Fayette County Attorney E. Lawson King, left, and Jailer Harold Buchignani locked up the old Fayette County jail, built in 1891, on Short Street on Oct. 10, 1976. One day earlier, 124 inmates were transported from the old jail to a new $6.4 million jail on Corral Street. By 1989, that jail, designed to hold 574 inmates, was consistently overpopulated, and a federal judge ordered the city to fix the problem. The solution was the current jail, off Old Frankfort Pike. That $62 million jail, completed in 2000, is capable of holding 1,200 inmates. On Oct. 21, 2000, 450 inmates were moved from the downtown jail to the new one. Photo by Ron Garrison | Staff