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.

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 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 ...

Kentucky Department of Corrections Prisons have long been pitched as engines for economic development in rural communities across the country and across Eastern Kentucky.

The lawsuit alleges the Kentucky Department of Corrections isn't properly transferring inmates to state prisons and has failed to pay counties for housing state inmates.

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 ...

He had served the Kentucky Department of Corrections for two years.

Kentucky Kentucky governor appoints new commissioner to run the state's troubled juvenile justice department Randy White retired from the corrections department in late 2023 after 27 years.

Time and money, or a lack of both, are oftentimes the two biggest obstacles preventing people with full-time jobs from returning to school to finish or further their education.

Five inmates at the Kentucky State Penitentiary are suspected of orchestrating an attack that sent a corrections officer to the hospital, ...

Kentucky’s highest-ever Powerball Jackpot winner was arrested Wednesday morning in Pinellas County, Florida.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The Kentucky Department of Corrections will use a new system for processing legal mail as part of a settlement reached with the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky ...