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The United States Penitentiary, McCreary (USP McCreary) is a high-security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated McCreary County, Kentucky. [1] It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.
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]
Oliveri was convicted after a three-day trial in 2010 and sentenced to an additional 17 years in prison, extending his release date to 2029. [11] [12] Oliveri is now at FCI Schuylkill. On December 10, 2008, inmate Manuel Cardosa attacked a fellow inmate from behind as the inmate walked in a prison housing unit.
According to prosecutors, inmates at the prison have been Tasered, beaten and sodomized by the staff. Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex has produced several scandals in recent years Skip to ...
America had entered the Great Recession, Barack Obama was just elected for his first term as U.S. president and Kentucky inmate Marco Allen Chapman — convicted of murdering two small children ...
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Another execution of note in Kentucky was that of Rainey Bethea. Bethea was executed by hanging on 14 August 1936 for the rape of 70-year-old Lischia Edwards. He had also confessed to her murder by strangling but the Commonwealth indicted him only on the rape charge since that was the only capital crime for which the penalty was public hanging.
Several former Kentucky State Corrections Officers pleaded guilty and were sentenced Monday for assaulting an inmate in the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex and covering it up, according to a ...