Jailer

The Jessamine County Detention Center exists to provide a sanitary, safe and secure environment where offenders who have been arrested and are awaiting judicial procedures, or those who have been convicted, may take advantage of rehabilitative programs designed to aid in their return to society. By following Constitutional Law and regulations passed down from the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the Department of Corrections, the Jessamine County Detention Center provides ethical and humane standards of punishment to further deterrence while promoting education and rehabilitation of incarcerated offenders, including offering drug rehabilitation programs, worship services, a 5-acre garden where inmates can grow and harvest produce, work details and roadside litter pickup through a state grant program, and MRT (moral reconciliation therapy), among other programs.