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Officials with the U.S. Department of Justice will hold more community meetings this month — this time virtually — to discuss potential policing reforms after releasing a scathing 2023 misconduct report.
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Democrats made their final impassioned pleas against the tough-on-crime legislation as it made final passage through the Kentucky General Assembly, until Republicans moved to limit debate.
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The Kentucky Department of Corrections evacuated 117 people held at the Letcher County Jail after intense flooding.
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The private contractor operating prison commissaries in Kentucky increased prices by 7.2% on July 1 with DOC approval.
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The department lacks clear guidelines for serving arrest warrants in public settings, according to a KyCIR review.
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Forty-six people on home incarceration have died since 2017 in Louisville, including seven in 2022 alone, according to data KyCIR requested from Metro Corrections.
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A woman's death is putting a renewed focus on the flaws in the city's criminal justice system that harm victims of domestic violence, and allow offenders to avoid accountability.
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Despite years of urging by child welfare experts, and even though Kentucky has some of the highest rates of child maltreatment and opioid abuse in the nation, family recovery courts are still not widely available throughout the state
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Some troopers downplayed or misrepresented the force they had used. On other occasions, they misrepresented the facts under oath about what they or others had done.
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The city has settled with the corrections officer who filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the Louisville jail and jail staff union.
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Experts say jail suicides are preventable with more stringent screening and mental health care.
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Two years after seizing $380,000 from a St. Matthews man and using indictments his family as leverage to keep it, prosecutors dismissed charges - and kept most of the cash.