Find Martin County Inmates

Martin County Inmate Search Route

The official Martin County government site did not publish a sheriff inmate lookup, jail page, warrant page, mobile app, or records portal during research. Big Sandy Regional Detention Center is the official regional jail source located for Martin County custody information. Kentucky DOC location data also shows "Martin County Jail (closed)" as a closed location option, which supports the regional-detention routing. That means the local inmate search should begin with Big Sandy's roster or phone channel, not with a county-only jail database.

The Big Sandy Regional Detention Center footer lists the facility at 904 3rd Street, Paintsville, KY 41240, phone 606-297-5245. Big Sandy also lists the Martin County Sheriff's Office phone as 606-298-2828 on its area law enforcement resource page. Use the jail for custody, visitation, commissary, and roster questions. Use the sheriff for law-enforcement routing. Use court records for filed charges, bond terms, and hearings after an arrest. A jail roster entry is not the same as the full Martin County arrest records and court charges path.

The image below comes from the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center homepage, the official regional jail source found for Martin County custody information.

Because the jail is regional, custody research may use Paintsville jail contact details even when the arrest or court case is in Martin County.

Use Martin County JailTracker

Big Sandy publishes an inmate roster path that frames a JailTracker Public Roster. The official roster URL is on Big Sandy's site, and the public app shell loads without a login. The roster content is JavaScript-rendered, so static research could not reliably capture a full sample inmate profile or all live search fields. Treat that as a display limitation, not permission to invent booking fields. If the roster does not load in a browser, call Big Sandy directly.

1. Open the Big Sandy inmate roster page in a browser that allows scripts.
2. Let the JailTracker Public Roster frame load before searching or scrolling.
3. Search by available name or roster controls shown by the live app.
4. Confirm custody, bond, or release questions by calling Big Sandy at 606-297-5245.
5. Use court records if the question is about filed charges, court dates, or case disposition.

The image below comes from the Big Sandy inmate roster frame, the official page that points users into JailTracker.

The roster path is official, but the live app can expose more detail than a static page capture shows.

Martin County Roster Fields

The research did not verify a complete public JailTracker field list for Big Sandy because the app is rendered by JavaScript. The safest table is therefore a use-and-limit table rather than an invented booking profile. Roster data, when visible, should be treated as current custody information. It may not show every historical booking, sealed matter, warrant status, court outcome, or future release change. Court charges and warrant questions should be checked through separate court or sheriff channels.

For case outcomes, use KYeCourts or the Circuit Court Clerk. For active warrant concerns, use the sheriff or clerk path described with Martin County warrant records. For state sentenced or supervised offenders, use KOOL instead of the county jail roster.

Martin County Jail Contacts

Martin County custody information should be routed through Big Sandy Regional Detention Center. The research did not locate a separate open Martin County jail facility or county-run online roster. It also did not locate published jail capacity, dress code, attorney-visit rules, holiday rules, or mail-format rules in official pages. Those details should be confirmed by phone before scheduling a visit or sending funds.

Martin County KOOL Records

Kentucky Online Offender Lookup, usually called KOOL, is the statewide Department of Corrections tool. It is not the county jail booking roster. KOOL is best for sentenced or supervised offenders, state custody, supervision status, DOC identifiers, conviction information, and related offender details. A person may appear in a regional jail roster but not yet appear in KOOL. A person may also appear in KOOL because of state custody or supervision after local court activity has moved past the booking stage.

KOOL search fields documented in the research include photos-only, aliases, name fields, results sort order, offender type, DOC number, PID number, supervision status, location type, location, county of supervision, age range, race, gender, offense name, Kentucky Revised Statute code, indictment, crime date, conviction date, conviction county, institution start or supervision begin date, escape or abscond date range, and projected release date range.

The image below comes from Kentucky Online Offender Lookup, the statewide offender search used for state custody and supervision records.

Use KOOL when the record is a state offender record; use Big Sandy when the question is current regional jail custody.

Martin County Inmate Visitation

Big Sandy's official visitation page states that visitation is through video visitation weekly from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. The official HTML did not show visitor-registration fields, dress code, identification rules, child visitor rules, attorney visitation policy, holiday schedule, or visit-length schedule. Do not assume those rules. Call Big Sandy before scheduling, especially around holidays, lockdowns, emergencies, or attorney visits.

The image below comes from the Big Sandy visitation page, the official source for the video visitation schedule.

The schedule is broad, so direct confirmation is still needed for login, approval, visitor identity, and rule questions.

Martin County Commissary Funds

The Big Sandy commissary page says anyone wanting to fund an inmate's account through TouchPay must email required information to administrator@bsrdc.com. The required email information is inmate name, name as it appears on the card used for the deposit, gender, relationship to the inmate, and address. Pricing, deposit limits, and fee details were not located on the official Big Sandy page, so those should not be invented.

The image below comes from the Big Sandy commissary page, the official local source for TouchPay email requirements.

TouchPay is a jail-linked deposit channel for inmate accounts, not a court bond or warrant-clearance payment system.

Martin County Inmate Messages

The Big Sandy menu links inmate phones to CIDNET, but no official Big Sandy phone-rate page was located in the research. Big Sandy's FAQ says messages to inmates must be approved by the administrator or supervisor on duty and are approved only on a "Need to Know Basis." The FAQ also lists Home Incarceration at 606-789-4041. No official mail-rules page, mailing format, postcard-only rule, scan-and-destroy policy, or package rule was located.

Use the jail's published site for official contact, visitation, commissary, and roster links. Treat CIDNET and TouchPay as jail-linked vendors only where Big Sandy links or describes them. For any unpublished rule, call Big Sandy before sending mail, funds, or messages. If the question is about a court date, charge, warrant, or bond order, use the court or sheriff channel instead of a jail phone vendor.

Note: Unpublished jail rules should be verified by phone before sending money, mail, messages, or scheduling a visit.

Martin County VINELink Alerts

Big Sandy links to VINELink for custody notification. VINELink can provide custody status and criminal case information and may support text, email, phone, TTY, and in-app notification depending on configuration. Official app references include support for offender, defendant or person, case, probationer, sex offender, and protective-order subject contexts. County-specific VINELink result fields were not fully inspectable from static HTML because the tool is a JavaScript app.

VINELink mobile access should be described accurately. It is a custody notification app, not an official Martin County Sheriff app, and it is not a local jail roster substitute. Research found no official sheriff, Inez police, Warfield police, or Martin County police mobile app. For current regional jail custody, use Big Sandy. For notification, use VINELink. For state sentenced or supervised offenders, use KOOL.

The image below comes from the JailTracker Public Roster app, the public roster shell framed by Big Sandy.

The live roster and notification tools serve different jobs, so custody status should be checked in the source that matches the task.

Martin County Inmate Channels

Each official channel answers a different inmate-record question. Big Sandy is the local or regional custody source. KOOL is the state offender source. VINELink is the notification source. The Kentucky State Police registry is a separate sex-offender public-safety source, protected by reCAPTCHA in the quick search flow. The Circuit Court Clerk handles court case records after charges are filed, and the sheriff phone channel handles law-enforcement routing.

• Big Sandy roster: current regional custody through the official jail path.
• Big Sandy phone: custody, visitation, commissary, messages, and rule confirmation.
• Martin County Sheriff's Office: local law-enforcement contact channel.
• KOOL: state sentenced and supervised offender lookup.
• VINELink: custody and case notification registration, including mobile notification access.
• Circuit Court Clerk: official court case records, court dates, charges, bond, and dispositions.

VINELink can help track changes, but official custody and court status should still be verified at the jail or court source.