A state prison officer was arrested Wednesday after a Kentucky State Police investigation of a report that an inmate at the Green River Correctional Complex was sexually assaulted.
According to a KSP press release, correctional officer Irvin D. Ware was arrested and charged with third-degree sodomy following a detective's investigation at the Central City facility.
Ware is now being held in the Muhlenberg County Detention Center as the KSP investigation remains ongoing.
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The Green River Correctional Complex is a 982-bed medium/minimum security adult male correctional facility that housed just over 400 inmates earlier this month, according to Kentucky Department of Corrections records.
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