Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (https://kycir.org/tag/jail/)
A 2015 KyCIR investigation featured Trent’s death and revealed myriad problems in jails across the state, including preventable inmate deaths, inadequate or nonexistent health care and oversight failures at all levels of government.
A bill to hold Kentucky’s no-jail jailers accountable for their work passed through the legislature this week and is awaiting Gov. Matt Bevin’s approval.
A lawsuit resulting from the 2013 death of an inmate in the Montgomery County jail has been settled for more than $400,000. Ronald Gaunce’s death was detailed in a 2015 KyCIR series on jail health care woes.
Damon Hickman’s guilty plea marks the latest chapter in a long saga of abuse in a Kentucky jail, and underscores the costs of such misconduct.
Grant county officials have decided to keep its troubled jail open, abandoning a months-old plan to shutter the facility.
Capping more than a decade of turmoil over its troubled jail, Grant County fiscal court voted unanimously on Tuesday to permanently close the facility within 90 days.
A federal judge says there is evidence that a doctor, a nurse and the Montgomery County jailer all demonstrated “deliberate indifference” to the needs of an inmate who died in the jail. The inmate was featured in a KyCIR series last year on jail health care woes.