The Daviess County Detention Center is at 3337 Highway 144, Owensboro, KY 42303. Call 270-685-8466 and press 0 for an operator. Have the inmate's full name and birth date when you call. Staff can confirm custody but cannot discuss charges in detail.

Use the roster for current inmates. VINELink gives custody status and offers alerts on release or transfer. For court dates and charges, look in KYeCourts public access. If someone was just arrested, the record can lag a few hours behind the booking.

No in-person public visits are offered. Video visits on the family account website may open 24 hours after booking and run around the clock except during head counts (about 6:30 to 8 a.m., 2:30 to 4 p.m., and 10:30 p.m. to midnight). Each inmate gets one free 15-minute visit a week; paid visits cost 17 cents a minute. See our visitation guide.

For visit problems such as a failed connection or a missing booking, call 859-334-0959. Test your camera and internet before the visit, and log in a few minutes early. Rules about dress and conduct apply on video too; our visit guide lists them.

Weekdays 8 to 4, pay bond at the Judicial Center clerk; other times, at the jail, in cash. Cards are not taken for bonds. Our bail guide explains bond types, Pretrial Services and refunds.

Use the Building 1 lobby kiosk (cash or card, any hour), the jail's online deposit site, or call 855-836-3364. By post, send only a money order, cashier's check or certified check made out to Daviess County Detention Center, with the inmate's name in the memo, to the bookkeeper at DCDC, 3337 Highway 144, Owensboro, KY 42303. See our money guide.

Commissary is ordered on the kiosk or tablet. Orders close at midnight on Sundays and Wednesdays and are delivered Tuesdays and Fridays, up to $150 per commissary day. Money must be on the account before the deadline. See our commissary guide.

Buy phone time at the lobby kiosk, on the family account website, or at 877-998-5678. Calls cost 16 cents a minute and last up to 15 minutes. The public can send emails and texts free through the deposit site. See our phone guide and messaging guide.

Address letters to the inmate's name, DCDC, 3337 Highway 144, Owensboro, KY 42303, with your full name and address on the outside. Do not send cash, regular checks or items other than photos. Mail is opened and checked for contraband. See our mail guide.

County inmates pay a $35 booking fee. Other charges may be taken from the account, which can lower the balance families add. Ask the jail at 270-685-8466 what is owed, and keep deposit receipts in case of a question later.

The Owensboro Trial Office of the public defender (920 Frederica Street, Suite 1006, Owensboro, KY 42301; 833-514-8980) serves those who qualify. A judge reviews a financial form at arraignment. Relatives who phone that office with the case number can learn the attorney's name. See our court guide.

Call the Daviess County Sheriff's Office at 270-685-8444 to learn whether a warrant has been issued. An attorney can check as well and, if one turns up, arrange a time to come in so a judge at the Holbrook Judicial Center can set bond.

Youths are kept separate from adults. A juvenile who is held must see a judge in 48 hours, skipping weekends and holidays (KRS 610.265). The state Department of Juvenile Justice decides placement (502-573-2738) and tells parents where the child goes.

Look first on the roster. Other requests go to the jail in writing under the open records law. News media can ask the sheriff's office as well. For ICE photos, use the ICE records request form. A federal mugshot normally stays private; the exception is a wanted-fugitive notice put out by the Marshals.

Daviess federal arrests are handled in Owensboro, which has both a federal courtroom and a Marshals office. The U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky, sits at 423 Frederica Street, Owensboro, KY 42301, 270-689-4400, and families can ask the U.S. Marshals there, 270-852-2645, which jail is holding the defendant before trial. A magistrate judge sees the defendant at the first appearance and can schedule a detention hearing. After sentencing, search the federal prison locator.

At the Daviess County Detention Center (270-685-8466), an ICE hold first begins with Form I-247A, which asks the jail to notify ICE and keep the person; ERO Louisville (502-625-6202) is the nearest ICE office. Then, once the state case permits release, ICE may have the Owensboro detention center keep them for no more than 48 hours past that release. If ICE does not come for pickup within that period, the hold ends. A person ICE does take may be moved to a detention center in another state, so track the case with the ICE finder.

Corrections screens and classifies each person after sentencing, then sends them to a prison that matches. A few serve their time in county jails. The KOOL lookup shows the current location; see our prisons in Kentucky for each prison's address.

An arrest across the county line is booked by that county, not on Highway 144. If the roster here has no match, call the Henderson County Detention Center, 380 Borax Drive, Henderson, KY 42420, 270-827-5560; the Ohio County Detention Center, 108 E. Washington St., Hartford, KY 42347, 270-298-4455; the Muhlenberg County Detention Center, 108 Court Row, Greenville, KY 42345, 270-338-2263; or the Breckinridge County Detention Center, 500 Glen Nash Ln, Hardinsburg, KY 40143, 270-756-6244.

1. Find the name on the roster; jot down the booking number.
2. Look up the charge and court date on KYeCourts public access.
3. Ask the circuit clerk, 270-687-7200, about the bond. On weekdays 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. bond is paid at the Holbrook Judicial Center; at other hours it is paid at the jail in cash, and cards are not taken. See the bail guide.
4. Expect video visits to open about 24 hours after booking.

The Daviess County Attorney, 117 East 3rd Street, Owensboro, KY 42303, 270-685-8429, handles misdemeanors and early felony hearings. Felonies indicted by the grand jury go to the Commonwealth's Attorney for the 6th Circuit, 270-687-7451, on the second floor of 117 East Third Street, Owensboro, KY 42303.

Yes. The Western District of Kentucky holds court at 423 Frederica Street, Owensboro, KY 42301, and the clerk there answers at 270-689-4400. Clerks can give hearing dates for a federal case, but they cannot discuss custody; that is the Marshals' job.

The Owensboro Police Department covers the city from 222 East 9th Street, Owensboro, KY 42303, and either 270-687-8888 or 270-687-8330 reaches it. Outside Owensboro, including Whitesville, the Daviess County Sheriff's Office (270-685-8444) and Kentucky State Police Post 16, 8298 Keach Drive, Henderson, KY 42420 (270-826-3312), do the patrolling.

For an emergency, call 911; for a report or a question about an arrest, use the agency numbers above.