2006 Kentucky Revised Statutes - .015   Alternatives to incarceration.

533.015 Alternatives to incarceration. Whenever a statute mentions an alternative to incarceration, that alternative may include a community-based, faith-based, charitable, church-sponsored, or nonprofit residential or nonresidential counseling and treatment program and, upon petition by the defendant, the court may sentence or permit the defendant to attend that program. This program may also be used for pretrial diversion. Effective: July 15, 1998 History: Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 606, sec. 166, effective July 15, 1998. Page 1 of 1