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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.
The Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville houses all of Kentucky's male death row inmates. [6] Female death row inmates are housed at the Kentucky Correctional Institute for Women in unincorporated Shelby County, near Pewee Valley. All executions occur at the Kentucky State Penitentiary. [7]
Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex in Morgan County this week reports 64 empty beds out of 1,914. Northpoint Training Center in Boyle County reports 23 empty beds out of 1,270.
The case had nationwide implications because the specific "cocktail" used for lethal injections in Kentucky was the same one that virtually all states used for lethal injection. The U.S. Supreme Court stayed all executions in the country between September 2007 and April 2008, when it delivered its ruling and affirmed the Kentucky top court ...
In 16-month period ending November 2023, the KY Department of Corrections found more than 40 employees were involved in inappropriate relationships or smuggling contraband into prisons for inmates ...
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 ...
An Act passed both houses of the Kentucky Legislature on April 28, 1884 [3] providing for a branch penitentiary to be located in Eddyville, Kentucky.Former Confederate States brigadier general and Eddyville native Hylan Benton Lyon was the moving force behind the Kentucky State Branch Penitentiary being located in what is now Old Eddyville.
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 ...