The Calloway County Jail is at 310 North 4th Street, Murray, KY 42071, phone 270-753-6150, fax 270-759-5140. Records requests go to the jail's records custodian, as the contact page explains. Inmates in the work program are housed at the Calloway County Workhouse. Fees include $30 for booking and $35 a day.

Use the roster, which shows current inmates and their charges. New bookings can take a little while to appear. VINELink confirms custody and can alert you about a release or transfer. KYeCourts public access carries upcoming court dates.

Main jail visits are Wednesday and Saturday: men 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., women 3:30 to 5 p.m. Each visit lasts 25 minutes, through glass by handset, and may be recorded. Call the Sunday before (8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.) to book Wednesday, or the Thursday before for Saturday. Two adults may visit at once, plus children; bring photo ID. Phones, food, drinks and weapons are not allowed. Workhouse visits are 45 minutes behind glass at the main jail; call 270-753-6150 for the time. Video visits use a kiosk inside. See our visitation guide.

Post bond in cash with the clerk in the Calloway County Judicial Building, 312 North 4th Street, Murray, KY 42071 (270-753-2773). The pretrial screen can lead to release without any money. If the person also has charges in another county or a federal hold, paying here will not free them. Read our bail guide.

Commissary deposits go through an online deposit service; register online or call 1-800-622-8166. Orders arrive Monday and Thursday, with 6 a.m. cutoffs on Thursday and Tuesday. Cash or a money order can also be left at the front desk during business hours. Money orders must be payable to the Calloway County Jail with the inmate's name in the lower left corner. If the inmate owes jail fees, half of each deposit goes toward them. See our money guide and commissary guide.

Inmate calls run through the jail's phone provider by collect call, prepaid card or prepaid account, set up online or at 1-877-998-5678. A recorded voice message costs $0.25. Since calls can be recorded, keep talk about the charges off the line. See our phone guide and messaging guide.

Family mail goes to [Inmate Name - Inmate ID] Calloway County Jail, KY, PO Box 76550, Highland Heights, KY 41076; mail sent elsewhere is rejected. Legal mail and money orders go to 310 North 4th Street, Murray, KY 42071. Use white letter-size paper and a return address. Up to 10 photos on photo paper are the only things you can include. No stamps, stickers or homemade cards. After the first 5 days, approved socks and underwear must ship from the maker. Read our mail guide.

At arraignment, a person who cannot pay can ask for the Murray Trial Office (607 S. 6th Street, Murray, KY 42071; 833-514-8983). The judge looks at income before appointing it. Relatives who share the case number can learn the assigned lawyer's name. Our court guide walks through each step of a case.

It's possible, especially in a university town where many residents come from other counties. The sheriff's deputies who serve local warrants can check at 270-753-3151. For cases elsewhere, the courts' free guest records search works statewide; leave the county field blank and it returns open cases from every county.

Should a warrant remain once the person is out, the usual course is a planned surrender at the Calloway County Jail, with a defense attorney there to argue for bond. The circuit clerk at 312 N. 4th St., Murray, KY 42071, answers at 270-753-2773 about missed court.

Youths are kept apart from adult inmates. Kentucky requires a detention hearing for a minor within 48 hours, not counting weekends and holidays (KRS 610.265). The Department of Juvenile Justice (502-573-2738) handles placement and contacts a parent or guardian.

Yes. Ask the jail's records custodian for the mugshot as an open record, in writing. For news media, the sheriff or the jail can release booking photos. Photos taken by immigration agents need an ICE records request form. Federal mugshots are kept by the U.S. Marshals and released only when they seek a fugitive.

It can, if the U.S. Marshals place someone there. A federal defendant first appears at the U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky, 501 Broadway, Paducah, KY 42001, 270-415-6400, and a detention hearing decides whether they stay in custody. Find sentenced federal prisoners in the federal prison locator. Murray families can reach the Marshals in Paducah at 270-415-1706.

Murray jail staff (270-753-6150) can confirm whether ICE has lodged a detainer, and ICE's Louisville office is 502-625-6202.

1. ICE sends the jail a Form I-247A detainer.
2. Once the Calloway case would end custody, ICE can ask North 4th Street staff to hold a Murray prisoner up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. Agents have to pick up the detainee inside that window; otherwise release follows.
4. Use the ICE finder to find them.

Expect several hours of processing once the bond clears or a judge signs an order. Staff hand back belongings and the account balance, less fees owed. Arrange a ride to North 4th Street ahead of time and call 270-753-6150 to ask when to come.

State sentences are served where the Department of Corrections assigns, at a prison or a county jail. Search the KOOL lookup by name, or see our prisons in Kentucky for prison addresses. It can take a few weeks for a transfer to show up online.

Neighboring counties book elsewhere. Marshall uses the Marshall County Detention Center in Benton, 270-527-4760, and Graves the Graves County Jail and Restricted Custody Center in Mayfield, 270-247-9829. Trigg arrests are taken to the Christian County Jail in Hopkinsville, 270-887-4152.

Calloway County police work is shared by these offices.

• The Murray Police Department is at 104 N. 5th Street, Murray, KY 42071 and takes calls at 270-753-1621.
• Call the Hazel Police Department at 270-492-8872.
• Reach the Calloway County Sheriff's Office at 270-753-3151.
• Kentucky State Police Post 1, 8366 U.S. Highway 45 North, Hickory, KY 42051, 270-856-3721

In an emergency, call 911.