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An Act passed both houses of the Kentucky Legislature on April 28, 1884 [3] providing for a branch penitentiary to be located in Eddyville, Kentucky.Former Confederate States brigadier general and Eddyville native Hylan Benton Lyon was the moving force behind the Kentucky State Branch Penitentiary being located in what is now Old Eddyville.
This prison was known as the Kentucky Penitentiary until the 1910 Prison Reform bill [4] passed March 1, 1910: This bill included that one institution be penal and the other reform; the changing of its mode of Capital Punishment from the gallows to the use of an electric chair, and included that the electric chair be kept in a "penitentiary ...
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.
He supervised the Kentucky State Archives Research Room from 1985 to 2008 and was employed as Special Collections cataloger at The Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky from 2013 to 2022.
This is a list of people executed in Kentucky. Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the United States in 1976, three people have been executed in Kentucky. All three were executed for murder. All of the executions occurred at the Kentucky State Penitentiary (KSP) in Eddyville. [1]
As the debate over lethal injections resumes, 25 people currently sit on the commonwealth's death row, most of whom are housed at the Kentucky State Penitentiary — save for the only woman ...
White retired in December from the state Department of Corrections, where he served as deputy commissioner of adult institutions and, before that, warden of Kentucky State Penitentiary and Green ...
Kentucky State Reformatory 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, [1] near La Grange, [2] and about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Louisville. [3]