Bullitt County Detention Center | Shepherdsville, Kentucky

1671 S Preston Hwy
Shepherdsville, KY 40165-5464

(502) 543-7263
Bullitt County Detention Center
Jailer Martha Knox
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Bullitt County Detention Center

The Bullitt County Detention Center in Bullitt County serves as a prison facility for the city of Shepherdsville and other smaller towns surrounding Bullitt. As well as inmates awaiting transfer to other prisons, jails and State penitentiaries. Bullitt County Detention Center is a medium prison facility. One of several in KY In order to visit inmates at Bullitt County Detention Center, you'll be traveling to Shepherdsville, KY, 40165-5464 in Bullitt. The address of this facility is listed as 1671 S Preston Hwy. But it's important that you verify that your inmate is at this location before making travel arrangements.

Maintaining contact with friends and family is important for the health and wellbeing of both inmates and their family. Sadly, many prisons don't make this easy. Phone charges of up to $14 a minute for long distance calls create financial burdens on inmate families who must pay for these calls. Thankfully services from Securtel help avoid these additional charges by creating a local phone number an inmate can call that will connect to any long-distance number. By eliminating the long-distance surcharge, inmates can talk to friends and family at the local rate no matter where they might live. You can set this up with Securtel.coml at inmate calls. To send mail to an inmate you can visit send postcards. Calling your inmate is the best way to get details about mail and visitation rules for Bullitt County Detention Center. They can provide you with their individual allowed prison call times and visitation hours and open days. Every prison facility in KY has its own rules. Your loved one will generally be informed of the rules for that facility and any individual restrictions applied.

Bullitt County Detention Center is a County Jail facility. It can be helpful to understand the type of facility because this will largely determine how inmates at Bullitt County Detention Center will be treated. Prison is expensive. Even public prison facilities appear to be operating like for-profit prisons these days. Long distance phone calls are a favorite way for jails to make money. Charging inmates for everything from soap to toothpaste is another. Even sending your inmate money to buy these things will come with an added fee. The first thing to do is set up an economical line of communication as suggested above. Then you can communicate with the inmate to discuss a reasonable budget and how the family can work together to pay and keep it.

Bullitt County Detention Center is located in the EST time zone. Ensure your call times match the correct time in your inmate's location. The current Bullitt County Detention Center warden is Jailer Martha Knox. You can often talk directly with them at a smaller facility or write and email them at a larger one. This will naturally depend on the size and type of your prison facility. Bullitt County Detention Center currently holds around 315 inmates. At full capacity Bullitt County Detention Center was built to hold 250. How crowded Bullitt County Detention Center is at any moment can significantly affect living conditions. Prison families can do a lot to help each other and their inmates in Bullitt County Detention Center by sharing information about this facility with other families. We make that easy. Take a moment to share your experiences at Bullitt County Detention Center. Everything from suggestions about the best places to stay to the most helpful local organizations can be valuable to others.
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