Trace Powell County Date Evidence
A reliable Powell County date record starts with the judgment, then follows each later source in order. The court judgment establishes the sentence and any credited prior custody. KOOL shows KDOC's current calculations and forward-looking labels. Parole Board material may show eligibility or a planned review, while Daily Releases records a completed state release category. PCDC records remain the strongest source for the exact time that a person physically left that facility.
For a state inmate held at PCDC, search by DOC or PID number rather than name alone. Compare the profile's location, minimum expiration, parole eligibility, maximum expiration, and projected-release fields. Then search the Daily Releases sheets around the suspected date. “Mandatory Reentry Supervision - In State” proves release to continuing supervision. “Discharged - Minimum Expiration” identifies a different endpoint. Preserve the official category instead of shortening both events to “released.”
A date that has passed still remains prospective until an event source confirms departure. Check VINE, current KOOL supervision or discharge status, Daily Releases, or the facility record. If KOOL still shows another institution, the person may have transferred. If a detainer is active, KDOC may have released its sentence authority while another custodian continues confinement.
This sequence matters in Powell because county and state custody overlap at PCDC. An ordinary local bond release may never appear in KOOL or Daily Releases. Conversely, a state release from PCDC can appear in the state archive even though the releasing location is a county jail. Choose the record route from the legal custody class, not the building name alone.
Powell County Projected Versus Actual
A projected release date estimates a future sentence event using the current judgment, credits, legal limits, and KDOC calculations. An actual release record reports that the custodian relinquished the person. Those records answer different questions. A projected date can move. An actual event also needs its release type and destination because transfer, parole, MRS, and discharge are not interchangeable.
For a person at Powell County Detention Center on a local pending charge, the court may set bond or issue an order, but processing and other holds still affect physical departure. The live Resident Directory is not a release calendar. For a state-sentenced person housed at PCDC, KOOL can display sentence dates because PCDC holds state residents. That does not mean every person at the jail has a state forecast.
| Date or event | What it means |
|---|---|
| Projected release | A forecast or search filter based on current information. |
| Minimum expiration | A sentence calculation that includes applicable credits. |
| Parole eligibility | The earliest point for Board consideration, not approval. |
| Maximum expiration | The calculated outside endpoint of the sentence. |
| Actual release | A dated event reported by the releasing custodian or KDOC archive. |
Lookup Powell County Release Dates
Start with the case and custody type. Kentucky Offender Online Lookup, or KOOL, is appropriate for a KDOC inmate, a state inmate physically held at PCDC, or a person under state supervision. It may not contain someone whose only custody was a short local booking. Local pretrial and jail-sentence questions belong with PCDC and the Powell court file.
- Search the Powell court case to identify the judgment, charge level, bond order, and sentence.
- For a state case, open KOOL and search by DOC or PID number when known.
- Compare aliases, demographics, current location, conviction data, and supervision status.
- Read each KOOL date by its exact label rather than choosing the earliest date.
- For a local jail sentence, call PCDC at 606-663-6400 and consult the clerk's file.
- For a past state event, check the date-indexed KDOC Daily Releases archive.
KOOL's exact search filter is “Projected Release Date From / To.” A profile can also show “Minimum Expiration of Sentence Date (Good Time Release Date),” expected time to serve, parole eligibility, and maximum expiration. KDOC warns that data newer than 120 days may not be final. Save the retrieval date whenever a forecast matters.
No PCDC-specific local good-time schedule was found in the official research. Do not import the state ten-days-per-month provision into an ordinary county sentence. The local judgment, credited jail time, later court orders, and active holds control that inquiry.
Powell County Sentence Credits
KRS 197.045 governs key Kentucky state sentence credits. It incorporates prior-confinement credit through KRS 532.120 and permits specified behavior, education, program, meritorious, and emergency-service credits. Good-behavior credit can reach ten days per month, while meritorious or emergency-service credit can reach seven days per month, subject to eligibility and statutory limits. Approved educational, technical, treatment, evidence-based, and life-skills achievements can produce credits of up to 90 days in qualifying cases.
Those figures are rules within KDOC's calculation, not a do-it-yourself formula. Credits may be unavailable, capped, delayed, or forfeited. The conviction, sentence, program approval, discipline history, and controlling version of the law all matter. Presentence custody must also be applied correctly. A public calculator cannot reliably gather those inputs, so no individual date should be promised from sentence length alone.
A strong record keeps the labels separate. Maximum expiration is the outside sentence endpoint as calculated. Minimum expiration or good-time release date incorporates applicable calculation and credits. Expected time to serve describes another estimate. Parole eligibility marks possible review. None becomes an actual release date merely because it passes.
- Good-time credit
- A statutory sentence credit that KDOC calculates for an eligible state inmate.
- Parole eligibility
- A date when Board consideration may become possible.
- MRS
- Mandatory Reentry Supervision, a release to state supervision for some eligible inmates.
- Detainer
- A hold or request from another authority that may change destination.
Powell County 85-Percent Rule
Kentucky's 85-percent rule does not apply to every state inmate. KRS 439.3401 defines the covered violent-offender category. For covered term-of-years cases, specified forms of early release are restricted until at least 85 percent is served. Covered capital or Class A life cases use a 20-year minimum rule. The current statute took effect July 15, 2026.
Use “violent offender” only as the statute defines it. The offense date, conviction, sentence, and version of the statute can change the analysis. Earlier conduct may be governed by an earlier law. General summaries cannot decide an individual's eligibility. The judgment and KDOC calculation are the proper starting records.
MRS is a separate statutory path. Under KRS 439.3406, some eligible inmates who were not granted discretionary parole may enter supervision six months before projected completion. The law contains exclusions. An MRS release continues state authority and differs from minimum-expiration discharge.
Why Powell County Dates Change
Release forecasts respond to new facts and official decisions. Some changes affect the date itself. Others affect where the person goes when the sentence event occurs. A detainer, for example, may send a person to another authority rather than back to the community.
| Factor | Possible effect | Best source |
|---|---|---|
| Earned or good-time credit | May move minimum expiration earlier when approved. | KDOC sentence calculation |
| Disciplinary forfeiture | Can move the forecast later. | KDOC record |
| Presentence jail credit | Changes credited time under the judgment and law. | Court judgment and KDOC |
| New court order | May alter the sentence or custody authority. | Court file |
| Parole decision | May approve, deny, defer, or later revoke release. | Parole Board record |
| MRS eligibility | May create supervised release before projected completion. | KRS 439.3406 and KDOC |
| Detainer or warrant | May change destination or keep custody active elsewhere. | Custodian and issuing authority |
A scheduled parole hearing does not establish release. A hearing can occur before eligibility, and the Board may deny or defer action. Likewise, disappearance from the PCDC directory may mean transfer, system error, data lag, or release. Seek a positive event record before changing a forecast into a past-tense claim.
Powell County Administrative Release
KDOC's CPP 25.10 administrative-release policy creates a Kentucky-specific timing rule. Administrative release is generally set for the first day of the month that contains minimum expiration. If that day is a weekend or legal holiday, processing rolls to the last weekday of the prior month.
The policy expressly includes a “non-institutional offender,” which can include a state inmate housed in a county jail. That detail matters in Powell because PCDC holds state residents. Pending disciplinary or good-time issues can alter processing. A detainer can also change the destination even when KDOC releases its sentence authority.
The policy source is linked above because its timing and detainer rules control the distinctive Powell County release-date issue. No successful manifest image exists for that document, so it remains text-only rather than using an unrelated screenshot.
Note: Administrative processing can shift the physical date around a weekend or holiday without changing the underlying minimum-expiration calculation.
Confirm Powell County Release Dates
After the forecasted date, check for an actual event. Search the KDOC Daily Releases archive by year, month, and day for a state case. Its fields include DOC number, name, type of release, released-from location, and felony class. A verified Powell sheet has shown both MRS and minimum-expiration discharge from PCDC, proving the local and state systems can overlap.
VINE can provide fast notice. The Powell County VINE inmate check explains how to monitor both local and DOC records. Confirm a local event through PCDC's release or transfer record. A court order can explain why release was authorized, but the jail record supplies the physical timestamp.
If sources conflict, note each retrieval time and ask the office responsible for the disputed field. Do not silently choose the most convenient date. A precise result might say that KOOL listed a forecast, the court ordered release later, and PCDC recorded physical departure after processing. Each source then retains its proper role.