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KY: Supreme Court Announces Pilot Project Allowing for People Charged with 600 Different Offenses Not To Spend Time in Jail

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Nonviolent offenders could avoid jail in Kentucky High court reveals pilot plan to save $12 million each month By Stephenie Steitzer August 17, 2009 The Kentucky Supreme Court announced a pilot project Monday that could save counties an estimated $12 million a month by allowing thousands of people arrested for nonviolent, non-sexual crimes to post bail immediately after they are arrested. Advertisement The project would set standard bail amounts for roughly 600 offenses, most of them misdemeanors, so defendants don't have to spend a night or weekend in jail waiting for judges to set the amounts for their release. Individuals would then post bail and leave. ?It is designed to help Kentucky, not hurt Kentucky,? Justice Will T. Scott said...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 20, 2009 (boomark / email).

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