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Kansas prisons consider more monitoring after sex scandal

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas prison officials are considering installing tracking equipment in corrections vehicles after allegations were raised about guards having sex with female inmates off prison grounds.

Bill Miskell, spokesman for the corrections department, said there are no cameras or GPS systems in the fleet cars to document movement of inmates and guards around Topeka.

The Topeka Capital-Journal has been chronicling illegal sexual relationships and contraband trafficking by employees and inmates at Kansas prisons, and it reported Sunday on a guard accused of sexual misconduct.

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