Friday, April 16, 2010
Sex With Inmates Now Felony
KENTUCKY...
Gov. Steve Beshear has signed legislation that would allow prison guards to be charged with felony rape for having consensual sex with inmates. The bill signing was held some three months after Kentucky ordered 400 women removed from a lock up where allegations of sexual misconduct were widespread. Beshear said the measure will make Kentucky prisons safer places. Earlier this year, Beshear ordered all the female inmates removed from the corporate-run Otter Creek Correctional Complex in eastern Kentucky after allegations of sexual misconduct were made against the predominantly male corps of corrections officers. With the Otter Creek controversy fresh on lawmakers' minds, the measure passed both the Senate and House unanimously.
Gov. Steve Beshear has signed legislation that would allow prison guards to be charged with felony rape for having consensual sex with inmates. The bill signing was held some three months after Kentucky ordered 400 women removed from a lock up where allegations of sexual misconduct were widespread. Beshear said the measure will make Kentucky prisons safer places. Earlier this year, Beshear ordered all the female inmates removed from the corporate-run Otter Creek Correctional Complex in eastern Kentucky after allegations of sexual misconduct were made against the predominantly male corps of corrections officers. With the Otter Creek controversy fresh on lawmakers' minds, the measure passed both the Senate and House unanimously.
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