The Warren County Regional Jail is at 920 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green, KY 42101; call 270-843-4606. It has a main jail and a Class D section for state inmates serving lower-level felony time. When calling, give the inmate's full name and birth date so staff can find the right person.

Someone picked up across the county line is booked in that county, not on Kentucky Street. If the roster shows nothing, a call to one of these lockups may settle it:

• The Allen County Detention Center in Scottsville answers at 270-237-3226.
• The Barren County Detention Center, in Glasgow, takes calls at 270-651-8806.
• The Butler County Jail, in Morgantown, takes calls at 270-526-3505.
• The Hart County Jail in Munfordville answers at 270-524-2571.
• In Russellville, the Logan County Detention Center can be reached at 270-726-3696.
• The Simpson County Detention Center, in Franklin, takes calls at 270-586-5351.

Search the roster for people now in custody. VINELink reports custody status and sends alerts on a release or transfer. Charges and court dates appear on KYeCourts public access. Fresh arrests can take several hours to be listed.

Main jail visits are Wednesday and Saturday by appointment only. Call 270-843-4606 weekdays 8 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. the day before to book. Class D dorms have set evening seatings on weeknights and daytime seatings on Sunday; ask the jail for the dorm's times. See our visitation guide.

Write Warren County Circuit Court Clerk as the payee on any bond money order or cashier's check. A check made out to anyone else is turned away. Confirm the amount with the jail first. See our bail guide.

Bring cash to the front office during business hours, use the payment kiosk in the main lobby, or post a money order or certified check made out to the inmate, with the buyer's details filled in. Personal checks are not accepted. See our money guide and commissary guide.

New inmates may make collect calls to a lawyer or family member after booking, and at least one completed collect call a week. Calls may be recorded, and three-way calls may be cut off. Do not discuss the case. See our phone guide and messaging guide.

Letters must carry postage, the inmate's name and your full name and return address; no initials or nicknames. Laminated mail is refused. Send to the inmate at 920 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green, KY 42101. Mail is opened and checked. See our mail guide.

Property is accepted at the front office weekdays 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. for the main jail and until 3:30 p.m. for Class D, except holidays. Call 270-843-4606 before you go to ask which items are on the approved list, so nothing gets turned away at the window.

County inmates are charged a $70 processing fee and $30 per day. Fees may be taken from deposits. When someone is released, the jail sends a letter about any balance or payment plan. Ask at 270-843-4606 if you have a question about a charge on the account.

The Bowling Green North Trial Office of the public defender (1001 Center Street, Suite 301, Bowling Green, KY 42101; 833-254-2458) serves those who qualify. A judge reviews finances at arraignment. Relatives can ask that office, using the case number, which attorney took the case. See our court guide for each stage.

Yes. The city draws people from Butler, Edmonson, Barren and Logan, and from Tennessee down I-65. The sheriff's office can run a local warrant check at 270-842-1633. One name on the courts' free guest case search covers Kentucky statewide, and Nashville-area cases go through Tennessee's courts.

When a warrant outlasts a release, counsel can bring the person to the Warren County Regional Jail and argue bond that day. The circuit clerk at 1001 Center St., Suite 102, Bowling Green, KY 42101, answers at 270-746-7400 about missed court.

Youths stay separate from adults. A held juvenile goes before a judge within 48 hours, weekends and holidays not counted (KRS 610.265). The Department of Juvenile Justice (502-573-2738) sets placement and keeps parents informed.

Look at the roster first. Booking photos may also be requested from the jail under the open records law, and news media can ask the sheriff's office. The ICE records request form is the route for an ICE photo. Federal mugshots stay private except when the Marshals post one to find a fugitive.

Federal arrests in Warren County go to the U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky, 241 East Main Avenue, Bowling Green, KY 42101, 270-393-2500. The initial hearing is before a magistrate judge, who can schedule a detention hearing. The federal courthouse is at 241 East Main Avenue, Bowling Green, KY 42101, and its clerk answers at 270-393-2500. Until trial the U.S. Marshals decide the housing, and their Bowling Green office, 270-901-2108, can tell family where the person is housed. After sentencing, look them up with the federal prison locator.

The Warren County Regional Jail (270-843-4606) first receives Form I-247A when ICE places a detainer, and ERO Louisville (502-625-6202) is ICE's nearest office. Then, once state custody ends, ICE may ask Bowling Green jail staff to keep a Warren inmate up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released, per 8 CFR 287.7(d). ICE carries out pickup in that time, or the detainer lapses. Use the ICE finder to locate them afterward.

Corrections assigns state inmates after sentencing, based on a classification review. Some Class D inmates serve their time in the jail's Class D section. Check the KOOL lookup for the current location and our prisons in Kentucky for prison details.

1. Search the roster and note the booking number.
2. Look up the case on KYeCourts public access for the charge and the first court date.
3. Call the circuit clerk, 270-746-7400, to learn the bond amount.
4. Bring a money order or cashier's check made out to the Warren County Circuit Court Clerk; the bail guide has the rest.

Misdemeanors and early felony hearings in District Court are handled by the Warren County Attorney, 270-781-3562. Felonies indicted by the grand jury are tried by the Commonwealth's Attorney for the 8th Circuit, 270-746-7485, who also covers Edmonson County.

Cash is taken at the front office and a deposit kiosk sits in the lobby. Money orders and certified checks must be made out to the inmate; personal checks are refused. Details are on our money guide and commissary page.

The state Department of Corrections weekly jail report for October 8, 2026 listed the main jail at 510 people against 410 beds. The separate Warren restricted custody center held 110 in 152 beds. Crowding can slow booking and visit scheduling, so allow extra time and check the visiting page before driving in.

Bowling Green Police are at 911 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green, KY 42101, and either non-emergency number, 270-393-4000 or 270-393-4519, reaches them. Smiths Grove Police are reached through Smiths Grove City Hall, 146 South Main Street, Smiths Grove, KY 42171 (270-563-4014), and Woodburn Police answer at 270-991-4770.

The Warren County Sheriff's Office (270-842-1633) and Kentucky State Police Post 3, 3119 Nashville Road, Bowling Green, KY 42101 (270-782-2010), patrol outside those three cities, including Oakland and Plum Springs.