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

A female inmate at the Fayette County Detention Center died Saturday after being found unresponsive in her cell. Jail staff found Alicia Meredith Marie Ropp, 27, unresponsive at 8:16 a.m., according ...

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 ...

Community Corrections Staff found 27-year-old inmate Alicia Meredith Marie Ropp dead in her cell Saturday morning, according ...

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

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.” ...

The investigation into the death of a Grant County inmate is ongoing ... Lambert was found unresponsive in a dormitory bed at the jail around 6:15 a.m. on Dec. 31. Medics arrived and pronounced ...

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 ...