Union County Projected Versus Actual
A projected date answers a timing question based on the sentence and information then available. An actual release date records an event that has occurred. Kentucky's public labels are precise. KOOL uses Projected Release Date From/To as an advanced-search filter, while an active detail may show Minimum Expiration of Sentence Date (Good Time Release Date), Parole Eligibility Date, and Maximum Expiration of Sentence Date.
Those dates are not interchangeable. Parole eligibility means the person may qualify for consideration; it is not approval. A parole table may show a Proposed Release Date, but Kentucky Parole Board policy says parole does not take effect until prerequisites are met, a certificate is signed, and the person leaves the institution. Maximum expiration is the sentence endpoint under the displayed calculation, not a guarantee about the exit hour.
Scheduled versus actual: Treat every future date as provisional. Confirm completed release with the holding facility, VINE, a release record, or KDOC discharge information.
Find a Union County Release Date
Start with custody type. Union County's jail is closed, and Union arrestees are housed at Webster County Detention Center. A local pretrial detainee often has no set release date because release depends on bond, dismissal, or a later court order. A state prisoner has a KDOC calculation that may appear in KOOL. A KDOC-qualified person housed locally may require both Webster and state records.
- Check Webster's Current Inmates page to see whether a local detainee is displayed as held.
- Ask the Union Circuit or District Court Clerk for the judgment, sentence, bond action, and later orders.
- When KDOC custody is possible, open KOOL and search by name, PID, or DOC number.
- Read status first. Active Inmate means state confinement; parole or probation points to community supervision.
- Compare minimum expiration, parole eligibility, maximum expiration, Expected Time To Serve, and any parole proposal.
- Confirm an actual exit with Webster, KDOC, VINE, or an agency release record.
A jail-only defendant may never appear in KOOL. Disappearance from Webster can also mean transfer to KDOC or another authority. The Union County released inmate search connects local custody, court, and state routes when location is uncertain.
Union County KOOL Date Fields
KOOL covers KDOC custody and community supervision. It does not replace Webster's record for custody that stayed local. Every search criterion must match, so begin with few fields and compare identifiers before opening the correct detail.
| KOOL field | Meaning | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Projected Release Date From/To | Advanced-search range | Not a completed event |
| Minimum Expiration of Sentence Date | Current good-time release calculation | Credits and discipline can move it |
| Parole Eligibility Date | Possible consideration date | Not a grant |
| Maximum Expiration Date | Displayed sentence endpoint | Read with the judgment |
| Expected Time To Serve | Displayed duration field | Not an actual exit |
| Proposed Release Date | Parole-table proposal | Prerequisites may remain |
KDOC says KOOL receives daily updates, with its FAQ stating four updates per day. Recent data may not be final. Same-day events can lag, and a former offender may not remain publicly searchable. Offender Information Services is the fallback for sentence and expiration records.
Union County Good-Time Credits
KRS 197.045 supplies Kentucky's main credit framework. It includes qualifying prior-confinement credit, specified education awards, approved treatment or life-skills program credit, good-behavior credit, meritorious-service credit, and limited exceptional-emergency-service credit. Eligibility depends on law and status, not a single subtraction formula.
Except for prior-confinement credit, credits may be forfeited or future awards denied for violations. Consecutive sentences aggregate. Certain sexual-offender credits are held pending required treatment. 501 KAR 2:060 addresses procedures for qualified inmates housed in county jails, including approved substance-abuse program credit. That may apply to a KDOC-qualified person at Webster, but it is not a blanket credit for every Union pretrial detainee.
- Prior-confinement credit
- Qualifying credit for time held before sentence calculation.
- Good time
- Statutory credit available when eligibility and conduct rules are met.
- Consecutive terms
- Sentences served one after another and aggregated.
- Detainer
- A basis for another authority to take custody.
What Moves Union County Release Dates
A date changes when calculation inputs or legal status change. Some changes alter the sentence calculation. Others prevent community release even when one authority has finished its custody. Transfer on a detainer is not release into the community.
| Factor | Effect | Confirm with |
|---|---|---|
| Earned credit | May move minimum expiration | KOOL and KDOC calculation |
| Discipline | May forfeit eligible credits | KDOC record |
| Court order | May alter term or credit | Union court file |
| Consecutive sentence | Adds to aggregate time | Judgment and KDOC |
| Parole action | May grant, deny, or defer | Parole Board record |
| Hold or detainer | May cause transfer | Holding and receiving agencies |
| Data correction | Changes the displayed field | Offender Information Services |
CPP 17.4 provides an internal sentence-calculation review process for incarcerated people. Others should request the available calculation or source record from Offender Information Services rather than assume that internal grievance steps apply to them.
Union County Eighty-Five Percent Rule
KRS 439.3401 defines covered violent offenders and imposes an 85 percent service rule for covered term-of-years cases, subject to exact offense and offense-date provisions. It can restrict probation, shock probation, parole, conditional discharge, or other early release. The current framework also limits covered violent offenders to prior-confinement credit rather than other KRS 197.045 credits.
A serious-sounding charge is not enough. Check the final conviction and offense date. Some life, capital, or Class A cases use the twenty-year provision in the statute. The court record establishes the judgment, while KDOC applies the sentence calculation.
Do not subtract 15 percent. Begin with the judgment, sentence structure, prior custody, statutory class, permitted credits, and current KOOL calculation.
Confirm Union County Actual Release
For local custody, call Webster at Union County's published offender-information number, 270-639-7022, or the facility at 270-639-7032. Ask whether the person was released or transferred. Request the existing custody record when the precise exit date and release type matter. Webster's live roster is not a released-person archive.
For state custody, compare KOOL with KDOC's Daily Releases archive and any discharge record. VINE may show a release date after a reporting system changes to noncustody, but duplicate jail and DOC records should both be checked. Registration details appear on the VINELink Release Check.
A Union court order can explain why release was authorized while Webster confirms the physical event. Processing may take time, and another hold may control the destination. Use both records when timing is disputed.
Note: Only a completed facility or corrections record confirms that a projected date became an actual release rather than a transfer or delay.
Union County Release-Date Sources
The source must match the custody path. Webster County Detention Center creates the local booking, custody, exit, and transfer record for Union arrestees housed there. Union County's court creates the bond, judgment, sentence, probation, and later order. KDOC calculates state sentences and maintains corrections status. The Parole Board creates hearing and release-decision records. Each answers a different part of "when will release occur."
For a pretrial case, the court may set or change bond, dismiss a charge, recall a warrant, or enter another order, but Webster still processes the physical exit. There is no fixed sentence-derived date before a sentence exists. For a locally sentenced person, ask whether the sentence is being served in local custody or under KDOC authority. That choice determines whether a local custody computation, a KOOL detail, or both should exist.
A state prisoner can be located through KOOL's basic search, then checked through advanced fields when identity is clear. Search options include offender type, DOC and PID numbers, supervision status, location, county of supervision, offense and conviction details, institution-start or supervision-begin date, abscond ranges, and projected-release ranges. Avoid filling every box. KOOL states that all criteria must match, so a broad name search followed by identifier comparison is less likely to suppress the correct record.
The KDOC Daily Releases archive is a date-indexed state-system source. Its PDFs can include releases from a local jail when that jail held a state offender, and research found a Webster County Jail release-location example. The archive is not a complete list of every person released from Webster. Use it only for a likely KDOC exit, then match the name, date, and location to the individual record.
Request Union County Date Records
When public screens do not settle the calculation, request the existing record from its custodian. Ask Webster for booking and releasing date and time, the release or transfer type, destination if recorded, and the custody log. Ask the Union clerk for the judgment, sentence terms, bond action, and amendments. Ask KDOC for the sentence-calculation or expiration record and a discharge record when one exists.
Kentucky's public-record inspection process under KRS 61.872 permits an agency to require a signed written application that identifies the requester and reasonably describes the records. A precise request is better than asking an agency to calculate a date from scratch. State the person's full name, date of birth or corrections number if known, the relevant facility, and the date range. Request existing fields and documents.
KDOC corrections records are also subject to KRS 197.025, including security and expungement limits and its corrections response framework. Protected information may be withheld even when a public status or date appears in KOOL. A record denial or redaction does not change the sentence; it limits what the requester may receive.
For a discrepancy, list the conflicting dates and their labels. A minimum expiration date, parole eligibility date, proposed release date, court sentence end, and actual release date describe different events. Asking why two labels differ produces a clearer review than calling each one "the release date."
Include the date on which each public screen was checked. KOOL updates can follow a court or agency event, and saved copies may show an older calculation. If the person is still confined, that person can use the KDOC sentence-calculation review process described in CPP 17.4. A third party can request public records but cannot take the incarcerated person's place in an internal review.
When parole is involved, obtain the Board action as well as the corrections calculation. Hearing eligibility, a hearing result, and a proposed release date are separate stages. An approved plan, placement, certificate, or detainer can still affect whether and where the physical exit occurs. Webster's record is needed if the person is housed locally when that event is processed.
The most reliable timeline places each record in order: court judgment, sentence calculation, credit changes, parole action if any, facility release or transfer, and supervision start. That sequence shows why two accurate records can carry different dates without contradicting each other.