Jared Bennett

Watchdog Editor at LAist

Watchdog editor @LAist. 89.3 on your dial, #1 in your heart.

Featured in: Favicon

kycir.org

huffpost.com Favicon

usatoday.com Favicon

yahoo.com (+1) Favicon

nbcnews.com Favicon

theatlantic.com Favicon

slate.com

thedailybeast.com Favicon

vox.com

salon.com + 92 more

Articles

LAPD protest response breaks California law, civil rights lawyers say

2 weeks ago | laist.com | Jared Bennett

Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism. Help raise that number, so our nonprofit newsroom stays strong in the face of federal cuts. Donate now. Members of the Los Angeles Police Department appear to have violated California law and a federal court order with their use of crowd control weapons during protests, civil rights attorneys told LAist.
Do you have a story tip for LAist? Here's how to reach us

2 weeks ago | laist.com | Jared Bennett

Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism. Help raise that number, so our nonprofit newsroom stays strong in the face of federal cuts. Donate now. Here at LAist, it’s our job to deliver news that holds powerful people and institutions to account, and we can’t do that without your help. Some of our best reporting comes from tips and sensitive information from members of the community.
Una mirada al interior del único centro de detención de ICE en el estado de Kentucky

Feb 13, 2025 | lpm.org | Jared Bennett

Al fondo del vestíbulo del Centro de Detención del Condado de Boone hay una puerta gruesa de metal verde que solo puede abrirse desde una sala de control en el centro de la instalación. Se abre con el sonido de cerraduras internas y se cierra de golpe. Detrás de esa puerta, yace un mundo que ha subido al escenario nacional, desde que el presidente Trump asumió el cargo por segunda vez.
Inside Kentucky’s ICE detention center

Feb 12, 2025 | wkyufm.org | Jared Bennett

At the far end of the Boone County Detention Center lobby is a thick, green metal door that can only be opened from a control room at the center of the facility. It opens with the clanking of internal locks and closes with a slam. Behind that door lies a world that has been thrust into the national spotlight since President Donald Trump took office for the second time. The Boone County jail is the only full time Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Kentucky.
Inside Kentucky’s ICE detention center

Feb 12, 2025 | lpm.org | Jared Bennett

At the far end of the Boone County Detention Center lobby is a thick, green metal door that can only be opened from a control room at the center of the facility. It opens with the clanking of internal locks and closes with a slam. Behind that door lies a world that has been thrust into the national spotlight since President Donald Trump took office for the second time. The Boone County jail is the only full time Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Kentucky.
Inside Kentucky’s ICE detention center

Feb 12, 2025 | weku.org | Jared Bennett

At the far end of the Boone County Detention Center lobby is a thick, green metal door that can only be opened from a control room at the center of the facility. It opens with the clanking of internal locks and closes with a slam. Behind that door lies a world that has been thrust into the national spotlight since President Donald Trump took office for the second time. The Boone County jail is the only full time Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Kentucky.
Disaster contractors hired by Kentucky part of “entire new economy”

Jan 28, 2025 | lpm.org | Jared Bennett

Should disaster strike Kentucky this year, DRC Emergency Services will have the important and potentially lucrative job of cleaning up the wreckage. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet awarded a pre-disaster contract to the Texas-based company in July 2024. A pre-disaster contract is one of the most important steps local governments can take to prepare themselves for an emergency, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, because they establish set prices before disaster strikes.
Eastern KY activists bought land where feds wanted to build a prison

Jan 22, 2025 | lpm.org | Jared Bennett

A community building and land restoration group bought a plot of Letcher County land that’s been targeted for a new federal prison. The Appalachian Rekindling Project paid local property owners $160,000 in late December for 63 acres near the community of Roxana, according to a deed of sale obtained by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting.
Kentucky lawmakers will consider bill to pay for wrongfully convictions

Jan 22, 2025 | lpm.org | Jared Bennett

Kentucky lawmakers will, for the third legislative session in a row, consider creating a fund to compensate people who were wrongfully convicted and incarcerated. If the bill becomes law, people convicted of a felony who are able to prove their innocence will be entitled to $65,000 for each year of incarceration, $75,000 for each year spent on death row and $32,500 for each year spent on parole, post-incarceration supervision or as a registered sex offender.
How a Kentucky death penalty case could have national implications

Jan 2, 2025 | lpm.org | Jared Bennett

David Sanders was sentenced to death in 1987 for murdering two people while robbing a Madison County grocery store. Since then, Sanders has argued his conviction was tainted by mistakes at trial and ineffective defense attorneys who failed to show he’s mentally unfit for execution. Kentucky judges rejected his appeals, so Sanders wants federal courts to intervene. But the federal judges say that, even if they agreed with Sanders, a 1996 law prevents them from questioning state courts’ decisions.