Otter Creek Correctional Center
| Location |
Correctional Road Wheelwright, Kentucky |
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| Status | closed |
| Security class | mixed |
| Opened | 1981 |
| Closed | 2012 |
| Managed by | Kentucky Department of Corrections |
Otter Creek Correctional Center was a minimum and medium-security prison located in Wheelwright, Kentucky.[1] The facility is owned and operated by Corrections Corporation of America and housed both male and female inmates at different times, from Kentucky and from Hawaii.[2] The prison opened in 1981.[3]
In 2008, a secretarial employee of the center fatally shot herself in the office of then-warden Joyce Arnold, raising questions about how the weapon had been smuggled in past security.[4] Amid other allegations of mismanagement and poor medical care,[5] Hawaii removed its 168 female inmates from Otter Creek beginning in 2009 over multiple charges of sexual abuse.[6]
Kentucky removed its state inmates from Otter Creek in 2012.[7] As of August 1, 2012 the facility is vacant.[8]
References
- ↑ "Contract Management: Otter Creek Correctional Center". Kentucky Department of Corrections. Retrieved 2008-11-22.
- ↑ "Otter Creek Correctional Center". Corrections Corporation of America. Retrieved 2008-12-11.
- ↑ "Rural Ky. town readies for private prison closure". Fox News. 2012-04-24. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
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- ↑ Ian Urbina (2009-08-25). "Hawaii to Remove Inmates Over Abuse Charges". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
- ↑ "Kentucky to walk away from last private prison, contract with CCA". Nashville City Paper. 2013-06-25. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
- ↑ "CCA". CCA. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
Coordinates: 37°20′23″N 82°43′01″W / 37.33972°N 82.71694°W
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