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The county is named for Benjamin Logan, who had been second in command of the Kentucky militia during the American Revolutionary War and was a leader in bringing statehood to the area. [3] [4] Created from Lincoln County on September 1, 1792, Logan was the 13th Kentucky county in order of formation. [5]
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.
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]
Inmates whose urine tested positive for illegal drug use last year at Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex in Morgan County were given a choice by guards. ... They were sentenced to 30 days to 90 ...
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]
Allen County, Logan County and Warren County: John Simpson, military captain killed at the Battle of Frenchtown: 20,195: 236 sq mi (611 km 2) Spencer County: 215: Taylorsville: 1824: Nelson County, Shelby County, and Bullitt County: Spier Spencer, military captain killed at the Battle of Tippecanoe 20,531: 186 sq mi (482 km 2) Taylor County ...
Police say woman left a package of drugs intended for Central Ky. jail inmates in a bush ... on surveillance video Aug. 25 driving from the Madison County Detention Center to the parking lot at ...
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.