Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The New Mexico Department of Corrections officials have pulled female inmates from a halfway named in a sexual assault lawsuit.
Corrections spokeswoman Alex Tomlin said Friday officials took the women out of the New Life Recovery House in Alamogordo and have launched an internal investigation.
Three women have sued a New Mexico motel owner and the director of the halfway house, saying they were repeatedly sexually assaulted at work and threated with being sent back to prison when they complained.
The women say they were assigned by the halfway house’s director to work at a nearby Super 8 Motel where they were harassed, subjected to lewd conduct and inappropriately touched by owner.
Tomlin says previous random inspections of the facility found no wrong doing.
The owner of the house declined to comment.