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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]
Kentucky State Reformatory La Grange, Ky. Postcard view, c. 1940. Kentucky State Reformatory (KSR) is a medium-security prison for adult males. The prison is located in unincorporated Oldham County, Kentucky, [1] near La Grange, [2] and about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Louisville. [3]
The latest inmate abuse likely wouldn’t have come to light without the outrage of Carla Harris of Louisville. She is the mother of 38-year-old Donte Harris, one of the inmates suing the guards.
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 ...
Richard Graham, 34, of Louisville, died after the jail's staff was notified of an alarm on a box containing Narcan inside the inmate housing area, said Jason Logsdon, a Metro Corrections spokesperson.
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.
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 ...