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Western Kentucky Correctional Complex (WKCC) is a segregated, dual-sex, medium-security prison in unincorporated Lyon County, Kentucky, [2] near the city of Fredonia. As of October 2019, the facility had 693 prisoners (493 men and 200 women). [1]
The Kentucky State Penitentiary (KSP), also known as the "Castle on the Cumberland", is a maximum security and supermax prison with capacity for 856 prisoners located in Eddyville, Kentucky on Lake Barkley on the Cumberland River, about 4.8 kilometres (3 mi) from downtown Eddyville. [1] It is managed by the Kentucky Department of Corrections ...
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 correctional officer at Western Kentucky Correctional Complex in Lyon County resigned in September 2023 after investigators questioned her about her inappropriate relationship with an inmate.
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The body was sent to the Medical Examiner’s Office in Frankfort for an autopsy and toxicology test.
Lyon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,680. [1] Its county seat is Eddyville. [2] The county was formed from Caldwell County, Kentucky in 1854 and named for former Congressman Chittenden Lyon. [3] [4]
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.