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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.
Southeast State Correctional Complex, formerly the Otter Creek Correctional Center, is a medium-security prison located in Wheelwright, Kentucky. [1] The facility is owned by CoreCivic and is operated by the Kentucky Department of Corrections. The prison has housed both male and female inmates at different times, from Kentucky and from Hawaii. [2]
It has a bed capacity of 1,256 inmates, consisting of 1,108 general population medium-security beds, 60 special management beds, and 40 minimum-security beds. General population inmates are housed in six open-bay dormitories. Restricted Housing Unit inmates are housed in single cells in a 60-bed structure separated from the main compound.
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 ...
The average county population, based on the estimated 2023 state population of 4.526 million, was 37,718. Following concerns of too many counties, [2] the 1891 Kentucky Constitution placed stricter limits on county creation, stipulating that a new county: must have a land area of at least 400 square miles (1,036 km 2);
An Act passed both houses of the Kentucky Legislature on April 28, 1884 [3] providing for a branch penitentiary to be located in Eddyville, Kentucky.Former Confederate States brigadier general and Eddyville native Hylan Benton Lyon was the moving force behind the Kentucky State Branch Penitentiary being located in what is now Old Eddyville.
Some inmates left the caged area rubbing their arms as they tossed their urine samples into a trash can. An engineer’s analysis of data from the Tasers confirmed 18 uses that day consistent with ...
Nueces County (/ nj u ˈ eɪ s ɪ s / new-AY-siss) is located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 353,178, [1] making it the 16th-most populous county in the state. The county seat is Corpus Christi. [2] The county was formed in 1846 from portions of San Patricio County and organized the following year. [3]