Subject: Prisons

• A Real Heist

  July 12, 2007

• Daily Briefs: Elf Accountants. Also: Some Discussion of Missouri Prisons.

  June 26, 2008

• Daily Briefs: The Democratic National Convention, Funkhouser, some stuff about prison.

  August 26, 2008

• Careful With That Axe, Eugene: Lansing Inmates Get Guitars

  September 25, 2008

• Best Use of Prison Labor

  January 27, 2000

• Death Row Records Auctioned Off

  Oh, Sugar Bear, how the mighty have fallen! In addition to watching himself get knocked out during a street fight on YouTube, the oft-incarcerated Marion "Suge" Knight now gets to watch his label, Death Records, vanish from his cold, calloused hands. Variety magazine reported that Wide Awake Entertainment bought Death Row Records for $18 million during an auction in Los Angeles last Thursday. Last July, another label, Global Music, had agreed to buy Sugar Bear's gangster baby for $24 million.

  January 20, 2009

• Why the Health Care Foundation is continuing its grant at the new jail

  Diana Turner runs the Bridges program at MCI At first, the plan to coop up Kansas City's low-level offenders with Jackson County's convicted felons in the same downtown detention facility struck many community groups as a very, very bad idea. Organizations that provided mental health services, addiction treatment and outreach programming for the inmates at the Municipal Correctional Institution worried that the new jail would hinder their ability to help the city's most-troubled population. Th

  June 5, 2009

• Big House, Big TV

  June 12, 2003

• Letters from the week
  of June 4

  June 4, 2009

• Backwash

  June 16, 2005

• The Municipal Correctional Institution is falling apart, but shutting it down might be destructive

  March 5, 2009

• Say Cheese

  July 3, 2008

• Jailhouse Schlock

  Mind's Eye Theatre's production of Women Behind Bars disturbs us in some unintended ways.

  September 27, 2007

• The Crowd Goes Wild!

  Why do seemingly adoring fans curse at musicians?

  June 21, 2007

• Life Sucks

  April 5, 2007

• David Allan Coe

  January 5, 2006

• Too Dim to Die?

  Nadia Pflaum

  November 10, 2005

• Blood Simple

  Killing a retarded inmate isn’t that hard — not if you have a cooperative psychiatrist.

  June 9, 2005

• The Unlikely Lambs

  Carandiru reveals the human side of Brazilian prisoners, then leads us to their slaughter.

  September 2, 2004

• Ticket to Ride

  At a routine traffic stop, lawmen hijack a Kansas rancher.

  May 6, 2004

• Hard Cell

  The feds want to bring down a deadly prison gang, and crimes in Leavenworth are exhibit A.

  April 29, 2004

• Jesus Is in the Big House

  Putting it's faith in a prison ministry, the Kansas Department of Corrections saves money if not souls.

  February 12, 2004

• Murder By Numbers

  The strange case of cross-dresser Jovan Ross lives on.

  September 19, 2002

• No Contest

  Dr. Louis Culp may die in prison after going for the funny bone but getting charged with rape.

  August 1, 2002

• Queer as Flick

  The Kansas City Gay and Lesbian Film Festival enters adolescence.

  June 20, 2002

• So Long, Joe

  While Joe Armine waits to die, Missouri courts won't admit they could have been wrong.

  July 4, 2002

• Fallen Angel

  Angela Coffel, the first woman in Missouri deemed a sexually violent predator, is locked up despite overwhelming evidence that she isn't one.

  January 24, 2002

• Time and Punishment

  Lifer Bill Herron Knew exactly how to get out of jail - until the Missouri Department of Corrections locked him in solitary and kept him there.

  January 10, 2002

• Sex Cells

  Wyandotte County's female inmates get the shaft.

  September 13, 2001

• Bad Rap

  Nelly and the St. Lunatics are riding high, but their brother City Spud isn't riding with them.

  September 13, 2001

• No Escape

  Lucinda Devlin and Stephen Tourlentes rattle some cages.

  August 2, 2001

• Compelling Testimony

  Does Kansas’ peter meter rise to the level of thumbscrews?

  June 28, 2001

• Inmate Apparel

  March 15, 2001

• Chain Reactions

  Linda Rupard declared war on Johnson County law enforcers, and they fought back.

  January 11, 2001

• Prose and Cons

  Life inside Lansing Correctional Facility just got a little more dramatic.

  January 4, 2001

• The Penile System

  The Kansas Department of Corrections' treatment program offends even sex offenders.

  October 5, 2000

• Criminal Offense

  The prisons in Cameron are raising a stink.

  September 21, 2000

• Jailhouse Crock

  After the Cameron jail's dopey machine kept finding drugs on Susan Diviak, she sued.

  September 7, 2000

• The Men to Call

  Charged with a serious crime? Low on funds? Kent Gipson and Sean O'Brien are the guys to call.

  April 27, 2000

• Remaking a Truant into a Con

  In 1963, a group of African-American runaways and truants was sent to a rural reform school. Then the nightmare began.

  March 23, 2000

• Love on the run

  Prison-break sweethearts Lynette Barnett and Terry Banks were on the run for seven weeks untill they got nabbed by America's Most Wanted

  March 16, 2000

• Dennis Skillicorn could be Missouri's first execution since 2005

  Capital attorneys with the Public Interest Litigation Clinic say they expect the Missouri Supreme Court to announce an execution date for Dennis Skillicorn, a 49-year-old inmate at the Potosi Correctional Center, of May 20, 2009. Skillicorn's previous execution date, August 27, 2008, was stayed after Skillicorn asserted that Potosi's warden was interfering with his council's attempts to interview prison staff in order to present a thorough request for clemency to the governor.Skillicorn and Alle

  April 20, 2009

• Missouri is about to execute Dennis Skillicorn. The state’s death penalty may not outlive him very long.

  May 14, 2009

• Brownback likes prisons. Prisoners, not so much

  Space constraints did not allow me to share a bit of irony in this week's column, which explored one the weaker arguments against bringing detainees from Guantánamo Bay to Fort Leavenworth.The argument in question says moving the detainees to Kansas will lead Jordan, Saudi Arabia and other nations to pull military officers who attend the Command and General Staff College at Forth Leavenworth. The college's International Student Division receives officers from dozens of countries each year.In th

  June 19, 2009

• Dennis Skillicorn's widow reacts to the halting of Missouri executions

  Just a little over a month after the state ended the life of Dennis Skillicorn by lethal injection, executions are again on hold in Missouri. Incoming Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice William Ray Price Jr. told the The Associated Press yesterday that he didn't expect the Court to schedule any executions while the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals weighs an appeal on behalf of death row inmate Reginald Clemons that questions the constitutionality of Missouri's lethal injection protocol.The st

  June 25, 2009

• Calling all pro-death penalty folks

  Michael Anthony TaylorTonight, the AdHoc Group Against Crime hosts the fourth installment of its series on the Abolishment of the Death Penalty. The group invited representatives from Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty, the mother of former death row inmate Michael Anthony Taylor, and a man falsely imprisoned on death row for 17 years.The AdHoc Group is officially anti-death penalty, but they're welcoming all points of view and are going as far as to encourage pro-capital punishment folks

  July 14, 2009

• Inmates not as rich as we all thought

  www.consumerwarningnetwork.com ​AOL's Daily Finance has an interesting story about a crappy national trend. Supposedly it's now cheaper to stay in a motel than it is to kick back in jail. Now we know how soft prison life is, what with the solid gold toilet in the center of the cell you share with eight other dudes, and the free cabernet made in said toilet. But it turns out being an inmate is actually not the get-rich-quick scheme it's made out to be on television. It's even harder now

  August 6, 2009

• Prison sex between staffer and inmate in Topeka ends in abortion, Cap-Journal reports

  ​A plumbing teacher at the Topeka Correctional Facility knocked up an inmate, after striking a deal to trade her drugs for oral sex, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported Sunday. The deal didn't go down as planned.Anastacio "Ted" Gallardo allegedly forced inmate Tracy Keith to have sex with him in a storage facility in 2007, the Cap-Journal reported. Gallardo impregnated Keith, who later got an abortion. Gallardo wasn't the only prison staffer allegedly crossing the line, according to the Cap-Jo

  October 5, 2009

• Speaking of prison romances ...

  John Manard​John Manard, the escaped from the Lansing prison in a dog crate thanks to prison volunteer/dog trainer Toby Young, was sentenced to an additional 10 more years for packing heat during his run from Johnny Law, Crime Scene KC reports.Manard was serving a life sentence for a 1996 murder and carjacking.The Topeka Capital-Journal's expose on Sunday about prison staff and inmate relations at the Topeka Correctional Facility brought back memories of Manard and Young's great escape.

  October 6, 2009

• Bronson

  October 8, 2009