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Kansas Prison Dental Instructor Sentenced to 32 Months for Molesting Female Prisoner

Loaded on Aug. 1, 2020 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News August, 2020, page 42
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Malpractice. Location: Kansas.

by Matt Clarke

A man who taught female Kansas state prisoners how to make dentures was convicted on March 6, 2020 of molesting a prisoner, sentenced to 32 months in prison and required to register as a sex offender for 25 years.

Thomas Co, 73, was the supervisor of the ...

 

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