Butler County Projected Release Dates
A projected release date is an estimate or scheduled point based on the current sentence record. It is not the same as actual release. Kentucky records may show expected time to serve, minimum expiration with good time, parole eligibility, maximum expiration, or a proposed parole date. Each label answers a different question.
A person held before trial at Butler County Jail often has no sentence-based release date. Release can depend on bond, a court order, dismissal, a plea, disposition, or another hold. A person serving an ordinary local jail sentence may have a calculation held by the jail or court that never appears in Kentucky Online Offender Lookup. By contrast, a state-sentenced prisoner should be checked in KOOL.
The custody source must come first. Butler County Jail can provide a local release calculation or public exit record. The Butler Circuit Court Clerk can provide the sentence, jail-credit language, bond order, or other legal authority. KDOC holds the state sentence calculation. A BOP date concerns federal custody and cannot be substituted for a Kentucky date.
Lookup Butler County Release Dates
Use a short sequence that matches the person’s custody. Asking for “the release date” without naming the facility or record can produce the wrong field. A parole eligibility date, for example, may be mistaken for a guaranteed exit when it merely marks possible consideration.
- Identify whether the person is at Butler County Jail, in KDOC custody, under community supervision, or in a federal system.
- For a state prisoner, open KOOL, search with limited name criteria, and verify the PID or DOC identity.
- Read the status and location before the dates. An “Active Inmate” has not been released from state incarceration.
- Preserve each exact field label, including Expected Time To Serve, Minimum Expiration, Parole Eligibility, Maximum Expiration, or Proposed Release Date.
- For a Butler County Jail sentence, call 270-526-3505 and ask which existing jail or court record contains the calculation.
- After the expected day, confirm actual exit through the custodian, VINE, KOOL status, or the release record.
KDOC advises using as little search information as needed. Too many advanced criteria can suppress a correct match. Compare age, name, alias, DOC number, PID number, location, or county before reading dates. KOOL updates four times daily, so it is not a live door log.
For a specific alert rather than a sentence calculation, the Butler County VINE inmate check can report a custody event and allow notification registration. VINE still does not replace KDOC’s calculation or the jail’s physical-exit record.
Butler County KOOL Date Fields
KOOL’s advanced search uses the filter “Projected Release Date From/To.” An individual record may not repeat that simple phrase. It can instead expose several operational and legal dates. Combining them into one “release date” would erase important distinctions.
| KOOL label | How to read it |
|---|---|
| Expected Time To Serve (TTS) | KDOC’s operational estimate under the current record |
| Minimum Expiration of Sentence Date (Good Time Release Date) | A minimum date reflecting eligible credits that remain applied |
| Parole Eligibility Date | The date parole consideration can begin under the governing rules |
| Maximum Expiration of Sentence Date | The sentence endpoint without an earlier authorized release |
| Proposed Release Date | A planned parole-related date still subject to decision terms, detainers, planning, and processing |
| Supervision Begin or End | Community-supervision dates, not necessarily final sentence discharge |
Not every record has every field. Recent information may not be finalized. The Parole Information area can also show Hearing Date, Hearing Action, Months Deferred, and Next Parole Eligibility Date. Those values explain Board processing, but none proves that the person walked out.
A KOOL record headed “Parole” can show “Released To Other Agency (Probation & Parole).” That means release from incarceration to supervision. It is not final discharge. An obviously far-future supervision end date should be treated as a likely placeholder and confirmed with KDOC.
Butler County Good-Time Credits
KRS 197.045 governs several Kentucky sentence credits. It requires qualifying credit for prior confinement and permits credit tied to good behavior, approved education, treatment, evidence-based or promising-practice work, life-skills programming, and meritorious or emergency service. These categories do not all operate the same way.
The statute includes 90 days for specified approved education achievements and up to 90 days for approved drug-treatment, evidence-based, promising-practice, or life-skills programs. KDOC may award good-behavior credit up to ten days for each month served and meritorious or emergency credit up to seven days per month. Credits may be denied or forfeited for an offense or institutional-rule violation. Consecutive sentences are aggregated when credits and expiration are calculated.
Prior-confinement credit is not the same as discretionary earned credit. Special restrictions also apply. Certain eligible sexual offenders may accrue some credits without application before treatment completion, yet noncompletion consequences and statutory dates can alter how the sentence is served. Only the current individual calculation can resolve those rules.
- Jail credit
- Qualifying time already spent in confinement and credited toward the sentence.
- Good time
- An eligible credit affecting a minimum expiration calculation.
- Parole eligibility
- The first point for consideration, not a promise of release.
- Maximum expiration
- The endpoint of the aggregate sentence under the displayed calculation.
For an ordinary Butler County jail term, ask the jail and court for the local calculation. KOOL can cover state-sentenced felons housed in county jails, but it is not a universal calculator for every local detainee.
Butler County Violent-Offender Rules
The familiar “85 percent” phrase is not a rule for every Kentucky inmate. KRS 439.3401 defines violent offenders and applies specific limits. For a covered term-of-years violent offender under subsection (4), probation, shock probation, parole, conditional discharge, or another early release is barred until at least 85 percent is served. Subsection (5) also sharply limits applicable sentence credit.
Certain covered life-sentence violent offenders must serve at least 20 years. Offense definitions, offense dates, statutory exceptions, and any domestic-violence determination matter. A person’s crime label should not be used to apply a percentage from memory. Review the current statute and individualized KDOC dates.
Likewise, a broad claim that Kentucky inmates serve 20 percent is inaccurate. 501 KAR 1:030 contains parole schedules and definitions based on sentence length, offense date, category, and other factors. Its official page flags a proposed version, so amendment status should be checked when a date depends on it.
Note: Percentages describe eligibility or restrictions in defined cases; they do not establish an actual Butler County release day.
Butler County Reentry Release Dates
KRS 439.3406 can place an eligible inmate on mandatory reentry supervision six months before projected completion. This is release to supervision, not sentence completion. The statute treats the person as released on parole for the relevant provision.
Eligibility has substantial exclusions. They include statutory ineligibility, capital or Class A cases, certain repeat violent offenders, maximum or close custody, sentences of two years or less, specified KRS 532.043 cases, too little time after sentencing, recommitment for a supervision violation, and two prior mandatory-reentry releases. The list must be applied from the statute, not assumed from one KOOL field.
A planned reentry date can still be affected by release planning, a detainer, a new order, or processing. If the person leaves prison to District 2 supervision, the release date marks the custody transition. Final discharge comes later. The Butler County post-release supervision record explains how KOOL and District 2 show that continuing authority.
Why Butler County Dates Change
A projected date responds to the legal and administrative record. Credits can be earned, withheld, restored, or forfeited. A court may correct jail credit or a sentence. Consecutive sentences may aggregate, a new conviction may arrive, or escape time may require treatment. Parole can be granted, deferred, rescinded, or revoked.
| Change | Possible effect |
|---|---|
| Credit earned or restored | May move an eligible minimum or expected date earlier |
| Credit withheld or forfeited | May move a credit-based date later |
| Corrected jail credit | Changes the time credited from prior confinement |
| Consecutive sentence or new conviction | Can alter the aggregate sentence and expiration |
| Parole action | Can create, defer, remove, or change a proposed date |
| Detainer or receiving authority | Can redirect an exit into another custody rather than the community |
| Court order or processing | Can cause an abrupt release or a delay after legal authority issues |
A detainer is especially easy to miss. Butler County Jail or KDOC may end one custody record while another authority receives the person. That is a transfer, not a community release. Ask for the release disposition and destination.
Actual release is known only after status and location change or the custodian confirms physical exit. A court order proves legal authority but may not prove the minute the door opened. Butler County release verification combines the physical-exit entry with court and custody-system evidence.
Confirm Butler County Actual Release
After the projected day arrives, return to the system that holds the person. For KDOC custody, read the new KOOL status and location, then ask the department when the public record is unclear. A move to parole or probation is a release from incarceration into supervision. A move to another institution is not release.
For Butler County Jail, ask for the release date, time, disposition, and destination. The disposition distinguishes bond, time served, a court order, transfer, or another authorized exit. Kentucky VINE may corroborate a reported local event, while the Butler court order explains its legal basis.
The Butler Circuit Court Clerk holds both District and Circuit trial-level files. A sentence, jail-credit entry, bond order, probation order, or later correction can explain a date that differs from an earlier estimate. The online docket can help locate the case, but it is not the full order and does not prove the time of physical exit.
Older or unavailable KDOC material may require Offender Information Services at PO Box 2400, Frankfort, KY 40602-2400, or 502-564-2433. A focused request should identify the person, DOC or PID number if known, the date field at issue, and the record sought. This route is stronger than treating an old KOOL no-hit as proof that no state record exists.
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