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Three Forks Jail Overview

Three Forks Regional Jail is the primary public jail roster facility for Lee County. Official jail pages place the facility at 2221 Fairground Ridge Rd in Beattyville and state that the jail uses JailTracker for its public current-inmate system. The jail is a regional jail, so a Lee County search can return people tied to more than one county or agency. That regional role matters. A result on the roster is not proof that the arrest began in Lee County, and a missing result does not mean a sentenced person is not in custody elsewhere.

The jail homepage describes its mission as safe and humane custody, public protection, facility security, and programs that help inmates prepare for return to society. The administrator page names Jared Pelfrey as Administrator. The official Lee County elected-officials page also lists Jailer Justin Shuler and Sheriff Joseph C. Lucas, but current custody lookup is routed through the jail and its JailTracker roster. For sheriff reports, incident records, or non-custody law-enforcement questions, the sheriff's office is the better first contact.

The Three Forks Regional Jail homepage is a useful starting point for confirming the facility identity and JailTracker connection.

The homepage screenshot matches the jail named in the Lee County facility map and supports the JailTracker-based custody route used for current jail inmates.

Three Forks Jail Population

The Kentucky DOC weekly jail report dated 06/04/2026 listed Three Forks (Lee) with 182 total jail beds and 260 reported inmates. That report placed the jail at 143% of capacity and showed the facility 78 people over its listed bed count. The same report broke the population into secure and non-secure custody lines, with secure male, secure female, non-secure male, and non-secure female counts. These are official jail-reporting numbers, not a real-time roster count.

The custody split was 171 secure male, 35 secure female, 46 non-secure male, and 8 non-secure female. The report also listed 18 community-custody eligible inmates and 2 parole violators. Those categories are jail-reporting categories used by Kentucky DOC. They are different from the public JailTracker fields a reader sees on an individual profile.

Three Forks Inmate Lookup

The correct online lookup for current Three Forks Regional Jail custody is the JailTracker public roster. The JailTracker agency data says the public interface is configured for current offenders only, images are enabled, and VINE integration is active. A released-retention setting appears in the metadata, but the public search mode is current-only, so older or released Lee County jail records should be handled through a records request or the court record path instead of being promised as roster results.

1. Open the JailTracker public roster for Three Forks Regional Jail or use the jail's current-inmates page that routes into JailTracker.
2. Search by last name first. First name, middle name, gender, offender ID, permanent ID, intake date range, and agency fields can narrow broad results.
3. Open the result row and compare the name, gender, intake date, offender identifiers, status, and listed agency.
4. Use the profile to review offenses, bond fields, court dates, VINE access, booking data, and additional information when those fields are present.
5. If the person was sentenced and moved to prison custody, search Kentucky DOC KOOL and VINELink instead of relying only on the jail roster.

The JailTracker search screen shows the roster controls used for current Lee County jail lookups.

The search fields support both broad browsing and narrower lookups, which is useful when the roster includes people from the regional jail's wider service area.

Three Forks Address and Contact

Custody confirmation, visit questions, and facility-specific rules should go to Three Forks Regional Jail. Lee County sheriff contacts are useful for sheriff records and local law-enforcement matters, but the jail publishes the current roster and manages on-site visitation rules. If timing matters, such as a new booking, possible release, or a planned visit, phone confirmation is more reliable than assuming the public roster or a court docket has already refreshed.

The official Three Forks directions page lists the address and map links for the Beattyville facility.

Visitors should use the address for final routing and confirm visit eligibility before driving to Fairground Ridge Road.

Three Forks Visitation Rules

Three Forks publishes a gender and segregation schedule for on-site visits. The jail states that each inmate is allowed one 15-minute on-site visit on each scheduled visitation day. Visitors must show proper identification and sign in. The rules also bar food and drinks in the on-site booth, and they prohibit cell phones and cameras. Visits can be denied or stopped for security reasons, intoxication, loud or unruly conduct, indecent conduct, rule violations, or no-contact and protection-order issues.

The Three Forks visitation page is the source for the on-site schedule and visitor rules.

The published schedule is specific to on-site visits, so remote communication options and account issues should be checked through the vendor or the jail.

Three Forks Money and Messages

Three Forks identifies CorrectPay for deposits and InmateSales for Chirps and communication-related services. The research did not locate a local fee schedule, phone-rate table, or complete mail rule page on the official jail site. That gap matters. Senders should not assume that a general vendor rule or another Kentucky jail's rule applies at Three Forks. For money, use the named vendor and confirm the inmate identity before sending funds. For mail, call the jail for the current format, contraband limits, photo rules, and whether legal mail has a separate process.

The Three Forks deposit page names the deposit and Chirps service links used by families and contacts.

Deposit and messaging accounts should be matched against the current JailTracker profile to reduce the risk of sending funds to the wrong person.

Three Forks Booking Records

A Lee County arrest can lead to intake at Three Forks after transport by the sheriff, Beattyville Police, Kentucky State Police, or another agency. Intake generally creates the JailTracker profile and may add a photo, name fields, gender, intake date, offender IDs, status, offenses, bond entries, arrest data, court fields, and additional demographic fields. Sample public output withheld or encrypted sensitive identifiers such as Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, state ID values, and date of birth.

Roster charges are not the same thing as final court charges. Prosecutors and courts may amend, add, dismiss, or replace counts after the jail booking. Court dates and filed charges should be checked through the Kentucky Court of Justice docket tools and the Lee County court clerk. Current custody and booking-photo questions fit the Lee County jail inmate records path, while sentenced Kentucky DOC custody fits KOOL or VINELink.

About Three Forks Jail

Three Forks is listed by Kentucky DOC as a Lee County male Substance Abuse Program location. DOC describes jail SAP as evidence-based substance-use-disorder treatment for eligible people in a jail setting, with a therapeutic-community model and a multi-month treatment frame. The located research did not find current local class schedules, entry criteria, or bed availability for the program, so program status should be confirmed with the jail or Kentucky DOC before relying on it for a case plan.

The administrator page for Three Forks Regional Jail names Jared Pelfrey as the jail administrator.

Administrator information helps distinguish the regional jail operation from the Lee County sheriff and the separate state prison in Beattyville.