(1) Youthful offenders shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Kentucky Parole Board
and may be placed on parole to the Department of Corrections. The Parole Board
may, with regard to a youthful offender, exercise any of the powers which it
possesses pursuant to KRS Chapter 439, except as provided in KRS Chapters 600 to
645.
(2) A youthful offender parole violator shall, except as provided in KRS Chapters 635
and 640, be incarcerated in a secure juvenile detention facility until eighteen (18)
years of age, unless released prior to that age. Upon reaching eighteen (18) years of
age, an incarcerated violator shall be transferred to the Department of Corrections.
Effective: April 13, 1998
History: Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 538, sec. 20, effective April 13, 1998. --
Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 211, sec. 143, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1988
Ky. Acts ch. 350, sec. 107, effective April 10, 1988. -- Created 1986 Ky. Acts ch.
423, sec. 141, effective July 1, 1987.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
2
cases, 2002–2013 · leading case:
Edwards v. Harrod, 391 S.W.3d 755 (Ky. 2013).
Edwards v. Harrod, 391 S.W.3d 755 (Ky. 2013).
· cites it 3× “And KRS 640.080 does not grant the parole board pure discretion to grant parole to youthful offenders.”
Commonwealth v. Jeffries, 95 S.W.3d 60 (Ky. 2002).
“02, we hold that a trial court, when conducting a KRS 640.080(2) sentencing hearing of a youthful offender, must exercise its discretion to impose one of the three sentencing alternatives outlined in KRS 640.”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 640.080(1) — 1 case
Edwards v. Harrod, 391 S.W.3d 755 (Ky. 2013).
“And KRS 640.080 does not grant the parole board pure discretion to grant parole to youthful offenders.”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 640.080(2) — 2 cases
Edwards v. Harrod, 391 S.W.3d 755 (Ky. 2013).
“And KRS 640.080 does not grant the parole board pure discretion to grant parole to youthful offenders.”
Commonwealth v. Jeffries, 95 S.W.3d 60 (Ky. 2002).
“02, we hold that a trial court, when conducting a KRS 640.080(2) sentencing hearing of a youthful offender, must exercise its discretion to impose one of the three sentencing alternatives outlined in KRS 640.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.