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Kids as young as 14 could get up to five years in prison on top of juvenile sentences without a jury trial
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The plan to build a prison in Letcher County is generating opposition from a burgeoning national coalition that includes formerly incarcerated people.
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The Secretary of State’s Office in Tennessee says formerly incarcerated felons must get their gun rights restored before their voting rights. This is due to an update in the state’s voter restoration process, and the rule is causing a split between Republicans and Democrats in the House.
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After several hours of debate, the Kentucky House of Representatives passed House Bill 5 Thursday. The sweeping measure vastly increases criminal penalties, expands civil and criminal immunity for shopkeepers and creates a three strikes law for violent felony offenders.
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A review of the state’s death row system shows delays, disparities and costs that many say need to be addressed.
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House Bill 5, dubbed the Safer Kentucky Act, passed the House Judiciary committee Thursday evening, after a lengthy and tense committee hearing. The sweeping bill – which in part bans street camping, enhances a litany of criminal penalties and restricts bail funds – was approved in a 13-5 vote.
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A Kentucky bill to compensate people who were incarcerated for crimes they did not commit unanimously passed out of the House Judiciary committee on Wednesday.
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A western Kentucky circuit court judge has awarded over $36 million in damages to some of the victims of the deadly 2018 Marshall County High School shooting.
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Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul held a round-table discussion Monday with several Louisville-area state legislators, many of whom helped draft a massive public safety bill dubbed the Safer Kentucky Act.
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Kentucky State Police announced on Monday that they have identified human remains found in Lake Barkley in 1999.
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NBA player Ja Morant testified in court Monday to justify his actions during a pickup game last year at his parents’ house that ended in the Memphis Grizzlies point guard punching an at-the-time 17 year old teen in the face.
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For years, lengthy delays in testing sexual assault kits left victims in limbo — unable to learn whether evidence that passes from nurses to police to labs and back has made it through the system or slipped through the cracks.