Mike Thacker @MichaelSThacker

States often utilize a combination of methods to improve competency processes. The most impactful interventions are often found upstream from criminal charges and the initiation of the competency process. Read more: bit.ly/4lO0zuP

The House reconciliation bill, now being taken up by the Senate, will hit rural areas hard. Hospitals and other health care providers will struggle, and people in rural areas will lose health coverage and food assistance. cbpp.org/research/feder…

Gbenga Ajilore @gbenga_ajilore

3 months ago

The House reconciliation bill, now being taken up by the Senate, will hit rural areas hard. Hospitals and other health care providers will struggle, and people in rural areas will lose health coverage and food assistance. cbpp.org/research/feder…

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We've just launched a new resource that tracks the Trump Administration’s unlawful and harmful actions to reshape the government, highlighting the impacts on low- and moderate-income people and essential programs: cbpp.org/research/feder…

The stories in our new "Intro to Criminal Justice Reform” series provide entry points for new advocates to understand the devastating impacts of mass incarceration, and why bold reform of the criminal legal and immigrations is so urgently needed. 🧵 A thread of #ThingsToKnow to…

Today, Gov. Andy Beshear announced that overdose deaths in the commonwealth decreased for the third year in a row, with a 30.2% decrease in 2024 compared with the previous year. Read more: tinyurl.com/44kzhsuk

Kentuckians have felt the effects of failed trade policies that prioritize the bottom line of powerful corporate interests. But the chaotic tariff policy coming out of D.C. offers workers little, instead threatening to weaken the economy, raise prices and harm key industries.

AV's latest #BRIDGEseries convening brought researchers and practitioners together to better understand whether electronic monitoring enhances public safety, promotes equitable outcomes, and offers a more cost-effective solution than incarceration.

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Nearly 2 million people are incarcerated in the U.S. criminal justice system. The 2025 Whole Pie Report from @PrisonPolicy looks at the big picture of incarceration and helps keep the facts front and center. Read more ⬇️ bit.ly/3QYzWp2

The public has a minimal understanding of pretrial justice, how it works, and how much impact it has on everything that follows. We’ve got resources that help you communicate clearly and effectively. Resources on this page! 👇 advancingpretrial.org/improving-pret…

50% of people in state prison have substance use disorders, yet only a tiny fraction have access to medication-assisted treatment. Prisons should not and cannot be treated as de facto treatment facilities. prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/03/0…

The Republican-led legislature just overrode my veto on House Bill 495, which will allow conversion therapy in Kentucky. Listen to the experts and survivors who know how dangerous this torture is. These are the voices they didn’t want you to hear. I hope you'll listen.

Across the county, unaffordable money bails continue to drive pretrial jailing. Last year, the median bail was $10,000 which represents 8 months of income for the typical person jailed on an unaffordable bail. Learn more in @PrisonPolicy's Whole Pie: prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie202…

More than 1 in 5 people are jailed multiple times a year There is no "safe" way to jail a person – even a single day in jail has devastating effects. And people who are jailed multiple times a year inevitably face exacerbated consequences of incarceration:

Jails have a perverse incentive to keep people locked up: the millions of dollars state agencies pay them for boarding people serving sentences. State and federal agencies pay local jails a per-day fee for each person held on their behalf, and these fees can rack up quickly.

56% of people in state prisons have a mental health problem, yet only 26% have received professional help since entering Prisons & jails are not made to accommodate serious mental health needs, yet law enforcement & courts continue to respond to mental illness like it’s a crime

Republicans have the easiest job in the world. They campaign on the idea that government is broken and ineffective. Once elected, they sabotage its functions, then use their own failure as proof that privatization is the only solution—ultimately enriching their friends.

Leadership without empathy and humanity isn’t leadership at all — it’s just mean and cruel. We deserve leadership that sees all Americans as equal and worthy of respect. Keep the faith. Remember, we’ll get through this together.

In this crazy world, here is an act of love and respect. While D.C. is disrespecting and firing so many veterans, I just signed legislation to ensure the brave members of our @kentuckyguard will now qualify to be buried in our veteran cemeteries. 1/2

Conversion therapy has been discredited by every major medical organization and significantly increases the chances of suicide in our LGBTQ+ youth. It has no place in our commonwealth or anywhere else.

🚨NEW: US prisons & jails are locking up MORE people after a decade of decline, growing the incarcerated population by 2% But why? We answer that & bust the biggest myths of the carceral system in 2025's edition of Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie👇 prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie202…