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The Louisville Metro Department of Corrections (LMDC), known locally as Metro Corrections, is a local corrections agency/jail system responsible for the booking and incarceration of inmates and arrestees in Louisville, Kentucky. The agency was previously known as the Jefferson County Corrections Department, but the name was changed with the ...
In November 2017, due to facility overcrowding, the Kentucky Department of Corrections signed a contract allowing CoreCivic to reactivate the vacant prison to house up to 800 male inmates. These inmates would be transferred from the Kentucky State Reformatory. [11] The facility reopened and began accepting inmates in March 2018. [12]
The Courier Journal learned of the jail's new strip search policy, which took effect on Sept. 29, after obtaining an internal email. Anyone lodged in Louisville jail is now strip searched. What to ...
The Jefferson County Jail is a historic structure in central Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Built in 1905 in the Chicago style of architecture, it was designed by D.X. Murphy & Bros. [1] It comprises two wings: the western, built as cell blocks, and the eastern, which originally housed offices. A system of corridors was used to separate ...
When he took up the helm of the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections, the jail was in the midst of an unprecedented surge of in-custody deaths, with 15 people dying between late 2021 and mid ...
Richard Graham, 34, of Louisville, died after the jail's staff was notified of an alarm on a box containing Narcan inside the inmate housing area, said Jason Logsdon, a Metro Corrections spokesperson.
The latest inmate abuse likely wouldn’t have come to light without the outrage of Carla Harris of Louisville. She is the mother of 38-year-old Donte Harris, one of the inmates suing the guards.
The U. S. Department of Justice on April 26, 2021, issued a press release, "Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced today that the Department of Justice has opened a pattern or practice investigation into the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government (Louisville Metro) and the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD). The ...