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ICE Custody and Jessamine

Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention is federal civil immigration custody. It is separate from a Jessamine County criminal case, Kentucky DOC incarceration, and BOP imprisonment. No authoritative source confirmed that JCDC is an ICE detention contractor. ICE appears here only as a conditional custody path when a detainer, release sheet, court record, or direct agency information points to it.

A person transferred from JCDC to ICE has left the county jail but has not been released into the community. Wording matters: “transferred from JCDC to ICE custody” preserves the real chain. Only a later ICE status or agency confirmation can establish departure from immigration custody.

Search the ICE Locator

The official Online Detainee Locator System, or ODLS, has two search routes. The strongest uses a nine-digit A-number plus country of birth. If the A-number has eight digits, add a leading zero. The other route uses the exact first and last name, country of birth, and an optional date of birth. ICE excludes people under 18 from this public locator.

1. Choose A-number search when that stable identifier is available.
2. Enter all nine digits and select the correct country of birth.
3. For name search, use the exact recorded spelling and add birth data when known.
4. Read the returned custody information without expanding it beyond ICE jurisdiction.
5. If no online match appears, call ICE’s information line with the same identifiers.

ICE states that ODLS includes current detainees and people released from ICE custody within the last 60 days. That is a short public window, not a permanent release archive. A past event older than the window may require direct agency or case-record follow-up.

Understand ICE Release Results

A missing result is not proof of release. The person may be outside the released-person window, recorded under another spelling, excluded because of age, recently entered before data appeared, or located in another system. Never turn a failed search into an affirmative custody statement.

Likewise, an ICE release does not resolve a separate criminal case, Kentucky sentence, federal supervised release, or later admission. Each agency record answers its own event.

ICE Information Line

When ODLS returns no usable match, contact the ICE Detention Reporting and Information Line at 1-888-351-4024. Research lists service Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern. Have the A-number, exact name, date of birth, country of birth, and any recorded transfer information ready. A precise identifier is far more useful than a broad description.

The information line is the fallback for ICE location and detention questions. JCDC Booking remains the owner of the county release or transfer sheet, while ICE owns the later immigration-custody event.

Trace a JCDC Transfer

Start with the Jessamine County record. Ask JCDC for the identified booking and release record, including the transfer destination if recorded and nonexempt. A court docket may explain the criminal case order, but it may not contain all federal custody movements. If the record names ICE, search ODLS with the A-number or exact identity data. Save the date, query, exact result, and agency.

If the county record merely shows that the person left its roster, do not guess ICE involvement. Kentucky VINE may show a county transfer event. KOOL may reveal a state institution instead. A BOP locator result may reveal a sentenced federal record. The receiving system should be supported by affirmative evidence.

A-number

The immigration identifier used for the strongest ODLS search.

Detainer

A request or legal basis for another authority to assume custody.

Transfer

Movement from one custodian to another.

Release

The identified custody event ends without that term alone resolving every other jurisdiction.

ICE Versus BOP Release

ICE and BOP are not interchangeable. BOP serves federal criminal sentences and its locator generally covers records from 1982 forward. ICE operates civil immigration detention and provides a much shorter public released-person window. A federal criminal sentence may also include supervised release after prison. Immigration proceedings follow a different record path.

For BOP custody use the Federal Bureau of Prisons release page. For a Kentucky state record use the Kentucky Department of Corrections page. For an ordinary Jessamine booking begin with Jessamine County Detention Center. These boundaries prevent a local roster change from being mislabeled as an ICE release.

Verify an ICE Release

A sound verification note includes the person’s A-number when lawfully available, the exact ODLS wording, the date and time checked, and the custody event being described. If JCDC initiated the chain, retain its booking number and transfer date. Check for a different active custody record rather than assuming the person is free from every authority.

The Jessamine County released inmate search provides the broader county, state, and federal decision path. Kentucky VINELink Release Check can clarify the county event, but VINE is not a substitute for ODLS when ICE is the actual custodian.

After the ICE Release Window

Once the public 60-day released-person window passes, the absence of an ODLS result has little value by itself. Preserve any JCDC transfer sheet, A-number, immigration case identifier, and prior agency response. Use those identifiers when contacting ICE or locating the relevant proceeding. A precise event description helps distinguish release, transfer, removal, and a data mismatch.

Do not substitute an old web report for the agency record. Search results can persist after custody changes, and outside summaries may omit the exact ICE event. The same caution applies to a stale county roster image. Date every observation and separate what the record states from what is inferred.

Where the custody trail began in Jessamine County, the local release sheet can establish when JCDC control ended. It cannot prove when ICE later released the person. Conversely, an ICE released result does not state why the earlier county case ended. Pair the records only after identifiers and dates show they belong to the same person and custody chain.

A later community location from an unrelated source does not replace ICE confirmation. Nor does a closed ICE event prove that every state, county, or federal criminal matter ended. Keep the statement narrow: the identified ICE custody event ended within the period reported by the agency. Preserve the exact check time too.