Prison News | Kentucky

• Education & Rehabilitation
• Executions, Death Row, & the Death Penalty
• Gangs in Prison
• Health & Medical Treatment
• Prison Classification, Placement, and Release
• Prison Conditions & Corruption
• Prison Life & Prison Culture
• Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes
• Suicides in Prison
• Workplace & Industry News and Science & Tech

Education & Rehabilitation

• Kentucky statistics on use of electronic monitoring
  
  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky uses electronic monitoring to track state inmates on a home incarceration program. Offenders eligible for the program must have no prior convictions for a violent or sex offense; must not have any pending ...... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Sunday, July 28, 2013
  
  

Executions, Death Row & the Death Penalty

Gangs in Prison

• Judge: Trial will proceed despite defendant's claims about forced confession
  
  A Knox County judge is rejecting a driveby shooting suspect... [ more ]
  Knoxville News-Sentinel, Monday, July 1, 2013
  
  
• Government, financial self-service deployments solve real-world problems
  
  For this particular deployment, Swanson wanted a self-service alternative ... [ more ]
  Self Service (press release), Tuesday, May 15, 2007
  
  
• Big Sandy isn't safe, inmate says
  
  Robert Howe has spent a lot of time in America's prisons... [ more ]
  Lexington Herald-Leader, Wednesday, December 27, 2006
  
  

Health & Medical Treatment

Prison Classification, Placement, & Release

Prison Conditions & Corruption

• Woman pleads guilty to passing contraband to inmate
  
  COVINGTON COUNTY, Ala. (WSFA) - A woman pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five and a half years imprisonment for passing contraband to a Covington County Jail inmate. ... [ more ]
  wsfa.com, Sunday, November 3, 2019
  
  
• Doctor, staffers fired after Kentucky inmate starves himself to death
  
  James Kenneth Embry, 57, stopped taking his anti-anxiety medicine and began acting erratically. He died in January weighing 138 pounds - and authorities said medical personnel did nothing to prevent the man, with three years left on a nine-year sentence, from starving himself to death.... [ more ]
  Postmedia News, Tuesday, April 22, 2014
  
  
• Judge: Trial will proceed despite defendant's claims about forced confession
  
  A Knox County judge is rejecting a driveby shooting suspect... [ more ]
  Knoxville News-Sentinel, Monday, July 1, 2013
  
  
• Big Sandy isn't safe, inmate says
  
  Robert Howe has spent a lot of time in America's prisons... [ more ]
  Lexington Herald-Leader, Wednesday, December 27, 2006
  
  

Prison Life & Culture

• Appeals court to hear case over prison visits
  
  EDDYVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A federal appeals court is set to hear a case brought by Kentucky death row inmates challenging the rules governing how and when pastors may visit them at the Kentucky State Penitentiary.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Monday, March 24, 2014
  
  

Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes

• Inmate found dead at Carter County Detention Center
  
  GRAYSON Kentucky State Police responded to the call of an inmate death at the Carter County Detention Center on Thursday.... [ more ]
  dailyindependent, Saturday, October 5, 2019
  
  

Suicides in Prison

• Inmate awaiting trial in Kentucky HOA deaths kills himself
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — An inmate awaiting trial on charges of killing two men at a homeowners association meeting committed suicide by hanging himself from a bed sheet in his cell, jail officials said.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Sunday, October 20, 2013
  
  

Workplace & Industry News, and Science & Tech News

• Ky community braces for private prison shutdown
  
  ST. MARY, Ky. (AP) - Stacy Mattingly is facing the daunting prospect of setting up the Ham Days festival in Lebanon for an estimated 40,000 visitors without the help of many of her free assistants.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Monday, July 8, 2013
  
  
• Government, financial self-service deployments solve real-world problems
  
  For this particular deployment, Swanson wanted a self-service alternative ... [ more ]
  Self Service (press release), Tuesday, May 15, 2007