Gov. Matt Bevin had a promise for Kentuckians in his State of the Commonwealth speech in February: “Criminal justice reform is coming.”
It's something Bevin had long pledged. In 2016, Bevin set up a panel to study criminal justice reform. In an op-ed for the Washington Times that year, Bevin touted legislation that lets some former inmates expunge their records. “The practice of ‘lock ‘em up and throw away the key' in our criminal justice system is an approach whose shot at effectiveness has run its course,” he wrote. “This misguided mantra propelled the United States' prison population to unprecedented heights, far outpacing the rest of the world in per capita incarcerations.”
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