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Marshall County Detention Center Overview

Marshall County Detention Center is operated through the Marshall County Jailer and county government. It is the secure local jail serving Benton, Calvert City, the sheriff's office, city police agencies, Kentucky State Police arrests in the county, and court commitments that belong in local custody. The official county page names Roger Ford as Jailer and publishes the jail contact block, public hours, visitation rules, clothing limits, commissary vendor, phone vendor, and open-records email. It does not publish a separate county inmate roster page, so online search starts with Kentucky DOC's statewide lookup and then moves to the jail phone line for very new bookings.

The jail sits in Marshall County's Judicial Drive government corridor. The sheriff is listed next door at 52 Judicial Drive, the county attorney is nearby at 80 Judicial Drive, and court functions are tied to the Marshall County Judicial Building. That local layout matters for jail records because a booking record, a court case, a prosecutor filing, and a bond order may all involve different offices within the same Benton justice campus. Jail staff can answer custody and facility-policy questions, while the court clerk handles formal court records and case copies.

The official detention page does not give a construction year, housing-unit map, floor plan, or accreditation page. The strongest sourced facility facts are operational: visitation windows, one weekly visit, the third-party clothing rule, Care-a-Cell accounts, InmateSales phone funding, no outside medication, no tobacco, library access, and a detention open-records email. Those details are more useful to a family than a generic jail description because they affect the first week after a person is booked.

Marshall County Detention Center Capacity

The Kentucky DOC Weekly Jail report dated 06/04/2026 lists the main Marshall jail line separately from Marshall JRC. For the secure Marshall County Detention Center line, the report shows 120 total jail beds and a reported population of 79, or 66 percent of capacity. The same report breaks that count into 55 secure male, 12 secure female, 6 non-secure male, and 6 non-secure female inmates. It also reports 13 Class D inmates, 6 controlled-intake inmates, 2 parole violators, and 0 federal inmates on that date.

Those figures are point-in-time jail counts, not an annual booking total. Earlier DOC weekly reports show the main Marshall jail line at 216 people on 01/05/2023, 130 on 01/04/2024, 117 on 01/02/2025, 74 on 05/07/2026, and 79 on 06/04/2026. The research did not locate an official county explanation for the drop from 2023 to 2026, so the numbers should be used as population history without assigning a cause.

Lookup Marshall County Detention Center Inmates

No official Marshall County, Kentucky local roster was located in the county sources. The online lookup path is Kentucky Online Offender Lookup, often called KOOL, along with the Kentucky DOC KOOL information page. KOOL can show state offender records and county-jail location data, including a Marshall County Detention Center location filter. It is strongest for sentenced inmates, state prisoners, and county jail inmates already indexed by DOC. A person booked minutes ago may not appear there.

Use the jail phone line when KOOL does not answer the question. Current custody can change fast after arrest, bond, court, transport, or release. Detention staff can confirm what can be released by phone, while record copies or booking documents may require a written request to the detention open-records address. For a broader explanation of roster fields and alternatives, the Marshall County jail inmate records page covers the same lookup chain in more detail.

1. Open KOOL or the official DOC KOOL landing page and start with the person's last name and first name.
2. Use filters such as incarcerated offender type, aliases, photos only, and location when those choices help narrow the results.
3. Check whether the result shows Marshall County Detention Center as the current location before relying on it for local custody.
4. Call 270-527-4760 if the person was just arrested, if a release may have occurred, or if the profile does not show local placement.
5. Submit detention records questions to roger.ford@marshallcountyky.gov when a booking sheet, photo, or local jail record must be requested.

Marshall County Detention Center Contact

Use the detention center contact for current custody, local jail rules, visitation sign-in questions, and detention open-records routing. The sheriff's office and E-911 center are important law-enforcement contacts, but they are not the same as the jail record custodian for detention-center files. For court dates, charges filed by prosecutors, and final dispositions, the Kentucky Court of Justice and the Marshall County Circuit Court Clerk are the better route.

The screenshot from the Marshall County Detention Center page shows the same public contact and family-service topics used for this facility record.

The image is useful because the official page groups visitation, commissary, telephone, clothing, and open-records details in one county source.

Marshall County Detention Center Visits

Marshall County publishes separate visitation windows by population. Each inmate is allowed one 20-minute visit per week. Visitors must sign in legibly on the lobby log and call Control Room through the intercom before they are treated as signed in. Cell phones, recording devices, and photo-taking devices are forbidden during visits, and violations can lead to removal or suspension of visitation privileges.

The male and female schedules apply to the main detention center population. The restricted-custody Class D dorm has its own schedule, which is more relevant to the Marshall JRC / Restricted Custody Facility page. Visitors should confirm current status before travel because housing, classification, discipline, medical status, court movement, or release can change a visit even when the posted hours are unchanged.

Note: Call the jail before leaving for Benton if custody, housing, or a court transport may have changed.

Marshall County Jail Mail and Money

Mail and property rules at Marshall County Detention Center are specific. Clothing must come from a third party, such as Amazon or Walmart, and must arrive within 14 days of the inmate's arrival. The allowed list is narrow: short-sleeved cotton tee shirts in white or gray with no words or pictures, white or gray socks and underwear, handkerchiefs, waffle-type long john tops and bottoms, cotton gym-type shorts, and non-underwire bras for female inmates. Draw strings, buttons, zippers, blue jean shorts, sweatshirts, sweat pants, and pajama pants are not allowed.

New paperback books may be sent, but they are forfeited to the jail after reading. Bibles or preferred religious books are available from the Chaplain. The detention page also states that outside medications cannot be brought into the facility and that no cigarettes or tobacco products are allowed. Those limits matter during intake because families often try to bring clothes or medicine to the jail counter when the published rule requires a different channel.

Marshall County Booking Intake

Arrests by the sheriff, Benton Police, Calvert City Police, Kentucky State Police, or another lawful agency normally move to Marshall County Detention Center for intake unless medical care or another jurisdiction changes the route. Intake includes identification, a booking record, property inventory, search, fingerprints, booking photograph, medical or mental-health screening, and classification. Classification is the jail decision about housing level, sex-separated placement, security status, and any special hold or safety need.

Bond and court processing are related but separate. Kentucky District Court handles misdemeanors, traffic matters, violations, felony probable-cause hearings, and first-appearance type events. Circuit Court handles felony proceedings. Jail staff may be able to confirm whether a local bond exists or whether another hold blocks release, but the court sets the legal release conditions. The Marshall County court records after jail arrest page is the better route once formal court filings, dockets, or dispositions are the main question.

Class D

A Kentucky felony class that may be held in local facilities after sentencing or while awaiting DOC movement.

Controlled intake

A state-prison intake status reported by DOC for jail inmates waiting on state placement.

Detainer

A hold or request from another agency that can affect release even when a local bond exists.

Marshall County Jail Programs

Published program information for Marshall County Detention Center is limited. The official detention page confirms library access and a choice of reading material. It also says new paperback books may be sent in, with the forfeiture rule after reading, and that Bibles or preferred religious books are available from the Chaplain. The research did not locate an official GED, vocational, substance-abuse, work-release, tablet, grievance, medical request, or mental-health request page for the main jail.

Kentucky jail operations also sit under state and county legal standards. KRS 441.055 covers minimum jail standards for health, safety, operations, custody, care, treatment, medical care, equipment, records, training, and construction. KRS 441.045 addresses county rules for jail security, cleanliness, prisoner care, and medical, dental, and psychological treatment. These statutes do not create a public roster by themselves, but they explain why jail records and facility rules are treated as official local government functions.