Kentucky Department of Corrections

Parts of the Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women in Shelby County are without air conditioning amid extreme temperatures and an active heat advisory.

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has joined attorneys general in Ohio and Tennessee in seeking to block a new federal COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandate for large workplaces released Thursday.

Kentucky’s Department of Corrections has spent more than $28 million trying to resolve problems accounting for how much good-time credit prison and jail…

Michael Taylor thought he might die alone in the Shelby County Detention Center. Taylor had been sick with the coronavirus for weeks. It was early March,…

On January 20, Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex was on medical lockdown as prison staff and Department of Corrections officials struggled to control…

The Kentucky House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would raise the bar for what counts as felony theft in the state.Under current law,…

Kentucky is reporting a record number of COVID-19 hospitalizations as the pandemic worsens in the commonwealth.Governor Andy Beshear announced Monday…

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear is preparing to commute the sentences of some state inmates as coronavirus case counts rise in prisons throughout the…

A former high-ranking official for the Federal Bureau of Prisons has been selected to serve as interim commissioner for the Kentucky Department of…

The state of Kentucky will pay $1.5 million to four women who accused their supervisor at a prison of sexually harassing them while they worked there.The…