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The remaining allegations in the lawsuit are made against specific corrections and police officers and include charges such as excessive force, battery, negligence, and failure to intervene
The DOC said staff will get training so “employees feel empowered to challenge and report any order that they feel is illegal, immoral, or unethical”
The aspiring true-crime author is alleged to have helped Aubrey Trail, a convicted killer, in a murder-for-hire scheme to extort money from a prison nurse who had smuggled contraband into the prison
Sheriff Eddie Virden said he and his team will continue determined efforts “to bring closure to these cases and provide answers to the families seeking justice”
The woman, who helped transport prisoners, accused the state of dismissing reports of discriminatory behavior and ultimately forcing her to seek another job
Across the U.S., around 7% of prisoners were in restrictive housing in state and federal prisons. In Kansas, that figure was 10.5%, while in Missouri, it was 11.9%
Floyd Bledsoe was released from prison in 2015 after DNA evidence showed he could not have been the killer of a 14-year-old girl
An investigation is underway into how a suspect involved in the shooting of three officers was released from jail
Catherine Dutcher, 24, was fired from her job at a juvenile correctional center on the same day she was arrested
Each playing card features information about the case and a tip line phone number
A total of 8 deputies were suspended in 2020 after being suspected of selling steroids to each other and using the illegal drug
The 17-year-old became unresponsive while being restrained following an altercation with detention staff in September
The Kaw Valley Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force will conduct combined, multi-agency criminal investigations to disrupt human trafficking organizations
The total vacancies have now doubled since the beginning of the summer, the state secretary of corrections says
This is the second time this month an officer at the facility has been hospitalized following an assault
A CO’s hospitalization after an inmate attack earlier this month was the “final straw” behind the decision, a union rep. said
Ray Miles attempted to stab the officer multiple times with a pen in the 2019 attack
It’s part of a more than $2 million package awarded to Kansas criminal justice organizations
Gov. Laura Kelly announced last year that seven Kansas colleges had been awarded over $2.2 million in Pell funding for incarcerated residents
By rededicating existing space, the largest expenditure would be in professional staff to provide treatment.
Deputies Patrick Rohrer and Theresa King were shot and killed in June by an inmate during a transport from court back to jail
Most of the federal inmates are being held on drug or firearms-related cases
Kansas isn’t likely to see executions anytime soon or a shift in how the justices handle capital murder cases
Wages would rise to $14.55 an hour for officers after a year
This is the first time the court has upheld a death sentence since Kansas reinstated capital punishment in 1994
“They can’t help the situation they’re in,” Gwen Zitterkoph said, of the children. “And many of them are in poor situations.”
Corrections Secretary Ray Roberts will retire at the end of the year
In the motion, the lawyers say their clients’ constitutional privacy rights are being “imperiled by MSNBC Lockup operating at the Sedgwick County Adult Detention Facility”
The group is called “Working Men of Christ Ministries”, and on Sunday 21 of them headed to the El Dorado Correctional to mentor prisoners there