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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. A ...
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]
It was the first prison built west of the Allegheny Mountains and completed on June 22, 1800 when [1] Kentucky was still virtually a wilderness. The Kentucky Legislature of 1798 had appointed Harry Innes, Alexander S. Bullitt, Caleb Wallace, Isaac Shelby and John Coburn as commissioners to choose a location for a “penitentiary house.” The ...
They could avoid prison time by volunteering to go to Lexington. Between 1968 and 1973, those who qualified could serve six months of civil commitment for drug treatment instead of jail.
The United States Penitentiary, Big Sandy (USP Big Sandy) is a high-security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated Martin County, Kentucky, [1] near the city of Inez. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has a satellite prison camp ...
A man who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the slaying of his wife in June 2010 is now free, and was released from the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex Monday.
A man has been charged with starting a fire in a Kentucky city hall that destroyed evidence in a criminal case against him. ... The arson charges are punishable by 5 to 20 years in prison. The ...
USP McCreary (the name comes from the surrounding Kentucky county, which has no incorporated towns) is located approximately 88 miles (142 km) north of Knoxville, Tennessee, 125 miles (201 km) south of Lexington, Kentucky and 208 miles (335 km) south of Cincinnati, Ohio. [2]