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Description
This proposal is in response to a request from the KY DOC for a study to investigate various
models and strategies for managing Kentucky jails efficiently and in keeping with established
and accepted standards for housing adult inmates in correctional facilities. We propose to
conduct a study that examines three alternative strategies for improving the efficient operation
and management of Kentucky jails. The jails management strategies the proposed study will
explore include: (a) KY DOC assumes full responsibility for managing all county jails, facilities,
staffing; (b) KY DOC provides additional oversight for county jail management while the county
maintains local control over the facility and staffing and (c) KY DOC discontinues the current
policy of housing state inmates in county jails and expands minimum security prison facilities so
that class C and D felons can be accommodated following conviction and sentencing. The
proposed study will investigate system and management changes that will. ~e requir~d,. as ~ell
as the costs and benefits associated with each alternative strategy. In addition, we will Identify
other states that have implemented alternative jails management strategies and assess their
experiences relative to costs, implementation issues, efficiency and other related benefits.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 8/1/06 → 6/30/08 |
Funding
- University of Louisville: $76,986.00
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