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The Kentucky House passed a $39 million measure that includes spending to improve facilities and boost staffing in the state’s troubled juvenile justice system.
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Katie Crews was sentenced to two years of probation Monday for her actions leading up to the death of local restaurant owner David “YaYa” McAtee in June 2020.
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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.
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Brian Bailey is accused of coercing women into serving as confidential informants, and sexually assaulting them.
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A jail spokesperson said they are still gathering information about the deaths.
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Listen to the conversation between WFPL and KyCIR journalists.
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Louisville is looking for a new vendor to provide phone and video call services from the city jail. Unlike its previous contract with Securus…