Senate Passes Pretrial Home Incarceration Bill

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...Wednesday, the Senate voted 32-2 to pass a proposal by Senator Robin Webb, a Grayson Democrat, under which defendants who are given home incarceration prior to trial would be given credit for the time served as part of their sentences. The original version of the bill would have made the measure apply retroactively to defendants granted pretrial home incarceration on or after July 15, 1996, but that provision was deleted before the Senate voted. Republican Senators Damon Thayer of Georgetown and John Schickel of Union voted against the measure.