Investigation reveals workers at women's prison run sex trade

By Tim Carpenter

(Topeka Capitol-Journal) Topeka Correctional Facility inmates and officers say as many as one-third of the 250 employees have at one time been involved in contraband activities with prisoners, including those using sex as the currency of trade .... 

.... Roger Werholtz, the state secretary of corrections, said such sweeping characterizations were reckless. Kansas isn't much different from other states when it comes to unethical behavior by staff and inmates, he said.

"It's an issue everywhere in the country," Werholtz said. ...