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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 ...
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]
The Jefferson County Jail is a historic structure in central Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Built in 1905 in the Chicago style of architecture, it was designed by D.X. Murphy & Bros. [1] It comprises two wings: the western, built as cell blocks, and the eastern, which originally housed offices. A system of corridors was used to separate ...
Beshear said the Jefferson County facility will be limited at first to 10 male youths either younger than age 14 or charged with a lower-level offense. ... Lawmakers say KY juvenile justice system ...
At that time, the detention center housed 312 inmates in its 184-bed facility — 92 of those were state inmates. The Whitley County facility was one of several local jails that joined an April ...
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
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies , the state had 389 law enforcement agencies employing 7,833 sworn police officers, about 183 for each 100,000 residents.
Jefferson County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census , the population was 782,969. [ 1 ] It is the most populous county in the commonwealth (with more than twice the population of second ranked Fayette County ).