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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.
This secret abuse of state inmates didn’t remain a secret. On March 12, seven inmates at Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against four guards and Warden ...
Securus Technologies “gets a big chunk of my paycheck,” said one prisoner’s wife. “That’s true for a lot of us.”
The incarceration numbers for the states in the chart below are for sentenced and unsentenced inmates in adult facilities in local jails and state prisons. Numbers for federal prisons are in the Federal line. Asterisk (*) indicates "Incarceration in STATE" or "Crime in STATE" links. Correctional supervision numbers for Dec 31, 2018.
Southeast State Correctional Complex, formerly the Otter Creek Correctional Center, is a medium-security prison located in Wheelwright, Kentucky. [1] The facility is owned by CoreCivic and is operated by the Kentucky Department of Corrections. The prison has housed both male and female inmates at different times, from Kentucky and from Hawaii. [2]
State corrections records show that a majority of Kentucky’s 77 local and regional jails already are overcrowded. Its 14 state prisons are nearly full. Sign up for our Bluegrass Politics Newsletter
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Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex (EKCC) is a minimum and medium-security prison located in West Liberty, Kentucky. It opened in February 1990 and had a prison population of 2,100 as of 2019. It opened in February 1990 and had a prison population of 2,100 as of 2019.