Kentucky.com: Kentucky’s court system might have to fire 600 people, close drug courts that divert addicts into treatment and end pre-trial services that allow thousands of criminal defendants to be on supervised release from jail, unless the Senate finds more money for the judicial budget, Chief Justice John Minton said Monday.
“I’m done being calm, cool and collected. The hair that I have left is on fire,” Minton told the Senate budget committee, which this week is preparing the Senate’s version of the two-year state budget.
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