Jail$: A Crisis in the Counties

With county jails across the state bursting at the seams, alternatives to incarceration are getting some attention. Drug court, an intensive rehabilitative program, is one such alternative.“There is certainly a place for jails and prisons. But there is also a middle ground defendant who may not need prison. We fill in that continuum,” says Connie Payne, general manager of Kentucky Drug Court.

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