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The Kentucky State Penitentiary (KSP), also known as the "Castle on the Cumberland", is a maximum security and supermax prison with capacity for 856 prisoners located in Eddyville, Kentucky on Lake Barkley on the Cumberland River, about 4.8 kilometres (3 mi) from downtown Eddyville. [1] It is managed by the Kentucky Department of Corrections ...
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 ...
February 14 – Comayagua prison fire. A prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras, killed over 361 inmates. [85] February 19 – A massive fire swept through a market in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, destroying between 500 and 1800 stalls, injured 11. [86] June 26 – A fire in a market in Moscow, Russia, killed 17 migrant workers. [87]
He says his father’s killing was a wrongful death in federal prison. He’s seeking $5 million in damages, court documents say. Fort Leavenworth officials are also being sued.
Kentucky State Police were investigating Friday morning a deadly house fire that left four people, including two minors, dead in Casey County, according to Kentucky State Police. The fire happened ...
No motive has been publicly identified. Kentucky State Police didn’t provide one in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, which took place just before 3 p.m. Thursday.Nor did police host a ...
40 years in prison [f] (Johnson) Three members of the Caffey family were murdered in their house in Alba, Texas , on March 1, 2008. Erin Caffey, then 16, organized the murder of her mother Penny Caffey and younger brothers Matthew and Tyler.
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 ...