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

Former correctional officers charged with drug trafficking, other offenses for alleged scheme at Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex.

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman has filed an emergency motion to keep 240 convicted violent criminals in prison.

Under Kentucky law the total sentence imposed cannot exceed 70 years when a defendant receives consecutive indeterminate ...

Dr. Jay Sadrinia, a Northern Kentucky dentist, was originally sentenced to 20 years in prison but a federal appeals court reversed his convictions.

Gov. Beshear announced that recidivism rates, which measure how many people released from prison return within two years, ...

Kentucky Attorney General files emergency motion to keep more than 200 criminals in prison ...

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.

A Morehead man is now in custody at the Rowan County Detention Center on charges of distribution of matter portraying sex performance by a minor under the age of 18 and a minor under the age of 12.

They recommended that all three sentences be served consecutively, so this means he faces up to 20 years in prison.

A former Army National Guard member who had spent eight years in prison for attempting to aid the Islamic State opened fire ...

A judge said that retrofitting punishments to crimes committed before the law went into effect violated the state constitution’s ban on ex post facto laws.