The Boone County Detention Center holds people detained for ICE. Civil rights investigators have found deficiencies in the jail’s health and safety protocols.

President Donald Trump wants local officers to help deport immigrants. Here’s what Kentucky law enforcement told KyCIR about that.

The Lexington-based Kentucky Equal Justice Center shut down operations Friday due to a lack of funding and an unpredictable political landscape.

A guard at a juvenile justice facility in McCracken County was fired after he broke the arms of two young male inmates this past fall.

Kentucky is currently one of 12 states that does not compensate those who are wrongly convicted. A bill introduced in the state House earlier this month could change that.

A new initiative aimed at raising awareness of human trafficking among Kentucky’s business community was announced Thursday.

A female student was killed and another student was wounded Wednesday in shooting in a Nashville high school cafeteria, police said.

Dozens of Kentuckians convicted for crimes committed at the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection received a full pardon from President Donald Trump as one of his first acts in office.

A woman cited for unlawful camping while in labor is calling for her citation to be dismissed and for the underlying state law to be found unconstitutional.

The former Letcher County sheriff accused of murdering District Judge Kevin Mullins in September was in court for a status hearing Friday. Defense attorney Jeremy Bartley asked special Judge Christopher Cohron to allow their expert witness to conduct a criminal responsibility evaluation of Mickey Stines.