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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] It is managed by the Kentucky Department of Corrections.
Kentucky State Reformatory. / 38.40361°N 85.41583°W / 38.40361; -85.41583. Kentucky State Reformatory (KSR) is a medium-security prison for adult males. The prison is located in unincorporated Oldham County, Kentucky, near La Grange, [1] and about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Louisville. [2] It opened in 1940 [3] to replace the ...
The Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort was an American prison. It was the first prison built west of the Allegheny Mountains and completed on June 22, 1800 when [1] Kentucky was still virtually a wilderness. The Kentucky Legislature of 1798 had appointed Harry Innes, Alexander S. Bullitt, Caleb Wallace, Isaac Shelby and John Coburn as ...
KDOC Website. 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.
2003. Managed by. Federal Bureau of Prisons. The United States Penitentiary, Big Sandy ( USP Big Sandy) is a high-security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated Martin County, Kentucky, [1] near the city of Inez. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.
The prisoners and the death chamber are housed at the Kentucky State Penitentiary, a male maximum security prison in Eddyville, 180 miles southwest of Louisville.
Medium/Maximum. Capacity. 1,204. Opened. 1981. Managed by. Kentucky Department of Corrections. The Luther Luckett Correctional Complex is a Medium/MINIMUM-security state prison located in Oldham County, near La Grange, Kentucky, about 30 miles northeast of Louisville. It opened in 1981 and had a prison population 1,204 as of 2018.
An ardent abolitionist, Fairbank actually served two prison terms in Kentucky. In 1845, both he and Delia Webster were convicted in the Fayette County for engineering the escape of a Black family.