Kansas weighs community programs to ease prison crowding
Kansas legislators push a plan to ease prison crowding without building new beds. Corrections would keep violent offenders in custody while using community programs for lesser criminals. Proposals include 4.4 million in bonds to renovate Topeka cellhouses and Lansing repairs, plus federal funds for day reporting centers to supervise parole violators and avoid new prison construction.
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Topeka
Department of Corrections
Bill Graves
el Dorado
Nie
McKechnie
Pittsburg
Lansing
Kerr
Brown
Graves
Charles Simmons
Kansas Sentencing Commission
Feud drives six murder charges in Kansas City case
Six people bound over for trial in Wyandotte County after two January drive by shootings left two dead and one wounded. The feud between Quinn and Mays families prompted alleged conspiracies and courtroom clashes prompting a judge to ban most participants from the courtroom. The case traces to the October 1998 fatal shooting of 10 year old Shanelle Cooper and a pattern of retaliation that followed.
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Kansas City, Kan
Wyandotte County District Court
Quinn
Mays
Kansas City
Kan
Shanelle Cooper
Curtis Coleman
Shanelle
Sheryl Lidtke
Christopher B. Union
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