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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.
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.
Kentucky’s troubled juvenile detention centers don’t give tours. Their top officials usually won’t give interviews. To learn what goes on inside these buildings, where the U.S. Justice ...
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 ...
A mentally ill 17-year-old girl spent much of the summer of 2022 locked — sometimes naked — in a filthy isolation cell in one of Kentucky’s controversial juvenile detention centers, where ...
The Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice (KYDJJ) is a state agency of Kentucky headquartered in unincorporated Franklin County, near Frankfort. [1] The agency operates juvenile correctional facilities.
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At the Adair County Juvenile Detention Center alone, with a capacity of 80 kids, pepper spray was deployed 41 times in the first 10 months of 2023. ... U.S. Department of Justice to investigate ...