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The Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort was an American prison. It was the first prison built west of the Allegheny Mountains and completed on June 22, 1800 when [1] Kentucky was still virtually a wilderness. The Kentucky Legislature of 1798 had appointed Harry Innes, Alexander S. Bullitt, Caleb Wallace, Isaac Shelby and John Coburn as ...
Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice. The Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice (KYDJJ) is a state agency of Kentucky headquartered in unincorporated Franklin County, near Frankfort. [1] The agency operates juvenile correctional facilities. It was established after a 1996 act of the Kentucky General Assembly.
There are 59 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, of which 3 are National Historic Landmarks. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted August 30, 2024.[2] Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap.
The people who run Kentucky’s overwhelmed juvenile detention facilities spent the year 2022 all but begging their bosses in Frankfort for help, even before a series of dangerous attacks and ...
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.
A former state employee stole more than $400,000 from a Kentucky government agency by using identities of other people to write herself checks, a federal grand jury has charged. The grand jury ...
Franklin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 51,541, making it the 2nd least populous capital county in the United States after Hughes County, South Dakota. [2] Its county seat is Frankfort, [3] the state capital. The county was formed in 1795 from parts of Woodford, Mercer and ...
La Grange, Ky. Postcard view, c. 1940. Kentucky State Reformatory (KSR) is a medium-security prison for adult males. The prison is located in unincorporated Oldham County, Kentucky, near La Grange, [1] and about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Louisville. [2] It opened in 1940 [3] to replace the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort (later ...