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A Kentucky detention center has asked the state Department of Corrections to lift its restrictions on the number of state prisoners it can hold.The Daily…
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A senate panel has adopted legislation aimed at reforms for a growing female population in Kentucky prisons and jails. It includes standards regarding…
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This new essay, edited by Ernest Drucker, argues that mass incarceration — more than 2 million Americans are locked up — tears at our social fabric and leaves people with no option but to reoffend.
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Kentucky State Police have apologized for a Super Bowl-themed tweet aimed at discouraging drunken driving that referenced prison rape.News outlets report…
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Kentucky's top public safety official says the state's prisons will run out of space by May 2019, possibly forcing the early release of thousands of…
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Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed legislation to change the climate for women in Illinois prisons.The measure Rauner signed Tuesday at Logan Correctional…
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Prisoners advocates expressed optimism after a White House meeting with the president. But the bipartisan effort to overhaul the way criminals are punished has downsized its goals in the Trump era.
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A work group studying Kentucky’s prison system predicts additional incarceration costs totaling more than a half billion dollars over the next decade, if…
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Kentucky is re-entering into a contract with a private prison company, nearly a decade after the state abandoned the organization amid allegations of…
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also found that black women and indigenous women are killed, in general, at higher rates than other races.