LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - An inmate released from Nelson County Jail on parole escaped custody and officials are seeking the public’s help to find him. Charles Noe was released from Nelson County Jail ...

BARDSTOWN, Ky. (WDRB) -- More than 40 people at the Nelson County Detention Center have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the county Judge-Executive Dean Watts. Watts said 70 tests were ...

The Nelson County Fiscal Court has approved the hiring of two additional deputies for the county's jail, which has been operating with just 12 full-time employees since 1995.

Barnes was reportedly found in the attic of a Vine Grove home after only finding his property there during a previous visit.

nelson county, ky. — A Nelson County Jail employee is charged with giving police equipment to a man accused in a murder plot. Russell Griffin, 41, of Elizabethtown, was arrested on Tuesday as ...

The inn is located in the former Nelson County Jail. The back jail was built in 1874 and is completely surrounded by a stone wall. It was the oldest operating jail complex in the state of Kentucky.