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The Jefferson County Attorney’s office will no longer prosecute some of the lowest-level marijuana possession cases, County Attorney Mike O’Connell…
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Time spent incarcerated or in rehabilitation centers is common when someone makes a mistake or needs to address substance abuse issues."Step down"…
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Around 40% of Kentucky state inmates released in 2016 went back to jail within a couple years of getting out.Most of those individuals went back to jail…
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Everyone experiences prison time differently. To Sarah Perrine, who received a ten year sentence for a host of drug-related charges, it ended up being a…
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When someone goes to jail, it's often difficult for them to move on from the criminal justice system.At the Barren County Detention Center, a group is…
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Prison overcrowding has increasingly become part of the national conversation. Meanwhile, states are trying to do more to keep ex-offenders from going…
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Kentucky’s chief justice of the Supreme Court says he expects bail reform to come up again in the state legislature. John Minton Jr. says the current…
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The Kentucky legislature has voted to expand the state’s law that allows people to clear some Class D felonies from their records after a five-year…
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The Supreme Court of Kentucky heard arguments Friday about the wording of the Marsy’s Law amendment voters saw on the ballot last November. The proposal…
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During the upcoming Kentucky General Assembly, lawmakers will consider taking up a variety of proposals like a new attempt to change state worker pension…