Kentucky Shows How to Get Tough on Crime!

The Republican-controlled legislature is advancing House Bill 5 (HB5), also known as the "Safer Kentucky Act," and it includes a ton of tough-on-crime provisions that other states that value the safety of their residents out to consider modeling. (Kentucky's governor is a Democrat, but the Republican legislator is a super-majority with veto-override capability.) Included in the 72-page bill are provisions that: prohibit or tightly constrain probation and parole for a variety of violent c...