Two women died Sunday at a Kentucky church in a shooting spree that began when a state trooper was wounded after making a ...

The Kentucky Department of Corrections has settled a lawsuit and changed its policy on hairstyles in prisons in response to an inmate who said his dreadlocks, which he wore for religious reasons ...

Kentucky is joining four other states in introducing a new way to give those with criminal records a second chance at education. Kentucky is joining Arizona, Louisiana, Minnesota, and Virginia in a ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – Four elected Kentucky jailers and their statewide association have sued the Kentucky Department of Corrections, claiming it routinely fails to move inmates in county ...

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.

DANVILLE, Ky. (FOX 56) — The Northpoint Training Center (NTC) for the Department of Corrections is mourning the loss of one of its officers. According to the Kentucky non-profit Supporting ...

A Kentucky federal prison supervisor has been convicted of writing false reports to cover up assaults by corrections officers. The ex-officer was charged with two counts of obstruction.

Three officers who participated in the 2018 assault at Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex and tried to cover it up received varying sentences Monday, the department said in a statement. Randall ...

Kentucky State, Corrections Department open pathway for degrees. By: Michael Berk. Posted . and last updated. LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Time and money, or a lack of both, are oftentimes the two ...

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.

Authorities say multiple people were injured in a shooting at a Kentucky church after the suspect shot and wounded a state trooper. Kentucky state police say that after shooting the trooper ...