Bell County Inmate Population is a private reference site, not a government office. It cannot confirm custody, release anyone, post bond, pull official booking records, change court data, or speak for the Bell County jail, sheriff, clerk, Kentucky DOC, BOP, ICE, or any court.
Official Record Contacts
Use the office that controls the record you need. Current Bell County jail custody starts with the detention center. Sheriff process, civil papers, and capias questions start with the sheriff's department. Court copies and charges after an arrest start with the Circuit Court Clerk. Sentenced state-prison records and Kentucky DOC open-records requests use the state corrections channels.
Bell County Detention Center
214 West Virginia Avenue
Pineville, Kentucky 40977
Phone: 606-337-5507
Fax: 606-337-5556
Use for current jail custody, booking questions, bond confirmation, jail records, and jail roster issues. The detention center does not publish separate records-counter hours. Lobby kiosks for phone and commissary services are listed Monday-Friday, 6 a.m.-9 p.m.
Bell County Sheriff's Department
P.O. Box 336
Pineville, KY 40977
Office: 606-337-3102
Fax: 606-337-8391
Use for sheriff law-enforcement contacts, civil process, court capias, court orders, eviction orders, levies, and arresting-agency records when the sheriff created the record.
Bell County Circuit Court Clerk
Farmer Helton Judicial Center
101 W. Park Ave.
Pineville, KY 40977
Clerk: Colby Slusher
Phone: 606-337-9900 or 606-337-2942
Fax: 606-337-8850
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Use for Bell County Circuit, District, Family, and Business Court case records, copies, payment questions, and court records after a jail arrest.
Kentucky Department of Corrections
Offender Information Services
Attn: Open Records Coordinator
P.O. Box 2400
Frankfort, KY 40602
Email: correctionsopenrecords@ky.gov
Fax: 502-564-9575
Use for sentenced state-prison records, KOOL locator issues, and written offender-record requests. Include the person's full name plus date of birth or offender identification number when available.
For common lookup tasks, these pages point to the right starting place:
- For someone held in the county jail, start with jail inmate records and the Bell County Detention Center.
- For booking photos, check jail roster mugshots and then ask the record custodian about a written request.
- For charges filed after an arrest, use court records after a jail arrest and the Circuit Court Clerk.
- For facility-specific questions, use the Bell County Detention Center or Bell County Forestry Camp links in the footer.
- For a sentenced Kentucky prisoner, use Kentucky DOC and the KOOL state inmate locator.
- For federal or immigration custody, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator System.