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A Kentucky legislative committee Thursday heard more information about problems at the state Department of Juvenile Justice that were previously disclosed in Herald-Leader news stories, including ...
Kentucky, 492 U.S. 361 (1989), was a United States Supreme Court case that sanctioned the imposition of the death penalty on offenders who were at least 16 years of age at the time of the crime. [1] This decision came one year after Thompson v.
Frank X Walker (born June 11, 1961) is an African American poet from Danville, Kentucky.Walker coined the word "Affrilachia", signifying the importance of the African American presence in Appalachia: the "new word ... spoke to the union of Appalachian identity and the region's African-American culture and history". [1]
At the age of 17, Pace was sentenced to life in prison for second-degree homicide. He served 31 years and earned a college degree while incarcerated. “The '80s was a time period in which the war ...
Completed in 1886, it is Kentucky's oldest prison facility and the only commonwealth-owned facility with supermax units. The penitentiary houses Kentucky's male death row inmates and the commonwealth's execution facility. As of 2015, it had approximately 350 staff members and an annual operating budget of $20 million. [2]
The teens were held at the Adair County Youth Detention Center in late 2022, around the same time state police reported a riot at the facility that started when a juvenile assaulted a staff member.
Martín & Meditations on the South Valley is a semiautobiographical poetry collection or "novel in verse" [1] written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and published in 1987. [2] Contents of the book include an introduction by Denise Levertov, (poetry editor at Mother Jones to whom Baca sent his early poems while in prison [3]), Martín, an epic poem in nine parts, Meditations on the South Valley, a ...
Federal investigators will examine conditions in Kentucky's youth detention centers and whether the state has done enough to protect juveniles housed there, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday.