Jared Bennett
Investigative ReporterJared Bennett is an investigative reporter for LPM's Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting team. Previously, he was a reporter and digital editor at the Center for Public Integrity, and a digital producer for WBUR in Boston.
Email Jared at jbennett@lpm.org.
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A recent rash of executions and high profile death penalty cases with credible claims of innocence show just how hard it is to overturn a death penalty conviction. Experts say that's by design. -
Attorneys for a Kentucky man that’s spent four decades on death row for murder say a recent DNA test is proof he wasn’t the killer. -
Louisville Metro’s Inspector General will investigate unethical behavior and abuse of police authority stemming from a 2019 retirement party. -
A delayed report shows what many lawmakers have already heard: Kentucky’s road paving industry has little competition, lots of single-bid contracts. -
Two men were put in prison for a 2015 murder. Now, they say police and prosecutors missteps should spark a new trial. -
The Louisville Metro Police Department's new interim chief, Paul Humphrey, said that tackling violent crime and implementing changes to the department will take time. -
Prompted by research from legislative analysts late last year that showed a lack of competition drives up road paving costs, Kentucky lawmakers said they’d issue a full report on the issue by January this year. They haven't done it. -
UofL Hospital officials had previously threatened to send the man back to Guatemala because he doesn’t have insurance and cannot pay for his treatment. -
Police in Louisville shot and killed two people this month. Mayor Craig Greenberg offered few additional details this week. -
The plan to build a prison in Letcher County is generating opposition from a burgeoning national coalition that includes formerly incarcerated people.
