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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]
The facility also has a satellite prison camp which houses minimum-security male inmates. USP Big Sandy is located in eastern Kentucky, approximately 133 miles (214 km) from Lexington, 140 miles (230 km) from Frankfort, and 320 miles (510 km) from Washington, DC. [2] [3]
Ragnar Lodbrok ("Ragnar hairy-breeches") (Old Norse: Ragnarr loðbrók), [a] according to legends, [2] was a Viking hero and a Swedish and Danish king. [3]
Ward leased the prison at $6,000 a year and made $100,000 out of the lease in four years. Fairbank stated: "To do this he literally killed 250 out of 375 prisoners [14]." Jeremiah South −1859-1862 Harry Todd--1862-1871–30 Females and 500 males in the Kentucky Penitentiary [15] 1856–1880 – The prison was under the Sinking Fund in the 1870s
The United States Penitentiary, McCreary (USP McCreary) is a high-security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated McCreary County, Kentucky. [1] It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.
Roederer Correctional Complex is a minimum and medium-security state prison located in unincorporated Oldham County,unincorporated Oldham County, [1] near La Grange and near the Buckner census-designated place. It is about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Louisville. The Kentucky Department of Corrections Assessment and Classification Center is ...
Kentucky State Reformatory La Grange, Ky. Postcard view, c. 1940. Kentucky State Reformatory (KSR) is a medium-security prison for adult males. The prison is located in unincorporated Oldham County, Kentucky, [1] near La Grange, [2] and about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Louisville. [3]
The Federal Correctional Institution, Manchester (FCI Manchester) is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated Clay County, Kentucky. [1] It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons , a division of the United States Department of Justice .