Wheelwright, Kentucky
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Wheelwright is a home rule-class city in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 509 at the 2020 census, down from 780 in 2010 and 1,042 in 2000.
Housing on South Main Street
The town produced coal for the Inland Steel Company
Coal loader Harry Fain in Wheelwright, 1946
Future Wheelright Mayor Ella Jane Fain, age 18 (right) and her cousin at the soda fountain in 1946
Southeast State Correctional Complex, formerly the Otter Creek Correctional Center, is a medium-security prison located in Wheelwright, Kentucky. The facility is owned by CoreCivic and is operated by
Wheelwright, Kentucky
…closed in 2012, due in part to a riot by Indiana prisoners in 2001, and subsequent widespread sexual abuse of women inmates. The prison, renamed the Southeast State Correctional Complex and operated by the Kentucky Department of Corrections under a lease from CoreCivic, reopened as a male facility in September 2020. Guide to the Bill…
Southeast State Correctional Complex, Ky From Above oblique