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An inmate from the Boyle County Detention Center is being kept alive by a ventilator today after attempting to hang himself Sunday. Michael Taylor, 40, 1504 Bonnie Court, Danville, is in critical condition this morning at Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center, said hospital spokesman Jeremy Cocanougher. Sgt. Ricky Gipson of the jail said guards found Taylor hanging in a medical isolation cell about 4:30 a.m. Sunday. He was unconscious and the guards performed “successful CPR,” keeping him breathing until paramedics arrived and transported him to the hospital, Gipson said.

LOUISVILLE — A Burgin man who attempted to hang himself in the Boyle County Detention Center May 18 died due to his injuries on May 27, according to the Louisville Coroner’s Office. Capt. Phil Yates of the jail said Bobby Grubbs, 31, used a bed sheet affixed to a heat vent in a “detox cell” to hang himself. Grubbs hung himself one day after being lodged in the jail on charges of theft, trespassing and possession of marijuana. Guards found Grubbs unresponsive and administered CPR. He was transported to Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center and then airlifted to the University of Louisville Medical Center.

STANFORD — Shortly after noon Tuesday, a Lincoln County vehicle was involved in a head-on collision with a pickup truck on Ky. 78 that sent four people to area hospitals. A large van used by the Garrard-Lincoln Solid Waste Management Area for collecting recyclable material was heading east toward Stanford when it collided with a Ford Ranger driven by Richard Atchley of Russell Springs, police said. Atchley, 26, was westbound when he lost control of his pickup in a curve just east of Buffalo Springs Cemetery.

Local authorities are searching for an inmate after he escaped from the Jessamine County Detention Center on Thursday. Jonathan M. Owens, 25, had been serving a one-year sentence for cold checks, jailer Jon Sallee said, and was a work-release inmate staying in the restricted-custody center. With more cold-check charges pending, jail officials were moving him to the main facility around 12:30 p.m. Thursday when he ran out of the building and fled on foot. “He was recently interviewed by Nicholasville police and had more charges coming, so we were transporting him from our restricted-custody center to our main facility when he got away and ran out the door,” Sallee said.

A Northpoint Training Center inmate suffered minor injuries Tuesday when he was exposed to a discarded meth lab while picking up trash along Hogue Hollow Road in southern Boyle County. Deputy Sheriff Jody Adams said the inmate, who was not identified, may have inhaled some chemical residue when the bottom of a bag he was collecting broke open and spilled materials and ingredients used to make methamphetamine. “When the bottom dropped out, a powder came up into his face,” Adams said.

SAINT MARY - Kentucky State Police are searching for a Middlesboro man who walked away from the Marion Adjustment Center in Saint Mary at 1:29 a.m. Tuesday. George Wesley Upton, 33, was serving a 10 year sentence for first-degree wanton endangerment of a police officer and first-degree fleeing and evading. Upton is a 5 foot 11 inch, 173 pound, white male with brown hair and blue eyes. He has tattoos on his back, chest, neck and both arms.  He may be driving a blue and silver 1993 GMC Sierra pickup, Kentucky license plate number 419-GAE.

A former prisoner has filed a lawsuit against Clark County Jailer Bobby Stone and two deputies after he was assaulted by three cellmates. Anthony Lee, 43, of 8 Wainscott Ave., claims he was lodged in the jail on Nov. 21, 2011, and placed in cell 98 with three other prisoners. Lee said he was booked at the jail shortly after 7 p.m., and was assaulted by three cellmates about four hours later. Lee said he did nothing to provoke the attack and was seriously injured, but specific injuries were not listed.

Newell Stacy seemed to take a sentence of 20 years for his involvement in the 2009 riots at Northpoint Training Center in stride Tuesday. As expected, Boyle Circuit Court Judge Darren Peckler followed the maximum sentence recommendation of the jury, which found Stacy guilty of a riot charge in December. The jury failed to convict Stacy on a more serious charge of arson, which resulted in a mistrial on that count. Commonwealth's Attorney Richie Bottoms has the option to retry on those charges.

Dear Editor: I, too, want to say the rock wall in front of Northpoint looks great. This guy has worked in rain, heat, all kinds of weather. This rock wall looks great. I to wanted to stop and tell him how good it looks but thought that might not be the right thing to do, so I yelled out of my window, "Good job!" Donnie Goode Danville

LANCASTER - Garrard County could save about $8,500 a year per inmate following the implementation of a new program that allows in-home incarceration.  “This won't work for everybody,” Judge-Executive John Wilson admitted. For those it will work for, he added, it could be worth it. The new program will allow the county to monitor those awaiting trial using ankle and phone monitoring devices acquired through Corrisoft. The county spends about $29 each day someone is in jail, not counting any medical costs, which also are covered fully by the county.

If you are concerned about escapes from Northpoint Training Center and want to be notified in the event of a jail break, AlertXpress might help you rest easier at night. The automated “prison alert notification system” has been around for a while - it's made available through the state Corrections Cabinet for all Kentucky prisons - but has never fully been publicized in the Northpoint area, said prison spokeswoman Michelle Bonta. “It's not something new, we just want to make the public aware of it,” Bonta said Thursday.

Inmates of the Boyle County Detention Center contributed nearly $100,000 of services to the county solid waste and recycling department in 2012. Approved inmates staff the recycling center and saved an estimated $94,500 in labor costs last year, Department of Solid Waste Management Director Donna Fechter reported to Fiscal Court on Tuesday. “You're doing a great job and I'm proud of that,” Magistrate Phil Sammons said to Fechter. Inmates soon could have an additional opportunity to help the county while incarcerated, as officials are in the early stages of planning a garden that would help reduce food costs in the jail.

Inmates from the Jessamine County Detention Center's Class D program are building a fence covering 10 acres that will be home to horses from the Camp Nelson Honor Guard. The work started last Thursday when 10 inmates began to dig post holes and drive posts into the ground near a barn located near the Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park and Camp Nelson National Cemetery. Jailer Jon Sallee said inmate labor can be used on projects on public land (owned by the fiscal court), and doing so saves a bundle of money.

Class D inmates from the Jessamine County Detention Center picked up 2,654 bags of litter, totalling 65,580 pounds of trash, alongside county roads in 2012, according to jailer Jon Sallee. “We clean up anything that is on the side of the roadways,” Sallee said. “We picked up 56 roadside dumps this year. A roadside dump is when somebody goes out in the county on a rural road and dumped a large amount of trash in one spot.” In all, Class D inmates cleaned some 1,052 miles of road in Jessamine County.

A former prisoner has filed a lawsuit against Clark County Jailer Bobby Stone and two deputies after he was assaulted by three cellmates. Anthony Lee, 43, of 8 Wainscott Ave., claims he was lodged in the jail on Nov. 21, 2011, and placed in cell 98 with three other prisoners. Lee said he was booked at the jail shortly after 7 p.m., and was assaulted by three cellmates about four hours later. Lee said he did nothing to provoke the attack and was seriously injured, but specific injuries were not listed.

Larry Richard Dyer, 59, of Jacksonville, Fla., passed away Thursday, Aug. 9, at his mother's home in Eubank. Born Nov. 11, 1952, in Lockland, Ohio, Larry was the son of Lavone Mae (Cash) Dyer Whitis and the late Melvin Richard Dyer. Larry began his law enforcement career at the Somerset Police Department, then worked at the Bunnell and the Hialeah Police Department  in Florida and most recently worked as an inmate supervisor and deputy sheriff at the St. Johns County Police Department in St. Augustine, Fla. He was the owner and CEO of AAACT Investigations, Inc., and was a paramedic, real estate broker and a former employee of the  Commonwealth Journal newspaper in Somerset working in advertising and sales and as a photographer and printer.  Larry was a graduate of the St. Johns Community College and was a member of the Church of Christ.

For a man about to enter a guilty plea and get sentenced to another 11 years in prison, Bobby Hoskins Jr. appeared to be in high spirits Thursday in Boyle Circuit Court. An animated Hoskins, who pleaded guilty to first-degree rioting for his role in the riot at Northpoint Training Center and promoting contraband for sneaking a handcuff key into the Boyle County Detention Center, drew smiles from fellow prisoners in the courtroom, correctional officers, his attorney and even prosecutor Richie Bottoms and Judge Darren Peckler.

STANFORD - Five inmates at Lincoln County Regional Jail have been indicted for allegedly beating up another inmate and taking his phone card. William Bullock, 34, of Liberty, Brandon Biggs, 31, of Stanford and Brandon Vanover, 18, Joseph Denny, 21, and Travis Puckett, 30, all of Lancaster, each were charged with first-degree robbery, second-degree assault and intimidating a witness for allegedly causing serious injury to Claude E. Bailey while robbing...

STANFORD - Five inmates at Lincoln County Regional Jail have been indicted for allegedly beating up another inmate and taking his phone card. William Bullock, 34, of Liberty, Brandon Biggs, 31, of Stanford, and Brandon Vanover, 18, Joseph Denny, 21, and Travis Puckett, 30, all of Lancaster, each were charged with first-degree robbery, second-degree assault and intimidating a witness for allegedly causing serious injury to Claude E. Bailey while...