At least 30 Kentucky prison guards had inappropriate relations with inmates over just 16 months -- with one female staffer becoming pregnant by a prisoner — while 14 others smuggled drugs in ...

White retired from the corrections department in late 2023 after a 27-year career that included a stint as warden of the Kentucky State Penitentiary. White assumes his new role on April 1.

Patricia “Patti” Allen, who was demoted Dec. 13, 2022, from captain to correctional officer and involuntarily transferred from Kentucky State Penitentiary to Western Kentucky Correctional ...

Weeks after he resigned from the prison, on Dec. 1, 2022, Dees was hired by the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts, the agency that runs the state’s courts, where he works as a program ...

What’s Going on Inside Kentucky State Prisons Will Shock and Disgust You. Drug smuggling, sexual relations with inmates, the list of violations goes on and on. By. Kalyn Womack.

Around 4:11 p.m. on December 8, KSP Post 1 received a call from the Kentucky State Penitentiary advising that they were performing CPR on an inmate and requested medical services.

EDDYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Five inmates at the Kentucky State Penitentiary are suspected of orchestrating an attack that sent a corrections officer to the hospital, police said.

Kentucky is joining Arizona, Louisiana, Minnesota, and Virginia in a national initiative to expand postsecondary education ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Authorities are investigating a death of an inmate at the Kentucky State Penitentiary. Kentucky State Police said they were notified around 5 p.m. EST on Friday about jail ...

Inmates at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville used a weapon to assault a corrections officer in a common area of the prison, sending the officer to the hospital with “multiple injuries." ...

(WEVV) -- Kentucky State Police continue to investigate an assault of a correctional officer at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Lyon County. According to KSP, before 9 a.m. Christmas morning ...

EDDYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Five inmates at the Kentucky State Penitentiary are suspected of orchestrating an attack that sent a corrections officer to the hospital, police said. The officer was ...