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
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A CO's hospitalization after an inmate attack earlier this month was the "final straw" behind the decision, a union rep. said
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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"
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