ROGER ALFORD,Associated Press Writer
FRANKFORT, Ky. – Gov. Steve Beshear on Friday ordered some 400 female inmates removed from a corporate-run prison after widespread allegations of sexual misconduct involving the predominantly male corps of corrections officers.
Beshear ordered the women moved from Otter Creek Correctional Complex, operated by Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America, to the state-run Western Kentucky Correctional Complex starting by July 1.
The move came four months after the Kentucky Department of Corrections called for security improvements at Otter Creek in a report on the handling of 18 alleged cases of sexual misconduct by prison guards there.
“There is no place for this kind of behavior in our system,” Beshear said Friday.