Fayette County Detention Center Inmate Search

How to Search for an Inmate in Fayette County Kentucky

If you want to find an inmate within the Fayette County Jail system in Lexington, Kentucky, go to the Fayette County Inmate Inquiry.

There are two ways to search the site:

• SCROLL THROUGH INMATE ROSTER
• SEARCH BY NAME

SCROLL THROUGH INMATE ROSTER

• Once you click on the above link, the complete inmate roster will be listed by last name in alphabetical order.
• Scroll through the list until you locate your inmate.

TIP: Use the page arrows at the bottom of the list to click through the pages until you arrive at the page containing your inmate’s name.

SEARCH BY NAME

Use the dropdown menu on the left to choose to search by:

• Last Name
• First Name
• Middle Name
• Race
• Charge
• Sex
• Age
• Arrest Date
• Booking Agency
• Enter the chosen information into the field.
• Click on “Find”.

AVAILABLE INMATE INFORMATION

Click on the inmate’s name to view:

• Inmate’s Fayette County Mugshot
• Name
• Age
• Race
• Sex
• Arrest Date
• Released Date
• Next Court Date
• Charge
• Charge Status
• Docket #
• Arrest Date
• Release Date    
• Next Court Date              
• Bond Information

FAYETTE COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT CASE SEARCH

It is not uncommon for court dates to be postponed or canceled at the last minute. If you plan to attend this inmate’s court hearing, you can check the day before to see if it is still on the docket. Start with the Kentucky Court of Justice Search tool.

Use the “County” dropdown menu on the left side of the page to choose “Fayette County”.

All cases on the docket for the following day will be listed.

You can check for:

• Defendant’s Name
• Charges
• Time
• Case Number
• Status

TIP: You can also use the calendar on the left side of the page to check other days this week to see if the court date is still scheduled.

TIP: Be to check again the night before court in case it has been postponed or changed. 

With more than 9,000 jails and prisons across the country, trying to locate an inmate can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. On this page, you will find the Fayette County inmate search, inmate lists, inmate roster, arrest reports and/or booking information for the Fayette County Detention Center in the city of Lexington, Fayette County in the state of Kentucky.

With a minimal amount of information about the inmate and some patience, on jailexchange.com you can:

• Find the inmate
• Learn how and what you can mail them
• Learn how and when you can visit them
• How to put money on their account
• How and when to receive phone calls from them
• Find out all public information about Fayette County Detention Center

Recent Arrests and/or Pre-trial Inmates in Fayette County Detention Center

If you are certain your inmate is in Fayette County Detention Center, or at the very least in Fayette County, go to this page to search for them.

If the Fayette County Detention Center inmate search website is not currently online or up to date, call for assistance in locating your inmate.

The Fayette County Detention Center is "open" 24-hours-a-day. When you call, give the staff member the name of who you are looking for and a birthdate or age if you have it. That person will let you know if your inmate is there.

At minimum you will need a first and last name. If you can provide the middle name or initial that is even better. In a perfect world you will also have the inmate's birthdate, but if not, an estimated age will help.

If you are not sure what county jail the inmate is located in, it helps to at least know the geographic area. Knowing what state the inmate is in is good; knowing which county is even better.

In some cases, there will be more than one possibility. Use patience and check them all. Go here to get started on a search for any jail in the state of Kentucky or go to this page to begin a search for all jails in the United States.

If your inmate has been charged but not yet convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony, he or she will most likely be held in Fayette County within the county where the crime occurred. If you only have the city name, look up the city's police department, call and ask them if they keep inmates at a local jail or send them to the county jail. If they are sent to the Fayette County Jail, either look them up here or call for assistance.

Recently convicted felons are sometimes held at Fayette County Jail until transport to a Kentucky State Prison is available. Inmates sentenced to less than one year incarceration or those convicted to serve time for misdemeanors will do their time in the Fayette County Jail system.

Jailexchange.com has a complete page of all available information to assist families and friends of inmates in Fayette County Detention Center and every other jail, prison and juvenile detention center in America.

How to find an Inmate already convicted of a felony and sentenced in the state of Kentucky

State Inmate

Most states have Department of Corrections websites that allow you to type in a felon's first and last name and pull up inmates in that state. Go to this page for inmates in Kentucky. If you need to find an inmate in another state prison system, go here.

When you click next to the inmate's name or on a link, it will show you which jail or prison the inmate is housed in. If the inmate is no longer incarcerated, but is on parole/probation or discharged, it will tell you that as well. In addition, many state prison inmate pages show recent mug shots.

Federal Inmate

The federal prison system has its own inmate locator called the Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator.

Type in the inmate's name and it will tell you where he or she is incarcerated and their projected release date. It also lists released federal prison inmates and the date they were released.

Federal inmates who are moved from one prison to another will show as "No longer in federal custody" on the system until they reach their next federal prison destination. This movement can take a few days to several months to complete, so keep checking back to find out where the inmate was taken.

ICE Inmates

The ICE Detainee Lookup allows friends, family members and interested parties to locate illegal and/or undocumented immigrants that are in the United States without permission.

They are held in detention centers approved by Immigration Custody and Enforcement until their hearing or date they are deported back to their home country.

To look up the detainee, users need the full legal name the person used upon their arrest and the country the person claimed they originated from. It helps to also have the "A-number", which is the number that ICE assigned to them upon their detention, which you can use instead of attempting to type the detainee's name.