Committee Wants to Change Penal Code, Create Alternative Sentences for Nonviolent Offenders The Kentucky Justice and Safety Cabinet is working to alter the state's penal code to reduce prison and jail populations. But a reduction in jail population might actually be a financial blow to the Warren County Regional Jail. A state committee has been set up - incorporating law enforcement, prosecutors, public defenders and others - to review the code and recommend changes. The first meeting of the committee was Monday, and it went extremely well, Kentucky Public Advocate Ernie Lewis said. [continues 706 words]
Nurses throughout Kentucky spent Friday learning about the extent of the state's methamphetamine problem - and what they can do to help themselves and others. The Kentucky Nurses Association held its biannual health care summit Friday at the Sloan Convention Center in Bowling Green. Meth was the topic of choice because it impacts not only individuals and families, but also entire communities, according to Susan Jones, president of the association and a nursing professor at Western Kentucky University. "We want to provide information and to challenge people to do something about it," she said. "Everybody has a part in this." [continues 428 words]
