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Man dies in KY jail’s custody. Lawsuit claims Department of Corrections failed to act ... the detention center — which has 184 total jail beds — was housing 260 people. ... the detention ...
A Muslim woman who filed a federal lawsuit against the Warren County Regional Jail that claimed she was required to remove her religious headwear and garments, was photographed without them, and ...
In November 2017, due to facility overcrowding, the Kentucky Department of Corrections signed a contract allowing CoreCivic to reactivate the vacant prison to house up to 800 male inmates. These inmates would be transferred from the Kentucky State Reformatory. [11] The facility reopened and began accepting inmates in March 2018. [12]
Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex (EKCC) is a minimum and medium-security prison located in West Liberty, Kentucky. It opened in February 1990 and had a prison population of 2,100 as of 2019. It opened in February 1990 and had a prison population of 2,100 as of 2019.
The prison has housed both male and female inmates at different times, from Kentucky and from Hawaii. [2] The prison opened in 1981. [3] In 2008, a secretarial employee of the center fatally shot herself in the office of then-warden Joyce Arnold, raising questions about how the weapon had been smuggled in past security. [4]
The Warren Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Bowling Green, Ky., photographed Sept. 6, 2021. Body slams, pepper spray and other recent abuses inside KY juvenile detention centers
The facility was built in 1968 to support the Kentucky State Penitentiary (KSP). In 1977, it became its own separate institution, the Western Kentucky Farm Center (WKFC), a minimum-security prison.
Campbell County has settled a lawsuit brought by the family of a woman who spent the last 16 hours of her life strapped to a chair at the county jail.. Officials agreed to settle the wrongful ...