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Clark County Detention Center Overview

Clark County Detention Center is a full-service county jail operated by the Clark County Jailer and detention-center administration. The official jailer page identifies Jailer Frank Doyle, while the sheriff, Berl Perdue Jr., is a separate county law-enforcement officer. That distinction matters because the sheriff or Winchester Police may make an arrest, but jail custody, visits, phone access, commissary, mail, and inmate status are handled through the detention center.

The jail's official site is hosted by JailTracker and its navigation includes Current Inmate List, Jailer, Bond Information, Commissary, Inmate Mail, Inmate Phone System, Inmate Programs, Medical Services, and Visitation. Those topics show how the county organizes jail operations. Direct research access to the detailed jail pages was unstable, so public schedules, mail formats, and deposit vendors should be confirmed with staff before a family member sends money, travels, or relies on a roster entry.

Clark County Detention Center Capacity

Kentucky Department of Corrections weekly jail reports are the strongest source for Clark County Detention Center population figures. The March 26, 2026 report lists the secure Clark jail with 156 total jail beds and 216 reported population. That equals 138% of capacity and places the jail 60 people over the rated bed count for that snapshot. The report lists the secure jail as facility security "S," meaning secure jail housing rather than the separate non-secure JRC line.

The same March 26, 2026 snapshot reported 175 secure male inmates, 40 secure female inmates, and 1 non-secure female inmate in the main jail. It also showed 23 Class D inmates, 1 community-custody eligible inmate, 3 alternative-sentence inmates, 19 controlled-intake inmates, 2 parole violators, and 34 federal inmates. That mix means the Clark County Detention Center population is not only people waiting for a first local court date.

Clark County Detention Center Custody

The secure jail holds people arrested in Clark County by agencies such as Winchester Police, the Clark County Sheriff's Office, Kentucky State Police Post 7, and other agencies with jurisdiction. Some people are pretrial detainees. Others may be serving county sentences, waiting on Kentucky DOC movement, held as Class D inmates, held on parole matters, or counted as federal inmates in state jail reports. A federal count in the county jail report does not make the building a BOP prison.

Lookup Clark County Detention Center Inmates

Use the detention-center Current Inmate List on the official site when it is available. The research could not inspect the exact Clark JailTracker fields, so avoid assuming that a profile always shows a mugshot, bond amount, housing unit, court date, or release date. For roster details that do not load, call the jail. For formal charges and court settings, use the Kentucky Court of Justice and the Clark Circuit or District Clerk because a booking charge may not match the charge later filed in court.

1. Open the official detention-center site at clarkdetentioncenter.com and choose the Current Inmate List.
2. Search for the person by name if the JailTracker list is available.
3. Confirm that the person is listed at Clark County Detention Center rather than a DOC or federal location.
4. Call 859-745-0270 if the roster fails, the person was just arrested, or a release is time-sensitive.
5. Use KOOL for sentenced prisoners and VINELink for release, transfer, escape, or parole-hearing notices.

Clark County Detention Center Contact

The detention center's official contact information places the jail in downtown Winchester. Bond matters are not the same as jail information. The detention-center bond page directs bond posting to the Circuit Clerk's office at the Governor James Clark Judicial Center, so confirm both custody and court payment instructions before going to an office.

Clark County Detention Center Visits

The official visitation page exists, but detailed public visiting hours were not accessible in the research. The verified official snippet says counsel should call 859-745-0270 to schedule in-person or Zoom appearances, and it warns that belongings brought into the facility are subject to search. Because a general visitor schedule, ID rule, dress code, and child-visitor rule were not captured, visitors should call the jail before travel.

Clark County Detention Center Mail

The detention-center navigation includes Inmate Mail, Commissary, Inmate Phone System, Inmate Programs, and Medical Services. The official search result for commissary says the jail offers commissary to all inmates and that orders are placed Tuesdays and Thursdays. The official search result for the phone system lists 1-855-836-3364 for buying talk time, including call time to one phone number, call time for an inmate PIN, and calling cards. A deposit vendor and fee schedule were not verified in the source material.

Clark County Detention Center Booking

After a Clark County arrest, a person may be taken to the detention center for intake unless they are cited and released. Booking normally includes receiving custody from the arresting officer, identity checks, warrants or holds checks, property inventory, search, booking photo, fingerprints, medical or mental-health screening, and classification. Clark's state jail report shows separate secure male, secure female, non-secure male, and non-secure female reporting columns, which supports a classification discussion without inventing a local housing-unit list.

Bond and court visibility follow a different track. The detention-center bond page says bonds must be posted through the Circuit Clerk's office at the Judicial Center. Court dates and filed charges should be checked through Kentucky Court of Justice channels, not treated as final just because a booking record lists an arrest charge.

Clark County Detention Center Records

When the roster does not show enough information, use the Clark County open-records web form with a specific request. Useful details include full name, booking date or date range, date of birth if known, arresting agency, and the exact record sought, such as booking record, booking photograph, or jail custody record. The form states that electronic copies are free and hard copies cost 10 cents per page.

For records created by the arresting agency, contact that agency. Clark County Sheriff's Office is listed at 859-744-4390. Winchester Police Department is listed at 859-745-7400. Kentucky State Police Post 7 is listed at 859-623-2404. For inmate photos and roster fields, the Clark County jail mugshots workflow explains the Kentucky booking-photo law and request path.

About Clark County Detention Center

The jail sits in downtown Winchester near the court and county government cluster. The Governor James Clark Judicial Center is nearby at 17 Cleveland Avenue, and court information lists parking around the town square plus a city lot at Broadway and Highland for jurors. No jail-specific parking rate or visitor lot rule was located in official jail pages, so visitors should confirm parking and entrance instructions with the jail before leaving.