Wheelwright News

A weekend snowstorm painted the region in dangerous beauty, as the heavy, wet snow that transformed the landscape also brought down power lines and has left many without heat or light until perhaps after Christmas.

" The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services Department for Community Based Services has moved out of its Wheelwright office, and the decision has one magistrate asking questions.

A Portsmouth man pleaded guilty Monday in Greenup Circuit Court to sexually abusing his former girlfriend's children.

PRESTONSBURG a ' A Wheelwright man and business owner will spend the next eight years in prison after being being sentenced on multiple drug trafficking charges this past week.

Friends and relatives of Totie Nalani Tauala said she is being held in an inmate security facility in Denver rather than being returned to a Hawaii prison because she is a whistle-blower. Tauala was one of the female Hawaii inmates being held at the Otter Creek Correctional Facility in Wheelwright, Ky., before several sexual assault allegations ...

A Floyd County man is expected to receive 12 years in jail after pleading guilty to multiple drug trafficking charges last week.

Kentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo and other concerned legislators didn't persuade Gov.

WHEELWRIGHT a ' A Hueysville man became the most recent Otter Creek prison guard indicted on sex-related charges Tuesday.

A former employee of a privately run prison in Floyd County was indicted Tuesday for allegedly raping a female inmate.

A sixth worker at a private women's prison in eastern Kentucky has been indicted on a sex-related charge.

I am pleased The Courier-Journal is focused on the problems of the for-profit Otter Creek Correctional Center for women.

Nine state legislators are urging Gov. Steve Beshear to end Kentucky's contract with a private women's prison in eastern Kentucky that's the site of sexual assault allegations.

The Kentucky Department of Corrections has hired a monitor for a private prison in eastern Kentucky where female inmates have reported sexual assaults by staff.

These items were recovered following investigation into a burglary taking place at Wheelwright on July 4. A father and son have been charged with receiving stolen property, but a suspect for the burglary is still being sought.

The Kentucky Department of Corrections could have used recent allegations of sexual abuse at the privately owned and operated Otter Creek Correctional Center in Wheelwright as a reason to not renew its contract with Corrections Corp.

Kentucky officials are in talks to extend the state's contract with a private women's prison despite recent allegations of sexual abuse against inmates.

FRANKFORT - At least five workers at the private women's prison in Eastern Kentucky have been charged with having sex with inmates in the past three years, and investigations into more alleged assaults are under way.

Dostoyevsky said, "A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals." If so, we've got a lot to answer for.

A private prison company has asked a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit of a Kentucky woman who says she was raped while a prisoner at Otter Creek Correctional Center in Wheelwright.

The team includes Deputy Director Tommy Johnson. The Community Alliance on Prisons wants the state to return female inmates being held in mainland prisons.