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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 ...
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 ...
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 Jefferson County facility, like others operated by the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice, has struggled to function despite inadequate staffing and repeated youth violence.
Jeffrey Brian Dees who resigned while under investigation for misconduct Oct. 19, 2022, as a corrections unit administrator at the Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women in Oldham County.
Charles Craig Hughes, 53, who made $98,315 a year as warden of Southeast State Correctional Complex in Floyd County, was fired on Feb. 22, according to state personnel records. Charles Craig Hughes
The Kentucky Department of Corrections is a state agency of the Kentucky Justice & Public Safety Cabinet that operates state-owned adult correctional facilities and provides oversight for and sets standards for county jails. They also provide training, community based services, and oversees the state's Probation & Parole Division.
According to prosecutors, inmates at the prison have been Tasered, beaten and sodomized by the staff.