The announcement comes as the Department of Corrections faces scrutiny over safety concerns at the Eastern Kentucky ...

Investigators say an officer who "discovered" contraband secretly planted it.

Kentucky's House Bill 5 lays the groundwork for Kentucky’s first reentry campus—an initiative supporters say could strengthen ...

Kentucky recently signed a $72M contract with the company, despite ongoing lawsuits against the company for fraud, negligence ...

(LEX 18) — Kentucky Department of Corrections Commissioner Cookie Crews visited the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex on Monday, days after LEX 18 Investigates reported she had not visited the ...

Guards at Southeast State Correctional Complex, a Kentucky state prison in Floyd County, abused their authority by planting a weapon on an inmate, using racist slurs toward Black inmates, daring ...

Authorities with the Kentucky State Police are actively searching for an inmate who they say escaped from a corrections ...

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman has filed an emergency motion to keep 240 convicted violent criminals in prison.Coleman said it comes after the Franklin County Circuit Court invalidated a ...

Analysis projects Logan’s Law adds hundreds of millions in long-term prison costs. Some provisions add 10 years before parole, raising incarceration and care expenses. KY Department of Corrections ...

Several state agencies, including the one that manages Kentucky prisons, have joined a lawsuit accusing the state’s prison health care provider of having fraudulent insurance coverage. The Kentucky ...