Privately-run Kentucky Prison Not Reporting Sexual Assaults

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Staff assaulting inmates. Yay, civilized behavior!

Lexington Herald-Leader

A privately run prison in Eastern Kentucky plagued with allegations of sexual improprieties involving guards and inmates did not report all sexual abuse incidents to the state.

A Herald-Leader review of sexual-incident reports dating to 2006 showed that at least one alleged assault involving Otter Creek Correctional Center staff and a Kentucky inmate was not reported to the state by Corrections Corporation of America. Also, state correction officials said, Otter Creek hasn't followed the same reporting standards for sexual assaults as the state's 13 state-run prisons.

State prison officials confirmed that they never received a report from CCA about Randy Hagans, the prison's former chaplain. Hagans was charged with third-degree sexual abuse for alleged contact with an Kentucky inmate. He has pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to go to trial Sept. 21, court records show.

Steve Owen, a spokesman for the Nashville-based prison company, did not answer questions about what happened to the report on Hagans.

According to CCA's website, this is a women's jail, minimum/medium security:

Otter Creek Correctional Center