Kentucky State Penitentiary (Frankfort, Ky.)
Legislation establishing a penal system in Kentucky was passed in 1798, and by 1800, the first prison west of the Allegheny Mountains, the Kentucky State Penitentiary, was completed on a one-acre tract of land in Frankfort. As early 1825, the penitentiary and the labor of its inmates were leased to private individuals in return for a percentage of the profits from prison labor, a practice that was not abolished until 1880. Convict labor, however, continued to be contracted out until the 1920s.
The for-profit nature of the prison system in Kentucky, along with substantial overcrowding, led numerous administrations during the nineteenth century to seek additional sources of funding, but progress in this area was low. The General Assembly appropriated money in 1872 for construction of a separate unit for women prisoners, and in 1884, a secord prison was added to the system when the Kentucky Branch Penitentiary was erected in Eddyville. In 1895, over 400 cells were added to the prison at Frankfort.
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