Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (https://kycir.org/tag/u-s-department-of-justice/)
The day after the Department of Justice announced its Louisville civil rights investigation, they delivered a huge records request to Metro government. Here’s what they asked for.
The U.S. Department of Justice may be considering a crackdown on universities that employ affirmative action in admissions decisions. What would that mean for Kentucky?
The federal investigation into the Boyd County Detention Center is a rarity, only the third such investigation of a Kentucky jail or prison in the past 36 years.
The U.S. Department of Justice has issued yet another scathing assessment of the Grant County Detention Center. A KyCIR investigation previously revealed more than a decade of abuse, indifference, ineptitude and malfeasance at the jail.
Throughout our extensive reporting on jails this year, one group has been relatively quiet: the Kentucky Jailers Association.
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.