The number of KY agencies that have signed formal agreements with federal immigration officials continues to climb. Most are ...

The Kentucky Department of Corrections has settled a lawsuit and changed its policy on hairstyles in prisons in response to an inmate who said his dreadlocks, which he wore for religious reasons ...

Kentucky is joining Arizona, Louisiana, Minnesota, and Virginia in a national initiative to expand postsecondary education ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – Four elected Kentucky jailers and their statewide association have sued the Kentucky Department of Corrections, claiming it routinely fails to move inmates in county ...

White retired from the corrections department in late 2023 after a 27-year career that included a stint as warden of the Kentucky State Penitentiary. White assumes his new role on April 1.

A Kentucky federal prison supervisor has been convicted of writing false reports to cover up assaults by corrections officers. The ex-officer was charged with two counts of obstruction.

Three officers who participated in the 2018 assault at Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex and tried to cover it up received varying sentences Monday, the department said in a statement. Randall ...

Kentucky State, Corrections Department open pathway for degrees. By: Michael Berk. Posted . and last updated. LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Time and money, or a lack of both, are oftentimes the two ...

About every three months, there is a shipment of state inmates to one of Kentucky’s correctional facilities. When an inmate has been sentenced on a state charge, Fields said the department of ...