Ray was convicted of 1st-degree perjury in January by a jury, and a Circuit Court clerk says she was sentenced on Thursday to one year in jail.
Her defense attorney, Thomas Clay, entered a motion for a new trial, but it was refused by a judge on February 14. Clay said he plans to appeal.
Ray's perjury charge related to her testimony in an October 2017 hearing for former deputy jailer Ben Green, who was charged with official misconduct for moving inmates without permission, which led to some inmates saying they were assaulted.
After her testimony, Kentucky State Police found evidence that contradicted Ray's assertions that Green did nothing wrong, so she was indicted by a McCracken County Grand Jury in December 2017.
Ray is also facing a charge of violating the Kentucky Whistleblower Act, related to the firing of employee David Knight, who reported a possible misuse of force at the jail in February 2018. Knight was re-instated by the Fiscal Court, and then won the race for jailer in November 2018.
