Hawaii Inmates Removed due to Sexual Assault Allegations
Hawaii Inmates Removed due to Sexual Assault Allegations
Honolulu criminal defense attorney Myles S. Breiner is representing a Hawaiian woman who was incarcerated at Otter Creek Correctional facility in Kentucky and has filed a suit against the corporation running the prison. Mr. Breiner’s client is one of 19 women in the facility who came forward with allegations that she had been sexually abused by prison guards.
Hawaii prison officials disclosed that all 168 female inmates at the privately operated Kentucky prison will be relocated due to charges of sexual abuse by the prison guards. Forty of those inmates returned to Hawaii.
Investigators in Hawaii discovered that at least five corrections officials of the prison, including a chaplain, were charged with having sexual relations with the inmates within the last three years, and four have been convicted.
Three cases of rape involving guards and Hawaii inmates were recently turned over to the authorities. Kentucky State Police voiced that another case of sexual assault would lead right to a grand jury.
Tommy Johnson, deputy director of the Hawaii Department of Public Safety said he found that 81 percent of the Otter Creek workers were men and 19 percent were women, the reverse of what he said the ratio should be for a women’s prison. Mr. Johnson asked the company to hire more women, and it began a bonus program to do so.
For Honolulu criminal attorney Myles S. Breiner, "it is important for the clients to have their day in court and it is important to the state of Hawaii that they are responsible for all their citizens."
Myles S. Breiner - Honolulu Hawaii Criminal Attorney
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