{"id":57771,"date":"2026-04-08T12:41:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/?p=57771"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:41:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:41:44","slug":"p7-4-8-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/news\/p7-4-8-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky State Police Investigate Alleged Assault at Madison County Detention Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>RICHMOND, Ky.<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>(April 8, 2026)<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 The Kentucky State Police, Richmond Post was contacted on March 27, 2026, just before 9:00 a.m. EDT, in reference to an alleged assault that occurred at the Madison County Detention Center involving a detention center employee and an inmate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preliminary information indicates KSP was requested by local officials to investigate an incident involving a physical altercation between a deputy jailer and an inmate inside the facility. Detectives responded to the scene and began investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing by KSP Post 7 Detective Adam Hall. Once the investigation is complete, the findings will be presented to the Madison County Commonwealth Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No further information is available at this time. Updates will be provided as they become available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND, Ky.&nbsp;(April 8, 2026)&nbsp;\u2013 The Kentucky State Police, Richmond Post was contacted on March 27, 2026, just before 9:00 a.m. EDT, in reference to an alleged assault that occurred at the Madison County Detention Center involving a detention center employee and an inmate. Preliminary information indicates KSP was requested by local officials to investigate an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":39592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,60],"tags":[532,105],"class_list":["post-57771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksp-news","category-post-7","tag-investigation","tag-post-7"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024-Article-Graphics-Investigation-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57772,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57771\/revisions\/57772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}