The Jail System
Kentucky has 84 jails in 120 counties. The jail population in 2021 was 21,722.
The Prison System
As of December 31, 2021, the number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of the State of Kentucky correctional authorities was 18,560 located in 12 state prisons and held in custody of private prisons or local jails. Kentucky operated facilities had a budget of $633,785,800.
The Community Corrections System
As of December 31, 2021, Kentucky community corrections population was 55,539 under probation and 14,430 under parole.
Methodology
The National Institute of Corrections depends on publicly available information to provide the information on this page.
The statistics for budgets, employee positions, county numbers, and state prison facilities data come from state departments of corrections, other state reports and state agencies. If data is missing for a state, then we were unable to find that information.
The data on prison population come from the Prisoner in 2021 report released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The report includes the count of prisoners in the unified systems of Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Violent and property crime rates are provided by the Vera Institute.