Western Kentucky Correctional Complex
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Western Kentucky Correctional Complex (WKCC) is a segregated, dual-sex, medium-security prison in unincorporated Lyon County, Kentucky,[1] near the city of Fredonia. since October 2019[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., the facility had 693 prisoners (493 men and 200 women).[2]
History
The facility was built in 1968 to support the Kentucky State Penitentiary (KSP). In 1977, it became its own separate institution, the Western Kentucky Farm Center (WKFC), a minimum-security prison. When WKFC became Western Kentucky Correctional Complex in 1989, medium-security infrastructure was added. The facility was converted from a men's prison to a women's prison in 2010. Five years later, [2] it was divided into two separate facilities: the current men's prison (WKCC) and a separate women's prison—the 200-bed Ross-Cash Center—due to fewer female prisoners; this change was projected to save Template:US$ per year[3] and only require 90 days of work to accomplish. Ross-Cash was named for two Kentucky Department of Corrections staff members killed in the 1980s, Patricia Ross (died 1984 at KSP) and Fred Cash (died 1986 at WKFC).[4]
WKCC and Ross-Cash reunited under the WKCC name in 2016, and since October 2019[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., was the "only state-level co-ed facility in Kentucky." Sixty-four percent of prisoners were white while the other thirty-six percent were black. Annual imprisonment cost Template:US$ per person, while WKCC had an operating budget of Template:US$ (equivalent to approximately $Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".M in Template:Inflation/year).[2]
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