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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.
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.
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 ...
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, near La Grange, and about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Louisville.
Private prison company CoreCivic, headquartered near Nashville, owns several prisons in Kentucky that it once contracted to the state. In 2013, the Department of Corrections stopped using prisons ...
Weeks after he resigned from the prison, on Dec. 1, 2022, Dees was hired by the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts, the agency that runs the state’s courts, where he works as a program ...
Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women (KCIW) is a prison located in unincorporated Shelby County, Kentucky, near Pewee Valley, Kentucky, operated by the Kentucky Department of Corrections. [1] Male and female inmates prior to 1937 had been housed at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort (1912 name changed Kentucky State Reformatory ...
Craig Hughes. 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 ...