Justice > Human Rights
Contributor -- Kurt Metzmeier, University of Louisville
This section provides basic statistical information on human rights in Kentucky. This includes such topics as racial and sex discrimination in housing, employment, and before the law. Specifically included are statistics on housing discrimination, hate crimes, wage disparities, women and minorities in elective office, and racial disparities in the criminal justice system, including the application of capital punishment.
- Crime in Kentucky
- Published by the Kentucky State Police, this annual report provides statistics on arrests in Kentucky broken down by race, sex and age. Statistics of hate/bias crimes are also collected. The web site includes reports from 1995 through 1998.
- Kentucky Housing Corporation Annual Reports
- Statistics on the sales of homes to minority and low-income Kentuckians are outlined in the reports of this quasi-public corporation.
- Profile of Inmate Population, 2003
- This table from the Kentucky Department of Corrections shows the makeup of the state's prison population as of January 1, 2003, broken down by race, age, and gender.
- Profiles of Kentucky Death Row Inmates
- This is a detailed profile of Kentucky's death row inmates.