Roederer Correctional Complex is a minimum and medium-security state prison located in unincorporated Oldham County, unincorporated Oldham County, near La Grange and near the Buckner

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. It is about northeast of

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. The Kentucky Department of Corrections Assessment and Classification Center is located at Roederer. All new male inmates, with the exception of those sentenced to

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, are initially assigned to Roederer until they can be classified and transferred to other prison within the Commonwealth. The prison opened in 1978 and had a prison population of 997 as of 2007.

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