Jared Bennett
Investigative ReporterJared Bennett is an investigative reporter and deputy editor for LPM's Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting team. Previously, he was a reporter the Center for Public Integrity and a digital producer for WBUR in Boston.
Email Jared at jbennett@lpm.org.
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The city has settled with the corrections officer who filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the Louisville jail and jail staff union. -
Experts say jail suicides are preventable with more stringent screening and mental health care.
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Experts say jail suicides are preventable with more stringent screening and mental health care.
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The lawsuit was filed in Graves Circuit Court on behalf of Elijah Johnson and other “similarly situated” employees of Mayfield Consumer Products. The suit claims the company refused to let its employees leave the factory Friday night, even though the factory had “at least 3 hours’ notice of the danger” the severe weather could bring.
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A jail spokesperson said they are still gathering information about the deaths.
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Louisville is looking for a new vendor to provide phone and video call services from the city jail. Unlike its previous contract with Securus…
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The Federal Communications Commission capped rates on phone calls from prisons at .14 cents a minute in rules that became final in September.
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Current and former jail staff testified that Tracy Dotson has benefited from a culture of enforced loyalty and a contract which makes it difficult for jail management to hold bad actors accountable.
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Current and former jail staff testified that Tracy Dotson has benefited from a culture of enforced loyalty and a contract which makes it difficult for jail management to hold bad actors accountable.
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The Shelby County Detention Center isn’t offering remote hearings, leaving people with COVID without the chance to post bail or participate in their case.
