Plans for construction of a new medium-security federal prison in Letcher County have ... When United States Penitentiary Big Sandy opened in Martin County in 2003, the poverty rate was below ...

Tom Sexton with the Sierra Club of eastern Kentucky called it “a travesty” to build a “half-million dollar monument to human misery” next to the Lilley Cornett Woods. In nearby Martin County, the ...

MAGOFFIN COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - Kentucky State Police troopers arrested a man who was indicted on multiple charges in November.