People are taken to the Jessamine County Detention Center in Nicholasville, because Garrard keeps no jail of its own. The Garrard fiscal court approved the Jessamine contract on March 31, 2025, raising the daily charge per inmate from $34 to $40 starting July 1, 2025, and its April 2026 minutes still list payments to that jail. When you call 859-885-4558, say the arrest happened in Garrard County. If the arrest was very recent, the sheriff (859-792-3591) or Lancaster police may know whether the person has arrived there.

Yes. The inmate roster is searchable by last name. Because the jail in Nicholasville holds people from more than one county, match the birthday too. VINELink offers release alerts, and KYeCourts lists hearings.

Call 859-885-4558 to learn visiting days, how to sign up, which forms of ID are accepted and if video sessions exist. A minor may visit only with a parent or guardian. There is a security check at the door, so bring as little as you can. See our visitation guide.

Call 859-885-4558 to learn the bond and confirm the person is still held. Then take cash to the circuit clerk in Lancaster (859-792-2961); bond is paid in cash only, and not at the jail. Bring ID. Our bail guide and money guide explain more.

Ask the jail at 859-885-4558, extension 4, how deposits are made and what caps or charges apply. Use the legal name on file. The money pays for snacks, soap and calls once jail fees are taken. Our money guide and commissary guide explain more.

Yes, once you set up a prepaid account. Only outgoing calls are allowed, so you can't ring the inmate. Calls are recorded and prosecutors can hear them; keep the case off the line. Ask 859-885-4558 about costs. Our phone guide and messaging guide help.

Check with 859-885-4558 for the address to use. Print the complete legal name, and add a return address in the corner. Everything but legal mail is opened, and banned items go back. Our mail guide explains photos.

Phone 859-885-4558, request the shift supervisor and describe the trouble along with the inmate's name, such as missed medicine. Ask about property there too. A Nicholasville Trial Office of the Department of Public Advocacy (109 S. 2nd Street, Nicholasville, KY 40356; 833-514-8978) lawyer can raise health issues in court.

Check KYeCourts for a missed hearing or call the sheriff (859-792-3591). If you turn yourself in, bring a lawyer; it can help when bail is set.

Youths are never jailed with adults. A youth held in detention sees a judge within 48 hours, not counting weekends and holidays (KRS 610.265). The Department of Juvenile Justice (502-573-2738) decides placement, and the case goes to Garrard District Court.

Yes. Ask the booking jail for the mugshot in a signed open records letter, naming the person and the arrest date. Reporters and other news media may direct that kind of request to the jail or to the sheriff. For immigration photos, use the ICE FOIA page. A federal booking photo is only released when the Marshals publish it in a fugitive hunt.

It may. The Nicholasville jail houses federal detainees only after the U.S. Marshals sign a bed contract with it. A federal case from Garrard County is heard in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky, 101 Barr Street, Lexington, KY 40507, 859-233-2503, and a magistrate decides custody after hearing both sides at a detention hearing. After sentencing, federal inmates appear in the federal BOP locator. Lancaster families can call the Marshals' Lexington office at 859-436-6750.

The Jessamine jail (859-885-4558) can confirm whether ICE placed a hold on a Garrard detainee; ICE's Louisville number is 502-625-6202.

1. ICE sends an I-247A detainer to the jail.
2. When nothing in the Garrard case keeps the person jailed, the detainer lets the jail hold the person up to 48 hours past release.
3. ICE has to pick the inmate up within that period.
4. If not, the jail lets the person go.
5. Find people in ICE custody with the ICE online detainee locator.

The justice center clerk (859-792-2961) lists district court Monday at 9 a.m. and Thursday at 1 p.m., and circuit criminal on the third Friday at 9 a.m. Inmates come from Nicholasville (859-885-4558), where DOC counted 114 people in 96 secure beds on Oct. 22, 2026.

Bail is paid in Lancaster, and the paperwork must travel to the jail in Nicholasville afterward. Belongings and leftover account money are returned, minus fees. Ask 859-885-4558 about timing and have a ride lined up.

Search the KOOL database by name. The result lists the prison or state-contract county jail holding the person. Our list of Kentucky prisons has contact details. If the listing seems old, phone the facility it names.

Boyle and Mercer County arrests go to the Boyle County Detention Center in Danville, 859-238-1100. Lincoln County sends its prisoners to the Pulaski County Detention Center in Somerset, 606-678-0130. Rockcastle County keeps the Rockcastle County Detention Center in Mount Vernon, 606-256-2178. Jessamine County books its own arrests into the Jessamine County Detention Center, the same Maple Street jail that holds Garrard's. Madison County books into the Madison County Detention Center in Richmond, 859-624-4710, with overflow at the Three Forks Regional Jail, 606-464-2598.

• Lancaster Police Department, serving the city of Lancaster: 859-792-6000
• Garrard County Sheriff's Office: 859-792-3591
• Kentucky State Police Post 7, 699 Eastern Bypass, Richmond, KY 40475: 859-623-2404

Lancaster is the only city in Garrard County. Deputies and state troopers patrol outside Lancaster. Call 911 in an emergency.