Lawrence County Scheduled Versus Actual Release
A projected date is a calculation. An actual date is a recorded custody event. Kentucky Offender Online Lookup, known as KOOL, uses several labels that should not be merged. Its search form has “Projected Release Date From” and “To” controls. Detail records may show Expected Time To Serve, Minimum Expiration of Sentence Date, Parole Eligibility Date, Maximum Expiration of Sentence Date, or a Proposed Release Date in the parole table.
Each label answers a different question. Minimum expiration reflects a sentence calculation after applicable credit. Parole eligibility marks when consideration can arise. A proposed parole date follows a recommendation. Maximum expiration marks another sentence boundary. None proves that BSRDC or KDOC completed a release transaction. A pretrial detainee may have a bond decision or court date but no sentence-based projected release date.
Note: A date passing without a custody-status change is a reason to verify, not proof that release occurred.
Find Lawrence County Projected Release Dates
Begin with the last known custody. Lawrence County sends local detainees to Big Sandy Regional Detention Center in Paintsville. A person sentenced to state custody can be placed anywhere in KDOC, including a contract county jail. The physical site and sentencing county are separate facts, so a search limited to a supposed “Lawrence County jail” can miss the right record.
- Identify the person with a full name, aliases, birth date, booking number, PID, or DOC number.
- For a state prisoner, search KOOL. Start with minimal fields, then use DOC or PID to distinguish matches.
- Read every date label and the current location. Save the access date because KDOC updates records and warns that newer data may not be final.
- Find the signed Lawrence County judgment through CourtNet and the circuit clerk’s record route. Check sentence length, credit, and concurrent or consecutive terms.
- For a BSRDC local sentence, ask the jail and court for the official local computation. Do not apply a state-prison formula by analogy.
- Compare the projected date with parole action, detainers, and the date-indexed KDOC Daily Releases archive.
A current BSRDC roster is a present-custody view, not a future-date calculator. A bond-out can depend on court conditions and processing. If the person was transferred to KDOC, follow the state record. If federal custody is established, use the BOP locator instead. The broader identity and custody workflow appears on the Lawrence County release search.
Lawrence County KOOL Date Fields
KOOL is useful because it exposes both search controls and person-level status fields. Search options include name, aliases, DOC or PID number, supervision status, location, county of supervision, conviction data, institution or supervision start, escape or abscond dates, and a projected-date range. A detail record can separate an institutional location from a community-supervision district.
| Field | What it means | What it does not prove |
|---|---|---|
| Expected Time To Serve | A KDOC sentence-computation value | The physical exit event |
| Minimum Expiration, Good Time | A minimum expiration calculation after applicable credit | That no hold or later change applies |
| Parole Eligibility | When parole consideration may arise | A grant or release |
| Proposed Release | A date associated with parole information | A completed release transaction |
| Maximum Expiration | A maximum sentence boundary shown by KDOC | Freedom from another authority |
KDOC says KOOL entries are updated daily as resources permit, but accuracy is not guaranteed and data newer than 120 days may not be finalized. Preserve exact labels. A screenshot without its retrieval date can become misleading after a recalculation.
Lawrence County Release Date Inputs
The official computation starts with the judgment. It uses the sentence length, offense date and classification, controlling count, consecutive or concurrent structure, and custody-credit start. Prior custody credit may then be applied. Eligible behavior, program, education, or service credits can affect minimum expiration under the governing law. KDOC performs the state calculation.
KRS Chapter 197, including KRS 197.045, is the central sentence-credit source. Credit categories and exclusions depend on the statute’s applicable version, offense, sentence, and custody setting. Credits can be earned, withheld, forfeited, or restored. A purely local county sentence may follow a different jail or court calculation, so the KDOC dates should not be copied onto a BSRDC pretrial or local case.
- Prior-custody credit
- Time credited from qualifying custody before the current computation.
- Concurrent sentences
- Terms ordered to run at the same time, subject to the judgment and law.
- Consecutive sentences
- Terms ordered to run one after another.
- Minimum expiration
- A calculated sentence point after applicable credit, not an event record.
- Detainer
- A hold or request from another authority that can lead to transfer.
Note: Public date fields explain the calculation’s result, but only KDOC can provide the official state sentence computation.
Lawrence County Violent-Offender Dates
KRS 439.3401 creates restrictions for a covered violent offender. For a covered person serving a term of years, the statute generally bars specified early-release forms until at least 85 percent of the sentence is served. The rule is not universal. Definitions, exceptions, domestic-violence provisions, credit restrictions, amendments, and the offense date all matter.
The safe reading is “85 percent for covered violent offenders under the applicable version of KRS 439.3401.” It is inaccurate to say all Kentucky inmates serve 85 percent. Parole eligibility under KRS 439.340 and 501 KAR 1:030 is also separate from a projected discharge. A hearing can lead to a grant, denial, deferment, or later action. Even a grant must be followed by conditions and a KDOC release transaction.
Lawrence County Administrative Release Timing
KDOC policy CPP 25.10 contains a narrow administrative-release-date rule for qualifying state inmates. It can include certain non-institutional offenders serving a state sentence in a county jail, reentry center, or home incarceration. The policy relates an administrative date to the first day of the month containing minimum expiration and provides a preceding-weekday adjustment when that day is a weekend or legal holiday.
This is computation-specific. Outstanding credit or disciplinary issues can affect the process, and a detainer can cause release to the detaining authority. The rule should never be recast as a universal BSRDC release schedule. Ordinary pretrial releases follow court and jail processing, while a purely local sentence needs a local computation. Ask which authority owns the sentence before relying on the policy.
Why Lawrence County Release Dates Change
A projected date can move in either direction. The key is to identify the event that changed the computation, not to assume a database error. Compare the current KOOL fields with the signed judgment and any later order.
| Change | Possible effect | Confirmation source |
|---|---|---|
| Custody-credit correction | Moves a calculated expiration point | Judgment and KDOC computation |
| Credit earned, lost, or restored | Changes minimum expiration | KDOC record and KRS 197.045 |
| New or amended judgment | Changes sentence structure | Signed court order |
| Detainer or warrant | May cause transfer or continued custody | Release sheet and holding authority |
| Parole action | May add, defer, rescind, or revoke a release path | Board decision and KOOL |
| Mandatory reentry | Moves an eligible person into supervised status | KDOC release type and KRS 439.3406 |
Time spent absconding may not count like compliant supervision. A new sentence can change consecutive or concurrent relationships. Laws can also apply differently based on the offense date. These are reasons to date each lookup and avoid a home-made calculator.
Confirm Lawrence County Actual Release
Use four artifacts when possible: the signed judgment, KOOL’s current fields, the dated Daily Releases row, and any Board or court release order. The KDOC Daily Releases archive lists DOC number, name, type of release, and released from. It confirms a KDOC-administered event but may describe parole, mandatory reentry, or conditional discharge rather than unrestricted sentence completion.
If the projected day passes without a matching release row or status change, contact KDOC Offender Information Services at 502-564-2433. For a local BSRDC detainee, ask the jail for the actual event time, release reason, and destination. VINE may supply a custody-change alert, but it is not a sentence computation. Instructions for registering and checking the source record are on the Lawrence County VINELink check.
Note: “Released from” identifies the KDOC location involved, which may be a prison or a county jail holding a state prisoner.