{"id":845200,"date":"2021-10-04T12:43:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T16:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=845200"},"modified":"2021-10-04T12:44:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T16:44:01","slug":"one-third-of-inmates-freed-by-kentucky-gov-charged-with-felony-after-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-third-of-inmates-freed-by-kentucky-gov-charged-with-felony-after-release\/","title":{"rendered":"One-Third of Inmates Freed by Kentucky Gov Charged With Felony After Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fone-third-of-inmates-freed-by-kentucky-gov-charged-with-felony-after-release%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=845200&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.88188976378\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Dem Andy Beshear cited COVID pandemic to release 1,704 prisoners<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Governor-Beshear_Official-Picture_736x514-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Governor-Beshear_Official-Picture_736x514.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Governor-Beshear_Official-Picture_736x514-300x210.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Governor-Beshear_Official-Picture_736x514-703x491.jpeg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tKentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D.)  \/  Wikimedia Commons\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/philip-caldwell\/\" title=\"Posts by Philip Caldwell\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Philip Caldwell<\/a> \u2022 October 4, 2021 12:33 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"84.681571815718\">\n<p>One-third of inmates freed by Democratic Kentucky governor Andy Beshear during the pandemic were later charged with a felony, according to a state report.<\/p>\n<p>Beshear commuted the sentences of 1,704 inmates through executive orders last year, citing an interest in limiting the spread of COVID-19 in prisons and protecting the health of vulnerable inmates. A report from Kentucky&#8217;s Administrative Office of the Courts, released under pressure from Republican state lawmakers, found that 553 of those inmates were subsequently charged with felonies as of August.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Courier-Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nx24HUMvii?amp=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed<\/a> the findings of the report, which also showed that with misdemeanor charges considered, nearly half of the released prisoners were charged with some crime.<\/p>\n<p>While the report did not detail the specifics of the crimes, it tallied the number of felony charges by their class. Four were charged with Class A felonies against a person, and 24 were charged with Class B felonies against a person. Class A felonies include the most grievous crimes, including &#8220;murder \u2026 first-degree rape, and sodomy involving a child under 12 years old,&#8221; according to the <em>Courier-Journal<\/em>, and Class B felonies include &#8220;first-degree manslaughter, rape, sodomy, assault, and robbery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Kentucky Republican Party accused the governor of endangering public safety by releasing the inmates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While Gov. Andy Beshear kept kids out of school, businesses shuttered, and even sent law enforcement to stalk churchgoers, he let more than 1,700 criminals out from behind bars\u2014hundreds of whom went on to commit felonies,&#8221; a spokesman for the party told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;Despite the governor&#8217;s repeated assurances that these offenders were nonviolent, they even included dangerous criminals convicted of crimes like attacking police and corrections officers, carjackers, gun crimes and domestic violence, and more. Gov. Beshear&#8217;s commutations raise serious questions and he needs to answer to the people of Kentucky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Beshear defended his commutations in April 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/governor.ky.gov\/attachments\/20200402_Executive-Order_2020-267_Conditional-Commutation-of-Sentence.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">insisting<\/a> the state selected for release only inmates who had not been convicted of violent or sexual crimes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Dem Andy Beshear cited COVID pandemic to release 1,704 prisoners  Kentucky Gov. 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