KY Dept. of Public Advocacy

KY Dept. of Public Advocacy has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in January 2021. Resources kydpa has populated their site with include: • Apply to be the next Directing Attorney in Henderson! • Apply to be the next Directing Attorney in Elizabethtown! • Apply for DPA's Recruiting Program Supervisor Position • Apply to the 2025 October Career Fest! • Women's History Month 2025 • Kentucky Court of Justice | Check for Weather Closures at Top of Page • George Sornberger Zoom Recognition Service • Deaf Awareness Month: University of Washington Resource • Deaf Awareness Month: Cursive D • Louisville–Jefferson County Public Defender Corporation Joins the DPA • Curlee Brown | Black History Month Feature • Jane Roberta Summers | Black History Month Feature • Celebrate MLK Day | Louisville • Celebrate MLK Day | Lexington • Celebrate MLK Day | Paducah • Celebrate MLK Day | Hazard • Perception of Latinos' race impacts crime sentences, study finds | Axios • DNA and Wrongful Conviction: Five Facts You Should Know | Innocence Project • Juvenile Detention: How the U.S. Forces Youth into Unsafe Facilities | The Marshall Project • Jacob Wideman’s Parole and the State of ‘Mass Supervision’ | The Marshall Project • KY woman hopes new DNA tests will prove her innocence in murder case. So far, courts won't allow them | Courier Journal • Without the right to adequate counsel, is our criminal justice system legitimate? | The Hill • Prison Policy Initiative: Women's Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2023 • ABA: ABA report criticizes fines and fees system in New Mexico’s courts • Prison Policy Initiative: Beyond the Count: A deep dive into state prison populations • Los Angeles City Historical Society: Clara Shortridge Foltz – Barrier Breaker • The Guardian: As crime-solving goes hi-tech, public defenders scramble to keep up • Prison Policy Initiative: Detaining the Poor: How money bail perpetuates an endless cycle of poverty and jail time • NPR: Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in as first Black woman on the Supreme Court • 8 African American Attorneys Who Shaped the U.S. • Safety & Justice Challenge: Over-Incarceration of Native Americans: Roots, Inequities, and Solutions • History: Loving v. Virginia • Prison Policy Initiative: All profit, no risk: How the bail industry exploits the legal system • Goodwill Expungement Clinic in E-Town on 2/23/24 • ABA: Black History Month 2023: Honoring Trailblazers in the Legal Profession • ASALH: Black History Themes 2023 • Slate | The Unique Problems Facing Native American Youths in the Criminal Justice System • NACDL | Native Americans and the Criminal Justice System • Register to Vote • Take the 'Can You Vote?' Quiz • Check Your Voting Status • Innocence Project: Why Latinx People Are Uniquely Vulnerable to Wrongful Conviction • USC Gould School of Law Alumni Profile • Exoneration of Edwin Chandler • For Clients – Department of Public Advocacy • AP News: Researchers: Pretrial detention plans wouldn't reduce crime • NLADA: AT WHAT COST? Findings from an Examination into the Imposition of Public Defense System Fees • Former Public Advocate Ernie Lewis Featured on the Podcast Public Defenseless • KY Center for Investigative Reporting: Phone Calls Still Won’t Be Free When Louisville Jail Gives Up Profit • Prison Policy Initiative: Visualizing the unequal treatment of LGBTQ people in the criminal justice system • PEW: Public Defenders Were Scarce Before COVID. It’s Much Worse Now. • MAP: Unjust: LGBTQ Youth Incarcerated in the Juvenile Justice System • ACLU: COCHRAN V. COMMONWEALTH - KENTUCKY SUPREME COURT RULING • Urban Institute: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, a missing minority in criminal justice data • The National Law Review: 8 Asian American Attorneys Who Shaped the History of the United States • Prison Policy Initiative: New data: Low incomes – but high fees – for people on probation • The Crime Report: 1,849 Lost Years: Exonerees in 2021 • The Crime Report: Pretrial Detention Increases Long-Term Risk to Public Safety: Study • The Crime Report: How Crime on Parole Drives Mass Incarceration: Study • Tell the Client’s Story: Mitigation in Criminal and Death Penalty Cases • Wall Street Journal: Covid-19 Pummeled the U.S. Legal System. It May Take Years to Catch Up. • KIP Exoneration of Robert Yell • Oral History Interview with Allison Connelly • Origins and Importance of #WomensHistoryMonth • Americans of all colors contributed to civil rights movement • KIP Exoneration of Keith Hardin • KIP Exoneration of Jeff Clark • #BlackHistoryMonth: Benjamin Shobe • WFPL: ‘In Conversation’ explores the legacy of bell hooks, Kentucky native and cultural icon • National Museum of African American History & Culture: Incarcerating a Generation • Founding day of NAACP • Courier-Journal: How COVID showed us bail reform is possible in Kentucky • Courier Journal: LOCKED AWAY: The high cost of Kentucky’s persistent felony offender law • EJI: Race and the jury: illegal discrimination in jury selection • #BlackHistoryMonth Origins & History • The Crime Report: Public Defender Shortages Reaching Critical Levels: Report • Herald Leader: Application of Kentucky’s death penalty shows racial biases, new report says • The Sentencing Project: Youth in Adult Courts, Jails, and Prisons • Vice: Prison Phone Companies Are Recording Attorney-Client Calls Across the US • ABA Journal: Juries without COVID-19-conscious people may be more likely to convict, defense lawyers say • Herald Leader: KY Supreme Court: Low-income people don’t have to pay to remove felony records • The Marshall Project: Banned From Jobs: People Released From Prison Fight Laws That Keep Punishing Them. • Center for American Progress: A Criminal Record Shouldn’t Be a Life Sentence to Poverty • The Sentencing Project: Parents in Prison • Yahoo: What Being Incarcerated Taught One Public Defender About the Criminal Justice System • Center for American Progress: Fines and Fees Are a Barrier to Criminal Record-Clearing • ProPublica: Innocent But Still Guilty • WEVV: Madisonville Job Fair Offering Second Chance For Those Looking For Employment • Herald Leader: Floyd County jail struggles with crowding, garbage, broken lights, sinks and toilets • Mississippi Free Press: I Told Congress That Misdemeanor Fines And Fees Cause Americans To Go Hungry • The Marshall Project: I Was Sentenced to Life as a Juvenile. Now I Help Kids Build Brighter Futures. • The Crime Report: How Philadelphia’s ‘Bail Advocates’ Reduced Pretrial Racial Disparities • The Marshall Project: I Am Not Your ‘Inmate’ • Manchester Ink Link: Many NH attorneys leaving public defender program; heavy caseloads cited • Brown Political Review: The Right to an Attorney: An American Myth • KYCIR: Louisville wants free phone calls for incarcerated people • The Crime Report: When Your Criminal Case Is Dropped, But Your Mugshot Lives Forever • WAMC: How America criminalizes Black youth • The Bottom Line: Kentucky Chamber Foundation Partners with Agencies Providing IDs for Kentuckians when Released from Incarceration • The Crime Report: Is It Time to Rethink the ‘American Way of Punishment’? • The Marshall Project: The System: The Truth About Trials • The Appeal: A Homeless Man Has Spent 800 Days At Rikers After Stealing Cold Medicine. Now His Prison Sentence May Be Beginning. • ABA Journal: What is the starting pay for public defenders? Low salaries discourage applicants • The Vanguard: Nadler and Sanchez Re-Introduce U.S. Legislation to Remove Excessive Fines and Fees • U.S. News: ACLU Sues Kentucky Corrections Department Over Inmate Mail • Brennan Center for Justice: Addressing Violent Crime More Effectively • ABA: Compassion Fatigue • The Hill: How to reduce recidivism and the labor shortage in one fell swoop. • NPR: COVID precautions put more prisoners in isolation. It can mean long-term health woes. • ABA: The legal profession must face its pervasive issue of mental health. • Governor Beshear honors John Rosenberg, Vice-Chair of the KY Public Advocacy Commission • WLKY: 'It's like a nightmare': Former inmate describes 'horrible' conditions inside Metro Corrections • KY Center for Investigative Reporting: At Shelby County Jail, Quarantine Means Missing Your Own Court Hearings • Goodwill Expungement Clinics • The Times Leader: Public defender’s office keeping busy during pandemic • The Crime Report: Expungement Crisis: The Long Wait to Restore ‘Ruined Lives’ • The Crime Report: Prisons Fail to Address Needs of Pregnant Incarcerees: Report • BuzzFeed News: Formerly Incarcerated People Shared What It's Like To Readjust To Society After Prison • The Marshall Project: The Hidden Cost of Incarceration • CBS News: Going against FDA warnings, Arkansas physician gives anti-parasite drug to jail inmates with COVID-19 • Where Lots of Police Shootings Draw Little Scrutiny • White woman who stole $250K gets probation, while Black woman who stole $40K goes to jail. Disparate sentences spark calls for reform • KY Center for Investigative Reporting: Kentucky Jails Made $9.6 Million Off Jail Communication In FY2020 • The Marshall Project: These Meds Prevent Overdoses. Few Federal Prisoners Are Getting Them • Prison Policy Initiative: Kentucky Profile • The Crime Report: ‘Second Chance’ Pell Grants Program Expands to 200 Schools in 2022 • Elizabethtown Staff Attorney Position - Closes 8/21/21 • WTVQ: Fayette jail suspends in-person visitation, masks required for others • Herald Leader: New order urges mask wearing in Kentucky judicial buildings • The Marshall Project: Broken Language • The Crime Report: Permanent Housing Disrupts Denver’s ‘Homeless-to-Jail Pipeline’ • Damon Preston's 8/4/21 Presentation on Increasing Public Defender Resignations Due to Low Funding for Salaries (at the Budget Review Subcommittee on Justice & Judiciary) • Courier Journal: Appeals court says Kentucky prisons can deny life-saving medicine because it's expensive • The Sentencing Project: Black Disparities in Youth Incarceration • The Crime Report: Prisoners Freed During COVID are ‘Twisting in the Wind,’ say Reformers • NPR: As The Nation's Courthouses Reopen, They Face Massive Backlogs In Criminal Cases • Damon Preston Reappointed Public Advocate • Staff Attorney Position in our Danville Trial Office - Closes 7/27/21 • The Marshall Project: A Half-Million People Got COVID-19 in Prison. Are Officials Ready for the Next Pandemic? • The Sentencing Project: A New Lease on Life • The Crime Report: The Trauma of Solitary: A Voice From the ‘Madhouse’ • Brennan Center for Justice: Probation and Parole as Punishment • The Crime Report: Criminal Records on the News Have Long-Term Economic Effects • The Marshall Project: 31,000 Prisoners Sought Compassionate Release During COVID-19. The Bureau of Prisons Approved 36. • Courier-Journal: New parole board chair drops policy giving new shot at release in dozens of notorious cases • Public Advocate Appoints Jennifer Wittmeyer as Conflict Region Manager • AP: Kentucky’s second-largest city bans ‘no-knock’ warrants • Prison Policy Initiative: Proposed slowdown of the mail would disproportionally hit incarcerated mailers • The Marshall Project: Jail Populations Creep Back Up After COVID-19 • USA Today: Connecticut becomes first state to make all prison phone calls free • Courier Journal: Millions with felonies can now vote, including thousands in Kentucky. Most don’t know it. • Messenger-Inquirer: Should pandemic-emptied jails stay that way? • The Crime Report: ‘Sense of Urgency’ in Decarceration Lost as Nation Emerges From Pandemic • The Crime Report: ‘Algorithmic Bias’: The Next Challenge for Justice Reform • Juneteenth Celebrations - Somerset • Juneteenth Celebrations - Louisville • Juneteenth Celebrations - Lexington & Jessamine County • Juneteenth Celebrations - Owensboro • Juneteenth Celebrations - Frankfort • Juneteenth Celebrations - Danville & Harrodsburg • Job Posting for Elizabethtown Staff Attorney Supervisor • NACJ: Justice Index 2021 • Search for open KY Public Defender jobs! • UChicago News: UChicago alumni turn class project into tool for public defenders • Legal Examiner: Access to Legal Services May Improve Under Biden • Daily Herald: Illinois House unanimously passes ban on deceptive interrogation of juveniles • Spectrum News 1: Attorney General Daniel Cameron convenes task force on search warrants • The Crime Report: When Forensic Evidence Convicts the Innocent • WFPL: How Many Coronavirus Cases In Ky. Jails? We Don’t Know, And State Won’t Say • The Marshall Project: Good Intentions Don’t Blunt the Impact of Dehumanizing Words • NPR: All Federal Inmates To Be Offered Vaccine By Mid-May, BOP Director Says • The Crime Report: Can Artificial Intelligence Give Us Equal Justice? • Sentencing Project: No End In Sight: America’s Enduring Reliance on Life Imprisonment • The Marshall Project: These Parents Had to Bond With Their Babies Over Zoom — or Lose Them Forever • The Crime Report: Youth Justice System Worsened During Pandemic • The Marshall Project: What 120 Executions Tell Us About Criminal Justice in America • The Marshall Project: As States Expand Vaccine Eligibility, Many People in Prison Still Wait for Shots • Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting: Kentucky’s Prison Coronavirus Defense Is Failing • NPR: When It Comes To Email, Some Prisoners Say Attorney-Client Privilege Has Been Erased • Vox: How an unpaid bill can lead to prison • NBC: Former prisoners struggle to re-enter society. What happens when society moves online? • Virginia Mercury: Before lawmakers abolished the death penalty, expert public defenders had quietly defeated it themselves • NYT: Virginia Becomes First Southern State to Abolish the Death Penalty • Brennan Center for Justice: Washington State Senate Passes Bill to Restore Voting Rights to People on Probation and Parole • The Marshall Project: Many Juvenile Jails Are Now Almost Entirely Filled With Young People of Color • WDRB: First inmates at Metro Corrections receive their COVID-19 vaccine • The Marshall Project: How Prisons in Each State Are Restricting Visits Due to Coronavirus • Women’s History Month: Ruth Bader Ginsburg • The Sentencing Project: State-by-State Data (Imprisonment Rate) • NACDL: The State of Prison & Jail Communication Systems • The Marshall Project: We Asked People Behind Bars How They Feel About Getting Vaccinated • WPSD: More than 200 inmates positive for COVID-19 in Western Kentucky Correctional Complex • WTVQ: Push to increase felony theft threshold: A step for criminal justice reform in KY • Black History Month: Carl Brashear • The Advocate: More than 1 in 10 Louisiana prisoners are serving life without parole, highest rate in the U.S. • KFVS News: Kentucky Courts Begin to Ease COVID-19 Restrictions • Black History Month: Willa Brown Chappell • Messenger-Inquirer: Pandemic Continues to Impact Movement of Court Cases • NYT: Nearly 20 Million Americans Have a Felony Record. What Happens After They’ve Served Their Time? • Opinion: I’m A Public Defender. My Clients Keep Getting COVID-19 While Incarcerated. • Black History Month: Murray Atkins Walls • SF Chronicle: The Adachi Project to Honor Late S.F. Public Defender with Films about Justice • Black History Month: Gerald A. Neal • KyPolicy: SB 36 Would Protect Children from Automatically Being Tried as Adults • NPR: Listen to 6 Stunning Moments from Loving v. Virginia • The Sentencing Project: Racial Disparities in Youth Incarceration Persist • Black History Month: Frank X Walker • The Appeal: Rising Jail Populations Require Quick Responses • Black History Month: Georgia Davis Powers • Afro Tech: This Black Teen Developed an App to Help Incarcerated Parents Stay Connected to Their Kids • NBC News: A Kentucky deputy went to Trump's D.C. rally. Now he's under investigation at home. • Black History Month: Whitney Young • Urban Institute's Report on Assessing Juvenile Diversion Reforms in Kentucky • The Marshall Project: Help Us Report On COVID-19 Vaccinations Behind Bars • CNN: Meet the man who created Black History Month • KY Center for Economic Policy: New Data Helps Pave the Way for Bail Reform in Kentucky • The Crime Report: Public Defenders Suffer From the ‘Stress of Injustice’ • Marshall Project: This Scientist Helped Free the Innocent Using DNA. Now Biden Wants Him in the Cabinet. • PBS: Leaving prison without a government ID can block access to housing, jobs and help • Politico: How Thousands of American Laws Keep People ‘Imprisoned’ Long After They’re Released • The Marshall Project: A $6,300 Bus. A $33 Last Meal. What New Documents Tell Us About Trump’s Execution Spree • The Hill: Biden team asks Senate Democrats to recommend public defenders, civil rights lawyers for federal bench • Courier Journal: AG Cameron launches search warrant task force promised after Breonna Taylor's death • Justice Sotomayor Slams US Government After 13th Inmate Execution Since July 2021 • Our Public Advocate, Damon Preston, will be presenting on the panel for the 2021 KY Policy Conference this Friday! Register here.