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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 389 law enforcement agencies employing 7,833 sworn police officers, about 183 for each 100,000 residents.
In June 2013, Kentucky temporarily ended its decades-long relationship with Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) (now CoreCivic), closing Marion Adjustment Center in St. Mary, the last private prison at the time that housed Kentucky inmates. This decision was widely applauded across the state, as the tax dollar savings totaled in the millions.
Its county seat is Henderson. [2] The county was formed in 1798 [3] and named for Richard Henderson [4] who purchased 17,000,000 acres (69,000 km 2) of land from the Cherokee, part of which would later make up the county. Henderson County lies within the West Kentucky Coal Field area. It is also part of the Evansville, IN-KY Metropolitan ...
Kentucky last week held 238 youths in its eight juvenile detention centers, 96 youths in its six youth development centers and 43 youths in its eight group homes, White said.
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The teens were held at the Adair County Youth Detention Center in late 2022, around the same time state police reported a riot at the facility that started when a juvenile assaulted a staff member.
Henderson is located in north-central Henderson County, 10 miles (16 km) south of Evansville, Indiana, and 30 miles (48 km) west of Owensboro, Kentucky. According to the United States Census Bureau , Henderson has a total area of 17.6 square miles (45.6 km 2 ), of which 15.3 square miles (39.6 km 2 ) are land and 2.3 square miles (5.9 km 2 ...
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