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KY Judge Scolds Jail Officials After Woman Comes to Court Without Pants

HeadlineAug 01, 2016

A judge publicly reprimanded jail officials in Louisville, Kentucky, Friday, after they sent a woman into her courtroom with no pants last week. The woman said she was arrested in a county 80 miles away on a bench warrant for not completing a shoplifting intervention course in 2014. The woman said she had been in jail since Sunday—five days before she appeared in the courtroom of Judge Amber Wolf.

Lawyer: “The jail would also refuse to give her pants and any kind of hygiene products that she needed.”

Judge Amber Wolf: “No Pants? What?”

Woman: “I’ve been wearing this since I came in with this on Sunday.”

Judge Amber Wolf: “Excuse me?”

Lawyer: “And not other hygiene products that she greatly needed and requested.”

Judge Amber Wolf: “Excuse me? This is outrageous. Is this for real?”

Wolf then called officials at the Jefferson County Jail directly from the courtroom and reprimanded them. The woman also told Wolf other women in the jail had received similar treatment.

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