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In November 2017, due to facility overcrowding, the Kentucky Department of Corrections signed a contract allowing CoreCivic to reactivate the vacant prison to house up to 800 male inmates. These inmates would be transferred from the Kentucky State Reformatory. [11] The facility reopened and began accepting inmates in March 2018. [12]
The prison has housed both male and female inmates at different times, from Kentucky and from Hawaii. [2] The prison opened in 1981. [3] In 2008, a secretarial employee of the center fatally shot herself in the office of then-warden Joyce Arnold, raising questions about how the weapon had been smuggled in past security. [4]
Picture of Stateville Correctional Center, mistaken for the Joliet Correctional Center. Joliet Correctional Center, which was a completely separate prison from Stateville Correctional Center (part of which is a panopticon) in nearby Crest Hill, opened in 1858. The prison was built with convict labor leased by the state to contractor Lorenzo P ...
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The Warren Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Bowling Green, Ky., photographed Sept. 6, 2021. Body slams, pepper spray and other recent abuses inside KY juvenile detention centers
County: Morgan: State/province ... ZIP Code: 41472: Country: United States: Website: link: Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex (EKCC) is a minimum and medium ...
A man being held at Burlington County Jail is accused of strangling his cellmate, authorities said. Rondale Holloman, 37, of Burlington Township killed 74-year-old Kenneth Bulle of Mount Holly ...
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.