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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.
To learn what goes on inside these buildings, where the U.S. Justice Department recently launched a civil-rights investigation, the Herald-Leader relies on the Kentucky Open Records Act to request ...
Blackburn Correctional Complex (BCC) is a minimum-security state prison located near Lexington, Kentucky. It opened in 1972 and had a prison population of 594 as of 2007. [1] It is named for former Kentucky governor Luke P. Blackburn, who is known as the "father of prison reform in Kentucky."
In 1780, Kentucky County was divided into Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln counties. Kentucky was admitted as a state in 1792, when it had nine counties. [4] Each county has a legislative council called the Fiscal Court; [5] despite the name, it no longer has any responsibility for judicial proceedings. [6]
On November 21, 2008, death row inmate Marco Allen Chapman, convicted of murdering two northern Kentucky children in 2002, was executed by lethal injection, the most recent at Kentucky State Penitentiary. On January 13, 2014, inmate James Kenneth Embry Jr., died of starvation and dehydration following a hunger strike.
One inmate told them he believed as many as 14 inmates were Tasered that day. But most of the 28 inmates they interviewed denied knowing anything or declined to talk, they wrote in their report.
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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 ...