Kentucky Revised Statutes
Includes enactments through the 2024 Regular Session
The KRS database was last updated on 07/16/2024
.010 Repealed, 1956.
.020 Repealed, 1956.
.030 Repealed, 1956.
.040 Repealed, 1956.
.050 Repealed, 1956.
.060 Repealed, 1956.
.070 Repealed, 1978.
.080 Repealed, 1970.
.090 Repealed, 1956.
.095 Repealed, 1992.
.100 Repealed, 1956.
.105 Repealed, 1948.
.106 Repealed, 1948.
.110 Repealed, 1962.
.115 Repealed, 1963.
.120 Repealed, 1956.
.125 Repealed, 1963.
.130 Repealed, 1956.
.135 Repealed, 1963.
.140 Repealed, 1956.
.145 Repealed, 1963.
.150 Repealed, 1956.
.155 Repealed, 1963.
.160 Repealed, 1956.
.165 Repealed, 1963.
.170 Repealed, 1956.
.175 Repealed, 1976.
.177 Parole privileges for certain misdemeanants -- Duties of sentencing judge.
.179 Release of misdemeanants -- Purposes for which permitted -- Earnings of prisoner, records, and disposition -- Authority of District Judge and jailer.
.180 Repealed, 1956.
.190 Repealed, 1956.
.200 Repealed, 1956.
.210 Repealed, 1956.
.220 Repealed, 1956.
.230 Repealed, 1956.
.240 Repealed, 1956.
.250 Definitions for KRS 439.250 to 439.560.
.260 Repealed, 1975.
.265 Shock probation in felony conviction -- Procedure -- Exclusions -- Comprehensive sex offender presentence evaluation -- Exercise of authority.
.267 Shock probation in misdemeanor convictions -- Procedure -- Exercise of authority -- Availability for sexual offenders.
.268 Probation program credits.
.270 Repealed, 1975.
.280 Repealed, 1975.
.290 Repealed, 1975.
.300 Repealed, 1975.
.302 Repealed, 2007.
.304 Repealed, 2007.
.306 Repealed, 2007.
.310 Administration of probation and parole laws.
.3101 Administrative regulations requiring supervision and treatment in accordance with evidence-based practices.
.3102 Training and professional development for department personnel concerning implementation of evidence-based practices.
.3103 Annual report on efforts to implement evidence-based practices to reduce recidivism.
.3104 Duties of department concerning risk and needs assessment instrument.
.3105 Administrative caseload supervision program for supervised offenders -- Administrative regulations.
.3106 Sanctions to which supervised individuals are subject.
.3107 System of graduated sanctions for violations of conditions of community supervision -- Administrative regulations.
.3108 Modification of conditions of community supervision -- Department to reimburse local correctional or detention facilities or residential centers -- Imposition of graduated sanctions.
.3109 Quarterly review of recommended confinement sanctions.
.3110 Pregnancy release conditions for eligible persons reasonably believed to have a substance use disorder.
.315 Payment of fee by released person -- Amount -- Waiver of payment -- Applicable to persons released by county containing a city of the first class or urban-county government.
.320 Parole board -- Members' qualifications, terms, compensation -- Chairperson -- Administrative regulations -- Quorum.
.330 Duties of board.
.331 Risk and needs assessment of criminal risk factors of parole-eligible inmates.
.335 Scientific means of personality analysis to be used to establish level, intensity, terms, and conditions of supervision.
.340 Parole of prisoners confined in adult penal or correctional institutions, halfway houses, and reentry centers -- Notice of prisoner's parole to be given to certain law enforcement officers, and to victims or their next of kin.
.3401 Violent offenders -- Conditions for release -- Applicability of section to victim of domestic violence or abuse -- Time of offense -- Prohibition against award of credit.
.3402 Exemption from KRS 439.3401 for victims of domestic violence and abuse -- Procedures -- Effect.
.3403 Reconsideration of parole of inmate given deferment or serve-out longer than sixty months -- Exceptions -- Hearings.
.3405 Parole of prisoners with documented terminal medical conditions -- Hearing.
.3406 Mandatory reentry supervision six months prior to projected completion date of inmate's sentence for inmate not granted discretionary parole -- Exceptions -- Terms of supervision -- No credit for time absconding -- Report.
.3407 Conditional parole of state inmates to be served in local correctional facility, jail, or reentry center -- Administrative regulations -- Work release.
.3408 Department to approve any acceptable housing for parolees.
.341 Probable cause revocation hearings of probation, parole, and postincarceration supervision violators.
.342 Retention of prisoner on parole.
.344 Effect of parole time on sentence -- Exceptions.
.345 Compliance credits for eligible parolees -- Definitions -- Administrative regulations.
.346 Prisoner paroled or under postincarceration supervision subject to orders of board.
.348 Paroled prisoner under supervision of department -- Cessation.
.350 Repealed, 1962.
.352 Recommitment of supervised individual on parole or post-release supervision -- Effect.
.354 Final discharge of paroled prisoner -- Conditions.
.356 Final discharge -- Effect.
.358 Final discharge provisions -- Application.
.360 Repealed, 1962.
.370 Commonwealth's attorney to cause to be transmitted to the institution a concise statement of facts adduced at trial or hearing.
.380 Prison officials to furnish members of board with access to prisoner, facilities for communicating with prisoner, reports and other facts.
.390 Board may issue subpoenas -- Penalty for false testimony or failure to comply with subpoena -- Circuit Court may compel the attendance of witnesses, production of documents and giving of testimony before board.
.400 Repealed, 1980
.410 Board's order to be sufficient authority to officer in charge of state penal institution to release from custody paroled or conditionally released prisoner.
.420 Person out on parole not to be required to wear regulation dress of penitentiary.
.430 Parole officer may arrest parolee or person subject to postincarceration supervision, when -- Detention -- Report to commissioner -- Return of prisoner to prison -- Prisoner for whose return a warrant has been issued to be deemed a fugitive from justice -- Effect of violation of parole.
.440 Prisoner returned to state custody for violation of release to be heard by board -- Time.
.450 Board to make investigation and report to Governor.
.460 Repealed, 1962.
.470 Powers and duties of commissioner.
.480 Duties of probation and parole officers.
.483 Training of probation and parole officers regarding sexual offender registration laws -- Necessary documents.
.485 Probation and parole officer's position considered hazardous duty for retirement purposes.
.490 Repealed, 1960.
.500 Prohibited activities of probation and parole officers.
.510 Information obtained by probation or parole officer to be privileged -- Exception.
.520 Repealed, 1979.
.530 Repealed, 1978.
.540 Powers of department.
.550 Probation by District Court -- Supervision by Department of Corrections, or by adult misdemeanant probation and work release agency of urban-county government.
.551 Graduated sanctions for probation violations -- Administrative regulations.
.552 Early termination of probation -- Administrative regulations.
.553 Judicial determination of conditions of community supervision.
.555 Conditional release of certain prisoners.
.560 Repealed, 2002.
.561 Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision.
.562 Kentucky Council for Interstate Adult Offender Supervision -- Membership -- Meetings -- Reimbursement -- Administrative regulations.
.563 Restitution as condition of parole -- Board order -- Effect on length of parole.
.570 Persons accepted for supervision under compact subject to arrest and detention -- Notice to sending state -- Applicability of supervision fee and of drug testing and substance abuse treatment fee.
.575 Prerelease probation of inmates program.
.580 Definitions for KRS 439.590 to 439.630.
.590 Community residential correctional centers.
.600 Extension of limits of place of confinement -- Conditions.
.610 Conduct constituting escape from custody.
.620 Employment for prisoner -- Considerations in securing.
.630 Scope of commissioner's authority.
.640 Vocational training program for prisoners -- Eligibility for compensation -- Commissioner to recommend regulations.
.650 Definitions for KRS 439.650 to 439.657.
.651 Reentry drug supervision pilot program -- Duration -- Elements -- Evaluation -- Reports -- Administrative regulations.
.652 Administration and oversight of pilot program -- Reentry team members, training, and functions -- Confidentiality of proceedings -- Exception.
.653 Referral of inmates or parolees to pilot program -- Substance use disorder assessments -- Factors to be considered -- Conditions of referral.
.654 Structure and content of pilot program.
.655 Suspension from and resumption of pilot program participation.
.656 Effect of failure of participant to complete pilot program through no fault of his or her own.
.657 Voluntary termination from pilot program.
.990 Penalties.