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FRANKFORT, Ky. -- To his lawyer, James Kidd is the epitome of the kind of person that Kentucky lawmakers don't want sitting in prison. An injured Gulf War veteran with no prior felony record, Kidd was convicted of drug trafficking in a controlled substance in 2009 for selling a single pill and sentenced to 10 years in prison. His sentence was probated on the condition that he leave Kentucky for five years. But when he returned to visit his ailing mother in 2012, a circuit judge in Lee County revoked his probation and ordered him to serve the 10 years, the maximum allowed by law. To Public Advocate Ed Monahan, locking up offenders like Kidd is why Kentucky is wasting millions of dollars a year on corrections even as crime rates fall. Read More |