Ashley Spalding

Budget Agreement Includes Only Modest Increases in Most Areas of Budget, Salary Increases for State Workers

The 2022-2024 budget agreement announced today includes only very modest funding increases for critical state services across the budget. Investments...

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Pretrial Bills in the Kentucky General Assembly Are a Mixed Bag

Kentucky’s pretrial system — which determines whether a person charged with a crime waits for their day in court behind bars or at home — is arbitrary, unfair and rife...

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State Funding for Education Has Been Stagnant for Many Years, But the 2022-2024 Budget Presents a Unique Opportunity to Begin Reinvesting

In 1991, following a Kentucky Supreme Court decision finding that Kentucky’s system of funding education was unconstitutional, the Kentucky General Assembly responded by increasing taxes to begin reinvesting in Kentucky’s...

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Kentucky Has an Opportunity to Continue Steps to Reducing Incarceration by Addressing Harsh “Persistent Felony Offender” Laws

Kentucky’s Persistent Felony Offender (PFO) law is a punitive sentencing policy that emerged during the beginning of the so-called War on Drugs. While originally intended as a measure to deter...

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A Time To Invest: Preview of the 2022–2024 Budget of the Commonwealth

The General Assembly faces a critically important opportunity with the 2022–2024 Budget of the Commonwealth. The state has a historic budget surplus and unspent federal aid that provide the resources...

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In Decade Since Major Criminal Justice Reform, the Kentucky General Assembly Has Passed Six Times as Many Laws Increasing Incarceration as Decreasing It

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the passage of 2011’s House Bill (HB) 463, “The Public Safety and Offender Accountability Act.”[efn_note]2011 Ky. Acts, ch. 2, https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/11RS/documents/0002.pdf.[/efn_note] HB 463 was...

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Budget Agreement Includes Only Modest Increases in Most Areas of Budget, Salary Increases for State Workers

Pretrial Bills in the Kentucky General Assembly Are a Mixed Bag

State Funding for Education Has Been Stagnant for Many Years, But the 2022-2024 Budget Presents a Unique Opportunity to Begin Reinvesting

Kentucky Has an Opportunity to Continue Steps to Reducing Incarceration by Addressing Harsh “Persistent Felony Offender” Laws

A Time To Invest: Preview of the 2022–2024 Budget of the Commonwealth

In Decade Since Major Criminal Justice Reform, the Kentucky General Assembly Has Passed Six Times as Many Laws Increasing Incarceration as Decreasing It

School Funding Task Force Recommendations Include Steps Toward Adequacy and Equity

To Address Mass Incarceration, Kentucky Must End Perverse Incentives to Expand and Crowd Local Jails

The Golden Key: How State-Local Financial Incentives to Lock Up Kentuckians Are Perpetuating Mass Incarceration

How Kentuckians Would Benefit from the Build Back Better Act

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