BY ANDREW KNITTLE aknittle@opubco.comHigh-profile Oklahoma convict and disgraced former teacher Kimberly Ann Crain has been moved to a prison in Kansas because state Corrections Department officials fear for her safety, the woman's attorney told The Oklahoman. It does not appear that Crain was assaulted or involved in any altercations during her short time at the Mabel Bassett Correctional Center in McLoud, the same city she was teaching in before her arrest. Cregg Webb, the woman's attorney, said that Crain is unhappy with the decision, despite letters she wrote to a judge shortly before she was sentenced expressing fear for her own safety in Oklahoma prisons. Crain was convicted in January of 20 sex crimes against children, many of them her former students, and sentenced two months later to more than four decades behind bars by Pottawatomie County District Judge John Canavan. Before being transferred to the reception center at Mabel Bassett, she was held at the Pottawatomie County jail for more than a year. State Corrections Department officials will only say that Crain has been transferred out of state and is no longer in one of Oklahoma's prisons. “Usually, when people are moved out of state, it's out of our fear for their safety,” said Jerry Massie, spokesman for the state Corrections Department. “But I can't say anything about any particular case ...Read more on NewsOK.com
Disgraced Mcloud Schoolteacher Moved To Kansas Prison
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