EDDYVILLE, Ky. – Officials say Kentucky's only maximum security prison is on lockdown after inmates attacked eight workers. Department of Corrections spokeswoman Lisa Lamb told media that 16 ...

The Kentucky State Penitentiary is seeing a significant surge in COVID-19 cases, driving some concerns about additional spread as vaccinations begin at correctional facilities.

EDDYVILLE, Ky. (WKRN) – Two correctional officers were hurt after being assaulted by an inmate at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Lyon County. Kentucky State Police said they were alerted of ...

EDDYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Five inmates at the Kentucky State Penitentiary are suspected of orchestrating an attack that sent a corrections officer to the hospital, police said.

The state has also hired the company on a one-year contract worth $14.8 million to provide nurses for all 12 of Kentucky's prisons. "I never saw this guy, never met him," Hiland said of Embry. "I ...

White retired from the corrections department in late 2023 after a 27-year career that included a stint as warden of the Kentucky State Penitentiary. White assumes his new role on April 1.

At least 30 Kentucky prison guards had inappropriate relations with inmates over just 16 months -- with one female staffer becoming pregnant by a prisoner — while 14 others smuggled drugs in ...

A correctional officer was taken to a hospital after what Kentucky State Police described as a “gang attack” by five inmates at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- An inmate at Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville was stabbed multiple times by another inmate Thursday morning, according to a news release. It happened in a general ...

(WEVV) -- Kentucky State Police continue to investigate an assault of a correctional officer at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Lyon County. According to KSP, before 9 a.m. Christmas morning ...

Around 4:11 p.m. on December 8, KSP Post 1 received a call from the Kentucky State Penitentiary advising that they were performing CPR on an inmate and requested medical services.

What’s Going on Inside Kentucky State Prisons Will Shock and Disgust You. Drug smuggling, sexual relations with inmates, the list of violations goes on and on. By. Kalyn Womack.