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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 ...
Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women. Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women (KCIW) is a prison located in unincorporated Shelby County, Kentucky, near Pewee Valley, Kentucky, operated by the Kentucky Department of Corrections. [ 1] Male and female inmates prior to 1937 had been housed at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort ...
Kentucky State Reformatory. / 38.40361°N 85.41583°W / 38.40361; -85.41583. 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: Eddyville, Kentucky: Maximum/Supermax: 1886 856 Kentucky State Reformatory: La Grange, Kentucky: Medium 1936 2005 Little Sandy Correctional Complex: Sandy Hook, Kentucky: Medium/Maximum 2005 1012 Luther Luckett Correctional Complex: La Grange, Kentucky: Medium/Maximum 1981 987
All three were executed for murder. All of the executions occurred at the Kentucky State Penitentiary (KSP) in Eddyville. [1] As of 2022, Harold McQueen has been the only person executed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky involuntarily since 1976. Edward Lee Harper and Marco Allen Chapman both volunteered to be executed. [2]
On Feb. 14, Corrections Commissioner Cookie Crews and Deputy Commissioner Scott Jordan agreed to a phone interview that lasted about 10 minutes. But they weren’t keen on directly answering the ...
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 ...
Hughes was named warden of the prison in 2021. He started his career as a correctional officer at Northpoint Training Center in Boyle County in 1999 and worked his way up through the ranks.