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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 ...
Shot and murdered 49-year-old Jefferson County deputy sheriff William Hardy in 1995. 26 years, 114 days Johnson's conviction was controversial as his guilty verdict as centered on the testimony of a single witness who overheard Johnson allegedly admitting to the murder in a prison phone call.
Jefferson County is served by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. The County Sheriff is chosen by the eligible voters in an at large election. The Sheriff's Department fields about 175 deputy sheriffs who patrol the unincorporated areas of the county, and also all municipalities that do not have their own police departments.
The United States Penitentiary, Beaumont (USP Beaumont) is a high security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated Jefferson County, Texas. [1] It is part of the Federal Correctional Complex, Beaumont (FCC Beaumont) and is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.
The Jefferson Correctional Institution is a state prison for men located in unincorporated Jefferson County, Florida, with a Monticello postal address, [1] owned and operated by the Florida Department of Corrections. [2] Jefferson has a mix of security levels, including minimum, medium, and close, and houses adult male offenders.
Tyrekennel Collins, 24, and Dezarrious Johnson, 18, broke free from the Claiborne County Detention Center around 2:20 a.m., the sheriff's office said in a Facebook post.
The Jefferson County Police Department was established in February 1868. In 1902, police officers providing their own horses were compensated an extra $10 each month. Two years later, this practice ceased with a wage increase from $40 to $60 monthly for officers. The first chief of police to be granted use of a county car was Harry Kendall in 1918.
The Jefferson County Sheriff is an oldest elective office in Jefferson County (along with Clerk and Recorder, Assessor and Treasurer) and among the first popularly elected offices in Colorado, established in 1859 with the first Sheriff, Walter Pollard, elected on January 2, 1860. [23]