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Gov. Lee shows no signs of dumping CoreCivic, which runs four state prisons for $233 million a year

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.

When the Kentucky government announced they would resume in-person visitation at state prison facilities by June 20, Stefanie Potter and her 5-year-old daughter were overwhelmed at the thought of seeing their husband and father for the first time since the pandemic started.

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

Shkreli argues that his pharmaceuticals experience qualifies him to help seek a treatment or cure. Probation officials call that claim "delusional self-aggrandizing behavior."

A new grant will allow the nonprofit Kentucky Center For Economic Policy to research Kentucky’s rising incarceration rates.The $10,000 grant from the New…

The Kentucky legislature has voted to expand the state’s law that allows people to clear some Class D felonies from their records after a five-year…

Rural jails in Kentucky are increasingly relying on income derived from payments for holding state prisoners in county facilities, according to a new…

Data from 15 states reveal that female inmates are disciplined at higher rates than men for smaller infractions of prison rules — often with harsh consequences.

Officials say a riot at a central Kentucky jail led to several inmates being moved to another facility.A statement from Kentucky State Police said that…