Fulton County Projected Release Dates
A projected date is a calculation based on the sentence and information available when the agency posts it. An actual release is the recorded event when the custodian completes processing. These can differ. Good-time credit, a new order, a detainer, discipline, parole action, or a corrected jail-credit entry can change the path before the door opens.
Fulton County Detention Center holds a mixed population. A person may be a local pretrial detainee, a county-sentenced person, a Class D state offender, a controlled-intake inmate awaiting placement, or a parole violator. The building name alone does not identify the calculation. State-tracked people can have KOOL and DOC records even while housed at FCDC.
Scheduled vs actual: A projected or proposed date is not confirmation of release. Use the custodian’s dated transaction for the physical event.
- Projected release date
- A search range or calculated date that may change.
- Parole eligibility
- The point when consideration may occur, not a release grant.
- Detainer
- A request or authority that can lead to continued custody or transfer.
- Discharge
- The documented end of the relevant custody or supervision obligation.
Lookup Fulton County Release Dates
Start by deciding whether FCDC, Kentucky DOC, a court, BOP, or another authority controls the person. For a state offender, Kentucky Online Offender Lookup is the public starting point. For a local pretrial or county sentence, call FCDC and obtain the Fulton court judgment or order. A current roster can only show whether a person is displayed now.
- Match the person with the strongest known booking, PID, DOC, court, or federal identifier.
- Determine whether the case is pretrial, county-sentenced, Kentucky DOC, federal, or another custody type.
- For DOC custody, search KOOL by name or identifier and open the full person detail.
- For an FCDC sentence, obtain the written judgment, custody-credit award, sentence start, and concurrent or consecutive structure.
- Ask the agency that administers the sentence for its current calculation, then verify the physical event after release.
KOOL data are updated daily, but DOC warns that records newer than 120 days may not be final. Save the date checked. When nothing online resolves the question, request the sentence-calculation sheet, final release or discharge entry, release type, and releasing location from DOC or the relevant local record from FCDC.
The broader Fulton County release search and record path explains how to combine FCDC, VINE, court, DOC, federal, and immigration channels.
Read Fulton County KOOL Dates
KOOL uses several exact labels. Its search form calls the range filter Projected Release Date. An individual detail may instead show Minimum Expiration of Sentence Date (Good Time Release Date). It may also display Expected Time To Serve (TTS), Parole Eligibility Date, and Maximum Expiration of Sentence Date. Preserve these labels because each answers a different question.
| KOOL label | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Projected Release Date | A search filter for a calculated date range |
| Minimum Expiration / Good Time | A minimum sentence date that reflects applicable credit assumptions |
| Expected Time To Serve | DOC’s expected-service calculation |
| Parole Eligibility Date | The point at which parole consideration may occur |
| Maximum Expiration | The outer sentence endpoint shown by the system |
| Proposed release date | A date in the Parole Information trail, not proof of physical release |
Open the detail and match date of birth, DOC or PID number, aliases, convictions, and location. KOOL can also show a Parole Information table with hearing date, action, deferment, next eligibility, and proposed date. A “Parole Recommended” entry does not establish when FCDC or a prison completed release.
Fulton County Good-Time Calculations
KRS 197.045 supplies Kentucky’s sentence-credit framework. It includes qualifying prior-confinement credit under KRS 532.120. The current statute also includes credits tied to approved education and programming, discretionary good behavior, and forms of exceptional service. Each category has conditions, exclusions, and limits. A public user should not simply add every maximum credit.
The law describes 90 days for an approved diploma, degree, or technical program and up to 90 days for approved treatment, evidence-based, or life-skills programming. It permits discretionary good-behavior credit of up to ten days per month, exceptionally meritorious service of up to seven days per month, and emergency exceptional service of up to seven days per month. Eligibility and application must come from the current official calculation.
Credits may be denied or forfeited after rule violations or for offenses excluded by law. Treatment requirements can delay or prevent credits for some sexual offenders, subject to the current statute’s exceptions. Consecutive sentences must also be aggregated correctly. Ask DOC for the calculation sheet rather than relying on a private arithmetic estimate.
Note: A credit category in the statute does not prove that a particular Fulton County offender earned, retained, or may apply that credit.
Fulton County 85 Percent Rule
Kentucky’s often-mentioned 85-percent restriction appears in KRS 439.3401. For a person within its enumerated violent-offender definition and serving a term of years, subsection (4) generally blocks probation, shock probation, parole, conditional discharge, or another early release until at least 85 percent has been served. Subsection (5) limits credits against that threshold to the specified prior-confinement credit. Certain covered life sentences require at least 20 years under subsection (3).
Do not apply the percentage because an offense sounds violent. The legal definition is a list tied to facts, dates, conviction, sentence type, and statutory version. Victim circumstances and applicability provisions can matter. The judgment and DOC calculation are stronger than an informal calculator.
Parole eligibility is separate. KRS 439.340 contains a special review rule for qualifying nonviolent Class D aggregate sentences of one to five years after 15 percent or two months, whichever is longer. Eligibility still permits a deferral or serve-out action. It does not force release.
Why Fulton County Dates Change
A release date can move because the underlying facts move. The cause should be verified with the agency that owns it. One public screen may update later than the controlling record, so keep the prior label and date instead of describing every change as an error.
| Factor | Possible effect | Best confirmation |
|---|---|---|
| Earned credit | May advance a calculated minimum date | DOC sentence-calculation sheet |
| Credit forfeiture | May move a projected date later | DOC discipline and calculation record |
| Detainer or hold | May cause continued custody or transfer | FCDC or DOC and receiving authority |
| Court order | May alter authority, credit, or sentence | Signed Fulton court record |
| Parole action | May recommend, defer, deny, or set a proposed path | Board action and KOOL |
| New conviction | May add or aggregate custody time | Judgment and agency calculation |
A transfer is not a community release. An FCDC entry that ends local custody because the person goes to DOC may coexist with an active-inmate KOOL status. Likewise, a release from confinement into parole means the person left the facility but remains under state supervision.
Fulton County Jail Date Requests
A pretrial detainee has no sentence-expiration date to calculate. Bond, dismissal, a release order, a detainer, or later disposition controls the event. The Fulton Circuit Court file provides the legal authority. FCDC provides the physical release or transfer transaction. A judicial order can precede the jail’s identity checks, hold review, property processing, and actual exit.
For a county-jail sentence, start with the written judgment, award of custody credit, sentence start, and whether terms run concurrently or consecutively. Ask FCDC or DOC, whichever administers the sentence, for the current official calculation. No Fulton-specific public rule for release hours, weekends, holidays, or property processing was found, so do not infer timing from the Jailer’s office hours.
Call FCDC at 270-236-2405 and ask whether the person is in local or state-tracked custody, which agency calculates the date, and how to request the record. For a court document, the Fulton Circuit Court Clerk is the starting point. State the case number and name the judgment, bond order, custody-credit order, or final disposition sought.
Confirm Fulton County Actual Release
After a projected date approaches, check the legal custodian again. For an FCDC event, obtain the release date, time, type, and any receiving authority. For a DOC event, compare KOOL with the dated DOC Daily Releases report and request the final record if needed. A Board recommendation or eligibility listing remains weaker than the actual release transaction.
VINE can add an event notice. Register on the Fulton County VINE inmate check for a matching jail or DOC record, then corroborate any alert. Scheduled state releases may prompt advance notice, while a sudden court, parole, or credit event may be reported afterward. VINE does not make the sentence calculation.
A federal sentenced person belongs in the BOP Inmate Locator, and the displayed date can change after federal recalculation. ICE’s locator is for current immigration detention, not a confirmed historical release ledger. Choose the system by legal custodian.
The DOC Daily Releases series can corroborate an actual state release after the projected date passes. Its dated reports show DOC number, name, release type, and release location. FCDC can appear as the location because it houses state offenders. The series is not a universal Fulton County release list, however. It will not capture every local bond release, dismissal, or short county-sentence event.
If KOOL and the daily report disagree, preserve the labels and dates. KOOL may still be displaying a calculation or later supervision status, while the PDF records a state release event for one date. Request the final DOC release or discharge entry and sentence-calculation sheet through the DOC open-records channel. Supply the DOC or PID number, relevant date range, and the exact records sought.
DOC’s official records page states a charge of $0.10 per released page. Under KRS 197.025, the response period is five days excluding weekends and legal holidays. The agency may permit inspection, deny with a reason, say a record is unavailable, or provide an expected availability date. Corrections security and confidentiality rules can limit disclosure, so an unavailable or withheld calculation must not be rewritten as proof that the person was released.
Parole records require the same event discipline. The Board schedule hub posts monthly eligibility material and weekly hearings, but an appearance on a list is not a release decision. KOOL’s Parole Information table may show Parole Recommended, Deferred, Serve Out, Declined Mandatory Reentry Supervision, months deferred, next eligibility, or a proposed release date. Conditions, rescission, detainers, processing, and recalculation can still intervene. Use the Board records process for the final written action when the public display is incomplete.
For an FCDC record, request the release sheet or booking-and-release transaction with the date, time, coded reason, and receiving authority. A transfer field is essential because ending county custody can begin or continue DOC, federal, immigration, or another county’s custody. Pair that transaction with the Fulton court judgment or order. The two records answer different questions and should not be forced into one date.
Note: Record the source, date checked, exact field label, and custody type whenever a Fulton County projected date is saved or compared.