Kentucky's Prisons, COVID, and No Compassionate Release
Kentucky Bar Association, Bench & Bar Magazine, January-February 2021
by Joshua F. Barnette and Michael Denbow
The Kentucky Department of Corrections is not immune from the same pandemic issues faced by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. As of December 4, 2020, the Department of Corrections ("DOC") operated 14 correctional institutions with 10,000 inmates. At the time of this writing, 2,895 inmates and 456 employees have tested positive for the virus; 24 inmates and three employees have died. The numbers could have been worse.
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