Kentucky released 939 inmates about six months early on Tuesday as part of a new program aimed at easing their transition back into the community, reducing recidivism and helping trim its corrections budget by about $40 million this year.
Lisa Lamb, a spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections, said it had heard of no problems by …
January 4, 2012 Tags: KY, news
Category: Parole, Policy, Projects, Uncategorized No Comments 
Putting some final touches on his family’s Christmas tree last week, Kerry Porter was getting ready for a busy holiday weekend.
It’s the first Christmas Kerry was able to spend with family, after 14 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
Now Kerry says he’s filled with “so many emotions — it’s nice though. It …
December 28, 2011 Tags: KY, news
Category: Exonerated No Comments
The development and enactment of Kentucky’s Public Safety and Offender Accountability Act is discussed. Ideas can be drawn from this publication for creating similar legislation. Sections of this issue brief include: overview describing the problem, consequences, drivers, reforms, and impact; background; charting a new path; policies and practices leading to prison growth in Kentucky—increase in
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December 27, 2011 Tags: KY, resources
Category: Policy, Reform No Comments
On Jan. 3, the Kentucky Department of Corrections (DOC) will parole more than 1,100 inmates and as many as 300 more each month, after sweeping penal code reform earlier this year.
That’s a statewide figure, and Rowan and surrounding counties probably won’t see many of that number here, initially.
House Bill 463 was enacted on June 8 …
