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Deputy Warden Steve Woodward said 65 prisoners from the Otter Creek Correctional Center came Tuesday and about 100 more medium- and minimum-security female inmates also arrived last week.
FRANKFORT — A Hawaii woman who was sexually assaulted while an inmate at Otter Creek Correctional Center in Wheelwright is suing Corrections Corp. of America and Hawaii state officials.
With Otter Creek Correctional Center set to close in the coming months, Mike Goeing, who runs Family Drugs of Wheelwright, sees pain ahead for his store and the other few remaining businesses in ...
Gov. Andy Beshear announced the reopening on Friday of the former Otter Creek Correctional Center. The prison was previously run by Tennessee-based CoreCivic. It closed after female inmates ...
Upon its opening in 1981, the 600-bed Otter Creek Correctional Center created nearly 200 jobs in one of the South’s poorest communities. Eventually, reports of misconduct plagued the facility.
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, Ky.
They were all serving sentences at the Otter Creek Correctional Facility in Wheelwright ... too little too late," said Breiner. In 2006, the center was also scrutinized after Hawaii inmate ...
Corrections Corp. of America will in June close its Otter Creek Correctional Center in eastern Kentucky after state officials there did not renew the company's contract. The move had been expected ...
The former Otter Creek Correctional Center was previously run by Tennessee-based private prison contractor CoreCivic. In 2009, female inmates there accused prison staff of forcing them to trade ...