Projected vs Actual Release Date
A projected date is prospective. It is calculated from the sentence and current credits or restrictions. An actual release date records an event that has occurred. KOOL may also display parole eligibility, minimum expiration, maximum expiration, or another completion label. None should be renamed simply as “release date.”
A Robertson defendant at BCRJ on a pending case may leave after a bond or court order rather than a sentence computation. A sentenced KDOC inmate housed in the same county-jail bed may have state-calculated dates. The physical building does not determine which record controls.
How to Find a Robertson County Inmate's Projected Release Date
Start by determining the legal custody system. Robertson's operational host jail is Bourbon County Regional Jail, while the Robertson Circuit Court keeps the local case record. KDOC is the durable source for a state sentence.
- Match the person and case through the Robertson court and note whether the case is pending or sentenced.
- For state custody, search KOOL by name or offender identifier.
- Record every date with its exact displayed label, including eligibility and expiration terms.
- For a local jail sentence, ask BCRJ and the clerk for the controlling sentence and release-processing record.
- Check detainers, later court orders, parole decisions, and sentence changes.
- Confirm an actual exit in the KDOC Daily Releases archive, VINE, or the BCRJ release record.
The Robertson County released-inmate record path explains how to obtain the host-jail file when a current roster no longer shows the person.
Good-Time Credit and How Release Dates Are Computed
KRS 197.045 governs several Kentucky sentence-credit rules. It includes prior-confinement credit under KRS 532.120, qualifying education and program credits, discretionary good-behavior credit, and limited meritorious-service credit. It also permits forfeiture after institutional violations and aggregation of consecutive sentences for computation.
The statute provides 90 days for qualifying completed education and up to 90 days for each qualifying approved treatment, evidence-based, promising-practice, or life-skills program. Discretionary good-behavior credit may not exceed 10 days per month served. Eligibility restrictions apply, so those figures cannot be added to a charge list to produce a personal date.
Only credits actually awarded and legally available belong in a computation. The offender's KDOC record and governing orders control.
Why a Projected Release Date Changes
Prospective dates move because the inputs can change. A shift is not by itself evidence of error or a promised early release being withdrawn.
| Factor | Possible effect |
|---|---|
| New earned credit | May advance an eligible expiration calculation |
| Credit forfeiture or restoration | Can move the projected date later or earlier |
| Prior-custody correction | Changes credited time already served |
| Consecutive sentence aggregation | Changes the combined expiration computation |
| New or amended court order | Can alter the sentence or custody authority |
| Detainer or hold | May prevent community release even when one sentence ends |
| Parole decision or revocation | Can create, delay, or end a community-release path |
| Data correction | May revise an earlier public display |
Escape or absconding time and a new sentence can also change the result. Ask KDOC for the current calculation rather than extrapolating from an old screen.
Confirming a Release Date
VINE can provide custody-change alerts after a record is selected. It is useful when a projected date is close, but a notice still depends on agency and vendor data. Register on both the local and KDOC entries when the same person has two records.
The Robertson County VINELink release check describes the PIN and acknowledgment steps. Confirm a state release through KOOL or Daily Releases. Confirm a local BCRJ exit with the host facility and Robertson court record.
Note: A release alert is not a sentence calculation and may not reveal a separate hold from another agency.
Robertson Release Dates and 85 Percent
KRS 439.3401 defines covered violent offenders and sets release and parole constraints. The phrase “85 percent rule” is not a formula for every Kentucky offense. Coverage depends on the offense, offense date, sentence, statutory version, findings, and exceptions.
For a covered violent offender serving a term of years, the applicable subsection generally bars specified early-release routes until at least 85 percent is served. Certain life, capital, and Class A cases use a 20-year minimum. The statute also contains applicability clauses and a specified domestic-violence-victim exception process.
Do not calculate from the offense name alone. KDOC and the governing orders must determine the individual date.
How Robertson Release Dates Are Built
A state-sentence computation starts with the judgment, sentence length, start rules, and whether terms run together or one after another. Verified prior-custody credit comes next. KDOC then applies only lawful earned credits and any restrictions.
Judgment → prior custody credit → eligible earned credit → forfeitures or restoration → offense restrictions → parole eligibility and expiration labels → later orders or decisions → actual release record.
That flow also shows why parole eligibility is not sentence expiration. A Board grant is not physical release until processing is complete, and a Daily Releases date is an event rather than a forecast.
Robertson Jail Versus State Dates
Robertson's two-county detention arrangement makes the custody distinction essential. The local case stays with the Robertson court, while BCRJ in Paris records physical admission and processed-out details. A bond order supplies legal authority; the BCRJ record supplies the exit event.
A KDOC-sentenced person may be housed at BCRJ or another county jail yet still have state-calculated sentence dates. KOOL and KDOC release records apply to that state sentence. By contrast, a pretrial bond exit has no KDOC projected-date calculation.
Use the source tied to the legal status, not the name on the building.
Robertson Release Date Field Guide
A case can produce several dates without any conflict. Admission time marks entry into custody. A court order date records judicial action. Processed-out time marks the facility's physical completion. Parole eligibility marks when consideration may occur. Minimum or maximum expiration belongs to the sentence calculation. A supervision-discharge date can come later than physical release.
| Date label | Question answered |
|---|---|
| Booking or admission | When did this jail custody begin? |
| Court order | When did the court authorize or change the legal status? |
| Processed out | When did the facility complete release or transfer processing? |
| Parole eligibility | When may parole consideration occur? |
| Minimum or maximum expiration | What sentence milestone does KDOC calculate under that label? |
| Daily Releases date | When did KDOC record the stated release event? |
| Supervision discharge | When did community supervision formally end? |
Always copy the displayed label with the date. If the public interface changes, retrieve the live record again rather than forcing an old label onto the new screen.
Request Robertson Release Calculations
When KOOL does not answer the question, KDOC accepts written open-record requests at correctionsopenrecords@ky.gov, by mail to Division of Public Affairs, Attn: Open Records Coordinator, P.O. Box 2400, Frankfort, KY 40602, or by fax at 502-564-9575. Give the full name, birth date, or offender ID.
Ask for a narrow public record: the release or discharge calculation, movement history, exact release type and date, released-from facility, or supervision discharge. Do not ask BCRJ for a KDOC sentence computation simply because the state offender occupied a county-jail bed. Conversely, a KOOL record is not the source for the processed-out time of a local pretrial bond release.
For BCRJ, contact 101 Legion Drive, Paris, KY 40361, 859-987-2137, and confirm the designated custodian. Request the admission time, booking number, processed-out date and time, release code, authority, and destination or receiving agency if recorded and public. Ask for redaction of exempt details instead of withholding the nonexempt portion.
Kentucky's jailer retention schedule keeps an inmate file for five years after release. Transport files can also help distinguish community release from movement to another custodian.
Confirm Robertson Actual Release
A future KOOL date is a planning field. An actual event needs a later source. KDOC Daily Releases offers date-organized PDFs for state-managed cases, including some releases from county-jail beds. It does not cover every local bond-out, so a missing entry does not disprove a BCRJ release.
VINE can report release and send a notice, but Kentucky's documented false-alert incident shows why it must be corroborated. The host-jail file, court order, KOOL, and Daily Releases each test a different part of the claim.
When sources differ, note the retrieval date and contact the agency that created the controlling record. Do not average dates or choose the earliest one. The difference may reflect court authority, physical processing, vendor transmission, or a later correction.
For a planned state release, ask what exact field is being quoted and when KOOL was retrieved. Then check whether Daily Releases later records the event. For a local Robertson bond or sentence release, compare the clerk's order date with BCRJ's processed-out time. Those timestamps can differ without either record being wrong.
Do not treat parole eligibility as a pickup date. The Board may deny or defer release, and a grant may carry a future effective date, conditions, or release-plan work. Even after a grant, another detainer can affect where the person goes. Only the completed release or transfer record answers the physical-custody question.
Robertson KDOC Daily Release Dates
Kentucky's Daily Releases archive is a released-first source for state-managed cases. Its dated PDFs can list KDOC number, name, release type, released-from facility, and highest felony class. A Robertson state-sentence offender may appear there even when housed in a county-jail bed rather than a state institution.
The archive helps distinguish minimum-expiration discharge from mandatory reentry supervision or shock probation. Those events all end secure custody in some form, but they do not have the same legal effect. Quote the release type as published and use KOOL or District 14 to check continuing supervision.
The archive is not a full log of local BCRJ bond releases. A person released under a Robertson bond order may never appear in a KDOC daily document. In that case, the clerk's order and host-jail release record are the proper proof.
Use Robertson Release Dates Safely
Plans based on a projected date should remain flexible. Credits, discipline, new orders, sentence aggregation, detainers, and data corrections can change the display. The facility controls its processing and can explain public release procedures, while KDOC controls its own sentence calculations.
Record the source, exact label, date shown, and retrieval date. That short record makes later changes understandable and prevents an eligibility date from being repeated as a promise.