Butler County Jail Overview
The official Butler County Jailer page identifies Butler County Jail as the county jail in Morgantown and lists Wayne Russ as jailer. The operator is the Butler County Jailer with county government support through the Butler County Fiscal Court. Official sources did not locate a second Butler County work-release annex, city jail, state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center inside Butler County. That makes Butler County Jail the local facility to check first for a recent county arrest, a court hold, or a local jail sentence.
The jailer page describes the jail as a secure setting that supervises inmates, assists with inmate needs, and helps move people to court, to the regional jail system, or back into the community. The jail population is not limited to one custody type. Butler County Jail can hold pretrial county detainees, sentenced misdemeanants, Class D or other state inmates housed locally, work release or home incarceration participants, and people in transition between jail and court. A person sentenced to long-term state custody may later be tracked through Kentucky DOC systems rather than the county roster.
The Butler County Jailer source page is useful because it shows the local jail contact and program context in one place.
The screenshot supports the facility details used here, including the jailer page as the local source for Butler County Jail contact and program information.
Butler County Jail Population
The strongest capacity source for Butler County Jail is the Kentucky DOC Weekly Jail Report archive. The June 4, 2026 weekly report lists Butler County Jail with 36 beds and 49 inmates. That placed the facility 13 over its reported capacity, or 136 percent of capacity. The same report classifies the facility as secure local jail custody with both secure and non-secure population rows.
The same June 4, 2026 report counted 14 Class D inmates, 5 community-custody eligible inmates, 4 controlled-intake inmates, 2 parole violators, and 0 federal inmates in Butler County Jail. Its custody rows showed 30 secure male inmates, 7 secure female inmates, 12 non-secure male inmates, and no non-secure female inmates. Those categories matter because a Butler County Jail inmate may be in county pretrial custody, serving a local sentence, or held locally while tied to state correctional status.
| Date | Beds | Reported population | Capacity note |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2, 2025 | 36 | 38 | 2 over, 106% |
| June 5, 2025 | 36 | 44 | 8 over, 122% |
| July 3, 2025 | 36 | 52 | 16 over, 144% |
| June 4, 2026 | 36 | 49 | 13 over, 136% |
Lookup Butler County Jail Roster
Use the Butler County Jail CPC JMS roster for current booked inmates. The roster is free and did not require a login in the research review. It is a current custody list, not a full booking archive. It has an Inmates tab, sortable name and booking-date columns, mugshot thumbnails when available, and a Details button for each listed person. The detail view can show a larger photo, name, height, weight, sex, booked-in date, age, and charges.
- Open the Butler County Jail roster and confirm the page is showing the Inmates list.
- Sort by last name, first name, booked-in date, or age because the roster does not provide a local keyword search box.
- Use the Details button on the matching row to review the inmate profile and charge table.
- If the person is not listed, call Butler County Jail, check KOOL for state custody, or use court and notification tools as needed.
The current Butler County Jail roster screenshot shows the roster style readers should expect when checking a booking.
The roster view is best for active jail custody. Older booking records, a missing entry, or a record correction may require a jail call or an open-records request to the correct agency custodian.
For a broader record path, the Butler County jail roster should be paired with Butler County jail inmate records when the question is custody, booking fields, or roster limits. A county jail record is different from a court record. Court dates and formal case filings are handled through the clerk and Kentucky Court of Justice systems after the jail booking occurs.
Butler County Jail Contact
Call the jail before relying on a web roster for urgent decisions. A live staff check is especially important when a person was just arrested, the online list is unavailable, a bond field is blank, or a transfer may have occurred. The published jail address uses both a post office box and the North Main Street courthouse location, so ask the jail how to address mail before sending documents, photos, books, or legal correspondence.
Butler County Jail
P.O. Box 609
110 North Main Street
Morgantown, KY 42261
(270) 526-3505
Fax: 526-3757
Call for current custody, visit rules, mail format, and deposit questions.
Butler County Jail Visits
Official Butler County-specific visitation rules were not located in the county jailer source. Search results for similarly named counties can point to other states, so those schedules should not be used for Butler County, Kentucky. The correct local step is to call Butler County Jail before a visit and confirm whether the visit is in person or video, which identification is required, whether children may attend, and whether property or phones are allowed in the visitor area.
| Day or visit type | Published Butler County KY hours | Type | What to do |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday-Friday | Not located in official sources | Public or family visit | Call Butler County Jail before arrival. |
| Saturday-Sunday | Not located in official sources | Public or family visit | Confirm whether weekend visits are offered. |
| Video visit | No official schedule found | No official vendor found | Ask the jail whether video visits are offered. |
| Attorney visit | Schedule with jail and counsel | Confidential access protected by 501 KAR 3:140 | Coordinate directly before travel. |
| Child visitor rules | Not located in official sources | Public or family visit | Confirm guardian, ID, and age rules. |
501 KAR 3:140 requires full-service jails to maintain prisoner-rights policies in areas such as court access, attorney access, mail, telephone, grievance procedure, medical care, mental-health care when available, and religion. That rule confirms the policy areas, but it does not publish Butler County Jail's visitor calendar, phone rates, mail format, or local property rules.
Butler Jail Mail Money
Official Butler County Jail mail, commissary, money-deposit, phone, and video-visit vendor details were not located. The research therefore should not name a private vendor, fee, kiosk, online deposit tool, or mail-scanning service without jail confirmation. A safe call to the jail should ask for the exact inmate name format, whether an InmateID is needed, how legal mail is marked, and whether money orders, online deposits, or lobby payments are accepted.
| Service | Published detail | Research note |
|---|---|---|
| Mail address | P.O. Box 609 / 110 North Main Street, Morgantown, KY 42261 | Confirm format with the jail before mailing. |
| Phone or video | No official vendor found | Call the jail for current provider and rates. |
| Money deposit | No official method found | Do not use a third-party vendor without confirmation. |
| Commissary or canteen | No official schedule found | Ask the jail about eligibility, timing, and fees. |
| Attorney mail and calls | Policy area protected by 501 KAR 3:140 | Coordinate through counsel and jail staff. |
Note: Do not mail cash, medication, property, or books to Butler County Jail until staff confirms the current local rule.
Butler Jail Booking
A Butler County arrest commonly moves through jail booking before the person appears in court or is released under a court order. The county roster fields show what the public side of that booking can include: name, age, booked-in date, mugshot or placeholder image, height, weight, sex, charge description, bond amount, charge date, and disposition. The roster does not show every internal jail field. Full date of birth, arresting officer, court case number, warrant number, housing unit, property details, release date, and medical information were not shown in the inspected public template.
Booking charges should not be read as final court outcomes. A roster disposition such as Pre Trial or Not Filed is a jail roster label, while formal case filings are handled through prosecutors and courts. District Court handles misdemeanors, violations, traffic cases, arraignments, and many early felony proceedings. Circuit Court handles felony prosecutions. For court events after a jail booking, use the Kentucky Court of Justice docket search or contact the Butler Circuit Court Clerk.
Butler County Jail Programs
The official jailer page states that inmates housed in Butler County Jail have program opportunities and names Work Release, Home Incarceration, Substance Abuse Counseling, Domestic Violence Counseling, Mental Health Counseling, GED, AA, NA, Bible Study, and more. Those programs line up with the state report's use of secure and non-secure custody categories. Non-secure custody can include lower-restriction custody tied to work release or community-custody status, but eligibility is a jail, court, and classification decision rather than something the public roster proves by itself.
- Class D inmate
- A Kentucky lower-level felony category that can affect whether a person is housed locally or tracked by KY DOC.
- Controlled intake
- A Kentucky DOC intake-management status reported in weekly jail data for some state-related inmates.
- Non-secure custody
- A lower-restriction local custody category, often connected to work release or community-custody eligibility.
- Detainer
- A hold or request from another agency that may affect release or transfer.
Butler Jail Transfer Lookup
If a person is no longer listed at Butler County Jail, check whether the custody path has moved outside the local roster. Use Kentucky Online Offender Lookup for state offenders and state inmates, including people whose current location may still show a county jail. Use the Kentucky VINELink service for custody notifications. Use the BOP Inmate Locator for sentenced federal prisoners and the ICE Online Detainee Locator for immigration detainees.
No federal prison, ICE detention center, or Kentucky DOC adult institution was located in official sources within Butler County. That does not mean a Butler County arrest can never become a federal, immigration, or state-prison matter. It means the lookup system changes once custody, sentence status, or the responsible agency changes. The Butler County inmate population overview explains how the local jail count fits with the county's broader custody search picture.
Butler County Jail Directions
Butler County Jail is listed at the North Main Street courthouse address in downtown Morgantown. The Kentucky Court of Justice Butler County page states that free parking is available around the courthouse building and that an elevator serves the second floor. Those court access notes are helpful for the courthouse area, but they should not be treated as a jail visitor entrance rule. Call the jail before arrival to confirm the correct entrance, allowed items, accessibility needs, and whether a visit or records inquiry can be handled that day.
Note: Confirm custody, visit approval, and the correct jail entrance with Butler County Jail before traveling to Morgantown.