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The Kentucky Department of Corrections is a state agency of the Kentucky Justice & Public Safety Cabinet that operates state-owned adult correctional facilities and provides oversight for and sets standards for county jails. They also provide training, community based services, and oversees the state's Probation & Parole Division.
A prison officer (PO) or corrections officer (CO), also known as a correctional law enforcement officer or less formally as a prison guard, is a uniformed law enforcement official responsible for the custody, supervision, safety, and regulation of prisoners. They are responsible for the security of the facility and its property as well as other ...
A Blackburn correctional officer suspended without pay for 15 days in 2023 for dereliction of duty was hired months later as a correctional officer for the Department of Juvenile Justice.
A correctional emergency response team (abbreviated CERT [1] or CRT) is a team of specially trained prison officers tasked with responding to disturbances, riots, cell extractions, mass searches, and other situations in prisons that are likely to involve uncooperative or violent prisoners.
A former corrections officer at a federal prison in Eastern Kentucky pleaded guilty last week in connection with assaults on inmates. Ryan O. Elliott, who was a lieutenant at USP Big Sandy in ...
A former Kentucky corrections sergeant was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison for failing to stop the beating of an inmate who was handcuffed and shackled, and then lying to investigators ...
In the 1940s, the prison began to get rid of all of the convicts under age eighteen. Most of them were sent to the reformatory. The main issue with the Kentucky State Penitentiary in this period was the correctional officer force, always low in numbers and low-paid. The electric chair was installed at Eddyville penitentiary September 1910.
Eric Nantell, 48, was a sergeant at the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex in Morgan County in July 2018 when three guards punched and kicked a prisoner in a shower, according to court documents.