criminal justice

Ky. Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced an initiative to mobilize landlords and communities to identify massage businesses as sources of human trafficking.

Kentucky Smart on Crime, a criminal justice reform coalition, wants to see legislation this year that will better support people with mental health issues and substance use disorder.

Juvenile detention officials say staff shortages and overcrowding are among the challenges that led to fires, and an escape at a Jefferson County facility.

The court says Louisville police officer Kevin Crawford subjected 18-year-old Tea-Ahn Lea to unreasonable search in 2018.

The new facility tries to fill some of the gaps left by the closure of the Jefferson County Youth Detention Center in 2020.

A woman's death is putting a renewed focus on the flaws in the city's criminal justice system that harm victims of domestic violence, and allow offenders to avoid accountability.

Federal charges Quintez Brown is accused of are interfering with the federally protected right to run for office and doing so violently, with a firearm.

Demonstrators rallied outside Jackson County’s courthouse, calling on officials for transparency surrounding Ta’Neasha Chappell’s death.

The money has gone to an international auditing firm working to straighten out Kentucky’s errors following a class-action lawsuit filed by inmates.

The Ky. Supreme Court will decide whether jails can bill people for costs, even if they are later cleared of wrongdoing.