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Cost Conscious Justice: The Case For Wholly-Informed Discretionary Sentencing In Kentucky, Emily M. Grant Jan 2011

Cost Conscious Justice: The Case For Wholly-Informed Discretionary Sentencing In Kentucky, Emily M. Grant

Kentucky Law Journal

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Pfo Law Reform, A Crucial First Step Towards Sentencing Sanity In Kentucky, Robert G. Lawson Jan 2008

Pfo Law Reform, A Crucial First Step Towards Sentencing Sanity In Kentucky, Robert G. Lawson

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

The purpose of this article is to engage in some analysis and discussion of the part of this sentencing law that cries out loudest for reform (the state's persistent felony offender law), reform that in short order would begin to deflate the population that has our prisons and jails grossly overcrowded. In this analysis and discussion, there is some brief consideration of the justifications used to support repeat offender laws (Part I), a segment on the history and evolution of Kentucky's law (Part II), an examination of a selection of repeat offender laws from other states (Part III), a report …


Difficult Times In Kentucky Corrections—Aftershocks Of A "Tough On Crime" Philosophy, Robert G. Lawson Jan 2005

Difficult Times In Kentucky Corrections—Aftershocks Of A "Tough On Crime" Philosophy, Robert G. Lawson

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

The objective of this article is to cast some light on corrections system problems brought on by elevated (and possibly unnecessary) levels of incarceration, and especially on problems that trouble the Kentucky corrections system and threaten to undermine the effectiveness of the state's justice system. Part II describes how the country came to embrace sentencing policies and practices capable of producing "a penal system of a severity unmatched in the Western world.” Part III describes Kentucky's embrace of equally harsh sentencing policies and practices and the inmate population explosion that has occurred as a direct result of those policies and …


Sentencing: The Use Of Psychiatric Information And Presentence Reports, Rutheford B. Campbell Jr. Jan 1971

Sentencing: The Use Of Psychiatric Information And Presentence Reports, Rutheford B. Campbell Jr.

Kentucky Law Journal

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Criminal Procedure--Constitutional Limitations On Imposition Of More Severe Sentence After Conviction Upon Retrial, W. Stokes Harris Jr. Jan 1969

Criminal Procedure--Constitutional Limitations On Imposition Of More Severe Sentence After Conviction Upon Retrial, W. Stokes Harris Jr.

Kentucky Law Journal

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Sentencing: The Good, The Bad And The Enlightened, Rutheford B. Campbell Jr., Bill Cunningham Jan 1969

Sentencing: The Good, The Bad And The Enlightened, Rutheford B. Campbell Jr., Bill Cunningham

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Model Penal Code: Sentencing, Probation And Parole, Roy Mitchell Moreland Jan 1968

Model Penal Code: Sentencing, Probation And Parole, Roy Mitchell Moreland

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Sentencing The Recidivist--An Ethical Dilemma, Theodore Sager Meth Jan 1963

Sentencing The Recidivist--An Ethical Dilemma, Theodore Sager Meth

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.