Lookup Harlan County Detention Center Inmates

Harlan County Detention Center Overview

Harlan County Detention Center is a full-service county detention facility at 6000 Highway 38 in Evarts. The official facility material identifies Harlan County Jailer B.J. Burkhart as the local jailer and describes the jail as a secure operation with alternatives to traditional incarceration. Those alternatives include Pretrial Services, Home Detention, Work Release, and program placement for eligible people.

The jail holds male and female county detainees, people awaiting trial, local sentenced inmates, Kentucky state Class C and D felons, parole violators, SAP participants, and other reported holds. The Harlan County Sheriff's Office is a major arresting and public-safety agency, but the detention center site is jailer-operated and supplies the current-inmate roster link. Harlan, Evarts, Loyall, Cumberland, Benham, and Lynch police arrests route to this county jail after booking rather than to separate local jail pages.

Harlan County Detention Center Population

The facility's bed count is one of the better documented Harlan jail facts. HCDC's jailer page says the newer facility serves 227 beds, and the Kentucky DOC Weekly Jail report for June 4, 2026 also listed 227 total beds. That report showed 202 people in custody, or 89 percent of capacity. It also listed secure male, secure female, and non-secure categories, which matters because the facility reports more than one custody type.

In the June 2026 report, Harlan was 25 beds under capacity. Earlier sampled reports show the count can change: June 2024 was over capacity, while December 2024, December 2025, and June 2026 were below capacity. Use the KY DOC Weekly Jail report index for population trend checks and the jail roster for current person-by-person lookup.

Search Harlan County Detention Center Inmates

The correct local lookup path is the Harlan JailTracker roster linked from the official HCDC site. It is a Public Safety Cloud web app for current inmates. It may show booking details, charges, court fields, bonds, holds, and booking photos when Harlan enables those fields. It is not the same as a certified court file or a statewide prison record.

1. Open the Harlan County Detention Center site or the direct JailTracker roster.
2. Search by last name, then add a first name if the result list is too broad.
3. Open the profile and confirm the facility, booking date, charges, bond fields, and hold status.
4. Call HCDC at 606-837-0096 when the roster does not answer a release, bond, or transfer question.
5. Use KY DOC KOOL, BOP, or ICE ODLS if custody has moved outside the county jail.

Harlan County Detention Center Contact

Use the jail phone line for current jail routing, custody questions that the roster does not answer, medical-staff routing, and confirmation before travel. Use court records through the Harlan Circuit Court Clerk when the question is about filed charges, court dates, or copies of court documents.

HCDC's contact page also lists the court clerk, prosecutor offices, pretrial, probation and parole, public defender, sheriff, Kentucky State Police, and city police phone numbers. That page is useful when a jail record points to a court, arresting agency, or hold that the roster does not explain.

Visit Harlan County Detention Center

HCDC's official menu routes video visitation, inmate deposits, and inmate phone service to GettingOut. The local pages retrieved did not publish a detailed in-person visitation schedule, visitor parking rule, dress code, or child visitor rule. Confirm the current schedule in the vendor account or by calling HCDC before travel. Attorney and legal-mail procedures are handled separately from ordinary personal mail.

GettingOut is the vendor linked by HCDC for video visitation, phone, and deposit access.

Use the vendor page together with HCDC's own menu so the account is connected to the correct Harlan County facility.

Harlan County Jail Mail and Money

The HCDC mail page gives the clearest local rules for written contact. Inmate-to-inmate mail is not permitted. Legal mail and money orders must be clearly marked on the envelope. Legal mail is opened in the inmate's presence and checked for contraband. The security page says physical personal mail, including letters, drawings, and photographs, is scanned by GTL or ViaPath and delivered digitally on tablets, except legal mail.

HCDC's legal mail and money order page publishes the address and marking rules used for mail sent to the facility.

The mail rules are separate from court records and release decisions, so use the jail phone line for custody questions.

Harlan County Booking Intake

Official HCDC material supports a local intake path that starts with arrest by the sheriff, Kentucky State Police, or a city police department. If the person is lodged, HCDC books the intake, performs a medical assessment, screens for contraband, classifies the person for housing, and routes public-facing custody information to JailTracker when the agency makes it available.

The medical page says Southern Health Partners provides care, nurses are onsite daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., medical staff are on call, and a doctor is onsite Tuesdays and on call. The same page says prescriptions for a new intake may be brought to the facility during daily medical hours when they are in proper containers with valid dates. The security page says HCDC uses OD Security/North America 3D scanning technology during booking to detect weapons, phones, paraphernalia, or hidden contraband.

HCDC's medical page describes sick-call routing and Southern Health Partners care.

Medical information is not a public roster field, so family members should use the facility phone line and respect HIPAA limits.

Harlan County Jail Programs

HCDC publishes more local operations detail than many county jails. The jailer page describes B.J. Burkhart's work history at the old downtown Harlan jail and later leadership of the newer facility. It also describes education, rehabilitation, inmate work, faith-based efforts, security technology, cost control, and public-facing service. Those details are facility statements, not independent audit findings, but they help explain how Harlan presents its jail operations.

The property page lists clothing rules for male and female inmates. Issued clothing includes an orange uniform and shoes. Commissary clothing limits include white T-shirts, underwear, ankle socks, and for female inmates white sports bras with no wire. The garden page says HCDC partners with Kellwell Food Service and uses a 13-acre potato garden, with crop proceeds deducted from food costs. KY DOC treatment material also lists Harlan County as a male SAP location.