Officials feared a gang riot last November at Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville after inmates discovered a guard was ...

Kentucky recently signed a $72M contract with the company, despite ongoing lawsuits against the company for fraud, negligence ...

Guards at Southeast State Correctional Complex, a Kentucky state prison in Floyd County, abused their authority by planting a weapon on an inmate, using racist slurs toward Black inmates, daring ...

Authorities with the Kentucky State Police are actively searching for an inmate who they say escaped from a corrections ...

Several state agencies, including the one that manages Kentucky prisons, have joined a lawsuit accusing the state’s prison health care provider of having fraudulent insurance coverage. The Kentucky ...

Ashley Elgin had already purchased a welcome-home banner and balloons, and she was planning to take her husband’s last name soon. She told the Herald-Leader she was just nine days away from being ...

EDDYVILLE, Ky. (KFVS) - An investigation is underway after surveillance footage allegedly captured a state prison employee engaging in sexual acts with an inmate. The Kentucky State Police said its ...

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman has filed an emergency motion to keep 240 convicted violent criminals in prison.Coleman said it comes after the Franklin County Circuit Court invalidated a ...

EDDYVILLE, Ky. (LEX 18) — A caseworker at the Kentucky State Penitentiary has been arrested after security footage allegedly captured her having a sexual encounter with an inmate, according to ...

Detectives with Kentucky State Police Post 1 are investigating a reported assault involving an inmate at the Kentucky State ...

An inmate who died after falling down a steep hill in the middle of the night while part of a crew tasked with clearing ice and snow at the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex in January was either ...