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State prisons are at capacity, county jails are overcrowded and the state is recommending transferring about 1,600 inmates to private prisons that have…
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End-of-term pardons are a rare tradition in most states. But not Kentucky.Critics say the practice should end. They argue Kentucky’s chief executives…
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If each U.S. state were its own country, Kentucky would have the seventh-highest incarceration rate in the world, according to a recent analysis by the…
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The recent banishment by police of a mentally ill man from Carroll County, Kentucky, to Florida appears to be an unusual occurrence.But Adam Horine’s…
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to build a prison in Kentucky, commissioning an environmental impact study on two potential…
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In rural counties, state-run prisons are often major employers. And, after state budget cuts and reforms in the penal code, they remain an important part…