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The Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort was an American prison. It was the first prison built west of the Allegheny Mountains and completed on June 22, 1800 when [1] Kentucky was still virtually a wilderness.
As with many of the state’s other institutions and facilities, overcrowding became an issue at the Kentucky State Penitentiary and the Kentucky State Reformatory. Moving through the 20th century, prison escapes, suicide, homicides, and riots became a regular occurrence.
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]
Built in the late 1700s, the Kentucky State Penitentiary was Kentucky’s very first attempt at a large-scale prison facility. Approximately 80 years after Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort was built, a branch penitentiary was built in Eddyville, Kentucky.
Completed in 1886, it is Kentucky's oldest prison facility and the only state-owned facility with supermax units. The penitentiary houses Kentucky's male death row inmates and the state's execution facility.
Like Eastern State, and the second Kentucky State Penitentiary at Frankfort (now destroyed), the penitentiary at Eddyville is a heavily castellated, medieval revival style prison. It was designed by the McDonald Brothers of Louisville, who were adept at the architectural eclecticism of the post-Civil War era, exemplified by their county ...
Before the establishment of the Kentucky penitentiary system, punishments for crimes in both Kentucky and Virginia were as follows: Treason: Death by hanging, without benefit of clergy. Slaves conspiring to rebel or murder any free person: death.
