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KY: Bill to overhaul Ky. prison system advances

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Bill to overhaul Ky. prison system advances Written by Deborah Yetter Louisville Courier Journal Feb. 24, 2011 FRANKFORT, Ky. ? A bill to overhaul the state?s corrections system ? and reduce the state?s costs ? won unanimous approval Thursday from the Senate Judiciary Committee. But action by the full Senate on what supporters have called landmark legislation was postponed until Monday after Senate President David Williams, a Burkesville Republican, had to leave the state for a political event in Washington. Williams, a candidate for governor who hopes to challenge Democrat Steve Beshear in his bid for second term, was to speak Thursday evening at a political gathering of the Republican Governors Association, said campaign spokesman Scott Jennings...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 25, 2011 (boomark / email).