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Podcast: The Andrew Branca Show
Episode: Kentucky Shows How to Get Tough on Crime!
Description: 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 crimes, makes death-by-fentanyl-sale a capital crime, substantially elevate the severity and sentences for a variety of violent crimes including...