HB557
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Amend KRS 441.005 to define "restricted custody center" and make technical changes; create new sections of KRS Chapter 441 to require the Department of Corrections to promulgate administrative regulations providing the minimum standards for holdover facilities; require the Department of Corrections to contract with a fiscal court of a county or local or regional correctional authority to provide correctional services to state prisoners; allow prisoners being held for a nonviolent or nonsexual misdemeanor conviction to…
Introduced: February 4, 2026
Last action: February 11, 2026
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This bill makes several changes to how Kentucky's county jails and the state Department of Corrections work together to house state prisoners. It sets new rules for minimum jail standards, funding for jail construction and conversion projects, and how counties are reimbursed for costs like prisoner housing and healthcare. It also adjusts rules around transferring certain inmates between facilities and requires state approval before some transfers take place. Who it may affect: county jailers and jail staff, county governments and fiscal courts, state prisoners held in local facilities, and taxpayers in counties that house state inmates.
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