LEXINGTON, Ky. — The U.S. Department of Labor announced last week it was pausing operations at an estimated 100 Job Corps sites operated by private contractors by June 30. The department cited high costs, low performance and reports of sexual assault and other problems in the nationwide program.

Three Kentucky facilities that offer low-income young adults job training and other skills are among the sites that will shutter by the end of June.

The Job Corps sites on the chopping block are Carl D. Perkins Center in Prestonsburg, Earle C. Clements in Morganfield and the Muhlenberg Job Corp Center in Greenville. Details were included in a news release announcing the cessation of operations after more than 60 years of the program.

Officials with those centers did not immediately return phone

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