Status closed Closed 2012 Opened 1981 | Security class mixed Phone +1 606-452-9700 | |
Location Correctional Road
Wheelwright, Kentucky Managed by Kentucky Department of Corrections Address Highway 306,Wheelwright, Kentucky , KY 41669-0500, Correctional Rd, Wheelwright, KY 41669, United States Similar Pike County Jail, Red Onion State Prison, Letcher County Jail, Highway Departme, Floyd County Jail | ||
Otter Creek Correctional Center was a minimum and medium-security prison located in Wheelwright, Kentucky. 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. The prison opened in 1981.
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. Amid other allegations of mismanagement and poor medical care, Hawaii removed its 168 female inmates from Otter Creek beginning in 2009 over multiple charges of sexual abuse.
Kentucky removed its state inmates from Otter Creek in 2012. As of August 1, 2012 the facility is vacant.