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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]
McCracken County is a county located in the far west portion of U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 67,875. [1] The county seat and only municipality is Paducah. [2] McCracken County was the 78th county formed in the state, having been created in 1825. [3]
Jerry Collins knew something needed to change. 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 ...
A spate of deaths spanning 2021-22 led to criticism of Wellpath, the city's then-health care provider at Louisville Metro Corrections. New Louisville jail health care provider gets 3-year, $47M ...
[25] [26] [27] The "serve out" ruling, under Kentucky law, means the inmate in question cannot be considered for any future parole hearings (though commutation or a pardon from the governor is still possible). [28] This means Carneal's life with parole sentence is now effectively a life without parole (or "whole life") sentence.
Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal November 7, 2024 at 11:40 AM A woman who died Wednesday after being found "in medical distress and unresponsive" at the Louisville Metro Department of ...
McCracken County: 145: Paducah: 1825: Hickman County: Virgil McCracken, military captain killed at the Battle of Frenchtown: 67,428: 251 sq mi (650 km 2) McCreary County: 147: Whitley City: 1912: Pulaski County, Wayne County, Whitley County: James McCreary, thirty-seventh Governor of Kentucky (1912–16) 17,050: 428 sq mi (1,109 km 2) McLean ...