Government
Proposed Bills Target Kentucky’s System of No-Jail Jailers
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Legislative battle lines are forming over how best to address problems associated with the state’s 41 jailers who don’t have jails to run.
Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (https://kycir.org/tag/corrections/)
Legislative battle lines are forming over how best to address problems associated with the state’s 41 jailers who don’t have jails to run.
A bill to be introduced soon in the House of Representatives is expected to propose doing away with no-jail jailers’ annual salaries, and compensating those jailers only for specific services performed, such as prisoner transport or courtroom security.
A look into a wasteful, nepotism-laced but little-discussed jailers system that costs Kentucky taxpayers approximately $2 million annually.