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Criminal Cases Filed in Prison Riot
By kentucky.com
Published: 03/15/2010

Seven months after inmates rioted and burned buildings at Northpoint Training Center, evidence in the first of more than 100 criminal cases will be presented later this month to a Boyle grand jury, according to Commonwealth's Attorney Richard Bottoms.

With no criminal charges filed yet, some of the 174 inmates who are being disciplined within the prison system on "administrative charges" are questioning the evidence used to keep them in segregation units for months.

Thirty-three inmates have already completed their administrative punishment, but another 146 remain in segregation "due to those charges or due to their current security threat to the facility," Justice Cabinet spokeswoman Jennifer Brislin said Friday.

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