Criminal Justice
Louisvillians are dying under house arrest
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Forty-six people on home incarceration have died since 2017 in Louisville, including seven in 2022 alone, according to data KyCIR requested from Metro Corrections.
KyCIR
Get to know Adeshina Emmanuel, KyCIR’s new Managing Editor
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Adeshina Emmanuel officially start June 13 and will manage KyCIR’s five-person reporting team. He comes to KyCIR from Injustice Watch.
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KyCIR and WFPL win two regional Murrow awards
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Reporting from WFPL News and the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting has won two prestigious regional journalism awards.
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Meet the Florida think tank pushing for welfare restrictions in Kentucky
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A conservative dark money group is influencing public welfare laws in Kentucky, and advocates say it could have a detrimental impact on access to benefits for the state’s most vulnerable residents.
Red Flags and Repeat Offenses: A woman’s death shines light on cracks in city’s domestic violence response
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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.
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Second season of KyCIR’s ‘Dig’ podcast nominated for Peabody Award
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“Dig Season 2: The Model City” was a joint investigation by Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting and Newsy. Released in October 2021, it chronicles the ambitious promises Louisville leaders made to mend relationships with the Black community.
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Advocates say family drug courts could save Kentucky children, but state support is still limited
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Despite years of urging by child welfare experts, and even though Kentucky has some of the highest rates of child maltreatment and opioid abuse in the nation, family recovery courts are still not widely available throughout the state
Kentucky kept collecting UK medical debt after acknowledging due process violations
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UK HealthCare has powerful debt collection tools at its disposal thanks to its partnership with the Department of Revenue, which can garnish wages, levy bank accounts or intercept tax returns to get at money allegedly owed to the university — all without a court order.
False testimony didn’t end these Kentucky state troopers’ careers
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Some troopers downplayed or misrepresented the force they had used. On other occasions, they misrepresented the facts under oath about what they or others had done.
Top Story
Stimulus aid for former foster youth isn’t reaching most eligible Kentuckians
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With no system in place to track youth who age out of foster care and a slew of obstacles exacerbated by the pandemic, local advocates are concerned that many vulnerable youth will continue to be left without crucial relief.
Hi, I’m Jasmine Demers, a reporter for KyCIR covering issues related to youth and social services. I’m also a corps member with Report For America, a national program that places journalists into local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities.