The plea agreement states that employees who complied received promotions or received "monetary rewards" of anywhere from ...

A prison guard at the U.S. Penitentiary Big Sandy in Martin County has pleaded guilty to federal charges related a prison ...

Senior supervisors at the federal prison in Martin County encouraged staffers to assault prisoners and cover up the crimes, ...

Several cities in Northern Kentucky received reports of fliers calling on people to monitor and report all immigrants and encouraging membership in the Ku Klux Klan. By Alexandra E. Petri The ...

The Bureau of Prisons temporarily dropped the proposal two years later. The proposal for a new prison resurfaced in 2022. Whitaker said he has been disheartened lately that Rep. Hal Rogers of eastern ...

US President Donald Trump vows significant reversals and major "corrections" in his inaugural address, promising bold changes. His speech emphasizes a new direction for the country, focusing on ...

Exclusive: Alex “Big A” Underwood was convicted of federal and South Carolina crimes while serving as sheriff of Chester County.

Underwood spent most of his prison stretch at Big Sandy prison in Kentucky before being sent to a North Carolina halfway house near Raleigh a few weeks ago. In a 2021 trial in Columbia ...

Authorities investigating 35-year-old woman’s death A judge recently sentenced two inmates convicted of attempting to murder a correctional officer inside the state penitentiary. The judge said ...

Police are investigating after racist fliers purportedly issued by the Ku Klux Klan that directed immigrants to “leave now” and “avoid deportation” were found in several Kentucky cities on ...

On the first day of his second presidency, Donald Trump reversed former President Joe Biden’s executive order on private prisons. Biden’s order had barred contracts between the Department of Justice ...

Local organizations in Northern Kentucky are teaming up to support restaurants hit hard bythe closure of the southbound lanes of the Big Mac Bridge. The initiative is called #DineNKY. It runs from ...