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Vera Institute of Justice--The New Dynamics of Mass Incarceration Fact Sheet, 2018 The New Dynamics of Mass Incarceration After decades of continuous and unified growth across all states from the 1970s to the early 2000s, the landscape of U.S. incarceration fragmented into distinct trends. The last decade has been characterized …
Texas Policy Foundation Center for Effective Justice--Open Roads and Overflowing Jails--Addressing High Rates of Rural Pretrial Incarceration, May 2018 OPEN ROADS AND OVERFLOWING JAILS: Addressing High Rates of Rural Pretrial Incarceration by Marc Levin and Michael Haugen May 2018 May 2018 by Marc Levin Michael Haugen Center for Effective Justice …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
$35,000 Settlement in Kentucky Excessive Force Suit by Kentucky’s Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a lawsuit filed in state court that alleged a guard used excessive force against a prisoner at the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections. The settlement came in a suit brought by …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Hopes of Prosperity from Jail Boom has Kentucky County in Financial Trouble by A rural Kentucky county that planned to cash in on the prison and jail building boom in the 1990s is now in dire financial straits. Grant County, which is about 80 miles north of Louisville, is burning …
Publication • February 26, 2018
Cameron Lindsay Report on Kentucky's Use of Restraints
Article • February 8, 2018
$750,000 Settlement After Opioid Withdrawal Death in Kentucky Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Opioid addiction has reached epidemic proportions. Handling withdrawal from those drugs is something that many jails are unprepared to handle. Kentucky’s Mason County Detention Center (MCDC) was so unprepared that it allowed Jenny Fulton, …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Kentucky County Jail Settles Sexual Harassment Lawsuit for $75,000 by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On June 16, 2017, Dianna Reynolds, a former employee at the Boyd County Detention Center in Kentucky, settled her lawsuit against jailer Joe Burchett over sexual harassment by a supervisor. The county agreed to pay …
Ferguson v. Commonwealth of Kentucky, KY, Appeal Brief, Shooting, 2017 3/14/2018 FERGUSON v. COMMONWEALTH | FindLaw Not a Legal Professional? Visit our consumer site Register | Login CASES & CODES PRACTICE MANAGEMENT Forms FindLaw Caselaw Kentucky KY Ct. App. JOBS & CAREERS NEWSLETTERS Lawyer Marketing Corporate Counsel BLOGS LAW TECHNOLOGY …
Price v. Commonwealth, KY, Opinion, Child Support, 2017 3/14/2018 PRICE v. COMMONWEALTH | FindLaw Not a Legal Professional? Visit our consumer site Register | Login CASES & CODES PRACTICE MANAGEMENT Forms FindLaw Caselaw Kentucky KY Ct. App. JOBS & CAREERS NEWSLETTERS Lawyer Marketing Corporate Counsel BLOGS LAW TECHNOLOGY Law Students …
Moss v. Kentucky, KY, Appeal-Opinion, Silence as Admission of Guilt, 2017 RENDERED: NOVEMBER 2, 2017 TO BE PUBLISHED 2016-SC-000165-DG APPELLANT DANIEL LEE MOSS ON REVIEW FROM COURT OF APPEALS CASE NO. 2014-CA-001523-MR SIMPSON CIRCUIT COURT NO. 13-CR-00049 v. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY APPELLEE \ OPINION OF THE COURT BY JUSTICE VENTERS …
US v. Bill Joe Rucker, KY, Appeal, Drug Treatment Programs, 2017 RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit I.O.P. 32.1(b) File Name: 17a0241p.06 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, ┐ │ │ > v. BILLY JOE RUCKER, Defendant-Appellant. │ │ │ …
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: Fire Hazards
State Closes Kentucky Jail for Failure to Properly Maintain Facility by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna After numerous failed inspections and failures to perform necessary maintenance, the jail in Estill County, Kentucky was forced to close by order of state correctional officials on March 31, 2017. Approximately two dozen prisoners …
Article • October 9, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
HRDC Lawsuit: Kentucky DOC Guilty of Censorship, Violations of Due Process and Equal Protection by On July 20, 2017, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) filed a federal lawsuit against the Kentucky Department of Corrections for violating its free speech, due process and equal protection rights. HRDC, a Florida-based non-profit …
Article • August 22, 2017
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault
Federal Prisoner Sexually Assaulted By Guard Receives $150,000 Settlement by David Reutter by David Reutter The Bureau of Prisons paid $150,000 to settle a prisoner’s Federal Tort Claim Act action that alleged she was sexually assaulted by a guard. The plaintiff, identified as V.O.M. to protect her identity was imprisoned …
Brief • August 17, 2017
Filed under: Mental Health
Holder v. Saunders, KY, Support for Motion, 2017 Case: 7:13-cv-00038-KKC-EBA Doc #: 137-1 Filed: 08/17/17 Page: 1 of 30 - Page ID#: 2101 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY SOUTHERN DIVISION PIKEVILLE CIVIL ACTION NO. 13-CV-038-KKC-EBA CHRISTOPHER HOLDER VS. PLAINTIFF MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR JUDGMENT …
Article • August 10, 2017
Juvenile Sex Offender from Michigan Required to Register in Kentucky; Court Holds Adjudication Counts as Conviction for Registration Purposes by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On October 20, 2016, the Supreme Court of Kentucky upheld the conviction of a former Michigan man for failing to register as a sex offender …
Article • August 10, 2017
Filed under: Smoking, Commissary
Jails Market E-Cigarettes to Detainees to Generate Revenue by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson Prisons and jails across the country went tobacco-free years ago, to avoid second-hand smoke lawsuits and rising medical care costs. Now, impoverished jails are selling prisoners e- cigarettes, in hopes of profiting off their addiction. “Hope …
Filing • July 17, 2017
HRDC v. Ballard, KY, Complaint, Censorship, 2017 Case: 3:17-cv-00057-GFVT Doc #: 1 Filed: 07/17/17 Page: 1 of 15 - Page ID#: 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY CENTRAL DIVISION at FRANKFORT [Filed Electronically] HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, v. Case No. RODNEY BALLARD, former Commissioner, in his …
Human Rights Defense Center v. Ballard, KY, complaint, censorship, 2017 Case: 3:17-cv-00057-GFVT Doc #: 1 Filed: 07/17/17 Page: 1 of 15 - Page ID#: 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY CENTRAL DIVISION at FRANKFORT [Filed Electronically] HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, v. Case No. RODNEY BALLARD, former …
Brief • July 16, 2017
Reynolds v. Burchett, KY, Settlement, Sexual Harassment, 2017 SETTLEMENT, RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS This Settlement, Release of All Claims (hereinafter, Agreement") is entered into by Dianna Reynolds and Gordon Dill, her attorney, (hereinafter collectively referred to as, "Plaintiff) and in favor of Boyd County, Kentucky, Joe Burchett, personally and in …
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