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Body slams, pepper spray and other recent abuses inside KY juvenile detention centers Juvenile Justice Commissioner Randy White, whom Gov. Andy Beshear appointed in March, declined to be ...
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Lee Adjustment Center in Beattyville, also operated by CoreCivic, housed out-of-state inmates from Vermont until 2010. 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.
The youths locked up in detention centers often are charged with truancy or running away, not serious crimes. ‘Nowhere to put them.’ Many KY kids go to juvenile detention for lack of alternatives
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 389 law enforcement agencies employing 7,833 sworn police officers, about 183 for each 100,000 residents.
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 ...
A Kentucky legislative committee Thursday heard more information about problems at the state Department of Juvenile Justice that were previously disclosed in Herald-Leader news stories, including ...