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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 first case was reported in Johnson County on March 7, 2020. It was a woman less than 50 years old with travel history to the Northeastern United States. [7] On March 12, another 3 cases were reported in Johnson County. [8] These were men between the ages of 35 and 65 who had recently traveled to a Florida conference.
The Kentucky Department of Corrections Assessment and Classification Center is located at Roederer. All new male inmates, with the exception of those sentenced to death, are initially assigned to Roederer until they can be classified and transferred to other prison within the Commonwealth. The prison opened in 1978 and had a prison population ...
The Franklin County lawsuit claimed the Department of Corrections keeps their 14 state prisons consistently under capacity by housing as many state inmates as they can in county jails, including ...
On November 21, 2008, death row inmate Marco Allen Chapman, convicted of murdering two northern Kentucky children in 2002, was executed by lethal injection, the most recent at Kentucky State Penitentiary. On January 13, 2014, inmate James Kenneth Embry Jr., died of starvation and dehydration following a hunger strike.
On Feb. 5, he requested an interview with department leaders to ask questions about a frequently occurring problem discovered in the 800-plus pages he had analyzed: Corrections employees (mostly ...
Southeast State Correctional Complex, formerly the Otter Creek Correctional Center, is a medium-security prison located in Wheelwright, Kentucky. [1] The facility is owned by CoreCivic and is operated by the Kentucky Department of Corrections. The prison has housed both male and female inmates at different times, from Kentucky and from Hawaii. [2]
In a different case, police charged Correctional Officer Trista Fox, 39, with third-degree rape in December 2022 after colleagues walked in on her having sex with an inmate at Kentucky State ...