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Bar charts showing that in Kentucky prisons and jails, incarceration rates are highest for Black residents.
13 paź 2021 · According to the report, Black Americans are incarcerated at a state average of 1,240 per 100,000 residents, whereas Latino Americans are imprisoned at a rate of 349 per 100,000 residents....
1 dzień temu · The ACLU Kentucky called for jail reform Thursday, alongside the families of two people who died in custody of the downtown Louisville jail. Louisville resident Monica Graham said she grew up with Shawnta Hughes, a 53-year-old Black woman who died while in custody two weeks ago at Louisville Metro Department of Corrections.
27 wrz 2023 · New data visualizations and updated tables show the national landscape of persistent racial disparity in state prisons and local jails. The best and latest criminal legal system data are often scattered across different government agencies, in incompatible formats, and difficult to compare.
12 wrz 2023 · Researchers with the Vera Institute found the expansion in Kentucky’s criminal justice system has coincided with the economic decline that followed the loss of coal and manufacturing jobs and...
28 kwi 2023 · Kentucky incarcerated 32,351 people in 2022 in both local jails and state prisons. That’s a 10% increase from the pandemic low of 28,892 in 2020 and a 250% increase from the 9,247 incarcerated in 1985.
10 gru 2021 · “Today, there are over 30,000 people incarcerated in Kentucky’s jails and state prisons, and that number has been growing every year except for a slight, temporary reduction related to...
