Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Trial Against Correctional Center Set

{Charleston, West Virginia}...The first of dozens of sexual assault and harassment lawsuits that women have filed against West Virginia jails and prisons is set to go to trial December 12th in Kanawha County Circuit Court. Jessica Legg, a Mason County resident, says she was victimized while in the Anthony Correctional Center in 2008.  Huntington attorney Mike Woelfel says he has 61 clients and 50 pending cases against the West Virginia Division of Corrections and the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority and against individual corrections officers.