Kentucky prisons

Advocates say that, too often in Kentucky, people with mental illness cycle through jails and prison as a default for proper treatment.

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

A new report released identifies Kentucky as one of 23 states without oversight into what books are banned in its prisons.

Researchers with the Vera Institute for Justice found the expansion in Kentucky’s criminal justice system has coincided with economic decline as coal and manufacturing jobs left the state.

Kentucky has some of the highest incarceration rates in the country. But state lawmakers ignored most efforts to address the issue and its root causes, instead passing measures that are likely to worsen overcrowding in jails and prisons.

Parts of a women’s prison in Shelby County have been without proper heat or hot water since last Thursday, according to the ACLU of Kentucky.

Metro Corrections Director Dwayne Clark provided details about the three deaths of people incarcerated at the Louisville jail.

More than 10,000 people are currently held in Kentucky prisons, and nearly 8,000 have been infected with the coronavirus since the pandemic began. This infection rate of nearly 80% is among the worst nationally, according to a new report by the advocacy group Prison Policy Initiative.

Kentucky State Representative Darryl Owens wants to change how prisoners are counted in census data.Currently, inmates are counted as residents of the…