Lookup Pulaski County Jail Records

Pulaski County Jail Roster Overview

The official path for Pulaski County inmate records starts with the detention center's roster landing page, which links to the Public Safety Cloud JailTracker roster. The Pulaski County Detention Center operates as the county's main jail in Somerset and serves local police departments, the sheriff, Kentucky State Police, and probation and parole matters. Because the jail houses county, state, and federal inmates, the roster can include people whose legal authority is not purely local.

The roster is the current and recent custody tool. It is not a complete court database and it is not a statewide prison file. The app assets show Current Only and Released search modes, plus a released-in-last filter of 7 or 30 days. Older booking records, jail policy records, or records not shown online should be requested from the jail's open-records custodian, Capt. Kevin Russell, by mail to the detention center.

Use the Pulaski County Inmate Roster

A name is usually enough to start. Search the last name first because first names, middle names, initials, and spelling can vary between an arresting agency, the jail, and the court record. If the person was just arrested, call the detention center if the public roster has not yet caught up or if travel, bond, or release timing depends on the answer.

1. Open the jail roster landing page or the direct JailTracker roster for Pulaski County.
2. Select Current Only for a person believed to be in custody, or Released for a recent release search.
3. Enter last name and, if needed, first name. Avoid over-filtering at the first search.
4. Complete the captcha if it appears, then select Search.
5. Open the profile or action button to review booking, charge, bond, hold, and facility fields.
6. If no result appears, check KOOL, VINELink, BOP, ICE, or the records request channel based on the custody facts.

Pulaski County Roster Search Fields

The JailTracker application is client-rendered, so the initial page can look thin until the app loads. Public app assets still identify the roster controls and result fields. The Released option is useful for a recent custody episode, but it should not be treated as a long-term archive.

Pulaski County Inmate Profile Fields

The result grid and detail profile can show different levels of information. Result columns observed in the app assets include last name, first name, middle name, book date, release date, booking number, jacket, and facility. Detail sections can include cases, charges, holds, other information, and an offender image field. Some values depend on what the facility publishes for that profile.

Find Pulaski County and State Inmates

Use the county roster for pretrial detainees, local arrests, short sentences, and recent releases at the Pulaski County Detention Center. Use Kentucky Online Offender Lookup for state-sentenced offenders, DOC records, and some supervision records. KOOL can show a person at a local jail if that person is a state inmate housed there, but a missing KOOL result does not mean the person is absent from the county jail.

Pulaski County Jail Facility

The facility map contains one public detention facility for this site. The Pulaski County Detention Center is a county jail and local correctional facility with secure and restricted-custody reporting rows. KDOC reported 171 secure beds and 45 RCC beds on June 4, 2026. The same report showed 305 people in the secure jail row and 32 in the RCC row.

Booking Process in Pulaski County

After an arrest by a Pulaski County agency, the person is taken to the detention center for intake. The booking record can include the name, booking number, book date, possible offender image, arresting agency, charges, warrants, case numbers, bond fields, and holds. Money or legal tender in the person's possession is deposited into the inmate trust account under the jail policy, because inmates may not keep cash, checks, money orders, or similar tender in their possession.

Release is not controlled by one field. A bond amount may appear on one charge, but a warrant, detainer, parole hold, federal hold, or no-bond case can prevent release. The jail policy says staff check release eligibility and identity, collect facility property, and document property handling before release or transfer.

Pulaski County Visitation Schedule

The jail uses GettingOut/Telmate for onsite video visits, remote video visits, messaging, voicemail, deposits, and account access. Onsite visits occur at lobby video stations. Remote visits require an account and the required computer or mobile equipment. The jail page says visits must be scheduled 24 hours in advance.

Contact a Pulaski County Inmate

Personal mail is digitally delivered through tablets rather than handed over as paper mail. The jail's mail page uses a Phoenix, Maryland processing address and requires the facility name, state, inmate legal name, inmate identifier, sender name, and sender physical address. Do not send checks, money orders, or attorney-client privileged mail to the Phoenix address. The research also notes restrictions on greeting cards, colored ink, books, magazines, newspapers, hand-drawn pictures, and non-English letters.

The Tiger Commissary page shown in the screenshot is the Pulaski County Detention Center service-selection page for Somerset, Kentucky.

Commissary and communication deposits are for inmate accounts and services. They are not the same as bond payments.

Pulaski County Booking Records Requests

For jail records not shown online, the detention center names Capt. Kevin Russell as open-records custodian. Requests are mailed to Capt. Kevin Russell at Pulaski County Detention Center, 300 Hail Knob Road, Somerset, KY 42503. The jail policy PDF says requests can be submitted Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, excluding holidays. Current KRS 61.880 gives agencies five days, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, to determine whether to comply.

The open-records route is most useful when the public roster does not show an older booking, when a released profile no longer appears in the short Released search window, or when a person needs a copy of a specific jail record rather than a live custody screen. The jail policy also says inmate or employee information requests go to the jailer or designee and may be withheld when release would interfere with safety, security, facility operations, administration, or inmates. That limit matters for housing details, medical details, staff records, PREA-related material, and records tied to an active security issue.

Pulaski County Custody Notifications

Kentucky VINELink is available statewide for custody searches and release notifications. It should be treated as an alert and notification tool, not the official source for every jail record. The research notes that Kentucky VINE had a temporary 2026 outage after vendor-caused false release alerts, so urgent release or transfer information should be verified directly with Pulaski County Detention Center or KDOC before travel or bond decisions.

The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office launched a PulaskiCo Sheriff tip411 app in 2022 for alerts and anonymous tips, with text tips using keyword PCSOTIP to 847411. The research did not find a current official detention app or app-only roster. Jail communication services instead run through GettingOut/Telmate mobile tools for deposits, messages, photo sharing, and account access. Those vendor apps help with contact after booking, but the jail roster remains the county inmate-record search source.