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Freedom was only one locked jail door away for convicted killer Paul Brock and an accused killer Nicholas Rucker during a failed escape attempt from the Whitley County Detention Center late Friday evening.

“Where there is life there is hope,” reads the message at the top of the mural, whose audience is primarily inmates inside the Whitley County Detention Center. Mural with a message: Inmate Brandon McCullah (third from left) was the primary artist who painted this mural inside the...

In an effort to combat overdose deaths, the Whitley County Health Department is now offering free Naloxone to inmates when they are released from the Whitley County Detention Center. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please...

A Knox County man, who was arrested last Sunday for allegedly setting fire to a stolen truck, racked up additional charges at the Whitley County Detention Center where he allegedly fought with multiple deputy jailers resulting in one suffering a possible concussion. Read this...

A McCreary County man indicted in a 2020 rape is being held in the Whitley County Detention Center. Dustin T. Watkins, 31, of Whitley City, was lodged in the Whitley County Detention Center Wednesday following his arrest earlier in the day in Lexington on the warrant charging him...

A Whitley County Detention Center worker found herself on the other side of the law Wednesday morning after she was arrested for allegedly being intoxicated while at work. Kathleen Kramer was arrested for public intoxication and possession of marijuana Wednesday morning. Read...

A Williamsburg woman was found with about 36 grams (1.27 ounces) of suspected methamphetamine while being booked into the Whitley County Detention Center shortly after midnight on New Year’s Day, according to a Williamsburg Police Department release. Williamsburg Police Officer...

A Williamsburg woman allegedly had contraband hidden inside a body cavity while being booked into the Whitley County Detention Center on New Year’s Eve. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please login to view this content....

Having a father, a mother or another loved one in jail can be difficult on the rest of their family in the best of times, let alone around the holiday season. Having the money to buy the traditional holiday feast or even a good meal for many of these families is probably...

Investigators are still awaiting final autopsy and toxicology results before they will know how a Siler woman died on Nov. 4 after she had been incarcerated at the Whitley County Detention Center for eight days. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to...