A Tennessee state prison warden has resigned following recent disclosures by the Lexington Herald-Leader that she sent sexually explicit messages to an inmate in 2023 while working in a Kentucky state prison.
The Tennessee Department of Corrections said in a statement Monday that it has accepted the resignation of Taylor Rae Kapusta as warden of the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville, effective Aug. 4.
Before hiring Kapusta in September 2023, the state of Tennessee failed to learn that — as the Herald-Leader reported — she quit her Kentucky job four months earlier as a mid-level administrator at Luther Luckett Correctional Complex in Oldham County during an investigation into written messages she exchanged with an inmate at the prison…