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Two staff members were terminated and six others disciplined after allegations were made regarding the abuse of a Topeka Correctional Facility inmate.
TOPEKA (KSNT) - Charges filed against a Topeka man accused of raping and murdering a five-year-old girl could carry a serious, and rarely used, punishment in Kansas.
In Pitts’s case, the history of the Kansas Technical Institute is just the beginning of a tale that led to Topeka Correctional, the school-to-prison pipeline, a community’s loss, and a distinctly unnerving world.
“Thinking that this was the Brown v. the Board of Education city, this should be just like Atlanta with the Black community prospering,” Pitts told me,
By Tamar Sarai | - ( Tomdispatch.com ) - Not long after moving to Topeka, Kansas, in the early 1980s, …