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McCracken County Jail

Vision Providing correctional services that are fair, impartial, effective and in compliance with the Kentucky jail standards. To have dedicated professionals who realize they are responsible and accountable to each other as well as to the public which the jail serves.

This site is designed to inform the general public about the jail's operations. View the jail's mission and vision statements which show that I and my deputies are dedicated to serving and protecting the community. We can accomplish this only with the community's help and support. I write and compose the news releases on this site unless otherwise designated and take sole responsibility for their opinion and content.

Mission Statement To provide a safe and secure facility for the inmates, staff and community

Welcome to
The McCracken County Regional Jail
400 South 7th Street - Paducah, Kentucky
Phone: (270) 444-4730 - Fax: (270) 444-4746
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Jail FEES | ClassD Program | HISTORY | Information & Mgt. | Inmate Art | Tour the Jail | NEWS releases

Inmate Listing Update

Current Inmates Housed at McCracken County Regional Jail

* Kentucky Department of Corrections Access inmate records including class D's in county jails by clicking on the KOOL icon at the Kentucky Department of Corrections web site.

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2008 News Releases

* Revisions
* Jailer expects to save $250,000 on care

2007 News Releases

* Group offers those who served time help with rebuilding lives
* Puchase of 7th Street building could alleviate jail overcrowding
* Cook, not judge
* Jail hopes to save $400,000 with online autions
* Inmate lawsuits not seen as extending jail investigation

2006 News Releases

* Orazine predicts finale of jail probe??
* Autopsey set today on Paducah inmate
* Arkansas man arrested after truck taken here
* New state jail requires jails to fingerprint persons being booked into the jail
* Jailer Bill Adams wins by a landslide!
* Higher pay sought to cut jail OT
* Escapee Captured
* Jail consultants cost feds over $37,000
* McCracken second-most costly jail
* McCracken jail to arm deputies on transports
* Informant's jailing sparks precautions
* Paducah inmate admits killing Arizona woman
* McCracken Inmates Sought for TB tests

2005 News Releases

* Growing Concerns
* Squirrel Cage Jail
* Plan to cut inmate health care costs
* Federal visit at McCracken jail "one of best" Adams says
* Feds return to McCracken jail
* Courthouse and Jail mural August 19, 2005
* Swearing in ceremony August 02, 2005
* New McCracken jailer sworn in: few changes expected by Adams August 02, 2005
* Jailer hopes feds leave, too, July 26, 2005
* Alben Barkley award presented to Cliff Gill, July 26, 2005
* Resignation letter, July 26, 2005
* Jailer Cliff Gill announces his retirement, July 25, 2005
* More inmates treated for TB exposure, July 06, 2005
* Numbers decline but jail cases still an issue, July 06, 2005
* Inmates at jail get tests for TB, June 28, 2005
* Stakeout apprehends 3 inmates, supervisor June 15, 2005
* Tobacco shakedown conducted May 16, 2005
* Jail smoking ban phased in, cigarettes seized at bookings
* Deputy Chuck Upchurch receives loyalty award
* Inmate, most of health costs switch to state
* Jail may get relief from female crowd
* National Peace Officers Memorial Day
* Quit Cold Turkey!
* Harold Taylor past President of The KJA dies after two years in coma
* FOP Memorial May 9th
* Economy, state laws force closing of Livingston jail
* Jail goes cold turkey May 16
* Jailer determines McCracken jail will go smoke-free
* McGee Fugitive from Texas
* 1200 peoples junk finds on free dump day
* Jailer Cliff Gill shakes hands with Country Chevrolet
* Beach's hiring hit at county meeting
* State forces Calloway inmate to pay restitution in meth case
* McCracken Jail escapee found after seven weeks under sink
* David Harris Retirement Luncheon
* Walk Away Recaptured
* Paducah Leadership Class tours facility
* Graves County Middle School Jail Tour
* Joe Rupcke Escape
* Paducah man charged with bank robbery

2004 News Releases

* Jail Report for 2004
* Christmas Day
* Norman Springs Bank Robbery
* Drug Court Announced
* Thanksgiving Day
* Suicide watch receives new cameras
* Hooch found in trash can
* Female inmates crowding jail dorms
* County's trash abatement vehicle totaled in head-on collision
* KJA holds fall conference in Paducah
* Inmate walks away, but not for long
* 2004 Reidland Day
* McCracken County Jail Implements TCC
* Tubes in boiler
* Jailer Cliff Gill's statement on the DOJ investigation
* Funds are being raised to replace K-9
* PPD search for murder suspect
* New jail deputies sworn in
* MCCCJ receives a new roof

2004 News Releases

* Funds are being raised to replace K-9
* PPD search for murder suspect
* New jail deputies sworn in
* MCCCJ receives a new roof
* Beyonds the Myths The jail in your community
* Correctional Healthcare Consultant Gene Baldwin's Letter to the Editor
* Inmate dies of cardiac arrest
* Deputy Jailer Tim Freeman and Cezar
* County jails must pay for mental illness drugs
* Memorial Services for Deputy Gene Willoughby
* Ulrich Medical Concepts launches jail program
* Kentucky Jailers Association 22nd Improvement Conference
* Shot heard across the bluegrass
* Jail's website helps locate Indiana fugitive
* What counties can do for prison parents
* Jackson Purchase FOP Lodge #15 2004 peace officers' Memorial Service
* Deputy commissioner of corrections visits jail
* Jailer Gill attends burial of HL Hunley Crew
* A former Paducah firefighter while being booked into the jail, found to be in possession cocaine
* Reidland and Livingston High Schools tour jail
* Featured artist, inmate Russell Jones interviewed
* New washers and dryers for renovated laundry room
* Jail's art program featured in County Line Publication
* McCracken County to use inmates for trash pickups on roads
* Francis Borgia transported to new location
* Jail reprieve delays expansion need
* Inmate charged with promoting dangerous contriband
* Growth of jail may cost less
* 2004 Leadership Paducah class visit
* Architechural plans for McCracken County Regional Jail
* Graves 8th grade middle school tours jail
* Jail's hot water storage replaced
* Women inmates self-esteem hoped to be improved by ministry
* Bond posted to get disabled inmate out of jail
* Florida Fugitive
* Designs to solve jail overcrowding in McCracken

2003 News Releases
* Holiday behind bars brightened with prayers handshakes and candy
* KSP Sex Offender Registry link added to site
* Inmate Move
* Thanksgiving dinner in the jail
* Cellblock of the month goes to females
* Pepperball Gun Demonstration
* Inmate charged with promoting marijuana in the jail
* Lockdown is working
* News conference on gang activity
* Inmate charged with sodomy
* Jailer Gill's Birthday
* 12 Year Sentence for Escapee
* Medication Interview
* Window Screens Installed
* Watson brothers arrested
* The Capture of Duane Ramsey
* New Inmate Art
* Pepperball Gun Demonstration
* Elaborate plan to sneak pot into jail brings more charges
* Police memorial will be replaced
* McCracken jail plan adds 160 beds
* Jailer and agriculture commissioner candidate
* Deputy Keith Galloway demonstrates jail's fingerprint machine
* Wind knocks over FOP memorial
* Safety Razor Works
* Mental health and substance abuse counselling costs double
* A Cario, Illinois man has been charged with murder in connection with the shooting death of 20 year old Richard Hill
* Home incarceration shows benefits, limits
* Gill escapes IRS' ire in jail funds mistake
* KJA Annual Conference
* Inmate Listing Update
* FOP Memorial Service
* Paducah Police called to assist Jailers
* Toilet Paper Rope Confiscated
* Deputy Debbie Riley receives commendation
* McCracken County Deputy Sheriffs have recaptured a March 26th jail escapee
* Inmate Telephone System
* Youth Group Tour
* State Cuts Class D Pay
* McCracken County Jail Escape
* Flags flown in support of troops
* Jail receives frauduent medical claims
* Doctors donate a EKG machine to jail
* Jail expands nursing coverage
* Updates on Harold Taylor's Condition
* Paducahan returned to jail
* Leadership Paducah Class
* Preliminary study to build jail addition
* REIDLAND HIGH SCHOOL / NEWS RELESASE
* Bus takes 34 state inmates from jail
* Jailer's statement on movement of state prisoners
* Walkaway recaptured by Deputy Jailers
* Patton to free 25 area inmates
* Jail Staff at Swearing in Ceremonies
* Early release inmate arrested


LINKS outside The McCracken County Jail Below

* McCracken County Clerk
* KY State Police
* The Kentucky Jailers Association
* Paducah City Police
* Correctional Healthcare Consulting
* Kentucky Attorney General's Office
* Kentucky Court of Justice

By calling 1-800-511-1670, information on an inmate in the state prison system or the County jail system can be obtained. The caller, after registering with VINE System, can be notified of an inmates release. The Vine Computer scans the jail computer every ten minutes.
Contact the McCracken County Jail with our online form
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