Hart County Jail Overview
Hart County Jail is the primary serving detention facility for Edmonson County detainees. The official Hart County Kentucky.gov jailer page lists Jailer Israel (Brown) Bergenson, the Hart County Jail office phone, fax, mailing address, and a link to the Hart County jail website. The jail website is branded Hart County KY Jail and describes a mission of protecting public and institutional safety while offering programs intended to reduce the likelihood of reincarceration.
For Edmonson County, the important point is negative but practical: do not look for an active Edmonson County Jail building or a Brownsville jail roster. Kentucky State Police stated in an official release that Edmonson County did not have a detention center and that Edmonson inmates were housed in Hart County Detention Center. That makes Hart County Jail the custody contact for a recent Edmonson arrest, while the Edmonson court clerk remains the record path for Edmonson District or Circuit Court filings.
The official Hart County jailer contact page is a useful source to confirm the operator and phone number before calling the facility. The image below comes from the Hart County Kentucky.gov jailer page, which is the government page that links to the Hart jail site.
The image is not a roster or custody confirmation tool. Use it as a contact-source cue, then call the jail when a current booking, visitation question, bond status, or mail question depends on the person's present custody status.
Hart County Jail Capacity and Population
The Kentucky Department of Corrections Weekly Jail report dated June 4, 2026 lists Hart secure jail with 97 secure beds and 89 reported inmates. The same report shows the jail 8 under capacity and at 92 percent capacity. These are Hart facility totals, not an Edmonson-only count. Hart holds Hart County local detainees and can hold contract county inmates, Class D or state categories in local custody, parole violators, controlled-intake inmates, and any federal inmates when present.
| KY DOC 06/04/2026 Measure | Hart County Jail Figure | Meaning for Edmonson Searches |
|---|---|---|
| Secure male population | 73 | Facility-level count, not limited to Edmonson charges. |
| Secure female population | 13 | Women in secure jail custody are included in the Hart total. |
| Non-secure female population | 3 | Reported on the Hart secure jail line, separate from Hart JRC's male population. |
| Class D inmates | 8 | Shows state/local categories may appear in the same jail population. |
| Federal inmates | 0 | No federal inmates were reported on that dated Hart jail line. |
How to Look Up an Inmate at Hart County Jail
No confirmed public Hart current-inmate roster was exposed during the research inspection of official pages. The Hart jail site showed menu categories for inmate and jail information, but common roster, visitation, mail, and commissary paths did not reveal a reliable public search form. For a current Edmonson detainee, start with Hart County Jail by phone. For a sentenced or state-supervised person, use Kentucky DOC KOOL, understanding that KOOL is a state corrections locator and not a complete new-booking roster.
- Confirm the arresting county and the full legal name, including spelling, date of birth if available, and any alias used at booking.
- Call Hart County Jail at 270-524-2571 and ask whether the person is currently booked, released, transferred, or held under another county's warrant.
- If the arrest came from Edmonson County, keep the court path separate by checking the Edmonson Circuit Court Clerk or Kentucky court docket tools for the case record.
- Search KOOL only when the person may be sentenced, state-classified, on parole supervision, or moved into Kentucky DOC custody.
- Use VINELink for custody-notification availability when the goal is release or transfer notice rather than a full case file.
If Hart confirms custody but the online records are thin, ask which name or booking number must be used for mail, visitation scheduling, and money questions. Avoid assuming that a private search result, an old "Edmonson County Jail" listing, or a state DOC hit proves current Hart County Jail custody.
Hart County Jail Address and Contact
The physical jail address used by jail and facility sources is 520 AA Whitman Lane in Munfordville. Hart County's official jailer page lists the jailer mailing address as P.O. Box 670, Munfordville, KY 42765, with office phone 270-524-2571 and fax 270-524-2570. Use the phone line before visiting, mailing anything, or relying on a third-party vendor page.
Hart County Jail
520 AA Whitman Lane
Munfordville, KY 42765
270-524-2571
Fax: 270-524-2570
Call to confirm custody, visitor entry, mail rules, and bond or release instructions.
Hart County Jailer Mailing Address
P.O. Box 670
Munfordville, KY 42765
270-524-2571
Use only after confirming the correct mail format for the person in custody.
Visiting Someone at Hart County Jail
Official public Hart pages inspected during research did not disclose a visitation schedule, video-visit vendor, dress code, sign-up method, or fee schedule. Treat visitation as call-to-confirm. This is especially important for Edmonson families traveling from Brownsville, Bee Spring, Park City, Mammoth Cave, or other rural areas, because a person may be released, transferred, in court, or unavailable for visits by the time a visitor arrives.
| Question to Confirm | Current Public Finding | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Visitation schedule | No official schedule located in public Hart pages inspected. | Call 270-524-2571 before traveling. |
| Visit type | In-person or video details not confirmed. | Ask whether the visit is on-site, remote, or unavailable for the housing status. |
| Visitor ID | Hart-specific ID rules were not published in inspected pages. | Ask what photo ID and age rules apply. |
| Arrival time | No public check-in window located. | Ask when visitors must arrive and whether late arrival cancels the visit. |
| Special status | Court, medical, discipline, classification, and transfer limits are not posted. | Confirm the person is eligible for visits that day. |
Mail, Phone, and Money at Hart County Jail
The research did not locate an official Hart mail policy, commissary vendor, phone vendor, video provider, money-order rule, kiosk detail, or fee table. Do not borrow rules from unofficial jail directories, because mail scanning, banned items, publisher-only book rules, and deposit fees can change by contract. First verify that the person remains at Hart County Jail, then ask the facility what identifier, envelope format, and payment channel must be used.
| Service | Public Status | Call-to-Confirm Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Personal mail | No official public format located. | Ask for the exact inmate name, booking number if required, and mailing address format. |
| Books or publications | No official restriction list located. | Ask whether books must ship from a publisher or approved vendor. |
| Phone or video | No confirmed vendor located. | Ask whether accounts are prepaid, collect, remote video, or facility-only. |
| Commissary or deposits | No confirmed vendor or fee table located. | Ask whether online deposits, kiosk deposits, money orders, or cash are accepted. |
| Returned or rejected items | No public rule list located. | Ask how rejected mail or deposits are handled before sending anything valuable. |
Public Records Fallback for Hart County Jail Custody
When a public roster is not available or does not answer the question, the fallback is to ask the custodian that actually holds the record. Booking and custody records for Edmonson detainees housed at Hart usually route to Hart County Jail or the Hart County Jailer. Arrest reports or incident reports created by Edmonson deputies route to the Edmonson County Sheriff's Office. Formal criminal case files route to the Edmonson Circuit Court Clerk when the case is an Edmonson court matter.
Kentucky's open-records process can be used for written requests, but access is not unlimited. Juvenile records, sealed or expunged matters, active investigations, medical information, security details, and records held by a different agency may be withheld or redirected. A precise request should identify the person, approximate arrest date, arresting agency, desired record type, and whether the request is for a booking record, incident report, citation, court docket, bond order, or release entry.
Booking and Intake at Hart County Jail
An Edmonson arrest usually starts with the arresting agency, not the jail. A deputy, Brownsville officer, Kentucky State Police trooper, or another agency may make the arrest or serve a warrant. When jail custody is required, the person is transported to the contract jail for booking. Intake may include identity checks, property inventory, photographs or fingerprints when required, medical and risk screening, warrant or hold checks, bond review, and court docketing in Edmonson District or Circuit Court depending on the charge.
Timing was not located in official Hart sources, so do not assume a new arrest will be searchable online within a specific number of minutes or hours. If the arrest just happened, call Hart County Jail for custody and call Edmonson dispatch or the sheriff only for appropriate nonemergency arrest-confirmation questions. Court data may lag behind the jail because citations, complaints, bond orders, and first-appearance records follow court processing.
About Hart County Jail
Hart County Jail is a secure local jail, not a Kentucky state prison. It serves pretrial county inmates, misdemeanor-sentenced county inmates, state categories housed locally, and contract county detainees including Edmonson County detainees. The official KY DOC weekly report is the best dated source for facility-level capacity and population, but it does not identify how many of the 89 reported inmates on June 4, 2026 were held for Edmonson County specifically.
The court and custody split matters. A person arrested in Edmonson may be physically booked in Munfordville while the criminal case remains in Edmonson County court. If a Hart, Warren, Grayson, Butler, state, parole, federal, or immigration hold is involved, the record path can change again. Start with the agency that can answer the immediate question: Hart for current custody, Edmonson court for Edmonson case records, KOOL for state custody, and VINELink for custody notifications where available.
Note: Confirm custody and visit eligibility with Hart County Jail before traveling to Munfordville or sending mail, money, or documents.