{"id":1020,"date":"2024-01-10T01:34:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T01:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/10\/kentucky-republicans-introduce-three-strikes-measure-amid-broader-crime-crackdown-effort\/"},"modified":"2024-01-10T01:34:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T01:34:41","slug":"kentucky-republicans-introduce-three-strikes-measure-amid-broader-crime-crackdown-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/10\/kentucky-republicans-introduce-three-strikes-measure-amid-broader-crime-crackdown-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Republicans introduce ‘three-strikes’ measure amid broader crime crackdown effort"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican lawmakers in the Kentucky House<\/a> unveiled a three-strikes measure on Tuesday that would keep people locked up after being convicted of a third violent felony.<\/p>\n

The proposal is part of a broader anti-crime bill designated as a priority for Republicans in the 60-day session. The measure surfaced during the second week of the session after lawmakers spent months meeting with stakeholders and tinkering with many of the provisions.<\/p>\n

“This bill is about putting people who are going to continue to commit crime, getting them off our streets,” said Republican Rep. Jason Nemes, among the bill’s leading supporters.<\/p>\n

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The proposal would result in life in prison without the possibility of parole for those who commit three violent felonies in Kentucky<\/a>, GOP Rep. Jared Bauman, a lead sponsor of the bill, told reporters.<\/p>\n

Crime was a central issue in last year’s gubernatorial campaign, won by Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear. Both candidates offered public safety plans.<\/p>\n

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky criticized the three-strikes measure, with Kungu Njuguna, a policy analyst for the group saying that “criminalization penalties don\u2019t make us safe.”<\/p>\n

Njuguna pointed to already-high incarceration rates in Kentucky and said a better strategy for improving public safety is to invest more in mental health<\/a> and substance use treatment, affordable housing, transportation and education.<\/p>\n

“We need to get at the root causes of what get people into the criminal legal system and prevent them from getting into the system,” Njuguna told reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican lawmakers in the Kentucky House unveiled a three-strikes measure on Tuesday that would keep people locked up after being convicted of a third violent felony. The proposal is part of a broader anti-crime bill designated as a priority for Republicans in the 60-day session. The measure surfaced during the second week of the session … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}