Otter Creek Correctional Center News

A female Hawaii inmate filed a lawsuit yesterday against the state of Hawaii and a corporation that runs a Kentucky prison where she was allegedly sexually assaulted by a prison guard.

Jessamine County Circuit Court Judge Hunter Daugherty denied a motion Friday to have Melissa Helton released from prison after the Kentucky Supreme Court overturned her murder conviction.

The first priority of a government is to ensure those it serves are safe. While that certainly applies to the vast majority of us who follow the law, it must also apply to those who break it.

Community organizations and agencies that need help on projects may get it at no cost with prison labor by calling Larson Medina, recreational therapist at the Women's Correctional Center.

FRANKFORT, Ky. - An inmate with severe mental illness died last year at a troubled private women's prison in Eastern Kentucky after being allowed to refuse medical treatment.

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

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

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

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

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.

Hawaii prison officials said Tuesday that all of the state's 168 female inmates at a privately run Kentucky prison will be removed by the end of September because of charges of sexual abuse by guards.

When allegations were made of sexual abuse at the privately-owned Otter Creek Correctional Center in Wheelwright, the Kentucky Department of Corrections responded by beginning negotiations to extend its contract with Corrections Corp.

Earlier this month, officials from Hawai'i's Department of Public Safety traveled 4,500 miles to the mountains of eastern Kentucky to investigate allegations that 23 inmates of Otter Creek Correctional Center, including seven from Hawai'i, were sexually assaulted by guards.

State corrections officials have long claimed that housing Hawaii convicts at privately operated prisons on the mainland is much cheaper than incarcerating them on the islands.

KY: CCA Otter Creek Women's Prison Plagued by Allegations of Sexual Assaults by Guards--State Does Imposes No Fine and Extends Contract At the state women's prison "starting pay there is $18.18 an hour for workers with no corrections experience, and $19.17 an hour for those with experience.

A private women's prison in Eastern Kentucky that has been plagued by allegations of sexual assaults by corrections officers is chronically understaffed, leading to poor employee morale and security concerns, according to a state monitor's reports published in the Sunday edition of The Louisville Courier-Journal. The monthly reports provide a ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. - 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 there, including some from Hawai'i. The state so far has agreed to a 60-day contract extension with Corrections Corp.

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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.