jails

The Lexington Herald-Leader's Taylor Six spent months investigating jail deaths across the state.

County officials have, for years, come to the Kentucky legislature to discuss the state of their jails. Frequently dealing with overcrowding and rising operating costs, county jails are once again asking the state for more money and long-term solutions.

Louisville Metro Detention Center is seeing a surge in coronavirus cases, and city officials said Thursday they are not sure what’s causing it. The number…

An additional 135 inmates at the men’s Davidson County Correctional Development Center have tested positive for the coronavirus after a round of mass…

More than 300 Kentuckians convicted of crimes are now home while others accused of crimes remain in jail because they can’t post bail. Kentucky Governor…

The head of Kentucky’s Justice and Public Safety Cabinet and two Republican state lawmakers say the legislature needs to make changes to the state’s…

Kentucky is joining a national effort to reduce the number of people held in jail during pretrial. In Kentucky, counties pay the cost of housing inmates…

FRANKFORT — Top Kentucky elected officials say a measure could remedy the costly issue of elected county jailers who have no jails to run—slashing their pay scales. The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting recently revealed that the state has 41

This story was reported by R.G. Dunlop of the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting and Jacob Ryan of WFPL News. CHAVIES, Ky. — Jeanette Miller Hughes padded barefoot around her modest home on a recent weekday afternoon, wearing a stained, baggy

In rural counties, state-run prisons are often major employers. And, after state budget cuts and reforms in the penal code, they remain an important part…