Kentucky jails

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.

For over 460 days, as the pandemic shut down visitation across the state, incarcerated people and their loved ones relied on the prison system’s costly phone calls and emails.The Kentucky Department of Corrections and Securus Technologies reaped big rewards.

The Kentucky Supreme Court will decide whether local jails are allowed to bill people for incarceration costs, even if they are later cleared of…

Gov. Andy Beshear says Kentucky plans to reopen and operate a privately owned prison to shift inmates from overcrowded county jails. The facility is in…

Kentucky's overcrowded jails are filled with nonviolent offenders who pose little risk, according to an analysis by the Administrative Office of the…

Imagine living and working somewhere designed to fit a couple hundred people. Now picture that same space crammed with twice that number. Madison County,…

A new report states Kentucky has the highest percentage of children in the nation who have had a parent in jail. The Annie E. Casey Foundation reports…

A bill filed this week in the Kentucky General Assembly seeks to increase accountability for the state’s no-jail jailers.The proposal by Republican Sen.…

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