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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]
This prison was known as the Kentucky Penitentiary until the 1910 Prison Reform bill [4] passed March 1, 1910: This bill included that one institution be penal and the other reform; the changing of its mode of Capital Punishment from the gallows to the use of an electric chair, and included that the electric chair be kept in a "penitentiary ...
The Luther Luckett Correctional Complex is a Medium/MINIMUM-security state prison located in unincorporated Oldham County, Kentucky, [1] near La Grange, about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Louisville. It opened in 1981 and had a prison population 1,204 as of 2018.
John Cheves, the Herald-Leader’s senior investigative reporter, recently spent weeks gathering documents and preparing a story about employee misconduct at the Kentucky Department of Corrections.
A former U.S. prison that opened in 1829 and tried to reform criminals through isolation has been called 'one of the most haunted locations in the world.'
Kentucky Route 61 (KY 61) is a 151.333-mile (243.547 km) long Kentucky State Highway extending north from the Tennessee state line in Cumberland County to Columbia in Adair County through to Greensburg in Green County.
A lawsuit alleging the physical abuse of prisoners last year by guards is supported by state investigators KY prison guards Tasered inmates who failed drug tests, then lied about it Skip to main ...
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.