Month: May 2019

‘A punch in the gut’: Kansas Department of Corrections officials ignored warnings about dental lab instructor

  • Sherman Smith
  • May 7, 2019
  • The Topeka Capital-Journal

The warden of the state-run women’s prison doesn’t know why Kansas Department of Corrections officials retained until December a dental lab instructor who sexually harassed an inmate in her facility two years ago. Warden Shannon Meyer recommended firing the instructor, Tomas Co, following an internal investigation into problematic behavior reported by an inmate in January

Alberta prisoners made 67 allegations of sexual assault in the last five fiscal years; Only one resulted in a criminal charge

  • Jonny Wakefield
  • November 7, 2018
  • Edmonton Journal

For Alberta numbers, Postmedia filed a freedom of information request for five years of detailed sexual assault statistics broken down by correctional institution. Just before noon on Dec. 3, 2017, RCMP in Red Deer received a call from the local remand centre, a jumbled, brick building that houses inmates just blocks from its city hall.

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