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| KY issues emergency prisoner home releases to curb jail overcrowding |
| By rawstory.com- Sarah K. Burris |
| Published: 07/22/2016 |
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Prisons in Kentucky are so overwhelmed and overcrowded that the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections can’t handle the prison population. As such the state has issued an emergency order, which is enabling them to release prisoners to house arrest. According to WAVE3 News, Chief Regional Circuit Judge Charles L. Cunningham Jr. signed the order and specifies the number of inmates the prisons can have. Facilities “consistently exceed by dozens, and on many days hundreds” of people the building can lodge safely. Because the Kentucky Department of Corrections can’t accept prisoners sentenced to serve time in state facilities, the LMDC is overwhelmed now as well. Due to the overcrowding, both inmates and officers are at risk and they’re also costing taxpayers a considerable amount of cash. The only solution is the Home Incarceration Program or HIP. Inmates cost $76 per person per day in the LMDC jail, $83 per day in a Community Corrections Center but only $19 in HIP. Read More. |
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