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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 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. The facility also has an adjacent satellite prison camp for ...
Knowles buried one-year-old Frederick Hughes and Hughes died of suffocation. Knowles also attempted to drown one-year-old Fanny Lynas, [12] as well as burying another child. [13] He served nine years in prison under His Majesty's pleasure. [14] Unnamed boy 8 years, 10 months November 5, 2008 United States: St. Johns, Arizona: 2 0
On Feb. 22, the Kentucky Department of Corrections fired Charles Craig Hughes, who made $98,315 a year as the warden of Southeast State Correctional Complex in Floyd County.
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 son of a man who was murdered inside a Kentucky federal prison says investigators have long known who was responsible for his father’s death and questions why prosecution took so long.
In the 131 years since the first Kentucky Derby winner Aristides's death the mystery of his final resting place has left a chaotic trail.
A prison cemetery is a graveyard reserved for the dead bodies of prisoners. Generally, the remains of inmates who are not claimed by family or friends are interred in prison cemeteries [ 1 ] and include convicts executed for capital crimes.