Lyon County Jail Roster Status
No official Lyon County, Kentucky jail roster, county inmate search portal, jail capacity page, or visitation page was located on the county government or sheriff sources reviewed during research. The verified sources do not support publishing a booking database, facility capacity, jail street address, visitation schedule, mail format, commissary vendor, phone vendor, or video visit provider. A public search result for a Lyon County Sheriff's Office app was also reviewed, but it described Lyon County, Nevada, not Lyon County, Kentucky. No official Kentucky sheriff app was found.
The verified local custody path starts with the Lyon County Sheriff's Office, which lists Sheriff Brent White, sheriff services, dispatch, open records, accident reports, and office contact details. The Kentucky Department for Local Government also lists Steve Galusha as County Jailer. For state custody or supervision, the official tools are Kentucky Online Offender Lookup and Kentucky VINE. Those tools do not replace the county for immediate local booking questions, but they help when a person may have moved into state custody or when a custody notification is needed.
The image below comes from the Kentucky VINE public search and notification landing page, one of the successful inmate-search sources in the manifest.
VINE is useful for custody-status alerts, but it should be paired with Lyon County sheriff or jailer contact when the question is local booking status.
Lyon County Inmate Fallback Chain
Since no official Lyon County KY roster was located, the safest inmate lookup process moves from local contacts to state systems. The order matters because a person may be newly arrested, held locally, transferred, sentenced to state custody, placed under supervision, or held in a federal system. A court charge or warrant question may also require a court record lookup rather than an inmate lookup.
- Call the Lyon County Sheriff's Office at 270-388-2311 for custody or jail-related questions.
- Use dispatch at 270-388-0911 only for urgent routing, not as a routine records desk.
- Contact County Jailer Steve Galusha at 270-963-0005 or marshagalusha@bellsouth.net when the question concerns jail operations.
- Submit a written LCSO open-records request for booking or law-enforcement records not shown online, subject to exemptions and availability.
- Search Kentucky VINE for custody status and notification registration.
- Search Kentucky Online Offender Lookup for state sentenced or supervised offenders.
Federal custody is separate. Federal inmate location and federal court records use federal agencies and PACER, not the Lyon County jail path. If the custody question is tied to an arrest, charge, or warrant, the court case may need to be checked through the Circuit Court Clerk or the relevant court file.
KOOL Search Fields
Kentucky Online Offender Lookup is the state Department of Corrections search tool for sentenced and supervised offenders. It is not a confirmed Lyon County local jail roster. It may help when a person has moved into state prison, parole, probation, or another DOC-supervised status. The research captured these KOOL search fields.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last Name | text | optional | Enter search data in any or all fields; check spelling if there are no results. |
| First Name | text | optional | Use to narrow common surnames. |
| Middle Name / initial | text | optional | May be available in the full portal. |
| PID / DOC number | text | optional | Use when the Department of Corrections number is known. |
| Search aliases | checkbox/filter | optional | Search-result URLs show a searchAliases parameter. |
| Only photo records | checkbox/filter | optional | Search-result URLs show an onlyPhotoRecords parameter. |
| Page size / page number | system controls | optional | Pagination appears in result URL parameters. |
| Reset Data | button | n/a | Clears search data. |
VINE Custody Fields
VINE is a custody-status and notification system. The Kentucky DOC says VINE gathers information from jail booking systems, prisons, and mental health facilities and can notify victims or concerned citizens when custody status changes. It is free and automated. Phone registrants create a four-digit PIN to confirm notifications. VINE field research captured a smaller public field set than a full county inmate profile.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| State | Kentucky must be selected on the state VINE landing page. |
| Offender name | Name used for custody search when available. |
| Registration phone or email | Contact method for custody notifications. |
| Four-digit PIN | Phone notification confirmation code created by the registrant. |
| Custody status | Status details supplied by participating jail, prison, or facility systems when available. |
Note: No official Lyon County KY inmate profile inventory was captured, so booking number, housing unit, commissary, and projected release fields are not claimed here.
Lyon County Custody Contacts
The research supports contact cards for the sheriff and county jailer, not a facility capacity table. The sheriff office address is official. The jailer contact comes from the Kentucky Department for Local Government profile. Because no official jail address or capacity source was found, the jailer card does not invent a detention-center address, bed count, or visitation hours.
Lyon County Sheriff's Office
500 West Dale Avenue, Suite 100
P.O. Box 126
Eddyville, KY 42038
270-388-2311
Dispatch: 270-388-0911
Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Central
Lyon County Jailer
Steve Galusha, County Jailer
Address not confirmed in official jail source
270-963-0005
marshagalusha@bellsouth.net
Verify custody, visitation, and mail instructions directly.
The Kentucky DLG Lyon County profile was one of the successful image sources assigned to this page. The image below comes from the Kentucky Department for Local Government county profile.
The DLG source supports the jailer contact, but it does not supply a public jail roster, capacity, or visitation schedule.
Lyon County Booking Records
Booking and law-enforcement records not posted online may be requested through the LCSO open-records process. The request must be written and signed, print the requester's name, include address and phone number, and describe the records by name, date, and location when possible. Requests may be mailed, faxed, or hand delivered to the sheriff's Official Custodian. Released pages cost $0.10 per page according to the sheriff open-records page, while photos, CDs, videos, and diskettes have separate media fees.
Not every booking-related item is public. Kentucky law can restrict active investigations, juvenile records, body-worn camera recordings, and records that would identify confidential or protected information. A court case file is also different from a sheriff booking record. Charges, hearings, bond orders, pleas, dispositions, and sentencing events are court records held through the Circuit Court Clerk once a case exists.
Lyon County Visitation Gaps
No official Lyon County KY jail visitation, mail, commissary, phone, video visitation, or money-deposit page was located on the county government or sheriff site during research. The safest rule is to call the sheriff or jailer before visiting, mailing anything, creating a phone account, or sending funds. Do not rely on a vendor name unless the county confirms it.
| Topic | Official Lyon County KY source found? | Usable note |
|---|---|---|
| In-person visitation schedule | no | Call sheriff or jailer before visiting. |
| Video visitation provider | no | No official vendor located. |
| Visitor ID requirements | no | Verify directly. |
| Dress code | no | Verify directly. |
| Minor visitor rules | no | Verify directly. |
| Mail format | no | Verify with jailer or sheriff before sending mail. |
| Commissary deposits | no | No official vendor located. |
| Phone service provider | no | No official vendor located. |
| Attorney visitation | no | Attorneys should contact the facility or court directly. |
Lyon County Inmate Contact Limits
Because the research did not locate an official mail, phone, video visit, or commissary page for Lyon County, no inmate contact instructions should be treated as verified until confirmed by the sheriff or jailer. A person may be moved quickly after booking, and a state or federal transfer changes the correct contact channel. VINE can alert registered users to custody changes, but it does not publish local mail rules.
For jail-related questions, use the sheriff office, dispatch for urgent routing, and the county jailer contact. For records, use the sheriff open-records process. For state custody and supervision, use KOOL. For notification, use VINE or the Kentucky DOC VINE phone information, including 1-800-511-1670.
The difference between these channels is important for Lyon County inmate search accuracy. A sheriff call can answer local custody routing questions that a statewide database may not show yet. The jailer contact is the better route when the question is about local jail operations, visitation, mail, or money rules that were not posted online. KOOL is the better route when the person has a DOC number, a state sentence, or supervision status. VINE is the better route when the main need is notice of release, transfer, or other custody-status change. For a pending criminal case, the court file may still be the only place to confirm the next hearing, bond order, filed charge, plea, or disposition.
State and Federal Custody
KOOL and VINE answer different questions than a local jail roster. KOOL is for Kentucky Department of Corrections offender lookup. It may show people in state custody or under supervision. VINE is a notification system that can alert users about custody status changes based on participating facility data. Neither source proves that a newly arrested person is or is not held locally in Lyon County at the moment of the search.
Federal inmates and federal criminal cases are outside the county jail system. Federal custody may involve the Bureau of Prisons, the U.S. Marshals Service, and federal court records through PACER. Lyon County court or sheriff staff may not be able to provide full federal custody details.
When a name is not found in KOOL or VINE, that result should be treated with care. It can mean the person is not in the searched system, the name is spelled differently, the record has not updated, the person is in local custody not reflected there, or the person is in another jurisdiction. The verified Lyon County path remains local contact first, state search second, and open-records request when a releasable sheriff record is needed.