Maximum security prison located in Eddyville, Kentucky
This article is about the current prison in Eddyville, Kentucky. For the prison that once stood in Frankfort, see Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort.
Maximum, Supermax, Minimum (outside main facility)
Population
856 (as of 2015)
Opened
1889
Managed by
Kentucky Department of Corrections
Warden
Laura Plappert
The Kentucky State Penitentiary (KSP), also known as the "Castle on the Cumberland," is a maximum security and supermax prison with capacity for 856 prisoners located in Eddyville, Kentucky on Lake Barkley on the Cumberland River, about 4.8 kilometres (3 mi) from downtown Eddyville.[1] It is managed by the Kentucky Department of Corrections. Completed in 1886, it is Kentucky's oldest prison facility and the only commonwealth-owned facility with supermax units. The penitentiary houses Kentucky's male death row inmates and the commonwealth's execution facility. As of 2015[update] it had approximately 350 staff members and an annual operating budget of $20 million.[2] In most cases, inmates are not sent directly to the penitentiary after sentencing, but are sent there because of violent or disruptive behavior committed in other less secure correctional facilities in the commonwealth.
This was Kentucky's second penitentiary: the first was made uninhabitable from a flood in 1937.
^"Home." Kentucky State Penitentiary. Retrieved on March 8, 2011. "266 Water St./PO Box 5128 Eddyville, Kentucky 42038"
^"Kentucky Department of Corrections – About KSP".
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