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Kentucky State Reformatory
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Kentucky State Reformatory is a state prison located in Oldham County, Kentucky. Rated capacity: 1,691. Reported population: 1,660. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Kentucky State Reformatory (KSR) is a medium-security prison for adult males. The prison is located in unincorporated Oldham County, Kentucky, near La Grange, and about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Louisville. It opened in 1940 to replace the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort (later known as Kentucky State Reformatory) after a flood damaged the original property. As of 2024, the capacity of KSR is 1,051 inmates.
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Capacity
1,691
Current population
1,660
Occupancy
98%
Year opened
1939
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1939
Region
Kentucky
Security level
Medium
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
- Harry Edward Greenwell1944–2013 · serial killer
Harry Edward Greenwell (December 9, 1944 â January 31, 2013), known as The I-65 Killer and The Days Inn Killer, was an American serial killer and rapist who committed at least three murders along Interstate 65 in Indiana and Kentucky between 1987 and 1989.
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
0/100
Low concern0/100
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersOccupancythis: 98% · peers avg: 93% (+6%)
Capacity (beds)this: 1691 · peers avg: 547 (+209%)
Data completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q6392397)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Kentucky State Reformatory. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/kentucky-state-reformatory
Chicago
"Kentucky State Reformatory." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/kentucky-state-reformatory.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-kentucky-state-reformatory,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Kentucky State Reformatory},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/kentucky-state-reformatory},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}