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Completed in 1886, it is Kentucky's oldest prison facility and the only commonwealth-owned facility with supermax units. The penitentiary houses Kentucky's male death row inmates and the commonwealth's execution facility. As of 2015, it had approximately 350 staff members and an annual operating budget of $20 million. [2]
This is a list of people executed in Kentucky. Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the United States in 1976, three people have been executed in Kentucky. All three were executed for murder. All of the executions occurred at the Kentucky State Penitentiary (KSP) in Eddyville. [1]
He made headlines in 2005 by escaping from Harris County Jail in Houston after a parole meeting using a forged ID badge, and he was captured three days later. Gustavo Tijerina Sandoval: Shot United States Border Patrol agent Javier Vega Jr. 6 years, 179 days Ismael Hernandez Vallejo was given a fifty-year prison sentence.
A 2023 report from the Vera Institute of Justice found that in mid-2021, Kentucky had more than 20,000 people locked up in county and regional jails and more than 10,000 people were held in state ...
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.
Kyle Barton, 40, was incarcerated inside the Whitley County Detention Center for 16 days from Sept. 14 to Sept. 30, 2023, where he became so ill and went without treatment, he suffered a serious ...
This is a list of lists of American politicians at the state and local levels who have been convicted of felony crimes committed while in office. The lists are broken by decades. The lists are broken by decades.
Kentucky is the only state without provision on what happens if the penalty phase of the trial results in a hung jury. Thus, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that in cases that end with a hung jury, the judge must order a penalty retrial, applying the common law rule for mistrial. [2]