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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.
Western Kentucky Correctional Complex (WKCC) is a segregated, dual-sex, medium-security prison in unincorporated Lyon County, Kentucky, [2] near the city of Fredonia. As of October 2019 [update] , the facility had 693 prisoners (493 men and 200 women).
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.
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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies , the state had 389 law enforcement agencies employing 7,833 sworn police officers, about 183 for each 100,000 residents.
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