Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 (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.
November 21, 2008. Chelbi Sharon and Cody Sharon. Steve Beshear. As of 2022, Harold McQueen has been the only person executed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky involuntarily since 1976. Edward Lee Harper and Marco Allen Chapman both volunteered to be executed. [2] Harper dropped his remaining appeals while Chapman waived all non-statutory appeals ...
Thirty-six of them are state inmates serving state time at the jail. Twenty of them are “controlled intake” state inmates waiting to be collected and driven to a state prison, having been ...
KY jail program lets inmates get jobs before release: ‘I felt special for the first time’. Four years, three months and 13 days. That’s how long Deidra Stearns said she spent in county jail ...
In 16-month period ending November 2023, the KY Department of Corrections found more than 40 employees were involved in inappropriate relationships or smuggling contraband into prisons for inmates ...
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Kentucky . Despite remaining a legal penalty, there have been no executions in Kentucky since 2008, and only three since 1976. The most recent execution was of Marco Allen Chapman, who was executed for two murders. Capital punishment in Kentucky has been indefinitely suspended by court ...
The Kentucky Department of Criminal Investigation is an agency in the Commonwealth of Kentucky that operates as the law enforcement and investigative arm of the Office of the Attorney General.It is the State Bureau of Investigation for the state of Kentucky.The department was founded in September 2004 by former Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo as the Kentucky Bureau of Investigation (KBI).