History of McCracken County Jail
Kentucky is the only state in the nation to have an elected jailer.
The McCracken County Jail's rated capacity is 342. The jail, with stack-A- bunks, is capable of housing over 450 inmates.
The first jail was a log structure built in 1827 at the cost of $398
The present jail, built at a cost of over 8 million dollars, opened August 26, 1990.
This image appeared in the
Sept. - Oct. 1997 issue of
'The American Jail' magazine
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