NCJ Number
106722
Date Published
1984
Length
53 pages
Annotation
This report describes the activities and presents the products of the Kentucky Special Jail Study Committee, which was established in 1982 by the legislature to study ways of assisting counties with jail financing, methods of reducing local jail population, and the creation of a State jail plan to guide the overall improvement of Kentucky's jail system.
Abstract
The subcommittees on community corrections and jail funding have met to consider such issues as alternatives to incarceration, probation and parole, pretrial diversion programs, and jail revenues and funding formulas. The Jail Study Committee has met nine times, in the course of which it has developed two general proposals for a State jail system: a system of county-operated regional jails, single-county full-service jails, and a short-term holding facility and a second plan of State-financed and operated minimum security facilities to hold State inmates serving less than 2 years and certain county inmates. The general concept of a county-run regional jail system was adopted by the committee which includes joint State-county funding for the statewide jail system. Appendixes contain committee products, including operating costs, population data, and legislative proposals.