Jared Bennett

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

In lawsuits, DRC Emergency Services allegedly put workers' health at risk, underpaid subcontractors, broke deals with business partners and misrepresented their experience to obtain contracts.

Rep. Hal Rogers has wanted another prison in eastern Kentucky for years. Local and national activists say the new land owners have better plans for Letcher County.

David Sanders not only wants a judge to overturn his death penalty conviction, but to declare a law unconstitutional. The decision could open the door for defendants across the country.

Attorneys for a Kentucky man that’s spent four decades on death row for murder say a recent DNA test is proof he wasn’t the killer.

A delayed report shows what many lawmakers have already heard: Kentucky’s road paving industry has little competition, lots of single-bid contracts.

Prompted by research from legislative analysts late last year that showed a lack of competition drives up road paving costs, Kentucky lawmakers said they’d issue a full report on the issue by January this year. They haven't done it.

The plan to build a prison in Letcher County is generating opposition from a burgeoning national coalition that includes formerly incarcerated people.

The sweeping Republican-backed crime bill could lead to more incarceration, which could bring problems for many Kentucky jails that are already overcrowded with people in state custody.

KyCIR interviewed Michael Stansbury, the special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Louisville field office, about the agency's focus following Jan. 6. Stansbury said investigating political violence is a top priority for the office.