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Inmate deaths prompt calls for change at Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex

Multiple inmate deaths, assault cases, and a correctional officer charged with trafficking illegal drugs into the facility.
AOL

Report: Guards at KY prison planted weapon, used racist slurs, tossed contraband

Guards at Southeast State Correctional Complex, a Kentucky state prison in Floyd County, abused their authority by planting a weapon on an inmate, using racist slurs toward Black inmates, daring ...
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Kentucky Department of Corrections respond to possible Daviess County lawsuit

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) — The Kentucky Department of Corrections is responding to a possible lawsuit from Daviess County.
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Kentucky Corrections commissioner visits EKCC days after LEX 18 report

(LEX 18) — Kentucky Department of Corrections Commissioner Cookie Crews visited the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex on Monday, days after LEX 18 Investigates reported she had not visited the ...
Lexington Herald Leader

Deaths surged last year in KY prisons. One lawmaker wants to increase oversight

Ashley Elgin had already purchased a welcome-home banner and balloons, and she was planning to take her husband’s last name soon. She told the Herald-Leader she was just nine days away from being ...