The State named this facility the Pine Bluff Prison Farm and the dedication was held November 4, 1938.

Since the January flood there was approximately 100 women convicts quartered in an old school building in Frankfort.

[4] End of November 1937 – Work started on new Kentucky State women's prison to cost $130,000.

[12] 1983 The third Kentucky prison to receive accreditation by the American Correctional Association standards.

There have been several reports and convictions of correctional officers in the prison sexually abusing and assaulting inmates, including James Johnson, Demar Jones, and Shane Fisher.