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www.middlesborodailynews.com Wednesday, January 4, 2012 Serving the Tri-State community Printed on 100% Recycled Newsprint 10 Pages, 50¢ YOUR Nearly 1,000 Kentucky convicts win early release COMMUNITY FRANKFORT, Ky. by lawmakers last year counseling and help with Corrections budget and to and courts. (AP) — Nearly 1,000 allow prisoners within six finding jobs and housing. keep inmates from return- For example, more Kentucky convicts are months of their release The move, only one ing. people are now cited for walking out of prison date to begin leaving part of a wide overhaul, is The Department of misdemeanor crimes, but early as part of changes in Tuesady under the super- designed to cut $40 mil- Corrections says it costs the law says officers can the state's penal code. vision of Probation and lion annually from the about $21,000 a year to make an arrest if the sub- The changes approved Parole. They will be given Department of house a state prisoner in ject poses a danger or if Kentucky. In comparison, they don't obey an officer's it costs about $987 each "reasonable request" to First significant snow arrives year to supervise out-of- stop what they are doing. custody convicts. Lexington police Lt. Kentucky Justice Chris Van Brackel said ANTHONY CLOUD dents in those commu- upgrades to ensure that Staff Writer Cabinet Secretary J. there are questions as to nities faced the worst road conditions will Michael Brown told the what constitutes reason- road conditions. remain as safe as possi- MIDDLESBORO – Lexington Herald-Leader able. ble. The first significant that officials won't be able "What one police offi- There have been two to calculate the actual sav- cer thinks is reasonable, a snow arrived Monday. more snow plow trucks ings until later this year. judge may disagree with William Wilder A winter weather advi- School purchased since last The release date also later," he said. William sory was issued a day closings year. Nunn stated that marks the beginning of the He said in spite of three in advance in an Wilder in the two new trucks will 2012 General Assembly, hours of training on the attempt to keep people allow access to more during which lawmakers new law, officers are still court on off the roads. will consider making confused by vague word- Bell County and Lee areas across the county. Conditions wors- more changes to the law ing and "weird rape County, Virginia, The new trucks also ened as the day contin- adopted last year. dichotomies." schools are closed. allow for quicker clean charges ued, making road con- A bipartisan task force Brown said every pro- up across the county. ditions treacherous for Claiborne County headed up by state Rep. posed clarification will be The department has PINEVILLE – late evening travelers. Schools are on a one- John Tilley, D- reviewed, but that doesn't seven snow trucks in Hopkinsville, and Sen. necessarily mean all will William Wesley Wilder, A weather-related acci- hour delay. all. Tom Jensen, R-London be adopted. 40 of London, Ky., will dent caused traffic to be Salt will also not be has made 23 recommen- The Department of appear in court for a pre- backed up for almost an issue this year. Nunn dations. Some of those Corrections said that about trial conference today. two hours along 25E. The majority of the stated that the county include repealing laws that 12,500 fewer people were Wilder has been There were times charged with rape in the roads were cleared by still has 500 more tons are rarely used, revamping charged with crimes from during the night that how convicts are sen- June through November first degree (victim about 1 p.m. yesterday, that they have access the snow caused a tenced and reviewing when compared to the under 12 years of age), but road crews contin- to. The road depart- white-out with employment restrictions same time span in 2010. rape in the first degree, ued there route in case ment has two sources extremely low visibili- for felons. The also sug- In that six month span, sodomy in the first any ice remained. for salt, as well. ty. gest ways to clarify parts more offenders were degree (victim under “The sun helped a The extra amounts 12), sodomy in the first Bell County and of the law adopted last released before trial which lot,” said Nunn. He of salt should ensure year. saved counties the degree, sexual abuse in Pineville schools were stated that even though that roadways will "That is one reason we expense of housing them, the first degree (victim closed yesterday, while temperatures remained remain safe as winter kept the task force in more showed up for court under 12), and two Middlesboro schools low, the sun helped continues to pick up in place, so we can look at dates and a lower number counts of sexual abuse in ran on a two hour heat up roadways and the months to come. and make some recom- committed new crimes the first degree. delay. Wilder was originally melt snow and ice. Anthony Cloud is a staff mendations to the legisla- while awaiting trial, According to Bruce ture," Jensen said. "We're according to the data. arrested on September Although snow this writer for the Nunn, road superin- going to have to modify it "On the whole, the bill 19, 2011 on a first year has not been as Middlesboro Daily News. tendent in Bell County, in some respects." has done so far what we degree sexual abuse bad as previous years, He can be contacted via Frakes and Straight Some parts of the law, thought it would do. It's charge. According to the the road department e-mail at acloud@heart- Creek received the which took effect in June, reducing costs," Jensen detention center website, has made some landpublications.com. he was then released on most snow and resi- have led to confusion said. the same day approxi- among law enforcement mately five hours after the arrest. The officer who arrested Wilder was Continuing to Stand in the Gap Leon Wilson of the Bell County Sheriff’s MARISA ANDERS Blondell, Judge Robert Department. Claiborne Progress Costanzo and Judge An arrest is an accu- Robby Yoakum from sation only. Those What began in the fall Kentucky; and Judge arrested are considered of 2011 as an effort to Tammy McElyea and innocent unless proven pull the community District Attorney Shawn guilty in a court of law. together and unite Hines from Virginia. Plan directs against drug abuse and "This is a forum coal taxes corruption is continuing designed to get advice with a community forum from these officials on to next Sunday. how the community can Stand in the Gap, a help with this problem," University prayer march that said Robertson, adding of Pikeville involved residents of the that the public will get a Tri-State area and coun- chance to have some of ties beyond, brought their questions answered FRANKFORT, Ky. over 8,000 people to the by those on the panel. (AP) — House Speaker town of Cumberland On March 4, another Greg Stumbo is promot- Gap. They marched on follow-up meeting for ing a plan to use coal Sunday, Nov. 6, from Stand in the Gap will severance tax revenue to Lincoln Memorial take place. There, Doug cover the cost of making University's Tex Turner Abner, who was in the the private University of Arena parking lot, as documentary "An Pikeville a part of the well as starting points in Appalachian Dawn", state's system of public Kentucky and Virginia. will share how the Tri- EMILY GREENE| Middlesboro Daily News universities. "This is just the State area can undergo a Pictured above are a few of the 8,000 participants in the November 2011 If the proposal is beginning," said one of transformation much Stand in the Gap prayer gathering. The movement is continuing, with two approved by the legisla- the march's organizers, like his community of follow-up meetings scheduled soon. Tri-State area law enforcement offi- ture, the University of Edwin Robertson, at the Manchester, Ky., did. cials will be present at the next one, Sunday, Jan. 8, at 3 p.m. in Duke Hall Pikeville would be the time. "It doesn't end The Stand in the Gap with this march. This is on the campus of LMU. state's only public uni- movement started after where it starts." several people saw the versity in Kentucky's Indeed it has started, long-term change in the County are in church on The effort, which is eastern coalfields. documentary, which community," Robertson Sunday morning," made up entirely of vol- according to Robertson. tells the story of how Proponents of making "The biggest change said, "and what will Robertson said. "Instead unteers, has been donat- the private school a pub- Manchester was bring about an awaken- of being afraid they're ed office space in the so far has probably been changed after the resi- lic institution say how people from so ing in the community." going to steal members Cumberland Gap Town Kentucky's mountain dents united in their Everyone in the com- from each other, the Hall. They hope to be many different places, fight against drug abuse residents need a four- churches and denomina- munity is invited to churches need to con- able to open in mid- and corruption. attend and hear Abner centrate on reaching the January and currently year state university tions have come togeth- The Sentinel Group, closer to their homes.

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