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Behind the Bars | Kentucky had gaps in monitoring troubled CCA Otter Creek prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Behind the Bars | Kentucky had gaps in monitoring troubled Otter Creek prison By R. G. Dunlop- Louisville Courier Journal July 5, 2010 WHEELWRIGHT, Ky. -- Kentucky's oversight of a privately run prison in Floyd County was so lax and uncoordinated during the time it housed female inmates that state monitors often failed to promptly recognize and report serious problems, including more than a dozen cases of inmates who complained they were sexually abused by male staff members. And when the monitors did identify deficiencies at the Otter Creek Correctional Center, including substandard health care, state corrections officials never imposed financial penalties. These and other problems regarding the management of Otter Creek emerged from hundreds of pages of documents, including copies of monitors' monthly reports and e-mail correspondence, that The Courier-Journal obtained under the Kentucky Open Records Act from the state Department of Corrections and the Nashville-based Corrections Corp...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 06, 2010 (boomark / email).