A Connecticut correctional officer has been arrested after an inmate at the state’s women’s prison caught him having sex with another inmate in the officers’ cafeteria last fall, state police announced Tuesday.
Wesley Applegate, 38, was arrested Monday and charged with second-degree sexual assault after the 21-year-old inmate told investigators she had an ongoing physical relationship with Applegate, according to a state police report.
The relationship came to light shortly after after Nov. 15, when a second female inmate saw Applegate and the 21-year-old inmate having sex inside the officers’ mess hall at the York Correctional Institution in Niantic, an arrest warrant affidavit released Tuesday morning shows.