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Opening in the late 1800s, the Kentucky Branch Penitentiary, now known as the Kentucky State Penitentiary, formally opened and began accepting prisoners. According to the Kentucky Department of Corrections, prisoners provided labor to help build the prison while Italian stonemasons were hired to help build the facility.
Construction of the Kentucky State Branch Penitentiary began in 1884, using massive granite blocks quarried from a site down the Cumberland. Italian stonemasons were recruited to erect the original buildings, which resemble medieval castles. The prison officially opened in 1889.
In the early 1900s, the facility in Frankfort was renamed the Kentucky State Reformatory while the branch facility became the only state penitentiary. The original facility housed more than 600 inmates and would later nearly double its size in the late 1800s and yet again during the 1900s.
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.
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]
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.
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.
