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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 ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Guards at Wisconsin's oldest maximum-security prison failed to provide basic care for inmates who died on their watch, including one who died of dehydration and another who ...
The warden at a troubled Wisconsin prison will step down later this month amid lockdown conditions, an ongoing federal investigation and multiple inmate deaths. Waupun Correctional Institution ...
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 opened in 1940 [4] to replace the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort (later known as Kentucky State Reformatory) after a flood damaged the original property. As of 2024, the capacity of KSR is ...
The Brown County Sheriff's Department said in a news release Wednesday that deputies were called to the Green Bay Correctional Institution in Allouez about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday for a report of a ...
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.
Two men were sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison for two armed robberies committed in Frankfort and New Lenox in 2019. Justin Brown, 24, of Park Forest, and Terwon Matthews, 25, of Chicago ...
Sanger B. Powers Correctional Center in Outagamie County. The correctional centers system contains 16 relatively small minimum-security facilities, two of which house female inmates. [1] Black River Correctional Center [1] (capacity 114) Drug Abuse Correctional Center (capacity 300) Felmers O. Chaney Correctional Center (capacity 100)