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Jun 7, 2017 · The mother of one of her good friends saw the post and pointed Stinson to The Western Kentucky Correctional Facility in Fredonia, KY, a small city in Caldwell County.
- Nathaniel Ainley
Mar 13, 2018 · One: William Gregory, falsely identified, convicted of attempted rape and burglary, locked up for seven years and freed in 2000 by mitochondrial DNA testing — the first to be exonerated based on DNA alone (with the help of the original Innocence Project in New York).
Mar 12, 2024 · Women are disproportionately incarcerated in jails where more than half of them have not yet been convicted of a crime and are still presumed innocent. About 191,000 women were detained in jails and prisons across the U.S. in 2023, with approximately 84,000 being held in local jails.
- The Architecture of Counterinsurgency
- Disappearing The Senses
- Gender Violence and The Politics of Truth
The first control unit in the United States emerged as a direct response to the revolutionary movements of the 1960s and ’70s, which intensified anti-prison activism both within and outside prison walls. This moment, which Alan Eladio Gómez calls “the prison rebellion years,” connected the organizing efforts of prisoners to the underground and abov...
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons announced the completion of the Lexington High Security Unit, a sixteen-bed facility at the existing federal penitentiary in Lexington, Kentucky, in the fall of 1986. The unit, self-contained and underground, was the first maximum-security prison designed specifically for women in the federal system. Although it could acco...
One of the challenges of mounting legal battles against the control unit, and indeed of writing about it now, is that very little is actually known about its origins or the details of its daily operation. In 1988, Rosenberg and Baraldini filed a lawsuit, Baraldini v. Meese, which alleged that the FBP violated their First, Eighth, and Fifth Amendment...
Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women (KCIW) is a prison located in unincorporated Shelby County, Kentucky, near Pewee Valley, Kentucky, operated by the Kentucky Department of Corrections. [1] Male and female inmates prior to 1937 had been housed at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort (1912 name changed Kentucky State Reformatory ...
Jan 6, 2023 · Those facing wrongful incarceration often spend years, and sometimes decades, pursuing exoneration, a fundamentally legal process that furnishes wrongfully convicted people with a legal innocent status, from behind prison walls.
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Jun 21, 2019 · Virginia Caudill is housed on death row at the Kentucky Correctional Institute for Women in Pewee Valley. Johnathan Goforth is housed on death row at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville, Kentucky.
