Criminal Justice
Grant County To Keep Troubled Jail Open
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Grant county officials have decided to keep its troubled jail open, abandoning a months-old plan to shutter the facility.
Government
State Auditor Finds Mismanagement at Grant Jail
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A new state audit found careless handling of tens of thousands of dollars, sloppy record-keeping and other issues at the Grant County Detention Center. Auditor Adam Edelen’s office is forwarding its findings to the Kentucky attorney general for “further investigation.”
Criminal Justice
Meet the Man Who Took Grant County Jail From Bad To Worse
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Claims of sexual assault, harassment, molestation and more. Alleged lies, cover-ups. Meet the elected jailer who pulled in $88,000-a-year under the gaze of local, state and federal officials.
Criminal Justice
Remedies Rare in Kentucky Jail Plagued By Death, Abuse
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As government officials watched, Grant County jail inmates died needlessly and were raped, abused and neglected. Lax security, flawed medical care, inadequate training and other administrative failures flourished. And there’s no end in sight.
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.