7 Rethinking sentencing.

• Position: Kentucky & other states changing sentencing & corrections laws - Stateline - Brief article

With their state's prison population growing at rate of 45 percent while the rest of the country's was growing at 13 percent, Kentucky lawmakers decided to act. "Kentucky was the prison capital of the world," Representative John Tilley (D) said during NCSL's Western Fiscal Leaders meeting in June. The state's prison population changed course after a 2011 law required diversion and treatment of some drug offenders, improved probation and parole supervision and graduated...