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 ...

The majority of Kentucky’s county jails are over capacity, and some have more than double the number of inmates they’re meant to accomodate, according to Department of Corrections data. Jeremy ...

Kentucky is joining four other states in introducing a new way to give those with criminal records a second chance at education. Kentucky is joining Arizona, Louisiana, Minnesota, and Virginia in a ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — The Kentucky Department of Corrections says they are looking for Matthew Perdue, who walked away from the George Privett Center for Men in Lexington on September 26.

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.

DANVILLE, Ky. (FOX 56) — The Northpoint Training Center (NTC) for the Department of Corrections is mourning the loss of one of its officers. According to the Kentucky non-profit Supporting ...

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.

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 ...

Kentucky was one of five states selected by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) to participate in a one-year learning community to expand postsecondary opportunities for ...

EDDYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Five inmates at the Kentucky State Penitentiary are suspected of orchestrating an attack that sent a corrections officer to the hospital, police said.