Inmate

Reno County officials are investigating the death of an inmate.  54-year-old James Richard Shumpert was found unresponsive in his jail cell Sunday evening. The Sheriff's Office says deputies performed CPR and called an ambulance.  Shumpert was pronounced dead at the hospital. Sheriff Randy Henderson says the preliminary investigation indicates the death was of natural causes.  Shumpert was in a bunk in a cell by himself and he has a history of medical problems. An autopsy will be conducted and the KBI will investigate.

The third of four inmates who escaped from state custody last year will face an additional 11 years behind bars. Judge Patrick Thompson sentenced Alberto Barraza-Lujan, 24, to 136 months in prison for aggravated escape from custody. Barraza-Lujan pleaded guilty to the escape charge in January. He was one of four inmates housed by the state at Ottawa County jail that escaped from the facility April of 2012. Barraza-Lujan is still serving for previous convictions, the sentence for which he was incarcerated at the time of his escape.

A Saline County Jail inmate is arrested and charged after he authorities say he solicited another inmate to kill a Salina an undercover Salina police officer. According to the Salina Police Department, on August 3 and August 18, 2010, Kendrick Lamont Davis, 32, sold illegal drugs to the undercover Salina police officer in Saline County.  Davis was subsequently arrested on August 18, 2010, and has been incarcerated in the Saline County Jail since that date.  During his incarceration, police learned that Davis had solicited another inmate to torture and murder the Salina officer who had purchased the drugs from him, in order to prevent the officer from testifying at his trial.       On Friday, April 22, 2011, Davis was arrested at the Saline County Jail.  He was charged with Criminal Solicitation to Commit First Degree Murder.

An inmate in Saline County faces new charges after investigators say he asked another inmate to kill an undercover officer. Our news partners at The Salina Journal report that the officer from the I-135/I-70 drug task force was set to testify against the inmate on drug charges. Investigators say the inmate twice asked another inmate to torture and murder the officer before he could testify. The inmate is now being held on a new $1 million bond, accused of criminal solicitation to commit murder.

After about a week on the run, an escaped Sedgwick County Jail inmate is back behind bars.  Sean McKenzie was arrested last night and booked back into jail. He had been on the run since slipping away while taking out the trash on February 27. ----------- An inmate is on the run, after escaping from the Sedgwick county jail. The suspect was a trustee, which means he earned the right to do certain jobs at the jail while behind bars. 33-year old Sean McKenzie was behind bars for burglary, theft and drug charges.

Authorities are on the lookout for an inmate who escaped from the Norton Correctional Facility-East unit located in Stockton. Around 3:30pm Sunday staff from the facility verified that Christopher John Anderson escaped. Anderson is described as a white male who's 33-years-old and is 5'11" and weighs 195 pounds. He has black hair and blue eyes as well as several tattoos including barbed wire and a dragon on his lower left arm. Anderson was convicted in Marshall County of several drug charges.

The judge has postponed Steven Ford's trial. It was expected to resume Wednesday morning. Steven Ford is accused of aggravated escape in the 2007 break out. Eyewitness News is at the Butler County Courthouse for the second day of testimony. We have learned that there is an issue will a juror who is ill this morning. There is no alternate juror, and the defense says they will not agree to proceed with less than 12 jurors. The prosecution told the judge they believed it was prudent to wait and get more information about the juror's illness.

He set a fire in a Sedgwick County jail van and tried to escape. On Friday, Eli Edwards is sentenced for the 2009 crime. A judge handed down Edwards a punishment of 20 and a half years (247 months) in prison. There were five other inmates in the van when the incident happened. They weren't found to be involved. Its still unknown how Edwards started the fire.

May 15th Update It's a change in Sedgwick County's legal system so your private information doesn't end up in the hands of inmates. The development comes just days after an Eyewitness News investigation. We found suspected criminals are often given home addresses - even social security numbers - of people connected with their cases. It started with accused killer Buddy Jones. Jones is accused of the murder of Michelle Rawls. Jones discovered inmates like him are given personal information while preparing for trial.

A Sedgwick County inmate is facing additional charges after he is accused of attacking a deputy with a food tray. KFDI reports the dispute began when a 19-year-old man grabbed an extra tray from the meal line Monday night. A deputy asked the inmate to put the tray back, and return to his cell. The inmate refused, picked up his juice, and threw it in the deputy's face. Authorities said the inmate then began hitting the deputy in the head with the food tray. Other deputies saw the food tray fight and managed to handcuff the inmate.

Authorities in Harvey County say it's reached a critical level, the jail population is at an all time high and doesn't seem to be going down. The overcrowding is making the job of being a detention deputy even more difficult.  "It's an amazing job. They have to put up with so much, you talk about stress, that is a stressful place," said Sheriff T. Walton. Right now the jail is holding 133 inmates, it's built to hold 136.  Sheriff Walton says overcrowding is something they first noticed earlier this year.  Each month since then the population has increased.

The third of four inmates who escaped from state custody last year will face an additional 11 years behind bars. Judge Patrick Thompson sentenced Alberto Barraza-Lujan, 24, to 136 months in prison for aggravated escape from custody. Barraza-Lujan pleaded guilty to the escape charge in January. He was one of four inmates housed by the state at Ottawa County jail that escaped from the facility April of 2012. Barraza-Lujan is still serving for previous convictions, the sentence for which he was incarcerated at the time of his escape.

A Sedgwick County inmate is facing additional charges after he is accused of attacking a deputy with a food tray. KFDI reports the dispute began when a 19-year-old man grabbed an extra tray from the meal line Monday night. A deputy asked the inmate to put the tray back, and return to his cell. The inmate refused, picked up his juice, and threw it in the deputy's face. Authorities said the inmate then began hitting the deputy in the head with the food tray. Other deputies saw the food tray fight and managed to handcuff the inmate.

The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Department says an escaped inmate on the run since Sunday has been taken back into custody. Investigators say Joseph Mosier surrendered to authorities in Elk County early Wednesday morning. Sedgwick County deputies picked-up Mosier and booked him into the Sedgwick County Jail. Investigators say Mosier was a Sedgwick County inmate being held at the Osborne County Jail. He escaped from a fenced-in exercise area sometime Sunday, but was not missed until a head count at 10:00 Sunday night.

A Butler county jail deputy is fired, after he's accused of having sex with an inmate. Charles Chaney was arrested and charged with unlawful sexual relations. Shortly after someone made accusations against him, a court complaint was filed. Charles Chaney "did engage in consensual sex...with a person who is not married to the offender, and the offender is a law enforcement officer or an employee of the jail... " The Sheriff says this investigation moved quickly because he has video evidence and a confession.

The Sedgwick County Sheriff says an inmate faces Aggravated Battery charges after an incident involving another inmate. Sheriff Jeff Easter held a news briefing Tuesday afternoon.  He says detention deputies noticed an inmate throwing up on the evening of January 4th. They monitored him through the evening and he was taken to the hospital in the morning. The inmate told hospital workers that another inmate rammed his head into a wall after a gambling game in the jail pod. "We will look at the case and see if the (District Attorney's)

Reno County officials are investigating the death of an inmate.  54-year-old James Richard Shumpert was found unresponsive in his jail cell Sunday evening. The Sheriff's Office says deputies performed CPR and called an ambulance.  Shumpert was pronounced dead at the hospital. Sheriff Randy Henderson says the preliminary investigation indicates the death was of natural causes.  Shumpert was in a bunk in a cell by himself and he has a history of medical problems. An autopsy will be conducted and the KBI will investigate.

Officials at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility are trying to figure out what caused a fire Sunday evening. According to the prison, the fire was reported in the center way of D Cell House shortly after 5:00 Sunday.  The Hutchinson Fire Department was called in to put it out. Damage is minimal and no one was hurt. This is the second fire at the facility in the past month. An inmate was treated for smoke inhalation after a fire in his cell in October. Prison staff put out that fire.

The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office knew a detention deputy "had sexual predator issues" more than a month before an inmate claimed he was raped in his cell last month. That according to a court document filed Thursday on behalf of the alleged rape victim, as he seeks to have his probation terminated for a 2011 drug conviction. In a "Motion to Terminate Probation", attorney Kurt Kerns told the court his client, should be released from probation because he was "severely punished" in violation of the 8th Amendment.  The filing said the alleged victim received cruel or unusual punishment when he was handcuffed and sexually assaulted.

Eyewitness News has confirmed another inmate has come forward claiming he was sexually assaulted by a Sedgwick County Jail deputy. Attorney Mark Schoenhofer says the victim, who is in his 20's, claims he was raped by the deputy.  Schoenhofer says his investigation has turned up evidence to prove the claim.  He says it's the same deputy who's accused of raping another inmate earlier this month. "Our investigation has produced numerous witnesses who have either been solicited by the same deputy for sex or they are in a position to learn about what happened," says Schoenhofer.