WICKLIFFE, Ky. (FOX 56) — A Ballard County Jail inmate has been charged after allegedly attempting to escape the facility and assaulting two corrections employees. Kentucky State Police said at 10:50 ...

Two Kentucky bills are part of a national trend targeting transgender inmates, who make up a small percentage of incarcerated ...

Daniel Johnson was sworn in again Tuesday as president of the union representing staff at Metro Corrections. Johnson ...

Jail officials say they recently uncovered a scheme involving an inmate and an outside accomplice to smuggle drugs into an Eastern Kentucky detention center. The scheme took place at the Powell County ...

LEE COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - Jeffrey Harrison, an inmate at Three Forks Regional Jail, was able to escape twice in just three months. Incident reports obtained by WKYT’s Samantha Valentino outline the ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The union representing Louisville Metro Corrections officers has a familiar leader back in charge. Daniel ...

STANTON, Ky. (WKYT) - An employee at a Kentucky jail is behind bars and accused of inappropriate conduct with another inmate inside jail walls. In a release, the Powell County Detention Center says ...

A manhunt continues in Northern Kentucky after an escape inmate from Mason County remains on the loose. Jerry Cooper and Roy Butler broke out of the Brown County Jail in Ohio early Tuesday morning.

KSP says that both inmates have been apprehended without incident and taken to the Woodford County Detention Center. Kentucky State Police are searching for two inmates who escaped from Blackburn ...

For the past 15 years, a group of women from First Baptist Church in Mt. Washington has shared Christmas joy with the ...