So Herald-Leader reporter Taylor Six launched a six-month investigation to answer some of those questions. Throughout her ...

Kentucky’s Department of Corrections is tasked with ensuring jails across the state comply with minimum health and life safety standards. But those standards become murky when people arrive with ...

Kentucky Senate Bill 2, filed by Republican Sen. Mike Wilson, aims to prevent the Department of Corrections from funding ...

A bill in the Kentucky legislature would require the state's prisons to designate bathrooms, sleeping quarters and other ...

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

Read more. Story idea? [email protected]. Changes to Kentucky Department of Corrections rules that clarify and broaden accommodations for transgender inmates have rankled some ...

In December, the Kentucky Department of Corrections included a proposal to expand services for transgender inmates in a document outlining potential changes to department protocol. Among those ...

Kentucky Senate Bill 2, filed by Republican Sen. Mike Wilson, aims to prevent the Department of Corrections from funding gender transition care for inmates. While Kentucky's Attorney General ...