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Experts: Reduce jail overcrowding or face mass release By John Cheves, Lexington Herald-Leader The Kentucky General Assembly must try to solve the crisis of local jail overcrowding, or else the courts could intervene in the next few years and order the mass release of inmates, lawmakers were warned Thursday. "It behooves legislators to act on this while they still have the freedom to and it is not a federal judge dictating those things," said Josh Crawford, director of criminal justice policy at the Pegasus Institute in Louisville. The legislature's Interim Joint Committee on Local Government heard testimony Thursday from several experts regarding the state's crowded jails and overall trends in incarceration. Read more: kentucky.com This story was posted on 2019-08-25 19:03:51
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