jail

The COVID-19 pandemic is especially challenging in group living situations, including jails. The Kentucky Department of Corrections manages state prisons…

The Allen County Detention Center is battling an outbreak of COVID-19. The jail has had 20 of 58 inmates test positive for COVID-19, along with one staff…

A report published last week found that Kentucky’s incarceration rates are the worst in its region, topping Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia,…

A new program in Pulaski County is aiming to grow the local workforce while, at the same time, helping people who are incarcerated get a new start. It's…

Prison overcrowding has increasingly become part of the national conversation. Meanwhile, states are trying to do more to keep ex-offenders from going…

Kentucky’s chief justice of the Supreme Court says he expects bail reform to come up again in the state legislature. John Minton Jr. says the current…