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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 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.
Kentucky State Reformatory La Grange, Ky. Postcard view, c. 1940. Kentucky State Reformatory (KSR) is a medium-security prison for adult males. The prison is located in unincorporated Oldham County, Kentucky, [1] near La Grange, [2] and about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Louisville. [3]
Experts say this isn’t unique to Kentucky state prisons. ... An internal affairs captain observed as the inmate ran in and out of different dorms one morning to meet with the officer a total of ...
More than 30,000 people are in Kentucky prisons and jails, which is among the nation’s highest according to a new report. More than 30,000 people are in Kentucky prisons and jails, which is ...
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This prison was known as the Kentucky Penitentiary until the 1910 Prison Reform bill [4] passed March 1, 1910: This bill included that one institution be penal and the other reform; the changing of its mode of Capital Punishment from the gallows to the use of an electric chair, and included that the electric chair be kept in a "penitentiary ...
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. Hughes was named ...