Prison News | Kentucky
Recent events, organized by category (below) or region/state (right), concerning the corrections industry in Kentucky. Comments, suggestions and contributions (below) appreciated.
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Education & Rehabilitation
Executions, Death Row & the Death Penalty
No recent news for Kentucky in this category.
Gangs in Prison
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Judge: Trial will proceed despite defendant's claims about forced confession
A Knox County judge is rejecting a driveby shooting suspect...
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Knoxville News-Sentinel,
Monday, July 1, 2013
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Government, financial self-service deployments solve real-world problems
For this particular deployment, Swanson wanted a self-service alternative ...
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Self Service (press release),
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
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Big Sandy isn't safe, inmate says
Robert Howe has spent a lot of time in America's prisons...
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Lexington Herald-Leader,
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Health & Medical Treatment
No recent news for Kentucky in this category.
Prison Classification, Placement, & Release
No recent news for Kentucky in this category.
Prison Conditions & Corruption
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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. ...
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wsfa.com,
Sunday, November 3, 2019
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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....
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Postmedia News,
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
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Judge: Trial will proceed despite defendant's claims about forced confession
A Knox County judge is rejecting a driveby shooting suspect...
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more
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Knoxville News-Sentinel,
Monday, July 1, 2013
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Big Sandy isn't safe, inmate says
Robert Howe has spent a lot of time in America's prisons...
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more
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Lexington Herald-Leader,
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Prison Life & Culture
Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes
Suicides in Prison
Workplace & Industry News, and Science & Tech News
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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....
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Associated Press,
Monday, July 8, 2013
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Government, financial self-service deployments solve real-world problems
For this particular deployment, Swanson wanted a self-service alternative ...
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Self Service (press release),
Tuesday, May 15, 2007