Now turning to another story of June's a tragic past and federal scrutiny hover over Kentucky's juvenile justice system.

State Senator Danny Carroll from western Kentucky is once again offering up a plan to reform a system that takes on the most troubled kids and struggles to match them with facilities and services best equipped to help them.

Our June Leffler is back with more on that.

Sexual assault, violence and riots have occurred in Kentucky's juvenile detention centers.

The one lady, a young lady in particular, who would be strip, she stripped herself of her clothes.

She was lying in feces.

Minimal treatment.

Just abhorrent situation and not getting the care that she needed to reverse course.

State Senator Danny Carroll offers Senate Bill 111.

He proposes two new detention centers for Kentucky's girls.

Those could reduce crowding and offer more security to go back in and renovate and to add on to each one of these regional facilities to house male, female in separate violent from nonviolent.

The cost would be would exceed I believe would exceed what the costs would do to would be to build to standalone female detention centers.

The price tag is $95 million.

The senator is also proposing a new way to decide where Kentucky's most traumatized kids should spend their days.

It establishes a process by which a juvenile taken into custody by D.J.

or a youth committed to HFS receives a behavioral assessment to determine whether or not the youth qualifies is a higher acuity youth.

Carol has offered this all before with no success, and he's asking for tens of millions of dollars during an odd year session when the state budget is not usually up for negotiation.

The leader of the Senate gave his take on the proposal.

I advised him to keep it in the price tag.

Knowing that whether or not we open up the budget this session becomes a question.

But everybody needs to understand implementation of this bill, which I think everyone knows is probably needed, will come with a price tag.

If not this year, it will probably come next year.

Carroll says he's ready to make the first step.

The model that we have set forth, I believe, is the correct solution.

However, if the cost of their calls is this bill to die, I'm willing to remove that provision from the bill to ensure that we get the mental health process in place to address these issues within D.J..

The bill passed unanimously in Senate Judiciary and now heads to the Senate floor.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm June Leffler.