The Kentucky State Police (KSP) say current and former employees at two Kentucky state prisons are among those facing charges ...

EKCC contacted KSP in September 2025 leading to a joint investigation into suspected drug trafficking, money laundering, ...

Five people are facing charges after authorities say illegal narcotics were found at the Eastern Kentucky Correctional ...

Former correctional officers, inmates and a 70-year-old mother allegedly worked together to distribute narcotics inside the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex.

The commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Corrections has not made an in-person visit to EKCC in the past year, a period during which four inmates died in five months.

House Bill 422, called Logan’s Law, would lengthen prison sentences, narrow the criminal insanity defense and eliminate some ...

The sister of a man who died in a Kentucky prison in 2021 has filed a second lawsuit - this time against the state justice cabinet and its officials for failing to enforce insurance contracts in its ...

Samuel Morgan says his son Danny had been calling him from the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex since mid-October of ...

Kentucky officials say a second person has died due to the winter storm, an inmate.The Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet said an inmate, Marvin Knuckles, died while shoveling snow at the ...

Attorney General Russell Coleman has announced that action by his Special Prosecutions Unit will send a violent offender back to prison, following a domestic violence ...