash in December, dug 18 graves that month, filled sunken graves, removed trees on cemetery roads, cleared a riverbank area near Perry County Central High School, and dug 197 graves for Perry County during that year. That item shows the facility's local public-work role, but it does not prove current program availability.