Clay Detention Center Releases
Clay County Detention Center, often shortened to CCDC, is the county jail operated by the elected Clay County Jailer. A person may leave its physical custody after bond, recognizance, dismissal, time served, expiration of a local sentence, or another court order. Those events can place the person in the community. Yet the same roster change can follow a transfer to the Kentucky Department of Corrections, another county jail, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the U.S. Marshals Service, ICE, treatment, or a hospital.
The destination is therefore part of the release fact. A current-only jail list can show that a person is no longer listed, but it cannot explain where the person went. The jail’s booking/release sheet or release-log entry should show the physical event if that record is retained. The Clay County court file can identify the order or case action that authorized it. If state custody followed, KOOL and KDOC records become the better sources.
| Roster change | Best confirmation |
|---|---|
| Community release | CCDC release entry and court order |
| Transfer to state custody | KOOL, KDOC report, and movement record |
| Federal or immigration handoff | BOP, federal docket, or ICE locator |
| Unknown destination | CCDC custodian and court file |
Confirm a CCDC Release
Begin with enough information to avoid a false match: full name, approximate booking date, date of birth when lawfully known, and a court or booking number. Call the jail and ask a narrow question about present CCDC custody. If the person is not there, ask whether staff can confirm an actual release date and whether the event was community release or transfer. Staff should not be asked to guess at a destination that the record does not state.
- Check the official current-inmates route only to learn whether CCDC still lists the person.
- Search Kentucky VINE and read the event, status, and facility rather than treating a missing result as proof.
- Review the Clay County District or Circuit Court case for bond, dismissal, sentence, probation, or release orders.
- Use KOOL when the person may be a state inmate or under KDOC supervision.
- Request the existing CCDC booking/release sheet when the precise date, time, type, or transfer destination is needed.
The broader Clay County released inmate search explains how these sources fit together. No official CCDC 24-hour or 72-hour released-person feed was verified. A similarly named sheriff page from another state is not a substitute for the Kentucky jail’s own records.
CCDC Records and Contact
The official contact is Clay County Detention Center, 67 Shamrock Road, Manchester, Kentucky 40962, telephone (606) 598-2133. The separate facility contact page also lists fax (606) 598-7012. No release-desk hours, public-counter schedule, designated records email, online request form, or county release-record fee schedule was verified. Call first and ask for the open-records custodian and the current accepted delivery method.
Clay County Detention Center
67 Shamrock Road
Manchester, KY 40962
Phone: (606) 598-2133
Fax: (606) 598-7012
Records hours: call to confirm
A focused Kentucky Open Records Act request should ask for an existing booking/release sheet, release-summary record, or release-log entry for a named booking. Identify the approximate booking date and any known number. Ask for the actual release date and time, release type, authorizing court or case number, and whether the event was a community release or transfer. If a transfer destination is recorded and nonexempt, request that field as well.
Ask for an associated booking photograph as a separate item only when needed for identity verification. The agency may redact protected content and need not create a new certificate or answer questions that no existing record answers. Current copying costs should be confirmed before submission. If material is withheld, ask for the legal basis and any reasonably separable public portion.
CCDC Release Record Fields
The exact Clay County release form was not published online, so no field should be promised. Still, a well-framed request tells the custodian what existing event record is sought. Identity fields may include legal name, aliases, date of birth, sex, and booking number. Event fields may include booking time, release time, facility, charge or case number, bond data, release type, court authority, and destination.
- Release
- A physical exit from CCDC, which may be to the community or another custodian.
- Transfer
- A handoff to another agency or facility, not a community release.
- Time served
- A sentence credited as completed for the relevant case.
- Detainer
- A request or legal basis for another authority to take or hold the person.
The court docket may last longer than jail-system visibility. It can show bond, disposition, sentence, dismissal, probation, revocation, and later orders. The jail is normally the better source for the actual exit timestamp, while the court is the better source for the legal authority. Those times may differ because processing follows a judge’s order.
Inside Clay County Detention
Kentucky’s official Clay County profile says the regional detention center was completed in 2003 and houses around 250 inmates. That is facility context, not a current population or annual release count. The official jail page describes commissary, communications and mail-related services, along with programs such as mentoring, anger management, parenting and family values work, trauma material, GED study, and Moral Reconation Therapy.
Those programs describe services during confinement. They do not prove that a released person remains enrolled in a community program or is under probation or parole. Any post-release supervision should be checked through KOOL and the Kentucky Department of Corrections, Division of Probation and Parole.
The official CCDC facility site provides a useful view of its services and navigation.
The image helps identify the correct Manchester, Kentucky facility before a record request is sent.
Which Manchester Release System?
Clay County’s custody map is unusual. The county detention center and the federal Manchester complex operate in the same county, while Kentucky state inmates may also be housed in local jails. A search for a “Manchester release” must be matched to the right sovereign. CCDC uses a county booking number, KDOC uses a DOC number, and BOP uses a federal register number. Those identifiers are not interchangeable.
A former CCDC detainee with only a local case may have no KOOL or BOP result. A state inmate physically housed at CCDC may appear in KOOL and in a KDOC daily-release report. A federal inmate at FCI Manchester or its camp belongs in the BOP locator. Checking the wrong system can produce a false absence or a match to a different person.
Compare the name with age, case jurisdiction, facility, and the correct agency number. Keep the displayed status and access date. A booking photograph depicts an earlier booking and cannot establish current custody.
Where CCDC Releases Go
A bond, recognizance order, dismissal, or sentence completion can send a person into the community, although the court case or supervision may continue. Parole and probation mean the person is outside institutional custody but subject to legal conditions. Final discharge is different because it ends the relevant supervision term.
A CCDC transfer can lead to another jail, KDOC, BOP, USMS, ICE, treatment, or medical custody. Kentucky VINE can help flag a custody event, but its event label must be read closely. A transfer alert is not a release to the community. Likewise, a KDOC daily report naming CCDC documents a state-corrections event at that housing site, not every exit from the county jail.
For a durable result, pair the physical release record with the legal or destination record. That may mean CCDC plus the court file, CCDC plus KOOL, or CCDC plus a federal locator. The two-source approach prevents a roster disappearance from being overstated.
Federal Status After CCDC
FCI Manchester adds a separate federal release route inside Clay County. BOP retains federal release dates and warns that “Not in BOP Custody” may coexist with another authority’s custody or with supervised release. A BOP result cannot clear a CCDC, Kentucky, immigration, or other hold.
When CCDC transferred the person to federal custody, pair the county movement record with the BOP locator and federal docket. A handoff is not a community release, even though it ends the person’s physical stay at the county jail.