State law dictates that people in Kentucky jails are entitled to the same health care they would receive while outside jail.

The Morgan County Jail has received a $50,000 grant to support its addiction treatment programs. A former inmate, now clean and sober, nominated the jail for the grant through the Attorney General ...

Two Kentucky bills are part of a national trend targeting transgender inmates, who make up a small percentage of incarcerated citizens.

The investigation into the death of a Grant County inmate is ongoing, but the county coroner’s office has determined the cause of death.

The Daviess County Detention Center ... inmates to court or to the hospital. “Any time we are outside the facility, we are armed,” Swift said. “We are peace officers in the state of Kentucky.” ...

So Herald-Leader reporter Taylor Six launched a six-month investigation to answer some of those questions. Throughout her ...

GRANT COUNTY, Wash. -- An inmate found dead in the Grant County Jail died of sepsis due to peritonitis. 31-year-old Richard Lambert was found dead in his jail cell December 31. Lambert had been ...

SCOTT COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — The Scott County Detention Center is taking the lead by implementing neuro-electrode treatment for inmates. It's being called a different way of addressing the ...

Since its inception in 2019, Project Blue is credited with lowering the percentage of jailed Erie County inmates and detainees who return to jail after being released.

Lamber was found deceased in his bunk at the Grant County Jail on Dec. 31 ... witnesses and attempting to find and interview former inmates who were incarcerated with Lambert from Dec. 27 to ...